Month: September 2025

Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished feasting. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “What does this uproar in the city mean?” 1 Kings 1:41 One Friday night when I was a kid, my dad went to the local high school football game,…
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And the king swore, saying, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of every adversity, as I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,’ even so will I do this day.”…
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And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. 1 Kings 1:20 When I came home from treatment back in 2014, I knew I’d found a lasting recovery and that my life was going…
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Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent’s Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the royal officials of Judah, but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother. 1 Kings 1:9-10 After telling a…
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His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” 1 Kings 5:6 Back when I was 19, working at summer camp, I did one of the dumber things I’ve done in life – which is saying something. At camp, we had a six-foot diameter ball that…
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Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your…
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But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing.” 2 Samuel 24:24 It’s my nature to want something for nothing. If I had a choice between winning a million dollars in the…
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Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done?” 2 Samuel 24:17 There are a couple of different versions of my addiction story. In one version, it was the stress…
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And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” 2 Samuel 24:16 In my drug addiction, I had a version of God that I wanted to…
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