1 & 2 Samuel | Blind Man's Fancy

I Am Mephibosheth (Christ’s Glory in Fostering & Adoption)

January 13, 2015March 8, 2016 B.J. Maxwell1 & 2 Samuel, Adoption, Biblical Meditations, Galatians, Marriage & Family, The Gospel

“So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table as one of the king’s sons. . . . Now he was lame in both feet.” (2 Sam 9.11b, 13c) “While we were children, [we] were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son . . . so that we might receive adoption as sons. So you are no longer a slave, but a […]

Ministry on the Cheap

May 26, 2009 B.J. Maxwell1 & 2 Samuel, Biblical Meditations

However, the king said to Araunah, “No, but I wll surely buy it from your for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus the LORD was moved by prayer […]