A Chief Executive Officer in today’s corporation will often appoint a successor. Succession planning is common. It is a strategic...

Camped in a cave on the side of Mount Sinai, far from the dangers of Jezebel and her wicked hounds, Elijah pondered God’s plan. “He...

Elijah had executed the pagan priests. Now, Jezebel vowed to execute Elijah. “May the gods punish me and do so severely if I don’t make...

I skipped a gruesome detail in the story, but I shouldn’t have... so let’s go back. After fire fell from heaven, and before Elijah went...

Where I grew up in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, it sometimes rains two-hundred days in a year, with total annual rainfall of about...

Elijah built an altar using twelve large stones (1 Kings 18:31). He might have used ten stones to represent the ten tribes in Ahab’s...

For three years and six months, Ahab’s kingdom had implored Baal to send rain. Month after miserable month, year after interminable year,...

Drought plagued the land. Once fertile farmland was dusty, scorched by the sun. Riverbeds were dry. The rotting carcasses of oxen and...

Death is so final. In a hospice ward, I stood with six adult children at the bedside of their momma. Crowded in the little room were...

The creek bed was dry. The draught was having dire consequences as the stink of death hung in the air. After months at Cherith, in the...