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Keep Your Word
One of the truths we learned this past Sunday in our look at God’s third commandment (“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.”—Exodus 20:7) was to keep your word. Breaking promises not only dishonors God as the perfect promise-keeper, but it disgraces those around us we are called to love with integrity.
David Showed Mercy (1 Samuel 24) (Copy)
Family Worship Card: David Became King (2 Samuel 5:1-4; 7)
When Success Still Doesn’t Satisfy
Scottie Sheffler is the #1 ranked golfer in the world and has been for the last 147 weeks. A reporter asked him about how he views his wins and his losses and he responded in a profound way:
David Showed Mercy (1 Samuel 24)
Family Worship Card: David Defeated Goliath (1 Samuel 17:1-50)
Perspective
One of the important lessons we need to learn about living the Christian life is maintaining an eternal perspective in the midst of horizontal life that is always full of distraction and trials.
I ran across a story that reminds us how important perspective can be. A college student wrote the following letter to her parents:
David Defeated Goliath (1 Samuel 17:1-50)
Family Worship Card: David Defeated Goliath (1 Samuel 17:1-50)
Two Year Old Theology and the Law
During the sermon on Sunday, I made a joke that Piper’s (my 2-year-old daughter) favorite words right now are “mine” and “no.” After the service someone jokingly asked her what her favorite word was, and without skipping a beat she yelled, “no!”
The point I was making was that we are sinful since birth and that we need rules and commands from our parents to know how to properly act. Similarly, we need the rules and commands of God to know how to obey Him, honor our parents, and love our neighbor as ourselves.
David Played for Saul (Samuel 16:14-23)
Family Worship Card: David Played for Saul (Samuel 16:14-23)
Learning to Lament
It is likely that we’ve all experienced a time in our lives where after sharing our pain and turmoil with someone, they chose not to enter into our grief and sorrow to weep with us. Instead, they responded with cold truth that lacked compassion, tenderness, and love.
Our Lord is not like that. We serve a risen Savior who is defined by compassion and empathy (Ps. 103:8; 2 Cor. 1:3–4); who weeps with us (John 11:35; Rom. 12:15); who collects our tears in a bottle because they are precious to Him (Ps. 56:8); and who experiences our pain and sorrow with us (Is. 53:4; Rom. 8:26).