Have you ever heard the advice: “Follow your heart”, or when pondering a difficult decision, have you been asked, “What does your heart say?”. You probably have. How does that jive with scripture? Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” What did Jesus say about…

Let’s take a quick look at the end of chapter 6. Jesus sent His disciples across the sea of Galilee, while he wanted some time to himself to go up a mountain to pray. Here in California, we would probably call the mountain a hill. By the way. I had never looked this up until…

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In chapter 4, Jesus was by a lake and he was teaching a large crowd, and He was using parables. At the end of the parable of the farmer sowing seed, He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.” Then, when they were away from the crowd, his disciples asked about the parables….

There were some very interesting and important men and women listed in the chapter today. Israel, Judah, Boaz, Jesse, David…just to name a few. Some are remembered as the first to settle certain towns and regions. But two are going to be remembered throughout time for their sins. We read that “the Lord considered Er,…

Let’s look for a moment at chapter 2, verses 3-5. Here it is again: 3 Four men came to him carrying a paralyzed man. 4 Since they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where Jesus was. Then they lowered the cot…

The books of 1 and 2 Chronicles are somewhat of a review of the previous books of history, but not completely. We will find some new information interspersed within. While there is some repetition, God saw fit to give us every word that we find here. These books are therefore just as important as any…

Eight hundred sixty years after Joshua led them into the Promised Land, the Jews lost it because of their failure to follow God’s Law. How many times had He told them, “If you will but turn from your wicked ways, I will restore you.” But time and time again they went back to their sinful…