This Book Is Good

Welcome back! It's time to close on Solomon's time as king, and continue on in the old testament.

The temple is built and furnished, the Ark of the Covenant is in place. Solomon raises his hands towards heaven and he prayed. Comments on todays episode? Leave them in the comments!

After years of waiting, Solomon begins the monumental task his father David only dreamed of—building a temple for the Lord. In this episode, we explore the design, the symbolism, and the spiritual significance of one of the most important structures in biblical history.

Solomon takes the throne—and in a dream, God offers him anything he wants. What he asks for changes everything. Join us as we dive into 1 Kings chapter 3, where wisdom meets power, and the story of Israel’s most legendary king truly begins.

Solomons reign begins here in the start of 1st Kings. After some talk about pillows of course. Have you ever tried to find the perfect pillow?!

Coming to a close on the book of 2nd Samuel this pod covers chapters 22-24. Let us know what you think!

Absalom decides to rebel against his father the king, and meets an unfortunate end.

Joab takes out Amasa while the troops are getting prepared for battle and are on the hunt for Sheba. How did today's message make you feel? Did you take anything from this part of the story?

King David's family is in turmoil as Tamar has a serious interaction with her brother Amnon. **The topics discussed in today's episode may be triggering to some, Viewer discretion is advised.

The King, David, does something terrible and as a result there is an unnecessary spiraling of lies, deception and ultimately death.

David demonstrates his goodness by offering great kindness to the son of Johnathan, Mephibosheth!Enjoy the first ever video upload, and let us know what you think of this episode in the comments!

The Ark returns and celebration through the streets bears a terrible tragedy when moving the Ark.

Things get very intense in today's episode when Rekab and Bannah do the unthinkable!

After the death of Saul, David is anointed king over Judah and begins to follow the path God has planned for him.

The epic battle of David and Goliath! **Note this is an Episode that was missed and goes after the Episode "Annointing David" If you're following along in sequence.

ON Christmas it's only appropriate to jump ahead to talk about the birth of Jesus Christ. Merry Christmas to everyone and a Happy New Year!

After sneaking into Saul's camp, David has the chance to end the King, but he decides that it is not God's plan and spares his life.

As David is fleeing from the jealous rage of King Saul, Samuel's time comes to an end.

King Saul will stop at nothing to find David! Ahimelech, all his family and the priests of Nob will pay the ultimate price.

David seemingly favored in the eyes of the Lord, begins to develop some friction between him and Saul.

Samuel has mourned Saul long enough. It's time to pick a new earthly king.

Through a series of wrongdoings, the Lord has rejected Saul as King.

Saul promises that if anyone would eat before the sun falls then they would be cursed, but his son has not heard this command and has eaten!

Samuel appoints Saul to become the first earthly king to rule over the Israelites.

When the Philistines capture the Ark, many problems begin to surface. They decide to return the Ark along with some peculiar items.

After blessing Hannah with a child, she upholds her oath by dedicating Samuel to the Lord.

The story of ruth is quite a bit more fulfilling compared to the previous book Judges. What are some lessons we can learn from Ruth?

Can you believe that this story exists in the Bible?! How do you think this story applies to teh society we see today?!@

This week we learn about the life of Samson. Given strength at birth by God, but he gives away his secret to Delilah which became his downfall.

Jephthah get's quite bold and makes a promise to God that will carry a grave consequence.

Jotham tries to warn the people of Shechem to not allow Abimelek to become king over the land or there would be serious consequences, and he was right!

Gideon grows from a timid boy, to a battle hardened Soldier. Let us know what you thought about today's episode!

We are introduced to Deborah and the demise of Sisera by the hands of a woman, Jael.

But not like your typical judge that you might face in todays time. Have a listen to find out more about these judges!

Joshua has lead the people to the promised land, and has established villages for the 12 tribes.

Joshua and the Israelites continue on their quest to take the promised land. However there's one people group that get the best of him with a clever trick.

A true testament to the effect of sin not only on the person who commit's it, but the people closest to you.

Joshua sees a man with a sword in his hand outside the city of Jericho. Who is that man?

A bitter Farewell to our loving Moses. He served Gods people well!

The Lord works in mysterious ways and the question asked today was how could God possibly do all of the things God does in the old testament?

Make sure to listen intently to the situations in today's episode! So much goodness today!

Today we discuss how the weather can be a touch bipolar. Who has the ability to perform a baptism, and more with the people of Israel on their journey to the promised land.

The Lord shows all what happens when the people form a rebellion, and despite Moses's pleading, retribution must be paid. When Moses strikes the rock, he unknowingly sealed his fate despite all his shepherding until now.

In today's episode, we discuss one person's take on the organization of the church, the Lord commands the use of the silver trumpets to signal the community, and the Israelites grow weary of their hardship.

The men sent to explore the land bring back an intimidating report, all but two. Those men proclaim an unwavering faith in God to protect them, but the people refuse to be so willing.

Moving into Numbers, we're starting to get a good idea the actual size of the group of Israelites in this desert camp. Could you even imagine caring for a crowd this size?!

Today we discuss the repercussions of what might happen if you misuse the Lords name in vein! Many would simply not even utter his name in fear of using it in the wrong way.

This week we dive into the types of animals that were allowed to be consumed by man. Have you ever heard of "chewing the cud?" Now you know

It's a good thing that we don't do any of this anymore. The good news is that the Son Of God, Jesus Christ paved the way for all of us so that our sin would be covered!

Moses left Aaron in charge and by the time he comes back down, there is a blasphemy happening!