From the monthly archives:

June 2008

David and Goliath (part six) – What about You?

June 28, 2008

The story of David and Goliath confronts us with the question of our own faith. As we contemplate this encounter, where do you stand in the story? Saul Perhaps you are like Saul, a member of God’s people but conscious that you have little or no trust in God. The truth is your life is [...]

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Busy on the home front

June 22, 2008

We have been so busy these last couple of weeks.  I haven’t had any time for blogging.  Our children have all been sick over the past two weeks but thankfully seem to be on the mend now. We have a Swiss couple living on our driveway in their campervan during the week.  They are going [...]

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David and Goliath (part five) – The Living God

June 19, 2008

In our last post, David had reacted to Goliath’s challenge in disbelief that anyone could be so foolish as to challenge God.  He asked King Saul to let him go out and fight for God. In 1 Samuel 17:37, perhaps against his better judgment, Saul agreed to let David fight Goliath: Go, and the LORD [...]

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David and Goliath (part four) – A Boy after God’s Own Heart

June 14, 2008

In 1 Samuel 17:12, the writer introduces David into the story for the first time. We learn in verses 12 to 16 that while Goliath had been bringing his challenge twice a day for forty days, David had been serving as a shepherd on his father’s farm in Bethlehem, some twenty kilometres away. Like Saul, [...]

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David and Goliath (part three) – A Faithless King

June 8, 2008

We’ve been looking at the Biblical account of the battle between David and Goliath.  In the last post we saw that the Philistines had brought their armies together and invaded Israelite lands.  As the Philistine and Israelite forces lined up before each other in the valley of Elah, the Philistine champion Goliath came out to [...]

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Snowed out…

June 8, 2008

This weekend was our Uni Student/young people’s retreat at Mt Hutt Retreat.  We were expecting around 20 people plus our family (+7). I was doing the cooking, and Kris was on the guitar. We planned to leave as soon as we could after school on Friday but didn’t end up leaving until after 4.30pm.  It [...]

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David and Goliath (part two) – A Fearsome Enemy

June 4, 2008

The battle between David and Goliath happened in the valley of Elah in the land of Judah, around 1025 B.C.  It is recounted in 1 Samuel 17. As the story begins, the Philistine armies had encamped at a place called Socoh.  Socoh belonged to Judah, but was close to Philistine lands, and the Philistines were [...]

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First tooth

June 3, 2008

Miriam got her first tooth a couple of weeks ago (7 months old).  If you look closely in the photos you can see it there (on the bottom). The other children’s second teeth followed their first ones very quickly so we’ve been watching for tooth #2 to arrive but haven’t seen any sign of it [...]

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David and Goliath (part one)

June 1, 2008

One of my favourite stories as a young boy was The Value of Believing in Yourself, which told the story of Louis Pasteur. According to the story, one day a friendly bee appeared to Louis and told him that he was here to help Louis believe in himself. Thanks to the bee’s prompting, Louis decided [...]

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