The book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible is really long. It’s split into two books in our Bibles today because it wouldn’t fit on just one scroll. When you read it, it’s just a bunch of kings doing king stuff - taking power, fighting battles, solving…
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Your Best Life
Your teenage years and young adulthood are full of lots of overwhelming choices. How do you know you’re making the right moves? Who do I want my friends to be? Who should I date, or even marry? What career should I pursue? Where should I live? What religion, if…
Sacred Text - Reading Scripture as a Discipline
In our last video on spiritual disciplines, we talked about using scripture as a resource for praying - reciting the poems and Psalms and prayers contained in the Bible. The words of scripture are meant to be lived and experienced - to bring us into the presence of God and…
Ecclesiastes: Confessions of a Wise Fool
Regret is a powerful and sometimes overwhelming feeling. But can hindsight and perspective turn regret into something better? The life of king Solomon answers us with a fairly confident "maybe!" The book of Ecclesiastes shows us what it looks like for a wise person to look back on…
Hannah's Prayer
This week we are looking at a Biblical story that sets up a new era for the people of Israel. After the chaos and bloodshed of the book of Judges, 1 Samuel finally sees some stability and structure coming to Israelite society. The video above details the events of 1…