One of heaven’s ‘remarkabilities’? Both the queen of Sheba and I will feel at home there! Let’s linger a little longer with the queen of Sheba as she says goodbye to Solomon. Why? Because the Lord Jesus made the link Himself in Matthew 12:39-42. He drew a remarkable comparison between two seeming opposites. In the […]
Read More… from November 6, 2024 — We’ll Never Say Goodbye To Our King!
“Everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one.” —A.W. Tozer The report of Sheba’s queen visiting Jerusalem in 2 Chronicles 9 closely follows the account in 1 Kings 10. We won’t duplicate our earlier commentary, but if we made an outline of the passage, the headings might look like […]
Read More… from November 5, 2024 — The Half Has Not Been Told
The lady rushing to buy her lottery ticket was not expecting this! Christian, you’re more rich than you know. […]
When it all crumbles around and within, hallelujah for the faithfulness of God’s faithfulness. 1The Lord is so fair. If you knew how badly this king would end, leading your people into gross idolatry, would you still offer your help in advance? What seems to be hypothetical in 2 Chronicles 7:19-20—“IF you turn away and […]
The Guicciardinis are one of the oldest and most renowned families of Florence, dating back to the 1200s. Many of them held prominent positions in the Florentine Republic as scholars and historians through the centuries. But Pietro, born in a palace, would prove the adage that God often uses little to accomplish much, being won […]
Here is the watershed in every life: “if you walk before Me” or “if you turn away” (2 Chron 7:17, 19). God not only hears our prayers, but He answers, too—in this case, 13 years later! Solomon had emphasized the keeping power of God. Thankfully He keeps both His “covenant and mercy” (2 Chron 6:14). That is, when we obey Him, […]
My daughter Moira and I were chatting recently. Music is her native language. She told me an amazing fact—how flowers sing to bees! Let me share it with you. Springtime, after all, is busy bee time. In the Oct 28, 2022 edition of Smithsonian magazine, Sarah Kuta tells about Ellard Hunting and fellow researchers at […]
In worship, it’s better to have heart without words than words without heart. But why not both? The climax of Solomon’s prayer is an invitation from a little man on a little planet that’s like a grain of sand on the shore of trackless space. The God of whom he said, “Behold, heaven and the heaven […]
“I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit” (Isa 57:15). At the heart of Solomon’s prayer were two main ideas: the imminence and preeminence of God. These are expressed in the two “locations,” so to speak, of God: “may You hear the supplications of Your servant and of […]