In the musical My Fair Lady, there is humorous misogyny on full display. Or at least a chauvinistic spirit as comic relief. Nowhere is it more visible than in two songs sung by the linguistics professor Henry Higgins: “Never Let a Woman in Your Life” and “Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?” […]
Chapel Worship Guide for Sunday 9 AM, April 6, 2014 The Nemmers Family Chapel at Advocate Condell Worship this morning is provided by the First Presbyterian Church of Libertyville Prelude—LeAnn Malecha Welcome—Barbara Shafer, Christ Church Highland Park Worship in Song — Hymn #280, I have a Song I love to Sing Hymn Hymn #285, […]
King David was where he shouldn’t have been. He was on the prowl when he shoulda been still. He should have been with his troops out on the battlefield encouraging them to remain strong and faithful. Instead he was on the rooftop and a war was raging inside him (2 Samuel 11). Remaining strong and […]
Perhaps 15 years separated David’s being privately anointed as king by the prophet Samuel and the time he was publicly anointed and actually proclaimed king following Saul’s death. King David demonstrated great patience while waiting upon God’s promises. He even spared Saul’s life on several occasions. How many of us knowing that destiny awaits could […]
For any of us who have ever been called to stand against the crowd, we know what a frightening and uncomfortable place that can be. It can be humiliating, being a name in the newspaper that people identify with fanatic, zealot, or kook. It can be embarrassing, having people ostracize you and your family and […]
Hannah was brokenhearted. She faced the exultations of her husband’s other wife again and again over Hannah’s infertility and this other wife’s bearing of many sons and daughters. Hannah wept. She couldn’t help it. The love of her husband was profound, but her own failings as a wife—to give him children—loomed great in her eyes. […]
Moses was a hard act to follow and Joshua, having been Moses’ right hand man all these years, knew that better than most. It’s no wonder that he might have experienced a bit of trepidation about the whole lead-the-Israelites-into-the-conquest-of-the-Promised-Land thing. God gives him the bad news… …and then He gives him the good news. Joshua […]
