We meet Elijah in the book of 1 Kings. With no background or real introduction, we encounter a man who passionately does the right thing despite the hardships he knows it will create. However, the problems don’t end there. Things go from bad to worse. Yet ultimately the challenges he faces could be considered gifts […]
Job’s story is a hard one and yet we can learn some really valuable lessons for when we walk through our own deserts. While Job struggled through his season of hardship, his devotion to God and his willingness to speak openly with God never wavered.
Jeremiah had an AMAZING calling from God yet lived a very troubled life. Perhaps you can relate? You diligently seeking to walk with God, to live for Jesus, yet your life is anything but easy. You keep finding yourself in what feels like a desert – stuck in the middle of the wilderness and not […]
As we come to the end of the book of Daniel, we see one last time the big story the book has been sharing with us over and over again. Yet in the midst of that big story, we also receive a reminder that there is another story taking place… our story! God was working […]
What do you do when things aren’t going the way you expect in life? What do you do when the events unfolding around you don’t line up with your preferred future? This is the situation Daniel finds himself in as we come to the end of his story. The long awaited end of the Exile […]
Repetition is key to remembering… so when God repeats Himself there is clearly something He wants us to know! As we turn to Daniel 8, we are given a third repetition of future events and a reminder that God is trying to get our attention.
Remember as a kid how your imagination would run wild? Monsters under the bed… Gnomes sneaking around the yard at night… Invisible friends… What little kids doesn’t love unicorns? They don’t exist but we love to draw them. Or what about Pegasus? We love horses… one that could fly would be even better! Today as we turn to […]
You wake up… what’s the first thing you do? What happens next? For most of us, our morning routines are so rhythmic we don’t even think about them. However, when it comes to our faith, we could all probably use a little work on establishing these same type of rhythms. As we look at Daniel […]
History is doomed to repeat itself… or so they say. Yet as we turn our attention to Daniel 5 today it would seem as if this cliché is true. Another king, another failure to honor God as sovereign over all nations. The difference this time around is history. They knew their history and did nothing […]