This week we are continuing our study of Abigail and answering the question of whether wives should submit to their husbands. I think we can all learn something from Abigail about dealing with confrontation. It’s funny because it doesn’t seem like she is confronting David but she is. She just does it so carefully that you almost don’t even notice that it’s what she is doing.So what does David do, how does he respond to Abigail? Well, thankfully, he does what we all should do when we are rushing off to do the wrong thing: be humble enough to listen to sense. He listened and actually heard what Abigail was saying to him. And he actually thanks her for it. How many of us could say that we have thanked someone for pointing out or confronting us on our sinful behaviour?? Well actually technically David thanks God for sending Abigail to him. But I think that counts as thanking her too - David also asks God to bless her for her good judgement and he agrees with one of the first things she said to him - that the Lord HAD kept him from bloodshed that day. The Lord had kept David from bloodshed - by sending her. 

This episode we are going back into the Old Testament and actually, back into 1st Samuel. The last time we were in the Old Testament, we were looking at Hannah who’s story is recorded in the first chapters of 1st Samuel. Today we are going to be learning about Abigail and her story that is recorded in 1st Samuel 25. It is the whole chapter but today we are just going to cover up to verse 19 and will continue the study in further episodes.

I'm going there. Don't shoot me. We are reading from 2 John this week and, for the second shortest book of the bible, there is so much to take home. 2nd John is actually the only letter of the New Testament that is addressed to a woman. Most of us will know, that the New Testament part of the Bible, is filled, first with the gospel accounts of Jesus - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. And then the rest of it is filled with letters, and these are written usually to specific people or specific churches - and sometimes they are written just to the believers in general. But 2nd John, was written to a woman. And that makes it a little bit special for the ladies listening today.

It's been too long Outsiders, but your girl is back and ready to go! This week we are talking about struggling with sin and fixing our eyes on Jesus. I feel like I might have left you all on a bit of a cliffhanger in the last episode. So I’ve got some resolving to do…. One of the things I really dislike is when we Christians, have like this varnish on, where we don’t be real, we don’t talk about what’s really going on in our lives. It’s like, if we are having a hard time or a bad day, we can’t let anybody see that - as if that’s going to hurt the other persons faith or as if it means that I’m somehow doing a dis-service to Jesus. I feel like by doing that, and pretending that once you become a Christian from now on your life is just perfect, I think that is worse. Not only that, but it’s also not actually biblical. In Galatians 6 it talks about carrying each others burdens, but how can we do that if we pretend to be perfect?

This week we are talking about what to do when everything in life seems to be going wrong and we are also concluding our study in Hannah.

We are taking a break from our study on Hannah to have a discussion about the Easter season.

This week we are continuing our study of Hannah, talking about the importance of sanctification and seeking the Lord in our grief.

This week we are beginning our study of Hannah, we examine why there is so much polygyny in the Old Testament and we ask why would God close a woman's womb.

A personal update from me on why there has been a bit of a longer Christmas/Summer podcast break than originally planned.

In this episode Jasmine and I discuss the summer heat, what we tell our kids about Santa and we look at Anna's role in the Christmas story.