Finding God in the Midst of Life: Old Stories for Contemporary Readers Book

Foreword     vii
Finding God...
...in attempts to make God's promises manageable (Genesis 16 and 21)     1
...in the loneliness of life's journey (Genesis 28:10-22)     12
...in doing what we can (1 Samuel 17)     20
...in the stupidity born of anger (1 Samuel 25)     29
...in the clutches of sin (2 Samuel 11)     41
...in the pride born of influence (2 Kings 5:1-14)     53
...in remembering who we are (Nehemiah 4 and 10 - 13)     60
...in the demands of the circumstances (Esther 4:1 - 5:8)     73
...in the futility of success (Ecclesiastes 2)     84
...in surprisingly answered prayer (Isaiah 38)     93
...in resisting idolatry (Daniel 3)     102
Notes     112