Archive | January, 2009

How does the Christian Persevere through Trials?

27 January 2009

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Below is a sermonGiven by Marc Driscoll at Mars Hill Church. He speaks about how to persevere through trials. A powerful and straight forward message. I promise you will not get some self-help message and a three step process on how to make your life better – or to become a better you (umm). Good [...]

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Influence of Fear: Application

21 January 2009

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David acknowledged Saul as God’s “anointed” (24:6)This was the position that God appointed Saul for. David was not going to take matters into his own hands, for he knew that God had a reason/purpose in what was transpiring. The Bible records these words from David: “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or [...]

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Influence of Fear: Humiliation

20 January 2009

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Saul pursues, David flees: both are fearful of somethingIn one of my earlier posts, I mentioned the following in the geographical flee of David: David then went to the strongholds of Engedi (13 [23:29]). This is here where David had an opportunity to kill Saul (which will be discussed later) This post will focus primarily [...]

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Influence of Fear: Motivation (cont'd)

18 January 2009

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As a return to the observationof David and Saul, we will move from seeing how motivated they both were, especially Saul to pursue David through such a geographical landscape, to further gain insight into how fear motivated the both of them. Jonathan works out an arrangement with David so that David can know whether or [...]

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The Influence of Fear: Motivation

16 January 2009

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This post will focus primarilyon the geographical situation and places David had fled from Saul. And likewise, Saul pursuing David. I was debating whether or not this would be beneficial to include and have determined it is. You will see my reasoning in my closing comments. This is the geographical flee of David from Saul, [...]

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Influence of Fear: Manifestation

14 January 2009

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In the last postWe looked at the context of this series. Saul was sending David out to battle, and David, as always, would return successful. He won the hearts of the people as they would shout, “Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands” (1 Sam. 18:7b). This is an important verse [...]

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The Influence of Fear: Context

11 January 2009

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When introducing this series I mentioned that we would be observing the influence of fear specifically relating to David’s flee from Saul (1 Sam. 19 – 2 Sam. 2:7). The only issue I intend to observe here, primarily, is the difference between healthy and unhealthy motivation stemmed from fear. Many anecdotes can be used to adequately [...]

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