Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Mark 12:30 We continue in 2 Kings 1 and at the beginning of this chapter in my Bible is a timeline (spanning 4 pages) of the kings of Israel and Judah…

When someone I love is going through difficult, challenging times, it doesn’t take long for me to feel unmoored. I worry, I fret. When I pray I begin to feel that in all of my need I’m using God…please do this, do that, do this. Do you ever go through that? This morning He showed…

I hope for a day when God’s Kingdom will fill this earth and we will all be able to learn from Him. In my limited capacity as a human, it’s hard to believe because my doubts keep getting in the way. I keep seeing the truly awful things we humans do today; awful things recorded…

As I read 1 Kings 20, I can’t help but consider kings of old and rulers of today hungry for power. As though peoples lives don’t matter; as though God doesn’t matter. In this chapter the king of Aram and Ahab, king of Israel, are going to war twice and twice God intervenes. The king…

Have you ever thought about how God is present to you? Do you have highs and lows where He has been with you? Have you felt His comfort and experienced His protection? If you sit quietly with Him giving thanks for everything His peace will surround you. For me His Presence has been a gentle…

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 1 Corinthians 13:6. “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. John 18:38. That question has been important in every age of mankind. In 1 Kings 18 Elijah is about to demonstrate exactly what truth is. He is told by God, “Go and present yourself to Ahab,…

When you ask God to help you know Him, a difference happens. Life lived knowing about God; and life lived experiencing His Presence. Your eyes are opened to the beauty and intelligent design you now appreciate is God’s handiwork. You begin to understand that this life has difficulties and challenges and no one is immune…

I confess there are books of Scripture that I dread reading. I almost want to skip over them and I would imagine for everyday people living in those times, they might have wanted to skip over those events, too. How about today? Are there kingdoms and events the people living in them wish they could…

In reading 1 Kings 15, and in looking at events here in our time, I can’t help but be struck by the impact in everyday lives of events beyond our control. In the war currently being waged in Ukraine, there are still children who need cancer treatments as we saw last night on 60 Minutes.…

In this Chapter, 1 Kings 14, I love the question the prophet Ahijah asks the wife of Jeroboam…why this pretense? She was sent to the prophet by her husband, the king, because their son is ill and Jeroboam wants to know what will happen. He tells her to go in disguise and take food to…