It’s been a battle royale lately. At times my thought life goes to vile and terrible places, worse than usual. I was reading comments on a video the other day and saw a woman struggling with the same. Two others chimed in that they were having similar issues. ...
David’s reign was about battles, warefare, fighting and getting established. But because of that work, there was no peace in the land. That peace enabled Solomon to do what his father dreamed about–building a temple for the Lord. Solomon then exchanged...
When God showered Solomon with wisdom and understanding, he did not hold back but blessed him with extravagant abundance. He was considered wiser than the most notable wise men of the day, wiser than all the people of the East, wiser than the intellectual center of...
It starts off like a bad dream. “Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh, king of Egypt by marrying Pharaoh’s daughter” (1 Kings 3:1). “Solomon loved the Lord by walking in the statutes of his father David, but he also sacrificed and burned...
Perhaps as I’ve been so distracted and the going through 2 Samuel has been off and on that I’ve struggled with summarizing the gleanings. Then in the middle of the night it was made obvious. David already did it. “…the Lord…has redeemed...