Tag: Idolatry
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Day 189: The Hardest High Place (2 Chronicles 26:16)
Even the best kings of Judah couldn’t always remove the high places. Our human nature helps us understand why.
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Day 174: Altars of Convenience (1 Kings 12)
Jeroboam never told Israel to stop worshiping God. He just made worship more convenient. The result was a substitute religion that looked familiar—but led people far from the Lord.
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Day 172: Wives and Concubines (1 Kings 11:3)
Solomon’s 700 wives weren’t merely a moral failure. They were 700 attempts to find security somewhere besides God. The question isn’t whether we have foreign wives—it’s what little kingdoms have captured our hearts.
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Day 119: The Not Like and the Almost Like (1 Chronicles 9:1)
Some tribes disappeared by becoming unlike God’s people; others by becoming almost indistinguishable. Both warn us—but even forgotten places like Zebulun and Naphtali become the first to see Christ’s light.
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Day 288: Sometimes We Prefer Pigs (Mark 5:1–20)
Jesus set a man free from a legion of demons, and the whole town should have celebrated—but instead, they begged Him to leave. This devotional explores why we sometimes cling to our comfort, our routines, and our “pigs” more than we welcome the presence and power of Christ.
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Day 032: Addicted to Frogs (Exodus 8:3-7)
The plague of frogs in Exodus sounds almost comical—until you realize how closely it mirrors the way addiction works. What begins as something tolerated or even treasured soon invades every space of life. Pharaoh’s problem was never just the frogs, and ours is never just the addiction. Until we deal with the sin that invited…