This is a very different “Lifespring!” show. The war in Israel and Lebanon, involving Hezbollah, has brought much criticism of both sides. With Pastor Steve O’Brien as my guest, we discuss the situation in an attempt to look at things in a balanced and Biblical way.
Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebaa_Farms
http://www.rachaya-al-foukhar.com/
Scripture
Gen 16:1 [show] Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. (ESV)
– 16 (NIV) 1Now Sarai, Abram?s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; 2so she said to Abram, ?The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her.? Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. 4He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. 5Then Sarai said to Abram, ?You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me.? 6?Your servant is in your hands,? Abram said. ?Do with her whatever you think best.? Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her. 7The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. 8And he said, ?Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?? ?I?m running away from my mistress Sarai,? she answered. 9Then the angel of the LORD told her, ?Go back to your mistress and submit to her.? 10The angel added, ?I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count.? 11The angel of the LORD also said to her: ?You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael,? for the LORD has heard of your misery. 12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone?s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.? 13She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: ?You are the God who sees me,? for she said, ?I have now seen the One who sees me.? 14That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.15So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. 16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
Gen 17:20 [show] As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation. (ESV)
– 21 (NIV) 20And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. 21But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.?
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Last week’s Digger’s Story podcast surprised me. An excerpt from Lifespring!95 was included in their episode number 28. That prompted another contribution to that podcast by me, dealing with what my idea of “peace” is. In that comment to them, I promised to do this show about that subject. So, as promised, peace is the subject of this show.
Music on Today’s Show
Geoff Smith…”Save Me”
Kparx…”First Light” (Background music during my talk on peace)
Tara Leigh Cobble…”I Wonder” (Go buy her CD!)
Other links
Brian Kelly’s Rough Mix
Ole Kristian Valle’s Podshow+ page
My Podshow+ page
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I went to a movie again yesterday. Don?t you hate when you?re watching a scene that is very dark, and then it cuts to a really bright scene??? It hurts your eyes!
You know, during the dark scene, you can?t really see what?s going on very well, but after awhile you get used to it. As a matter of fact, your eyes adjust and you begin to see things a little clearer. You can?t really see much detail, and you can?t see colors much either. But you start to feel fairly comfortable.
Then, BAMMO! All of a sudden they shock you with a really bright scene, lots of times it?s of the noon day sky or something. Wow that hurts. I really hate when film makers do that. The shock from going from dark to light just plain hurts. But, after your eyes get adjusted, you can see much more detail, and colors are nice and bright and beautiful. Everything is so easy to see. And you realize that before, when it was dark, you were really missing a lot….(continued on the podcast)
Music
Jody Raffoul…”Light of Day”
David Paris…”Everything That Hath Breath” (background music)
Josh Lindsey…”New Man”
Scriptures
Matt 7:1 [show] "Judge not, that you be not judged. (ESV)
– 29 (NIV) 1?Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3?Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother?s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, ?Let me take the speck out of your eye,? when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother?s eye. 6?Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces. 7?Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. 9?Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. 13?Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. 15?Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep?s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. 21?Not everyone who says to me, ?Lord, Lord,? will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ?Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?? 23Then I will tell them plainly, ?I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!? 24?Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.? 28When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, 29because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.
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