Today's Passage: 1 Kings 17:1-7I read somewhere that a child’s imagination begins to decline around 5 or 6 years of age. Not that it disappears altogether, but it slows down in wonder. This is one of ...  Read More

Today's Passage: 1 Kings 16In this historical chapter, we are told about five different kings of Israel. Five different men, and five different stories of failure, disobedience, and ruin. The first th...  Read More

Today's Passage: 1 Kings 15 Chapter 15 begins by summarizing the reign of two kings of Judah: Abijam and Asa.Abijam reigned for only 3 years, and the text makes it clear that this brevity was due to A...  Read More

Today's Passage: 1 Kings 14 Idol worship was the downfall of Israel. It’s exactly what we see in our passage today.At this moment in Israel’s history, the kingdom had been divided. There is the Northe...  Read More

Today's Passage: 1 Kings 13 Do you take verses like Romans 6:23 literally? “For the wages of sin is death.”When we first read passages like the account of Ananias and Saphira in Acts 5 and what we see...  Read More

Today’s Passage: 1 Kings 12Everything seems to be falling apart. In 1 Kings 11 we read of the fall of Solomon… andthe fall was great. And in his place his son, Rehoboam, ruled. But everything seems to...  Read More

Today's Passage: 1 Kings 11:26–4314 I also know that whatever God does will endure forever;nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it.God has made it this way, so that men will fear hi...  Read More

Today's Passage: 1 Kings 11:1-25 “So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done.” 1 Kings 11:6This is the key verse for today’s...  Read More

Today's Passage: 1 Kings 10Chapter 10 is a historical account of the Queen of Shiba meeting King Solomon. This encounter leaves her speechless at Solomon’s wisdom and the glory of his kingdom. It is w...  Read More

Today's Passage: 1 Kings 9 Solomon finishes building everything that he desires. God appears to Solomon because He heard Solomon’s prayer that we saw in chapter 8. Solomon’s words were not just an elo...  Read More

Today's Passage: 1 Kings 8:22-66 In this chapter there are so many attributes of God we can point to:Merciful – Solomon continually pleads with God to forgive the people when they do wrong. They hadn’...  Read More

Today's Passage: 1 Kings 8:1-21 From the beginning of the Old Testament, God  told us of his presence with the people of Israel. He was present in the highs and in the lows.Now, through Solomon, he ha...  Read More