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Cover to Cover Reading: 2 Samuel 12:1-14:24 Focus: 2 Samuel 12:1-10 How easy is it for us to look around at the world around us and condemn it, judge it, for all its faults. We get on our high horses, we speak as though we see things clearly and things should be as we say. We so quickly point [...]
Cover to Cover Reading: 2 Samuel 7:1-11:27 Focus: 2 Samuel 7:5-7 Have you ever been in the position where you live in a nice house, yet someone close and dear to you struggles to find a home? Wandering from place to place, never knowing when they can settle down. Ideally, one would think that family and friends would rally [...]
Cover to Cover Reading: 2 Samuel 3:22-6:23 Focus: 2 Samuel 6:16-23 In this day and age, most people are, generally speaking, conscious of their actions in public places. There would be few instances where people are unconscious of their behaviour in public places. The most outrageous acts in public are unlikely not to be intentional, conscious decisions to act [...]
Cover to Cover Reading: 2 Samuel 1:1-3:21 Focus: 2 Samuel 1:26 Relationships are the central to life. Without community, without friendship, without relationship, without connecting with other people, life simply loses its meaning. It is the people in our lives which make life worth living. The greatest tragedies in life are loneliness, rejection, abandonment, and the like. What is [...]
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Chronicles 10:1-14 Focus: 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 It is hard to deny that life is full of cause-and-effect. You act one way, the cause, and things will turn out another, the effect. If you touch a hot stove, expect to be burnt. If you speed through a red light, expect a fine in the mail [...]