... , which we would call an eight-stringed harp. Saul’s pony express man arrived at Bethlehem. Only a few weeks had passed since Samuel had secretly anointed David. Now God’s plan of making David the king was getting under way in earnest. Like Saul, David had ... to achieve power. He was as innocent as his mother’s milk. Now God would be working out his purpose of having this bucolic bard replace the wicked and worldly old king. The pony express rider told David he was wanted for a "gig." He was to sing and ...
... soulfulness has to do with the making of meaning. It interprets and names. It takes the "sound and fury" of Shakespeare's Macbeth and says, unlike the bard, such has significance. It reads, and not reacts, to human behavior; it sees in the words of others disclosures that even they may not, in the ... we will go. 1. Richard and Joyce Wolkomir, "You Are What You Buy" (Smithsonian, October, 2000), p. 102. 2. Samuel H. Miller, The Life of the Soul (New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1951), p. 86.
... a name for himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt? You have established your people Israel as your very own forever, and you, O LORD, have become their God.” (2 Samuel 7:23-24, NIV) The Middle East tells us something. God has a plan. God knows the problem and God keeps His promise. All of history is moving toward that time when one day the King of the Jews, the Jewish Messiah, the Savior of the World ...
