For 40 Days – Day 17: Intimidation: Content

Key Episode Scripture: 1 Samuel chapters 16-18 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David. (1 Samuel 17:50 ESVUK) For 40 Days, the army of Israel was intimidated by one man. What led to […]

For 40 Days – Day 16: Intimidation: Context

Key Episode Scripture: 1 Samuel chapters 16-18 Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul. (1 Samuel 18:12 ESVUK) Fear not. This instruction is common in God’s interactions with those He called. Indeed, the apostle Paul would encourage his protégé Timothy that God didn’t give him the spirit of fear. This […]

For 40 Days – Day 15: The Scouts’ Reports: Consequences

Key Episode Scripture: Numbers chapters 13-14 “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not fear the people of the land, for they […]

For 40 Days – Day 14: The Scouts’ Reports: Conclusions

Key Episode Scripture: Numbers chapters 13-14 How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them? (Numbers 13:11 ESVUK) They were on the brink of the Promised Land. It was within reach. They could even pop over for 40 […]

For 40 Days – Day 12: The Scouts’ Reports: Content

Key Episode Scripture: Numbers chapters 13-14 “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country, and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that […]

For 40 Days – Day 11: The Scouts’ Reports: Context

Key Episode Scripture: Numbers chapters 13-14 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.” (Numbers 13:1-2 ESVUK) “Are we there yet?” This is a typical […]

The Daniel Files: 10 – Confession and Revelation

(Reflections and notes on Daniel 9. The series has covered the previous chapters in Daniel, you can click here to read those. Previously, Daniel was troubled further by a vision about a ram, a goat and a horn.) Are you aware of the time you live in? Not just in terms of seeing the circumstances and […]

The Daniel Files: 02 – Adapting without Defiling

(Reflections and notes on Daniel 1 – for Part 1 of the series click here.) The first few verses of Daniel 1 make for sobering reading. Usually the way things worked where gods and their countries were concerned, if you beat the people that meant you defeated their gods. That’s certainly how the Babylonians may […]

The Daniel Files: 01 – Introduction

This is not my home. How do I cope? October 1996. To do the degree I needed to be stationed near the lecture facilities. That required relocating from everything that I knew into somethng very different. I had not considered what it was like to be in a strange place because home and church life […]

A Moses Profile: 15 – Anger and Intercession

Has someone ever shared with you an incident that got them really upset and when you heard it, you thought they might be overreacting? Maybe it’s not that bad, you think. It’s something that can be dealt with in a calm and rational manner, you think. Then you go and see the situation for yourself […]