Aug 26, 2018
Game of Thrones - Joash began well, but ended badly. His faith was in a man more than in God, and when the man was gone, he went astray. Manasseh began badly, and did terrible things, but then turned back to God and found mercy. Josiah set his heart to seek God when he was sixteen, and stayed faithful to that commitment...
Aug 19, 2018
Game of Thrones - The Bible devotes more space to Ahab and Jezebel than to any other of its "villains." The historians of ancient Israel, looking back from the vantage point of the exile and trying to understand what went wrong, wanted us to understand how destructive Ahab and Jezebel's idolatry, self-centered...
Aug 12, 2018
Game of Thrones - Rehoboam appeared to start strong, but that appearance concealed weakness. As we examine the unwise steps by which Rehoboam lost much of his kingdom, we are given insight into what makes for true greatness.
Aug 5, 2018
Game of Thrones - Esther is the story of a queen who was Jewish--but not a queen of Israel. She became the queen to King Xerxes of the Persian empire. The fast-moving plot of the story shows us a crisis that arose when the evil courtier Haman tricked (and bribed) the King into issuing a decree that called...