​Sunday Sermon by Kevin Jensen — In Israel, the nation's worship of Jeroboam's calf idols resulted in forty years of political chaos. King Ahab brought political stability, but further spiritual decline. So God turned off the rain—the rain that was supposedly provided by Baal, god of Ahab's wife, Queen Jezebel. Three years later, desiring to show mercy to Israel again, God sent the prophet Elijah to challenge Baal to a climactic battle of the gods to prompt Israel to choose which God—Baal or the Lord—they would follow. Text: 1 Kings 18