Please, browse the many free commentaries available on https://www.katrinapearls.com/blog [Note: This is one of a series listed under the heading: Wordie Post." It was originally posted on the Word Press blog entitled "Our Daily Bread," found at rtippett97@wordpress.com. The changes at Word Press are similar to those on Twitter and Facebook, where I was posting to an empty space. That was because I began and maintained that blog as one of their free offerings. When their

The crowd came together again, so that Jesus and his disciples could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.” And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.” And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if

In the story we read today from 1 Samuel, where the Israelites went to him and asked God to give them a king … to be like other nations … we see how God granted their wish. From the ancient Chinese proverb that Judge Ito used to quote during the O.J. trial: “Be careful what you wish for … you just might get it.” God gave Samuel a “laundry list” of commands, which focuses on what serving a human king entailed for the Israelites. By then, none of the Israelites had ever breathe