| By Andy Moyle | 6 mins 12 secs | 0 Comments
If you think you are a leader (whether in the church or your workplace), look behind you. If no-one is following, you are just taking a walk. Good leaders have followers. Great leaders have leaders following, they are making more leaders! Everyone is a leader in some form – we all have people following us; […]
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Cyrus the Great In the first verse of the book of Ezra we are introduced to King Cyrus. His title was King Cyrus II, or Cyrus the Great. His timeline is as follows: Year Event 600 BC The birth of Cyrus 559 BC Became King of Persia 549 BC Became King of Media 547 BC […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 6 secs | 0 Comments
Josiah again! It’s Josiah again! Why is his story told twice? A week or so ago, we looked at 2 Kings 22, and we’ve got essentially the same story again today, in 2 Chronicles 34. Why? The books of Chronicles repeat much of what is in 1 & 2 Kings, but often include additional detail, […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 52 secs | 0 Comments
Straight away at the beginning of this chapter, we see what kind of King Josiah was v2 – ‘And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.’ Wow what […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 48 secs | 0 Comments
When reading this chapter we have to cast our minds back to 1 Kings Ch.8 which is the parallel passage regarding the Temple dedication. Amazingly the writer of the passage in 1 Kings doesn’t mention the fire from heaven part of the proceedings. It’s not as though it was a common occurrence in the life […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 53 secs | 0 Comments
David who is known to us as a “man after God’s heart” had a dream to build God’s house – a temple worthy of the God he loved and served. Nathan the prophet initially says “yes of course that is a good idea, but God speaks to Nathan to forbid David from building it. Later […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 51 secs | 0 Comments
This passage is covered briefly in 2 Samuel v 16 – 20, and as often is the case in Chronicles, the same events are covered in more detail here. David brings the Ark to Jerusalem into the tent he has pitched for it v 1. This is not the tabernacle which is still at Gibeon […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 27 secs | 0 Comments
What has happened to Israel? What has happened to God’s promises? Is he no longer faithful? Is he no longer there? What’s going on? Well, God is working his purposes out. This chapter is the outworking of Deuteronomy 28:15-68, in which Moses warns God’s people of the consequences of failing to obey the Lord and […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 22 secs | 0 Comments
Can you remember anything you did when you were eight? I don’t think I can, but when Josiah was eight, he became king of Judah. He was a good king, who ‘did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed completely the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the […]