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Talkin’ with God about Kings and Kingdoms 1Samuel 20 The most important thing for your life - Hesed! Steadfast love, loyalty, reliability, faithfulness are the heart of God’s will for our lives. Better than sex! David and Jonathan have it, and we all can do it even better than they did!

Talkin’ with God about Kings and Kingdoms 1 Samuel 18-19 Does God really send harmful spirits to some like Saul? Yes and no. The same Spirit of God’s goodness produces two reactions, happy gay and harmful pride. Are Jonathan and David really gay? Yes and no. If we read with faith, we see what’s going on and it may not be what we thought, but it’s easy to see once we see it. Make sense? Have a list...

Talkin’ with God about Kings and Kingdoms 1Samuel 17 The story everybody knows and never gets old. The key to our identity in God - from God to us.

Talkin’ with God about Kings and Kingdoms 1Samuel 16 God looks on the heart. That’s what makes God, God! We look at too many dumb qualities for qualification, like height, wealth and status, but God looks on the heart. David, will make more mistakes than Saul, but his heart is right with God. God can handle our mistakes, and the issue is always an issue if the heart. Do we love God? David looks ba...

Talkin’ with God about Kings and Kingdoms 1Samuel 15 Saul is busted, caught and empty. The lessons of Saul, tho, are for all of us. He is a paradox, on one hand he has successes and on the other hand he has failures. This episode, that God gives us, is full of paradox which is the place of our real learning. Wrath and mercy meet and it’s when they come together we have better understanding. God’s...

Talkin’ with God about Kings and Kingdoms 1Samuel 13-14 What happened 3,000 years ago happens today, because humanity can’t get out of its way. These three characters are always at play, and the Bible has a lock on how we work. Can we hear it? It’s eye opening if we can.

Talkin’ with God about Kings and Kingdoms 1Samuel 12 It’s the same old story, all over again. Can humans trust God? God loves us even when he lets the consequences of our actions play out. He always calls us to love Him with all our heart. The major ruled in Israel for a big government that would eventually oppress them, because that’s what governments do. But even our bad decisions don’t keep God...

Talkin’ with God about Kings and Kingdoms 1Samuel 9-11 Hillariously, Saul seems to be afraid of his new found job and hides in the baggage until God calls him out. When he finally stands up, the people couldn’t be happier with their tall handsome King and Israel is now a bonafide Kingdom. With no castle to govern from Saul heads home to plow fields. When the Ammonites threaten with barbaric cruelt...

Talkin’ with God about Kings and Kingdoms 1Samuel 9-11 God tells Samuel to make a king like the people want, but Samuel sends them home. God gets busy when a bunch of donkeys get loose in a series of comedic events leading Saul, God’s king, to Samuel. Samuel makes Saul king in the style of a shotgun wedding, and Saul has a journey home that makes him a believer. Is this the man who would be king?...

Talkin’ with God about Kings and Kingdoms 1Samuel 8 A 3,000 year old story reads like it fits in the 21st century. Humanity is a sucker for government, and forever setting God aside to have government solve our problems. Oh the humanity. Join Samuel as the people speak, God agrees, and the proverbial foot is shot straight thru.

Talking with God about Kings and Kingdoms 1Samuel 4-7 Judges all over again, Israel’s arch enemy the Philistines defeat them. “What now?” they ask, “Let’s get the Ark to save us.” Ugh. The Philly’s take the Ark too. Is God dead? Will Israel ever learn to know God and love God, or will they just keep thinking that the things God give us will save us? We all raid the glory of the Lord, when will we...

Talkin’ with God about Kings and Kingdoms 1Samuel 2:11-3:21 The family is God’s core institution for governing the world. Theocracy in the mind of God is each family raising their kids to know God. God pays no respect to any earthly government except his families. As self governed people, we develop institutions to assist the community in its goals and unity. If the institutions we run are corrupt...

From the beginning God says the solution to evil will come from a son born of a woman. God’s loving quirk is using barren women in his story. Things are going to change in God’s story into the period of Kings. Man struggles with God’s idea of self governance and always chooses bad government. But Hannah knows God personally and we would do well to know God like she does, and her son Uncle Sam.

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 20:18 - The End Saul, now Paul, earns our affection as our great Uncle Paul. He leads from the front, puts his life on the line and always helps people gather around God’s message in Jesus Christ. Court scenes and high seas adventures land Paul in Rome to be tried, and eventually…to be continued. The message of Jesus Christ is for everyone to pick up and run with....

Takin’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 18:1-21:16 We all want to find our people and God is making us a people for people to find their people. The journey of Jesus continues thru a myriad of places and we get to come along and meet the people who Jesus picked to grow his assembly of people. Christianity is God’s assembly of people around the grace of God in Jesus Christ revealed in the Scriptures. Good...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Act 17:10-34 God’s joy for the world goes to the philosophical heart of the Greco Roman world, Athens. Paul is invited in good standing to bring his best to brightest minds of Greece. Uncle Paul does not disappoint. The logic of creation and resurrection breaks the eastern philosophical circle with a beginning and an end.

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 14-17:15 We are meant to embrace the story as family, and our crazy Aunts and Uncles are sharing their adventure story in hopes that you might join the adventure of a life time in Jesus Christ. Uncle Luke brings the story of all the crazy family of Jesus to our home, in hopes that we would join them and learn from their experiences and embrace the good life of know...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 13 God’s newest apostle is called by God and some Africans to start reaching the Greeks and Gentiles! Why are they responding with excitement and why can’t they get enough of Paul’s Bible talks? They understand the importance of story, epic story and God’s story from Creation to Jesus is off the charts good because it is for them - and us! Get excited!

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 11:19-12:25 God’s beautiful losers are getting involved with the Greek speaking Roman Empire, Gospeling hard full speed ahead since God wants everyone, not just Jews in His Kingdom. Hells break loose and an apostle is killed by Herod, but God breaks Peter loose by one of his angels and worms kill Herod in a hilarious comedy of antics. In the end, the word of God sp...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 9-11:18 God is in the business of making beautiful losers to reach the whole entire world of losers beautiful. Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 9-11:18 God is in the business of making beautiful losers to reach the whole entire world of losers beautiful.

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 8 What men mean for evil God uses for good. God told us in Genesis 4 that we live in a Cain killing Abel for no good reason kind of world. The senseless killing of Steve, the King of Cool, makes people sad, but it energizes them to go to different neighborhoods with the good news of Jesus Christ. And the neighborhoods will never be the same. Samaria, Gaza, and Ethi...

Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 6-7 God’s original magnificent seven and king of cool take the spotlight. Steve McQueen can’t hold a candle to these guys. Real men doing real smart work with real toughness. Steven’s speech is simple and straight forward, and that’s what everyone hates. Talking God makes people so angry that they will pervert what you say and even kill you. Steve’s wisdom is just...

Talking’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 5 God shoots a couple down, signs and wonders everywhere, crowds gathering, authorities throwing apostles in jail and finally a voice of reason steps in. The early days of Christianity got Western at times, as God puts his finger on the scale to grow his gathering.

Talking’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 4 Fighting funsuckers and fighting funsuckers. Jesus and the Apostles show how to fight in a fighting world of funsuckers.

Talking’ God with Uncle Luke Acts 3 Jesus lives on. A big fat miracle in the temple complex shows that Jesus is still working from heaven to bring us the lessons of God’s history of miracles.