Tallowood

A friend walks in when the world walks out. If you measured your wealth by the quantity and quality of your friendships, how wealthy would you be? After David defeated Goliath, he was loved by almost everyone. Jonathan, the crown prince of Israel, became David’s closest friend and ally. Their friendship shows us the kind of friendship we need in this world. Message based on 1 Samuel 18:1-16.Quotes:Duane Brooks: We are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness . . . insular, insulated, isolated lives. Charles Spurgeon: Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. Patrick O’Tuama: We live our lives in the shelter of each other.Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Friendship is a sheltering tree.Alfred Lord Tennyson said of Archbishop Cranmer: To do him a hurt was to beget a kindness from him. His heart was made of such fine soil that if you planted in it the seeds of hate they blossomed love.Ken Medema sang: Don’t tell me I’ve got a f