Have you ever noticed that you can be reading or watching or even going somewhere and you get this feeling of deja vu? Deja vu was first put forth by a French philosopher named Emile Boirac in 1876. He defined it as a “reminiscence of memories.” For lack of better words I will simply say it is the “feeling of having experienced something before.”  It is easy to get that feeling when you read Kings and Chronicles in the Old Testament, especially if you read them back to back. It’s like “been there read that.”

In 1905 a man named George Santayana wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In a speech to the British Parliament in 1948 Winston Churchill echoed those words a slightly different way: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Those are wise words. They would have been wise to each of the men I will be talking about this Sunday in my message entitled Simple Words-Lifetime Lessons. Those men are Hezekiah, Manasseh, Josiah, and David. And, of course, they are wise words to us today. 

Our Scripture from the Everyday Gospel Devotional for this past week was 2 Kings 20- I Chronicles 17.  I’d like to invite you to join us in person for either our 9:00 or 10:45 service.  We also live stream both so if you are unable to join us in person please feel free to join us online. We would love to have you join us!  You can send a request to join our Facebook Group at Owen Valley Christian Fellowship or view our public page at Owen Valley Christian Fellowship-Spencer, In. Or you can watch via YouTube at Owen Valley Christian Fellowship. I look forward to seeing you or hearing from you online. And let me ask you to do me a favor: please let us know you are watching and then feel free to comment-yay or nay. If you have any questions, please ask and I will get back to you. Thanks. And thanks for praying for us.