King David, a man of great accomplishments, and a man of great failures. On the plus side, he was a shepard, a war hero, an inventor, a worshipper, a giver, a building designer, a true friend, a song writer, and a musician. On the minus side, he was an adulterer, a murderer, a lousy husband ...
Deborah Sampson was born on a cold, wintry day, December 17, in 1760, in Plympton, Massachusetts. She was the oldest of three daughters and three sons born to Jonathan and Deborah Sampson. Her young life was a hard, dreary one. But, a bright spot in her life was her beautiful maternal grandmother Bathsheba Bradford. Mrs. ...
Recently there have been a few articles about the powerful lyrics of Rufus Wainwright’s song “Hallelujah”. In itself this is no big blunder, deep and thoughtful ideas have been shared about a now popular song. This should be imaginably easy to do about a song with such intimately personal lyrics. Perhaps this is the reason ...
Oklahoma became a state in 1907, but it’s history began long before that. In fact, many settlements and towns had sprang up and disappeared long before statehood. Tornadoes, floods, mining, the Dust Bowl and outlaws are just a few reasons many of these Oklahoma towns no longer exist. These are just a few of the ...
King David is perhaps my favorite character in the Bible. He was known as a “man after God’s own heart” (1 Samuel 13:13-15) and yet he sinned miserably. Most people are aware of his sin with Bathsheba, and his futile attempts to cover up his sin. The attempt to cover his sin resulted in another ...
Introduction Fulfillment of prophecy is one way that God declares his righteousness. Isaiah, who was one of the Lord’s prophets proclaimed that the Messiah shall come forth out of the stem of Jesse (see Isaiah 11:10). Jesse, who was a man that lived in Israel while Saul was king, had a son named David. This ...
