It had been 100 years since God touched the hearts of the Persian kings and allowed the Jewish exiles to return to Judah/Jerusalem and 40 ...

 After Josiah, The next 4 kings were bad. (They didn't do right in the eyes of the Lord)  The kings led the people of Judah away from th...

  Last time we saw that the Aramean army was led into Syria by Elisha after God had confused them. The king of Israel wanted to destroy them...

 King Solomon became well known for his wisdom and his wealth. Kings and queens from all over would come to see these things for themselves....

  So the anger of the Lord burned against Israel because they had rebelled against His decision.... again. God used David's sin to enact...

After David had revealed to king Saul that he had spared his life and the king promised to leave David alone, they went their separate ways....

One day, David got word that the Philistines were attempting to take over the city of Keilah. David prayed and asked God if he should gather...

  As time went by, King Saul hated David more and more, even though David was married to his daughter Michal and  he was best friends with h...

 After defeating Goliath with just a slingshot, David stood before King Saul. Saul was very impressed with David and asked him to stay in th...

  When we left last time, Samuel had anointed Saul as king. Samuel warned the people that God was not very pleased with them about choosing ...

  After the feast was over, Samuel took Saul to the rooftop where he had already prepared a bed for him. Saul still did not know what all th...

 By now Samuel was getting old. He had two sons, Joel and Abijah. Samuel was getting his sons ready to take over as Israel’s judges, but...

                                                   "As Samuel grew up, the Lord was with him, and everything he said                ...

Poor Joseph! Sold to the Egyptians as a slave! Could you imagine being free to do whatever you want one day and being a slave the next? Now ...

I hope you had a great Christmas and New years! Remember last time we were talking about Isaac, his two sons, Jacob and Esau and how Jacob ...

This is a story about putting ourselves before God. When we do that, we are prideful. Pride is the root of a lot of bad things. We will se a...