The Pillar of Fire: Faith's Imperviousness to Faithless Fear
The valley of Elah, identified in the Wady Es-Sunt, preserves its ancient topography with precision—a quarter-mile-wide ravine strewn with water-worn pebbles from which David selected...
This is historical examples on trust in God's power and contrast between faithlessness and faith, drawing on 1 Samuel 17:32-51.
The valley of Elah, identified in the Wady Es-Sunt, preserves its ancient topography with precision—a quarter-mile-wide ravine strewn with water-worn pebbles from which David selected five smooth stones. This geographical exactitude, Maclaren observes, marks the account as history rather than legend. For forty days Goliath paraded across the gulley, his voice like a bull, while Israel's armies lay paralyzed across from him.…
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