Get Wise
Read: Proverbs 2:7-15 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path. (v. 9) Do you think much about right and wrong? Do you talk much about what is right and wrong in the world? This proverb encourages us to see the role that wisdom plays in understanding right from wrong. It […]
Give Me, Lord!
Read: Proverbs 2:3-5 Yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding. (v. 3) You have likely been to a sporting event where they give away free T-shirts. At half-time or some other break in the action, the cheerleaders walk up and down the sidelines and throw or shoot the shirts […]
One Greater Than Solomon (Part 2)
Read: Matthew 22:34-46 If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son? (v. 45) About 1,000 years after the glorious kingdoms of David and Solomon, a son is born in their royal line. He is not born in a palace, cradled in comfort; he grows up in humility and obscurity in a backwater […]
One Greater Than Solomon (Part 1)
Read: Psalm 72:1-17 May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him! (v. 11) We have spent some time looking at the life of Solomon, but what are some things we can take away for ourselves? What role do we see Solomon playing in Scripture? One reason Solomon is significant is as a […]
The End of Solomon
Read: 1 Kings 11:29-43 And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. (v. 43) Nathan the prophet stood boldly in the king’s throne room and announced, “You are the man!” (2 Samuel 12:7). He publicly proclaimed David’s sin of taking Bathsheba, Uriah’s wife, and arranging to have Uriah killed […]
The Sin of Solomon (Part 2)
Read: 1 Kings 11:1-13 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. (v. 9) In the book of Proverbs, which is attributed to Solomon, we read, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows […]
The Sin of Solomon (Part 1)
Read: Deuteronomy 17:14-20 And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away. (v. 17) If you’ve been on this earth for a while, you’ve seen some notable person “fall from grace” in a shocking and tragic way. Perhaps it was a popular pastor who was caught in an affair, or […]
The Splendor of Solomon
Read: 1 Kings 10:14-29 Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. (v. 23) In Psalm 145:13 we read, “The LORD is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.” Certainly he was faithful to the promises he made to Solomon. In 1 Kings 3 […]
The Witness of Solomon
Read: 2 Chronicles 9:1-12 Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! (v. 8) During the years I taught at a Christian school, we had a number of international students attend for a “study abroad” year. While the students […]