Ten Lepers and Two Cookies

Our six-year-old grandson (Bryant) lives a few states away, but I get to talk with him and his brothers every Sunday night. Our conversations revolve around sports, bad jokes (“Why couldn’t the pirate recite the alphabet? He kept getting lost at sea”), food, and what they learned in Bible class that morning. We go otherContinue reading “Ten Lepers and Two Cookies”

Doing Something For God

The story of David and his desire to build a temple for God is recorded in 2 Samuel 7.  By this point in David’s life, a lot of water had passed under his bridge.  He’s been: At rest from his enemies, he has an overwhelming desire to do something for God. He was acutely aware of the fact thatContinue reading “Doing Something For God”