Threshing Floors and Portals
2025-03-05
The origin of the term for “king” or “ruler” in languages from Western Europe to East Asia is a word used by our distant ancestors for the pre-Flood god-kings, the Rephaim.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #437: 1 Kings 10–11; 2 Chronicles 9
2025-03-02
FOR ALL of Solomon’s vaunted wisdom, he failed in the thing that mattered most.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #436: Ecclesiastes 7–8
2025-02-16
Wisdom is gained through suffering.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #435: Ecclesiastes 5–6
2025-02-09
CHASING WEALTH for its own sake does not bring happiness. Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #431: Proverbs 25–26
2025-01-12
THE CONTRAST between God and kings, and between wisdom and folly, are a central theme of these proverbs of Solomon.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #430: 1 Kings 9; 2 Chronicles 8
2024-11-03
YOU’D THINK an appearance by God Himself would be enough to keep even a king on the straight and narrow for the rest of his life. After completing the Temple, God revealed to Solomon the blessings and consequences for obeying His Law or turning aside to worship other gods—which, sadly,Continue Reading