Ep 14 The Darkest Night and the Prophets' Hope (Isaiah 59)
Episode Date: December 21, 2021After David’s death, his son Solomon becomes king, and although Solomon is exceedingly wealthy and wise - in the end, he trusts in his own wisdom rath...
Is there a God? Is it possible to know him? Does he care about me? We might think it’s impossible to know the answers. And yep, we'd be right if we humans were left on our own to work it out. But we haven't been. God has shown us what he is like, and he's told us how we can know him. He's done this by interacting directly with people over thousands of years, and giving us a record, called the Bible. This podcast aims to chronologically tell the stories of some of those interactions. https://www.storiesfromthebible.com/ Scriptures quoted are from the NET Bible® http://netbible.com
34 episodes transcribedAfter David’s death, his son Solomon becomes king, and although Solomon is exceedingly wealthy and wise - in the end, he trusts in his own wisdom rath...
David, the shepherd boy chosen to be the next King of Israel, shows so much promise. He has remarkable trust in God, and God uses him to rescue the Is...
After 40 years of wandering in the desert, the next generation of Israelites had come to edge of the land of Canaan, as we heard last time. Moses was...
Last story we heard the people were too afraid to enter the land of Canaan. They cried and carried on and said they wanted a new leader to take them b...
God promised Abraham that his descendants would occupy the land of Canaan. But what if those descendants refuse to believe God can give it to them?&nb...
Last time we heard how Israel rejected God at the very mountain he had spoken to them from. How could God ever be in friendship with them? Pict...
God has shown the Israelites his power to rescue them, protect them, provide for them. Surely they have enough evidence to trust and follow what he sa...
The Israelites experienced God's spectacular provision of a way through the sea. But walking through the desert towards the land promised to Abraham i...
Pharaoh finally let the Israelites go and they speedily left Egypt. But then he regretted it and chased them. Trapped between the Egyptian army and th...
Last time we heard about the plague of hail that God sent on Egypt, and at the end of that story Pharaoh seemed to relent... however, he quickly chang...
Last time we heard how God promised to give a man called Abraham many descendants, a land to dwell in, and that he and his name would be blessed. But...
In the previous episode we heard how Adam and Eve wanted to decide for themselves what was right and wrong. They thought they could find good for them...
Last episode we heard how at the very beginning of everything God simply spoke, and his words brought the world and all it’s creatures into existence....
Did you know the different stories of the Bible fit together to make one big, connected story? Here, we start at the very beginning and hear how every...