David A. Kolb

proud of and have had to answer for but His blood cleanses me of my sin. The Word of God promises us that in 1 John 1:7 There is a difference between shame and guilt. Guilt is the "feeling" we get from the Holy Spirit who lives in us when we are dabbling in sin. On the other hand shame is a feeling Satan attempts to use to trip up God's children who have already dealt with their sin the proper way by going to the Lord and laying it at the feet of Jesus. The beauty of being able to read about…

The story of David was about a flawed man that couldn't be ignored. The rise of David's power showed that he was both a military and a political genius. David grew up in a family of royal history. It was said that the house of Jesse, David's father, was a house of wealth, scholarliness, generosity, and responsibility. David's rise to power all began with God appearing to Samuel, one of Saul's advisees, and telling him to travel to Bethlehem, where he would find the next of kin in Jesse's family.…

Death sets the story of Ruth in motion while action focuses on restoring balance. Naomi has become the center of this story, as we witness her struggles within various events that take place in her life: the death of her husband’s and sons’, daughter-in-law, return to Bethlehem, God, Boaz, land to sell, and her offspring. In this story, Naomi feel like she has lost everything: home, husband, sons, and livelihood, and has now been placed on the same level of the poor and widowed. In spite of…

trust God. David uses the name God nine times in this psalm. Nine is the number for the fruit of the Spirit. God’s plan is not accidental nor probable but inevitable and purpose driven. God provides the deepest love attainable. In…

describe him. Cruel, Mean, Lazy, Irritable, Angry, Bossy, short tempered. All of these words describe Joseph very well because of his strong religious beliefs and beating his son David so he can understand the secret that David is hiding. Cruel, mean, irritable, angry and short tempered describes the way he treated his son after David found out of Sophie’s 6 toes which means she is a blasphemy. Lazy, foolish, Bossy and religious describes how he is the leader of a very religious group that…

After reaching the summit of its greatness during the reigns of David and Solomon in X b.C, the ancient kingdom of Israel was increasingly more vulnerable to the will of its powerful neighbors and internal struggles. Divided its royal lineage in two main branches, north and south, the Assyrians took advantage of the situation to conquer the northern kingdom. The South with capital in Jerusalem, tried to maintain their independence making strongholds between Egypt and Babylon, the latter, at the…

hopelessness causes individuals to develop an irrational thinking pattern which is the main factor that differentiates a human from an animal. David is finally captured by the people of the new civilization, and finds out that the Queen wants his death, since he is a survivor of the past. He is one of the “Gentiles” who made God angry and punish everyone else. While David is trying to escape his death, he begins to explain how, “For sometime [he] believed it was [him] who was dead, not they.…

responsibility and went out and completed the command that God gave him to do outside the garden. Unlike King David, when we look at him, we see the incident with him and Bathsheba. David found that he was helpless when being exposed to the mere fact that he had committed a sin against God, he became ultimately pessimism. David was in a position where he was King and could have anything that he wanted. King David like the dogs was in a place where he could not get out of unless someone got him…

Star of David The Star of David affects many of the lives to this day from way back then when it was a symbol of discrimination to now, a sign of hope. And how it came to be the symbol it is now today, also the different meanings it may have and how it is viewed by some of the people in the world. The symbol the star of David dated back to over a thousand years ago. The star of David in the oldest surviving copy of the Masoretic text, the Leningrad Codex, dated 1008. The earliest…

The Star of David is a symbol used to identify Judaism. It’s supposed to represent the shape of King David’s shield (Levine 2015). This symbol is well respected in Israel, it’s part of their national flag. It’s called a hexagram or six-point star (Levine 2015). One of the first Jewish uses of the Star is part of the colophon; part of the embroidery of the title page of a book, the printer sometimes included the family name on the colophon which showed class and wealth (Levine 2015). Today the…