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    David Plunders Villages (1 Samuel 27)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Apr 22, 2025
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    Is the good news about a faulty church or a perfect kingdom? Let's begin in 1 Samuel 27.

    Is the Bible different to most history books, in that it tells the good and the bad about its heroes? Is church life similar in that both righteous and evil acts are done? Should it shock us that only God is good? Let’s look at 1 Samuel 27. Did David disbelieve another one of Saul’s promises, not ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Medium (1 Samuel 28)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Apr 24, 2025
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    What happened to a wayward king? Let's find out in 1 Samuel 28.

    Did Saul disobey God by going to a medium? Was Saul disobedient in other ways? How was the transfiguration very different? Let’s begin in 1 Samuel 28. Was war between the Philistines and Israel about to take place? And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    David Rejected (1 Samuel 29)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Apr 24, 2025
     | 310 views

    Have we ever been rejected and later found out that God had another purpose in it? Let's begin in 1 Samuel 29.

    Can rejection be God’s blessing? Did David actually need to return home? When we are rejected do we look for God’s hand? Let’s begin in 1 Samuel 29. Were the Philistines shocked to find David’s mercenaries among their soldiers? The Philistines assembled all their forces at Aphek, and the ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    Blessing In Disguise (1 Samuel 30)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Apr 26, 2025
     | 419 views

    Is rejection sometimes a blessing in disguise? Let's look at 1 Samuel 30.

    Was David’s rejection by the Philistines and return home a blessing in disguise? Despite his horrendous sins, like plundering and murdering whole villages, why did God bless him? If God loved a man with so many faults like David, could He love us too? Let’s continue in 1 Samuel 30. Was it God’s ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    Saul's Death (1 Samuel 31)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Apr 27, 2025
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    What happened to a man who started out well but became a backslider? Let's look at 1 Samuel 31.

    Is Saul’s death a warning to those who started well, but backsliding? Can an unfaithful leader hurt many people? Where are you headed? Let’s look at 1 Samuel 31. Did Saul and most of his sons die on the same day in battle? If God had not intervened, would David have been fighting on the side of ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    Lamenting An Enemy (2 Samuel 1)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Apr 27, 2025
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    How did David honor a man who became his enemy? Let's look at 2 Samuel 1.

    Is Bible history blunt and honest, often without a statement of approval or disapproval? Would we honor an enemy with a song of lament? Was David forgiven? Are we? Let’s look at 2 Samuel 1. How did news of Saul and Jonathan’s death first reach David? After Saul’s death, when David had returned ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    Waiting Patiently (2 Samuel 2)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Apr 29, 2025
     | 411 views

    How long must we wait patiently for God? Let's look at 2 Samuel 2)

    How many years was it since Samuel anointed David king in Saul’s stead and he became king over just Judah? How much longer would David have to wait to be king of all Israel? How long have we waited for our king from heaven? Let’s look at 2 Samuel 2. Where did God tell David to move to with his ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Flood Ends (Genesis 8)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jun 12, 2024
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    DNA evidence seems to confirm our descent from Noah's three sons and the historic time of the flood. Let's discuss this in Genesis 8.

    Is there evidence for our descent from Noah’s three sons and their wives? Mitochondrial DNA (female) seems to show three main branches, inline with what we would expect from the three wives of Noah’s sons. Recent studies of the number of mutations in Y-chromosome DNA sequence (male) indicate only ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Rainbow (Genesis 9)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jun 13, 2024
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    Does the rainbow play into our lives today? Let's discuss this in Genesis 9.

    We each bear the consequences of our own sins, yet pass on bad habits and genetic corruption. Our children also sin and each generation suffers more as the sins of society accumulate. Did God know all this in advance? Has He prepared a plan to save humanity? Let’s discuss this in Genesis 9. How ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    Table Of Nations (Genesis 10)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jun 14, 2024
     | 478 views

    Is discounting the world history in the ancient document, we call the Bible, dishonest? Let's discuss the history of nations from Genesis 10.

    The history of the world takes into account many ancient documents. Is discounting the history recorded in the world’s most popular document, the Bible, rather dishonest? Who were Japheth’s descendants? It is possible that the name Japheth was corrupted by the Romans to Jupiter. Many ancient ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    Parables & Secrets (Mark 4)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jun 16, 2024
     | 318 views

    What secrets lay behind Jesus' use of parables? Let's discuss this in Mark 4.

    What are the four places where the seed of the word is broadcast? Why did Jesus speak in parables to outsiders? Is light to be hidden under a basket? How is God’s kingdom like harvesting? How is God’s kingdom like a mustard plant? How would we have reacted as Jesus calmed a lake storm? Let’s ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Tower Of Babel (Genesis 11)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jun 16, 2024
     | 561 views

    Does Pentecost begin to reverse the curse of Babel? Let's discuss this in Genesis 11.

    God separated our ancestors into language groups at Babel to encourage them to migrate and populate the whole world. On Pentecost, God began a process of reversing the language division at Babel, bringing the nations back together again in one church (Acts 2), through the miracle of hearing the ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    An Honest History (Genesis 12)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jun 17, 2024
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    Nations often give a dishonest history, leaving out the bad. Does biblical history give an honest view of patriarchs, prophets, and apostles? Let's look at Genesis 12.

    Nations often whitewash their history leaving out the bad. Does frank honesty about the strengths and weaknesses of patriarchs, prophets and apostles help us trust the Bible as true history? Let’s discuss this in Genesis 12. How did Abram become Abraham, father of the faithful? Does the letter to ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    Abram & Lot Separate (Genesis 13)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jun 19, 2024
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    As Abram left his home, have we left the world, and do we look for a heavenly city? Let's discuss this in Genesis 13.

    God does not demand that everyone physically leave their country, but do Christians become spiritual citizens of a heavenly country? Are we therefore in the world but not of the world (John 17:14-15)? Let’s discuss this in Genesis 13. What did Abram do as he left Egypt for the promised ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Tithe To Melchizedek (Genesis 14)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jun 19, 2024
     | 647 views

    Who was the mysterious person that Abraham gave a tithe to? Let's discuss this in Genesis 14.

    In the midst of war weariness, Abram paid tribute to a mysterious priest, who is described as without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life. Was this the preincarnate Christ or merely a prototype? Let’s discuss this in Genesis 14. Was there war ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist