The Non-Negotiables

Thinking about David today...You know, the man after God's own heart who managed to make every conceivable mistake under the sun, from lust to murder? Yeah him. What a guy! No really, I mean it. I heard someone talking about David today...about a time shortly after he messed up pretty badly. And since he was king, the punishment of the king became the punishment for his people. (side note for a second - that'll preach! Who am I responsible for? Who's looking up to me? My actions, public and private, affect those people! Word.) K sorry, back to the story: So poor, sinner, David is helplessly watching his people get ravished by a plague. He's shown remorse already, but justice is justice, and there's nothing he can do except pray that God gives him a way out before it hits Jerusalem. And sure enough, **queue God **, just in time the redemption comes! (who ever said that in the old testament God never showed mercy?!? False.) God sends a prophet to tell Dave the n...

Dear friend, It's been a while - I apologize. More than a few times over the past few months, I've started to write and one thing or another has stopped me from putting it up. You should see the list of partially-finished, unpublished posts I have going... I think there have been several things holding me back, but one of them is that I like for things to be made well, and every time I've started a post lately it just seems underdeveloped, incomplete, or just plain and lacking style. That being said, here's my disclaimer: I may be posting now, but that doesn't mean I've spent hours crafting this post. No, instead I decided that I might as well just write and leave the stylistic sentence structuring to someone more artistic than I. Don't get me wrong, I still like for things to be made well! A good Charles Dickens novel, for instance. That man knew how to write, and his stories were spun to perfection. Made well. Or my dad's Italian polenta and stew...