“We do not start our Christian lives by working out our faith for ourselves; it is mediated to us by Christian tradition, in the form of sermons, books and established patterns of church life and fellowship. We read our Bibles in the light of what we have learned from these sources; we approach Scripture with…
choose life? what life?
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 18 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, until I come and take you to a land…
Satan’s bait
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 17 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: “All this I will give you,” Satan said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’” [Matthew 4:9-10] To worship is to honour, respect and serve; we were created to honour, respect…
no need to appease God
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 16 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. [John 3:16] God does not need to be appeased, convinced, or cajoled to love us; he loves us, period! And yet people forget this, they assume that…
generations
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 15 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David… David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife, Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asa, Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Jehoram, Jehoram the father…
mercy me!
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 14 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the “sinners” and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?” On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have…
a God of life
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 13 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But in the account of the bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” [Luke 20:37-38]…
seeking His counsel
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 12 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him. [2 Kings 12:2] There is a subtle clue in this passage that hints at an important lesson. It seems that Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord WHILE he was under…
ace in the hole
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 11 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes, who were about to be murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah; so he was not killed. He remained…
just a dream?
On this Valentine’s Day, I think of those who are experiencing this dream, as well as those whose dream has crashed. This beautiful video portrays the story that most of us dream about, but so many do not attain. The dream is not an illusion, and its something worth fighting for. But it is impossible…