How David Dealt with Betrayal

     Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21).  Because of Doeg’s malicious and false insinuation to a paranoid king, the entire city of Nob—“both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep”—was so completely destroyed that…

The Bad and Good News about Betrayal

       From the time of his youthful conquest of Goliath until his death as king about fifty years later, David’s life was associated in some way with the highest levels of Israel’s government.  His initial association was in serving in King Saul’s court as…

A Profitable and Pure Religion–Part Three

“If anyone among you thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to…

To Be a Doer of the Word: A Determined Will

“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately…