by admin | Aug 31, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
David’s friend Hushai arrived in the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.1 Absalom was suspicious of Hushai at first, Do you call this loyalty [See Addendum below] to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?2 Hushai lied or told such a cleverly...
by admin | Aug 28, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
When David allowed Joab to bring Absalom back to Jerusalem after three years of self-imposed exile for murdering Amnon, he said, Let him go over to his own house. He may not see my face.1 This seems like an attempt to balance his role as a loving and merciful father...
by admin | Aug 22, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
When I studied the Bible looking for rules to obey I was the project, and I was in charge of my reform efforts. I determined which rules to obey and which didn’t apply to me. I didn’t necessarily see it that way at the time. I thought I was doing it all for God’s...
by admin | Aug 16, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Absalom made David complicit in his scheme to kill Amnon, much like Amnon had done with Tamar. Absalom’s sheepshearers were in Baal Hazor.1 Sheepshearing was a festive time, called a good day (KJV) or holiday (NET).2 Absalom invited all the king’s sons. Then...
by admin | Aug 14, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
My first wife was a self-proclaimed feminist. I tried with everything in me to treat her as an equal, which I too often mistook for “the same” in my twenties. One night, lying in bed on our backs talking, my affection for her surged. I reached under the small of...
by admin | Aug 10, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Though the death of David’s first son with Bathsheba alerted me that I couldn’t categorize these events as punishments, it was another aspect of David’s personal karma from the hand of Jesus that made it apparent that something else was at play (2 Samuel 12:11, 12...