A God who only ever did things we could understand wouldn’t be God. There are some cultures where authority figures are never questioned. If your father, your mother, your employer, or your ruler tells you to do something, you do it, and you don’t question why. It often leads to abuse and exploitation. In the West however, we go to […]

Are you willing to worship a God who you don’t always understand? Are you willing to obey God even if you don’t know why he asks you to do something? Those are questions we have to face up to as we come to this unexpected ending of 2nd Samuel. Because we have an event recorded here which seems utterly strange […]

What is it that you are gripping so tightly, that you couldn’t let go, even if you wanted to? Is it the gospel? If someone came along and tried to convince you that the Bible was full of errors, or that Christianity was intolerant – has the gospel got such a hold of you that you couldn’t give it up, […]