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The High Places (Part Five)
CGG Weekly by David C. GrabbeThe history of Israel shows that successful spiritual revivals typically begin with tearing down the idols, which allows the people to turn back to God.
The High Places (Part One)
CGG Weekly by David C. GrabbeAhaz is one of the Judean kings who cast off all restraint regarding the high places. Along with Jeroboam, Jehoram, and Manasseh, he built idolatrous places of worship that became stumbling blocks to both Israel and Judah. His conduct contrasts with that of loyal kings such as Asa, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah, who ordered the high places destroyed, though some were more thorough than others. Ahaz belongs to the group of rulers who did not remain true to God but encouraged His people to follow the idolatrous practices of the surrounding nations. God measures the kings by whether they stayed true to Him throughout their lives, and the high places serve as a metric of that loyalty. Ahaz fails that measure, because he built what God commanded Israel to destroy.
Passover (Part Eight)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThe temple Passover commanded by Hezekiah was a very unusual circumstance in which the king centralized worship to keep Baalism from defiling the Passover.
The Sovereignty of God: Part Five
'Personal' from John W. RitenbaughIs God sovereign over angels? What about mankind's choices? God's sovereignty is absolute as He directs events toward the culmination of His plan.
Micah (Part One): Hope for the Hopeless
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsThe prophecy of Micah had a delayed effect, taking many years before a reformer emerged on the scene. Jeremiah's life was spared because of the memory of Micah.
Who Do You Trust? (Part Four): You Shall Soar Like Eagles
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by Mark SchindlerEven Hezekiah, more righteous than any other king, stumbled. But Almighty God is always ready to pick us up, enabling us to soar like eagles.
The Occult
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsThe Bible condemns divination, necromancy, soothsayers, sorcery, spiritism and witchcraft, identifying all these practices as abominations, based on demonism.