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...

“Then the word of the Lord came to him ... Leave ... hide!” (1 Kings 17:2-3). Elijah had courageously confronted Ahab, the evil king. He...

“Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab, ‘As the Lord God of Israel lives, in whose presence I stand, there will...

“Elijah the Tishbite (was) from the Gilead settlers...” (1 Kings 17:1). The man whose name meant “my God is Jehovah” was from Tishbe, a...