Tip #6 – Grow your faith

Is your house like most?  Is there a wall or a doorjamb with little pencil marks on it, signifying that growth has taken place.  We had that wall in the house where I grew up.  What we didn’t have was a variety of little marks – because I never grew.  In fact, when I started the [...]

Tip #5 Wait your turn

Has anyone else noticed the recent phenomenon of 4-way stop sign drafting?  Here’s how it works.  You creep your car up real close to the one in front of you at a 4-way, and then when that car gets its turn and goes – you go with it.  Bumper to bumper.  Very economical I’m sure [...]

Tip #4 Build your army

In David’s day in Israel, the king was also the general of the army.  He was the one who led (or who didn’t lead at times) the army into battle.  But when David became king, it wasn’t necessary to turn the royal army over to him.  He already had his own army; he’d been collecting [...]

Tip #3 – Slay your giant

If you were to ask David what the biggest moment of his life was, he would likely say the killing of Goliath.  But here’s what I love about the story – it happened before David became king.  Long before.  It happened while he was waiting, while he was going nowhere.  But with his victory he [...]

Tip #2 – Play your harp

So if you want to get somewhere while you are going nowhere, you first need to Keep your Sheep. But then you need to Play your Harp. That was what David was doing when he got the attention of some of Saul’s advisors – and they invited him into the palace to play whenever Saul [...]

Tip #1 – Keep your sheep

I wonder how David felt that first morning after his anointing.  Was he excited?  Was he freaked out?  Or was he wondering if he had just had some weird dream and the whole visit of Samuel on the previous night was part of his somewhat disturbed imagination? The night before was real, and David would be the [...]

What’s in a name?

Tim Stevens was the guy who got me blogging.  He suggested I try it – so I decided to give it a whirl.  First, I found a host (wordpress).  Easy enough.  Then I had to come up with a name.  I never got that far.  My wife was the one who suggested “Getting Somewhere.”  And this is [...]