“I am about to go the way of all the earth,” he said. “So be strong, act like a man, This was David’s charge to his son Solomon shortly before David passed from this life. And they have been preserved for us for a reason. The Bible is full of areas telling us to be…

Proverbs 3:5 (NIV) Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding… Will you dare to trust God? Last week we began a look at 1 Kings 17 and how the prophet Elijah dared to trust God. Review: 1 Kings 17:1-16. The very first words of chapter 17 are…

Proverbs 3:5-6 (ESV) Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Today we are going to begin a two-part series on trusting God and our focus will be on 1 Kings 17. If you had to…

If you had to state a theme for 1 Kings 17 it could be “Dare to Trust God” because the events recorded in this chapter are a great example of what the Lord tells us in Proverbs 3:5 (Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding). 1 Kings 17…

(NIV) I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. Today is Mother’s Day, not a biblical holiday, but a day set aside in our culture to honor mom’s. And moms are viewed as extremely important…

In our Wednesday Evening Bible Study on the Miracles of Jesus we have come to the second of two miracles recorded in Luke 7. The first miracle is Jesus healing the centurion’s servant (Luke 7:1-10). This parallels the account of Elisha healing Naaman of leprosy (2 Kings 5:1-14). In both cases the person healed was…

Psalm 119 is the longest of the psalms and the longest chapter in the Bible. The author is unnamed; older commentators almost universally said it is a psalm of David, composed throughout his entire life. More modern commentators sometimes conclude that it was written following the exile, coming from the days of Ezra or Nehemiah….

Matthew 7:15-23 contains a two-sided warning about false believers. There are those who appear respectable and wise, but you must look at their fruit to know if they are the real deal. In the same way, it’s possible for a person to claim to follow Jesus, referring to Him as “Lord,” when they are not…

Matthew 7:13-14 (NIV) “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. As Jesus nears the conclusion of the Sermon on…

On Wednesday evenings we are looking at the miracles of Jesus as recorded in the gospels. So far we have looked at three miracles of Jesus casting out demons, two of the three resurrection miracles, and the healing of a woman with a prolonged bleeding problem. This week we move into Luke 7 which records…