With Jack Bailey
Scripture The king {Solomon} said moreover to Shimei, “You know, as your heart acknowledges, all the wickedness that you did to my father David; therefore the LORD will return your wickedness on your own head. ~I Kings 2:44, NKJV Quote Those who refuse to bow will be broken. ~Matthew Henry Shimei was a descendant of…
Scripture Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised Me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’ ~2 Samuel 12:10, NIV Quote Grace does not mean that sin does not matter. ~Ya’akov Reading through 2 Samuel and the life of David. There is no one…
Scripture Then Saul confessed, “I have sinned. Come back home, my son, and I will no longer try to harm you, for you valued my life today. I have been a fool and very, very wrong.” ~I Samuel 26:21, NLT Quote “Serving Christ brings joy–serving self brings peacelessness–Self is the god of unhappiness.” ~Lorenzo Scupoli…
Scripture They swarmed around me like bees; they blazed against me like a crackling fire. But I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord. ~Psalm 118:12, NLT Quote The greater the darkness, the more people appreciate and are drawn to the light of a good countenance and a joyful spirit. ~Charles R. Erdman…
Scripture They say, “Get an evil person to turn against him. Send an accuser to bring him to trial…” ~Psalm 109:6, NLT Quote The imprecatory psalms lead to the cross of Jesus and the love of God that forgives enemies. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer The subject of the imprecatory Psalms came up last week in our Bible…
Scripture For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. ~Romans 3:23, NASB Quote Before the holy God all humans fall short, but His grace is greater than our sins. ~Daniel J. Estes I am reading the NIV commentary on Psalms and Daniel Estes writes the second volume. When I read his…
Scripture O God, the proud have risen against me, And a mob of violent men have sought my life, And have not set You before them. ~Psalm 86:14, NKJV Quote “Anarchy is not the absence of tyranny, but its most chaotic form.” ~Anonymous Psalm 86 is the only Psalm in book III attributed to David.…
Scripture My enemies come out at night, snarling like vicious dogs as they prowl the streets.They scavenge for food but go to sleep unsatisfied. ~Psalm 59:14-15, NLT Quote As good men in concert make one another better; so bad people in concert make one another worse. ~Matthew Henry David was married to Saul’s daughter Micah and…
Scripture I called on Your name, O LORD, from the lowest pit. ~Lamentations 3:55, LSB Quote Self-sufficency is a myth perpetuated by pride and the devil. ~Jack Young Most of you can’t relate but I grew up in the 50’s when dug wells were common. We had one and so did our neighbors. Most of…
Scripture Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. ~Psalm 32:1, NIV Quote To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” ~C. S. Lewis NASA is a common acronym for National Aeronautic Space Administration, but it is also a Hebrew word…