I Kings 17:1-24 There are two stories this morning. The first is the story of Elijah raising the son of the widow of Zarephath from the dead. The second is a longer story of Elisha rasing the son of the Shunammite woman from the dead. Why is it that when people read the account of…
I Kings 17:7-16, II Kings 4:1-7 We start this morning with three questions that came out of my study of the Elijah and Elisha stories we read this morning. Why does God do miracles? How should we respond to miracles? Where do we go if we want to see miracles? Why God does what he…
I Kings 17:1-6 It is sometimes said that truth is stranger than fiction and there is no better place to look in the Bible to see that this is so than in I & II Kings and the story of Elijah and Elisha. Elijah’s story begins with his declaration to King Ahab that there will…
Genesis 13:1-13 Because Iraq has been in the news so much over the past few months, my knowledge of geography in that region of the world has improved. So when I started looking at the Old Testament lesson for this morning that gives details of Abram and Lot’s journey from Ur to Canaan, I was…
Exodus 32 How would you like to have the kind of relationship with God that Moses had? Moses, in the reading from Exodus we just read, talked back and forth with God as if they were talking face to face. The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his…