by Anne Hamilton | Dec 19, 2024 | David, Prayer, repentance
Heavenly Father The desire for a king to protect us and tell us what to do in a crisis—a king like the nations, a leader like the business world—is so deeply ingrained in us. Even when we see it, we don’t really want it any other way until the ‘king’ becomes...
by Anne Hamilton | Nov 21, 2024 | Covenant, David, faithline, mantle, repentance
Remember that eulogy David proclaimed over himself before he died? Theologically suspect—because it ignored divine grace and basically says God rewarded him for being righteous. We should know better than to trust any eulogy to give us a full picture of a person’s...
by Anne Hamilton | Nov 15, 2024 | Covenant, David, faithline, mantle, repentance
It dawned on me while I was reading Character Counts by Os Guinness that the modern view of God’s sovereignty is probably attributable to Abraham Lincoln and his vast influence on the American psyche. The pervasive idea in his writing during the American Civil War...
by Anne Hamilton | Nov 8, 2024 | Covenant, David, faithline, mantle, repentance
In the reports of spiritual and sexual abuse that occur with monotonous weekly regularity, there’s a disturbing recurrent trend. Leaders, so it’s far too often said, should be forgiven and swiftly restored to a public preaching and pastoral role—because King David...
by Anne Hamilton | Oct 25, 2024 | David, faithline, mantle, repentance
‘No one is good except God alone.’ Mark 10:18 ESV Nowhere are we more in need of this reminder by Jesus than when it comes to the golden boy of Scripture—David of Bethlehem. He’s the hero par excellence, the runt of the litter who becomes a champion, the underdog who...
by Anne Hamilton | Oct 18, 2024 | faithline, mantle, Moses, Nicodemus, repentance, wasting
Simon Peter was given Elijah’s mantle and, although he completed its unfinished task of bringing in the Gentiles, he did not go on to turn the hearts of the grafted-in children to their fathers in the faith. Mary Magdalene was given Joseph’s mantle but she was quickly...
