1 Samuel 31 I like “happily ever after” stories I am a person that will always choose to watch a movie or to read a story with a happy ending over one with tragic ending. I like the fairly-tale kind …
1 Samuel 29 & 30 Let off the hook Have you been let off the hook? We use this expression for when someone who looks like they are in trouble with no way out of it but who then …
1 Samuel 28 Failure to Accept the Situation I remember my first proper ‘getting older’ injury from playing sport. I was only in my early twenties, still at university. I still had the mindset that my body could do …
1 Samuel 27:1-28:2 Desperate Us Have you ever felt desperate? Have you ever felt that your troubles were so insurmountable that there was just no way out except to do something drastic? Have you ever thought that if things didn’t …
1 Samuel 26 Lesson learnt Sometimes it takes a near disaster to properly learn a lesson. When I was about 22 years of age I had a car accident in my four-wheel drive. I managed to write off the vehicle …
1 Samuel 25 What were they thinking? Sometimes parents give their children very unusual names that are so odd that you end up asking yourself ‘what were those parents thinking of?’ Did they lose their minds or something? Don’t …
1 Samuel 21-24 How do you respond to adversity? Many of you will be familiar with the terrible condition known as ‘man flu’. For some reason, us males seem to crumble in a heap when we get a cold …
1 Samuel 17 Facing challenges… When it comes to ‘keeping on top of life’ – you know, tidying up the house, sorting through endless piles of paperwork and kids paintings, fixing stuff that’s broken, cleaning floors, kitchens and bathrooms, washing …
1 Samuel 16 Choosing a leader Choosing a someone to lead any group of people is a difficult task. It’s a difficult task It must be a difficult task because we so often get it wrong. Often the very leader …
