1 Kings 19-20, Luke 23:1—25 • Key Verse: 1 Kings 19:4 Once you reach the mountaintop, it’s all downhill from there. While that is obviously true in a physical sense, it’s also true emotionally. When we, reach an emotional peak, the next step is downhill. The question is not if...

1 Kings 16-18, Luke 22:47-71 • Key Verse: 1 Kings 18:17 As the story a couple of days ago illustrates, we do like to shift blame. Adam started it, Eve followed, and there’s no telling how many others have done it. There’s one problem with blaming others, however: God knows...

1 Kings 14-15, Luke 22:31-46 • Key Verse: Luke 22:32 Have you ever benefited from someone telling you about a mistake he made? Perhaps he told you about a turn he missed, resulting in either getting lost or a longer trip. Maybe it was when he was installing new software...

1 Kings 12-13, Luke 22:1-30 • Key Verse: 1 Kings 13:26 Guilty people have a tendency to shift the blame to others. Adam did it first: “The woman you put here with me—-she gave me some fruit from the tree” (Gen. 3:12). He blamed God for giving him Eve and...

1 Kings 10-11, Luke 21:20-38 • Key Verse: 1 Kings 11:9 Leith Anderson tells of a man named Kenneth Kruse, who “served the Lord faithfully in Africa for 25 years before returning to England, where he worked with the Scripture Gift Mission. He retired at age 65, and three years...

1 Kings 8-9, Luke 21:1-19 • Key Verses: Luke 21:1 – 4 It would seem that the more a person makes, the easier it would be to give. But that is not the case. Possessions have a way of possessing. A wealthy person may give a larger dollar amount but...

1 Kings 6-7, Luke 20:27 – 47 • Key Verse: 1 Kings 7:1 I watched with interest as the worker at the espresso machine carefully divided the hot chocolates I had ordered. Both had been made in one container, but now she was pouring it into two cups, one each...

1 Kings 3-5, Luke 20:1-26 • Key Verse: Luke 20:25 Almost two weeks have passed since what is considered the second- most stressful day in the year for an American adult—April 1.5, tax day. (Number one on the list is going to the dentist.) Perhaps you would rather not think...

1 Kings 1—2, Luke 19:28-48 • Key Verse: Luke 19:41 Two people can look at the same thing, at the same time, and see things differently. An old table in a dumpster looks like trash to one, a treasure to another. One set of fans at a championship game will...

2 Samuel23-24, Luke 19:1—27 • Key Verse: 2 Samuel 24:24 Most people like to get something for nothing. The less it costs, the better. – ‘ , ‘ – The opposite is true as well. At times people try to give what costs them nothing. If it was free to...