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In the wake of Tropical Storm Helene’s impacts to these mountains, I thought and prayed long and hard about the direction to go for this week’s podcast. Not knowing when the next broadcast would air on WGCR, and again after much prayer, we take a break from the story of David to go to the…

Close study of the battles and conquests of the Old Testament is always advisable — there’s no telling what good nugget of wisdom you’ll find. In this week’s podcast, we begin exploring David’s conquests after the Lord has given him the great promise of the Davidic Covenant. And we find a couple of odd names…

As a young Christian, perceived and misunderstood “contradictions” really bothered me. But to the true Bible-believer, there are no real contradictions in scripture. Today we explore one of the supposed “contradictions” in scripture as we begin to study 2 Samuel 8 and the parallel scripture in 1 Chronicles 18.

Very few more precious words are found in the Old Testament than the phrase used in 2 Samuel 7 saying the the people would have “a place of their own.” For the Christian, the phrases “there yet remaineth a rest” and “In my father’s house are many mansions” rank right up there, but how precious…

I have always been fascinated by the differences found between two scriptures that speak of the same event, but using different words. While the world might call differences ‘contradictions’ I am not of that school of thought, as I recognize that words have broad meanings and two scriptures worded differently can be saying exactly the…

Many times in my life I’ve been told that God have three possible answers to your prayer: Yes, No, and Not Yet. Today we explore the fourth possible answer, which is no answer at all.