Abram is a real guy. That’s certainly what we can derive from what’s written about him in scripture. It takes faith to trust God to leave his family. Abram exercises that faith. At the same time, he’s also anxious enough to cover himself when it comes to his wife in Egypt. Faith to believe God […]
Read More Abram: Awesome Assurance and Awry AgreementsIt is very difficult reading the 17th chapter of 2 Kings without filling up with tears of sorrow at the tragedy of the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel. It’s not as though God hadn’t warned them. He had done so on numerous occasions through various prophets. Yet their persistence in rejecting God lead […]
Read More The Kings II 17 – The Fall of IsraelAhab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the Lord , the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him. (1 Kings 16:33 NIV) In the southern kingdom of Judah, King Asa ruled for 41 years. In the time of his rule he saw Jeroboam, […]
Read More The Kings 16 – From Bad to WorseHe committed all the sins his father had done before him; his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been. (1 Kings 15:3 NIV) History records the life and times of various leaders and rulers by different standards. Their goodness might be connected to […]
Read More The Kings 15 – The Bad, The Good and The Ugly“As for you, go back home. When you set foot in your city, the boy will die. All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the Lord , the […]
Read More The Kings 14 – What The Blind Prophet SeesThe Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the Lord , the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. (1 Kings 11:9 NIV) There are few episodes in scripture as tragic as this one. Here, in the 11th chapter of 1 Kings, the wisest man in his time […]
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