Although the books of Kings and Chronicles cover much of the same history, they have different and complimentary perspectives, focusing mostly on the time of the united Kingdom of Israel under Solomon and then the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Kings answers the question: What went wrong? Chronicles answers the question: Is there any hope for us? It turns out that there was more hope than the people could have conceived, but it wasn’t realized until the coming of Christ in whom the apparently failed promises of the Old Testament find their fulfillment.
We concluded our series with I Peter 5:1-14, in which Peter described the three ways in which God cares for his people: through the...
In John 2, Jesus began his public ministry with two incidents that started the countdown toward what he called “my hour.” Turning water into...
At first glance, it looked like Matthew made a big mistake in his genealogy of Jesus by placing him in the line of David,...