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Tag: David

  • David speaks – from the wilderness

    O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. My life has been full – there have been moments of joy and fulfillment. I can think of moments in my life that I…

  • david and bathsheba…

    Well, we come this morning to another of the well-known stories of David – it is the story of David and Bathsheba. The story of David and Bathsheba is one of those stories that has all the compelling elements that makes it stick in our mind. There is a beautiful woman bathing, and a king…

  • politics, cynicism, faith

    Well here we go again – yet another federal election campaign. The evening newscasts will be filled to the brim with stump speeches and political panelists. The papers will give us all the latest polling data – who’s leading, who’s picking up steam, who’s falling into the basement of political opinion. The local candidates will…

  • the house god builds

    Again, following Brueggemann’s basic interpretation of the passage. ______________________ For over 2000 years, the Tuareg people of West Africa have wandered in the Sahara desert, driving herds of sheep and cattle as they went. They have lived in portable tents made of animal skins. Spending much of their time through the regions of Mali, in…

  • how to love a fool…

    Though I haven’t read or heard the sermon, I borrowed this title from a sermon in the Redeemer Presbyterian Church (Manhattan) series on David. I have in many ways relied on Brueggemann’s analysis of the passage (his commentary in the Interpretation series). ____________________ This morning we come to the climax in that contest of wills.…

  • friendship and god’s purposes

    Have you ever been involved in a contest of wills? A contest of wills – when two people have become stubbornly fixed in their positions. Each one has dug in his or her heals. Neither one is going to move. It is a contest of wills – each one will try to outlast the other…

  • david, spirit, music

    This past week B and I had S and S Jenvey as guests in our home. Of course many of you know them since S served as student minister here a number of years ago. They were back in town so S could attend the continuing education program at the Presbyterian College. A special part…

  • Samuel and the idols

    That sounds like the name of a rock band, but it’s a sermon title… ________________ When we hear about idol worship, what do we think of? Maybe when we hear about idols and idolatry, we first think of places around the world where idols are part of the cultural landscape. We might think of those…

  • Hannah’s grief, Israel’s future

    When it comes to the problem of infertility, you’d have to say that a few things have changed in the last three thousand years. One big change, of course, is that we know a lot more about the causes of infertility – in women we know about endometriosis, and hormonal problems, and about the possibility…