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Laura Sweet

Laura N. Sweet is a wife, mother, grandmother, and former Christian schoolteacher from Midland, Michigan. She writes devotional material for both adults and children, and her work has appeared in more than a dozen publications.
Devotionals

A Bad-Tempered Man

Read: 1 Samuel 25:1-13 Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse?” (v. 10) On the very first page of Charles Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol,

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An Embittered Woman

Read: 2 Samuel 6:12-23 [Michal] saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart. (v. 16) The book of Hebrews has good advice for

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A Political Pawn

Read: 2 Samuel 3:12-21 One thing I require of you; that is, you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come. (v. 13) It’s

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A Resourceful Wife

Read: 1 Samuel 19:4-18 Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” (v. 11) The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu

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A Secret Enemy

Read: 1 Samuel 18:22-30 Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David’s enemy continually. (v. 29) To pretend to be someone’s friend even as you plan to betray

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A Jealous King

Read: 1 Samuel 18:12-21 Saul was afraid of David because the LORD was with him but had departed from Saul. (v. 12) In the classic children’s tale Snow White and the

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As Examples for Us

Read: 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction. (v. 11) The Bible is one book, but it is

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A People of Praise

Read: Nehemiah 8:1-12 Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. (v. 10) What is God rebuilding in your life? What is he restoring? While the

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A Persistent Leader

Read: Nehemiah 6:1-15 And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down.” (v. 3) Near the end of his first letter to

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