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 […]
1 Kings 21:1-29 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] There are four characters in this story: Naboth, Ahab, Jezebel, and Elijah. We read of Ahab’s coveting and sulking, and of Jezebel’s manipulation and destruction. We meet Naboth, the faithful Israelite who models obedience to us. Here is Naboth living just outside […]
1 Kings 19:1-21 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] We have read of Elijah’s mountain top experience at Mount Carmel, but now we see Elijah down in the valley under a broom tree. Before he was ministering to others, but now he is focused upon himself. Elijah confronted Ahab and the […]
1 Kings 18:1-46 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] The main point for us to glean from this passage is to see and know that the Lord is God and that we are to follow Him as our Eternal King. He is the true, perfect, and powerful Sovereign who loves and […]
1 Kings 17:1-24 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] If you are like me, you will admit that you could and should be spending more time in prayer. What most of us need is not this reminder, but inspiration. That is what we have in Elijah. Elijah’s example inspires me in […]
1 Kings 14:21-16:34 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] Occasionally you hear truth in strange places. In an episode of The Simpson’s, Homer said of the Bible, “All these people are a mess …. except this one guy.” This reminds us that God can save and use anyone. This also reminds […]