Weekday Word w/ Eric

Tag: bible

  • The Towering Figure of Elijah

    For those that were in service at AUMC this past week, you know this is the story I preached on, so this will be a reinforcement of that message.  For those of you who attend other churches or no churches at all, enjoy! Long scripture but one of my favorite OT stories.  1 Kings 18:16-39…

  • If You Could Ask God for Just One Thing. . .

    1 Kings 3:4-15  The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.” Solomon…

  • Unfiltered Prayers

    Psalm 142 – A Psalm of David I cry aloud to the Lord;     I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy. I pour out before him my complaint;     before him I tell my trouble. When my spirit grows faint within me,     it is you who watch over my way. In…

  • David, Bathsheba, & Birth of Solomon

    Read 2 Samuel 11-12                 Yesterday, we held up David’s honorable nature displayed in his treatment of Saul.  Today we read about the dishonorable side of his nature in the events concerning Bathsheba and Uriah her husband. Adultery, murder, cover-up abound in this story.  David sleeps with Uriah’s wife, has him killed, then tries to…

  • Just Because You Can Do Something . . .

    1 Samuel 24 – David Spares Saul’s Life – I urge to actually read this fascinating story.                 No one would have questioned David’s killing of Saul.  At the moment, Saul (David’s Father-in-law at this point) was trying to hunt down and kill David.  Saul had just slaughtered dozens of priests just because they helped…

  • David – the Beginning

    1 Samuel 16:1-13 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.” But Samuel said,…

  • Samson Part 1

    Judges 13:1-5 – Again the Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines, who oppressed them for forty years. In those days a man named Manoah from the tribe of Dan lived in the town of Zorah. His wife was unable to become pregnant, and they had…

  • Gideon’s Fleeces vs. “Don’t Test the Lord Your God”

    Judges 6:33-40 – Some time later, all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other easterners joined together, came over, and set up camp in the Jezreel Valley.  Then the Lord’s spirit came over Gideon, and he sounded the horn and summoned the Abiezrites to follow him.  He sent messengers into all of Manasseh, and they were also…

  • Deborah

    Judges 4 – After Ehud had died, the Israelites again did things that the Lord saw as evil. So the Lord gave them over to King Jabin of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, and he was stationed in Harosheth-ha-goiim. The Israelites cried out to the Lord because Siser]…

  • Who Is Your Moses? Your Joshua?

    Joshua 1:1-6 – After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide:  “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites.  I…