Tag: discipleship
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Day 172: Wives and Concubines (1 Kings 11:3)
Solomon’s 700 wives weren’t merely a moral failure. They were 700 attempts to find security somewhere besides God. The question isn’t whether we have foreign wives—it’s what little kingdoms have captured our hearts.
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Day 167: T-Shirts, Bumper Stickers, Waffles, and Pancakes (2 Chronicles 8:11)
Followers of Jesus don’t live compartmentalized lives. There is no sacred and secular divide when the Holy Spirit dwells within us.
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Day 147: David and Hamilton (Psalm 127:1-2)
What do King David and Alexander Hamilton have in common? More than I realized. As I read the closing chapters of 1 Chronicles, I began to see David not merely as a warrior or poet, but as a nation builder creating systems and structures that would outlive him. And suddenly, I found myself thinking about…
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Day 144: I am Prayer (Psalm 109:4)
People ask all the time, “How are you?” Usually we answer with emotions, circumstances, or clichés: “Fine.” “Busy.” “Tired.” But in Psalm 109:4, David answers differently. In Hebrew, he literally says, “I am prayer.”
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Day 141: Gentleness that Makes Me Great (2 Samuel 22:36)
Buried in the middle of all the military imagery of 2 Samuel 22 is a surprising turn: God’s gentleness made David great. God does not shape us through cruelty or intimidation, but through steadfast love, mercy, and kindness.
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Day 139: The Cycle of Recycled Revenge (2 Samuel 19-21)
In 2 Samuel 19–21, the kingdom feels trapped in what Coldplay called “a cycle of recycled revenge.” But Jesus, the Son of David, offers a better way: reconciliation instead of retaliation, peace instead of score-settling.
