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1 kings 3:10   The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this.  Some time ago I was away from home for two weeks. Whenever I called home my four year old daughter would make sure that she had her turn at the phone. I am certain that she was completely unaware that the tenor and thrust of our conversations were almost always the same. They went something like this;  Her: Daddy, where are you?  Me: I have travelled for work  Her: Daddy, you are taking (soooo) long.  Me: I will be back soon. What did you do today?  Her: Daddy are you far away?  Me: Yes, but on Sunday I will be back. What did you do today?  Then she would sweetly ask.  Her: Daddy, will you bring me a present?  Me: Yes, I will get you a present.  Thereafter I would overhear her excitedly telling her brother that I would buy her 'present for a princess!' Whatever that is.  Monotonous as they were, I would actually look forward to having these conversations with my daughter. And eve

  I recently changed my computer password to ‘ Gott helfen Amerika ’  (God help America). I do this when I feel the need to have a daily reminder to pray for a country in crisis. And I do feel that the United States is in a crisis of sorts. Some of it is of her own making.  Her leaders in recent years have not been kind to her. Bill Clinton pushed through abortion policies and tried to mainstream the gay community, Bush ruined her economy through expensive and pointless wars. Then enter Obama; one of the most brilliant minds to have ruled that nation. He stabilized the economy but then handed Persia, Israel's nemesis, the power to be nuclear-armed nation in a few short years. And whether by intent or through  naivety  he has set the nation on a moral tangent from which she may never recover. During his rule, a great assault on the Christian faith has been shaping up and some see the danger ahead. Ravi Zacharias sums it up this way;   "If the worldview that framed her is a

The king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why should you come along with us? Go back and stay with King Absalom." (2 Sam.15:19) David's son, Absalom had engineered a coup d'état against his own father. As the old king abandoned his palace he must have been all too aware that what was playing out before him was part fulfillment of Nathan's prophecy against his household after he committed adultery and murdered the poor woman's husband. It was a bitter moment for David as he fled from his son. However, even as the drama proceeded, David tells one of the loyal men following him, “Go back to king Absalom... ” For David it was a no-brainer. Absalom, his son had taken over the throne. Whether it was of God or not was not for him to consider at this moment. The very fact that the palace coup had been allowed by God was enough for him. He pointedly referred to his adversary as 'King Absalom !'  However, how does one so readily concede his palace, privileg