2 Kings 23:31-25:30 View this week’s sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] As we finish our study, I would like to consider these final chapters, while trying to also reflect on the book of Kings as a whole. I have tried to magnify one dominant theme in the study: We need a better […]
2 Kings 21:1-23:30 View this week’s sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] Following the noble reign of Hezekiah, we read of the faithless reign of Manasseh. In the last chapter, we noted how Hezekiah led a reformation, despite having a wicked father (just as Josiah will do). Here we read how Manasseh led […]
2 Kings 17-20 View this week’s sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] The good news of the gospel is that you do not have to turn out like your father. If you find this hard to believe, then consider Hezekiah. God raised up this Judean King, while a dark cloud was hanging over […]
2 Kings 11-16 View this week’s sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] In the midst of the disobedience and decline of chapters 11-16, there are whispers of this hope. We will focus our attention upon these whispers, while not ignoring the tragic cries of the darkness. We will confine our attention to the […]
2 Kings 9-10 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] This is a really easy section to outline, but a hard section to read for some to read because it is bloody. It is divided into three parts: (1) The Anointing (9:1-13); (2) The Avenging (9:14-10:27); (3) The Assessment (10:28-36). If you […]
2 Kings 6:8-8:15 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] In the following section of Kings, we find some fascinating, tragic, and somewhat comedic stories. You were probably not told about these stories in Sunday School! Many of the stories in Scripture are difficult to understand and stomach, but that does not […]
2 Kings 5-6:7 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] The glorious message today is that God can overcome the effects of the Fall (whether it’s Skin disease, frustrated Work, or sin) and deliver us from slavery to curse by bringing us through the waters of the Jordan safely into the Promised […]
2 Kings 3-4 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] We just finished the biography of Elijah in 2 Kings 2. The larger than life prophet died – well, sort of. He was taken up into heaven in a blaze of glory, and he reappears in the New Testament. Nevertheless he is […]
2 Kings 1-2 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] We see the main point in this text are the questions, Is there a God in Israel? Who will they seek? In this passage we will see that the King, and mocking boys look elsewhere besides Yahweh. The answer is that there […]
1 Kings 20 & 22 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] We live in a world of competing voices, and in one sense since the Garden onward human beings have been given a choice, hear and heed the Word of the Creator or heed the voice of our own desires or […]