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September 2015

September 03, 2015

Twenty differences between the Psalms and modern worship songs.

Beware of presumption. We serve a holy God not a cuddly best mate. There is...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

Leaders: remember the reason for your leadership

There are two verses in 2 Samuel 5 which together make a very important point...

August 22, 2015

The joy of being who God designed you to be. Or how to become a square peg in a square hole

Many of us go through life feeling like a square peg in a round hole....

August 21, 2015

Don’t despise new beginnings. On battling bloggers block and going back to the Bible

I'm back. Truth is, over the last few months I have been struggling. Struggling with...

February 2015

February 21, 2015

Leaders: Gentleness, not severity, will win you respect and love

King David is an interesting character. His gentleness is evident in 2 Samuel 3. David...

February 18, 2015

Don’t assume God’s guidance will open an easy path

Sometimes we can be so familiar with a story that we miss crucial details....

February 09, 2015

Do not rejoice when your enemies fall

Before Christmas we looked at the tragic end of Israel's first king, Saul. Today, I...

December 2014

December 11, 2014

The tragic end of the head and shoulders king

1 Samuel 31 contains Saul's final act. The irony is clear. The man who towered...

December 01, 2014

How disaster can lead you back to the LORD

In Scripture, being with the people of God implies being in the presence of God....

November 2014

November 06, 2014

King David: As shrewd as a serpent?

When I read 1 Samuel 29 I have a number of unanswered questions. At the...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

There is nothing sadder than a rudderless leader

I know I may make a few enemies by this post, but I am going...

September 22, 2014

Understanding the violent age the OT occurred in

I thought it was high time I returned to the long running series of posts...

February 2014

February 02, 2014

Knowing when it’s time to quit

Sometimes we find ourselves going round and round in circles. Reading 1 Samuel 26 sounded...

December 2013

December 12, 2013

Everybody needs somebody to challenge us

Today I want us to look at 1 Samuel 25. We see here in this...

December 11, 2013

Returning good for evil even when a relationship is beyond repair

"An eye for an eye" says Leviticus 24:17. We often fail to realise that this...

December 07, 2013

What you really need when it feels like the World is against you

There is only so much that one person can take. Some people have a higher...

December 06, 2013

How David transformed a ragtag group into a strong army

One of the marks of Saul's leadership was that he attached himself to the strong....

December 04, 2013

David and Saul: No good deed goes unpunished

Now, where were we? Before the recent controversy intervened, I was ambling my way through...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

Why cessationists are wrong about prophecy

Later today the Strange Fire conference hosted by John MacArthur begins. A few weeks back...

October 15, 2013

What does “The Lord was with him” mean?

There is an important phrase buried in the middle of 1 Samuel 18:12-14. "The Lord...

October 14, 2013

How will you react when others do well: selfish jealousy or selfless love?

We saw just a couple of chapters ago that Saul's son Jonathan was the darling...

October 09, 2013

How King David reminds us of Christ Jesus

Yesterday's post began to introduce us to King David, who I argued was possibly the...

October 08, 2013

What kind of leader should we choose?

In 1 Samuel 16 our gaze begins to turn from the failed leadership of King...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Eight Marks of a leader in terminal decline

In 1 Samuel 15 we see a further worsening of Sauls leadership. There is now...

September 22, 2013

Marks of an unwise, selfish leader (1 Samuel 14)

In 1 Samuel 14 we see the further evidence of the decline of Saul's leadership....

September 21, 2013

How to learn when to lead and when to follow

There are some passages in the Bible that always make me think of a specific...

September 17, 2013

Being honest about glitches in the Bible’s text

Evangelicals today sometimes overreach in our eagerness to defend the Bible. Please be clear I...

September 16, 2013

Leaders: it’s not so much about how you start, but how you finish

This morning I began to read the terrible tragedy that is the life of King...

September 15, 2013

What kind of leader will you be?

As I've been reading 1 Samuel lately, it seems to me that one of the...

September 13, 2013

You can only lead people to the extent they want to be lead – 1 Samuel 8

“Obey their voice and make them a king.” So says God to Samuel in 1...