For those who like to title sermonettes and sermons, I would like to call this one, "Why Does God Keep Secrets?" And for some specific descriptors and identifiers to index this, we will call it "General Revelation" or "Special …
The Bible contains the record of one extended family of people and its checkered history with God. The book of Genesis reveals the beginning of Israel through the fathers, and Exodus shows their first faltering steps. Leviticus, Numbers, …
Within the pages of the Bible, relatively few dates are mentioned. Because of this, and because God works in similar patterns and many of the prophecies have a dual fulfillment, when prophetic dates are mentioned, they take on a special …

(22) So Samuel said:
'Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams. (23) For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
He also has rejected you from being king."
Saul had convinced himself that God would accept an extravagant offering of animal flesh, bestowing on Him great honor and glory for their victory over the Amalekites, in place of his simply doing what He said. Put another way, the king …
In Dr. M. Scott Peck's disturbing book, People of the Lie, he tells the story of Bobby, a young man clearly suffering from depression. Bobby's bleak disposition seemed to stem from the suicide of his older brother, Stuart, some months before. His condition declined noticeably after Christmas—he even went so far as to steal a car and crash it, as he had never driven before. In making small talk with Bobby to get him to open up, Dr. Peck asked him what he had received for Christmas. The distressing response: a gun. While this was bad enough—giving a gun to a depressed adolesc
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