Last week we looked at the work David did to gather much of the material for the temple his son, Solomon, was to build. That temple was adorned magnificently because it was built by 183,000 laborers working for seven years. Read the details about it, and you will discover how much gold was used to construct it. It was almost equal to…

When David asked the prophet Nathan if he should build the temple, Nathan immediately told him to go ahead and do this. However, that night the Lord came to Nathan and told the prophet what he had said was wrong. He returned to David and gave the king the message from God. Sometimes we, like Nathan, give our own opinions about the…

There has been a major change in college sports and the details of the new program, the NIL, can be complicated. Basically, it says that any athlete can leave the team he has joined and enter a portal to be paid more to play for his new team. If no one signs him, he might think of himself as being a college…

As we read the Bible, we sometimes are so focused on how a passage applies to our lives that we so easily lose sight of what was happening when a book was written. Truth is always truth! It cannot contradict itself and is timeless. The laws of God have changed in various dispensations, but the fundamental aspect of truth does not change.…

In Paul’s last epistle, he described to Timothy the attributes of a good soldier. Since all of us are encouraged to put on the armor of the Lord (Eph. 6:11), we would all be wise to think seriously about what Jesus expects of us as His soldiers. Take time to look at Paul’s description in 2 Timothy 2:1-6. Good soldiers are strong…

The first copies of the King James Version of the Bible were printed in 1611, and it was not long before more and more copies were needed. Robert Baker and Martin Lucas were the royal printers (officially authorized to print official documents), who were commissioned to reprint 1,000 copies of the King James Version. They accidentally left out one vital word in…

Satan deceived Eve about death and since that time he tried to use death to lead men away from God. What happens to a person when he dies was not readily apparent in the Old Testament. When Job asked, “If a man dies, shall he live again?” (Job 14:14), he expressed how little was known about death before Christ came.  In fact,…

When God heard young Solomon’s request, He responded and gave him wisdom above all men. “All of the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom, came to hear the wisdom of Solomon” (1 Kings 4:34). The wisest king “…sought to find acceptable words” (Ecc. 12:10) and then wrote these words, so by reading them we can share in his…