Emphasis Preaching Journal

David was privileged to have Nathan around to inform him when his goals and ideas were not what God had in mind. So when David wants to build a temple to house the worship of God, God has other ideas. It is more important that David build another kind of house: a dynasty. The rest of us are not so lucky. In the well-known film, It's A Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart plays a man who has always had big dreams for himself that would eventually get him out of his hometown, Bedford Falls.