Posts by Marc Harrington

Posts by Marc Harrington

From Your Pastor, August 3

God’s Work and Ours  Then I replied to them,“The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem (Nehemiah 2:20).”  Ezra and Nehemiah were originally written (about 430-400 BC) and read as one book that drew from many sources available at the time, particularly the memoirs of…

From Your Pastor, July 13

How Can We Summarize Chronicles?I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever (I Chronicles 17:11-12) If there was one theme above all in Chronicles—and, for that matter, in Scripture itself—it would be the faithful promise of God to King David that…

From Your Pastor, June 1

The Book of Kings 6 But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 7 then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them…8 And this house will become a heap of ruins (I Kings 9:6-7,8).  Have you…