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, […]

Eleazar struck down so many Philistines that after a while, he couldn’t have let go of his sword, even if he wanted to. Would you rather die with your hand clinging to your sword? Or with your sword rusty because it’s used so rarely? Would you rather they had to put the sword in the coffin with you because they […]