I’ve been sick for several days and not at my sharpest, and I didn’t want to post something this week that I’d tried to hack together through the brain fog. I went looking at the parables I posted about a year ago, and here’s one of my personal favorites.
Please have a read, and I’ll have more to post next week!
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I struggle somewhat when I read stories from early in King David’s life. David showed great faith and example to Israel, but the devil found a way into his heart. He fell so far in the incident of Uriah and Bathsheba that trouble plagued his family for the rest of his life. Knowing what’s coming sours the preceding stories for me a little.
Even so, like many prominent figures in the scriptures, if we look closely, we can still find value in the earlier stories because of what they teach us about Christ and His plan to redeem us.
Continue readingBy David Armstrong
The coach strode across the baseball diamond to reach Tom, the rookie warming up in left field. “How are you feeling today, Tom?”
Tom grinned his boyish gin. “Great, coach. I’m feeling really good. In fact, I’m feeling so good, you might as well tell the rest of the team to just sit the bench. I think I can handle this whole game by myself.”
The coach chuckled. “Well, I’ll probably send the other guys out anyway, just in case. They need the practice.”
“Okay, coach, whatever you say. But I’ve got a feeling this is my day!”
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When Jesus said, “Take my yoke upon you” (Matthew 11:29), He was inviting us to enter a relationship with Him by making gospel covenants. His strength then becomes our strength, His power our power; therefore, He added, “my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (v. 30) because He is there to carry it with us.
However, there are times where it can feel like I don’t have much strength at all, that my weaknesses are too great for me to bear any burden.
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Some grasses are pleasing to the eye—fescue or Kentucky bluegrass, for example—and others just aren’t. Where I live, people tend to have lawns with the nicer grasses. But the less appealing grasses try their hardest to get a foothold and then take over.
Yes, you have a variety of leafy weeds like dandelions and bindweed, but then you have grasses that act like the attractive ones but don’t look as nice and spread far more quickly.
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