You Can Choose How to Live

I Samuel 12:20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. It is interesting to note people’s perspectives on age and the passage of time. A person who...

Is it Random?

I Samuel 10:24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king. “Random.” That is a popular word these days. My children often use the...

Contentment

I Samuel 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. The other day I bought a new pair of dress shoes at a local...

We are Not Pluralists

I Samuel 7:3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods. Sometimes it is easy to confuse being a citizen of Heaven and being a citizen of our country, in my case, the United...

Making Guesses and Making Gods

I Samuel 5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God...