Author Archives: Adonai's Appeal

I just finished lecturing on Elvis in one of my courses. One of his many hits is “A Little Less Conversation.” The opening line of the song is a little less conversation, a little more action, please… Elvis sings this song in 1968 as a social protest song – calling for less words and moreContinue reading “A Little Less Conversation”

Fog is so deceiving. It is disorienting and confusing. It makes things seems farther than they are. It hides things until you are right up on them. It causes the light to reflect back instead of shining forward. This is why we get phrases like “fog of war,” “in a fog,” “foggy head,” etc. IContinue reading “Clear out the fog”

Life has a lot of different activities; and the world is full of all kinds of things. Many of those activities, and the stuff are inherently bad or wrong. In fact, Solomon told us in Ecclesiastes that God does want us to enjoy them…to an extent. It is when we allow them to dominate ourContinue reading “Choose Your Master”

Today is the Lord’s Day. Why do we worship God and His Jesus? Because His Father, Jehovah, is a just God. He will not overlook any sin. But He is also full of perfected mercy and grace. So, He sent His son to live a life of perfect grace and mercy and to die forContinue reading “Defender of our Souls”

There are lots of folks who approach serving God with the mentality “they liked to have their cake and to eat it too.” They want to say the love and obey God but only the parts and commandments they like or agree with – the rest they throw out to the birds. They try toContinue reading “Liar Liar, pants on fire”

As a kid, I loved to watch the show “Are you afraid of the dark?” A kid’s scary anthology show. I’d watch it on Thursdays while I waited for my mom to pick me up from piano lessons. I love a good scare and always have. So, I never really was scared of the darkContinue reading “Dark vs. Light”

The second half of Song of Solomon is a long poetic exchange how of attractive both Solomon and His wife find each other. But tucked in the poetic exchanges is the line that stuck up to me this morning: Set a seal upon my heart, as a seal on arm, for love is as strongContinue reading “Seal My Heart”

Commitment is a thing of the past it seems. People break their word all the time. Make promises they don’t mean or really ever meant in the first place. People back out of relationships or situations when they get hard, uncomfortable, or no longer what they expected or wanted. People aren’t dedicated to improvement. SoContinue reading “We Belong to Each Other”

It has always been so weird to me that we act like the Song of Solomon doesn’t exist. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it read from in the pulpit or used in a Bible class. I mean even in our marriage class for just my husband and I we didn’t read from it andContinue reading “The Banqueting Hall of Love”

Let us hear the beginning and the end of Solomon’s wisdom. After he introduces himself and the purpose of Proverbs, the very first piece of advice Solomon gives is to fear the Lord. He tells his son and future readers that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Now, turn to theContinue reading “The beginning and end”