Alex Moore preached from 2 Kings 1, tracing Ahaziah’s downfall back through Ahab and Jezebel to show how a people who once knew the living God drifted into idolatry, and he warned that idolatry today doesn’t always look like Baal statues—it looks like anything we trust, love, or prioritize above the Lord. He walked through Elijah’s showdown on Mount Carmel, the prophets of Baal cutting themselves while their god stayed silent, and the fire of the Lord falling on a soaked altar to remind the church that we still serve the same God who answers by fire, the same God who delivered Noah, Abraham, Moses, and every saint who sought a better country. Alex pressed the question Paul asked—“You did run well; who hindered you?”—and urged believers to recognize how easily Satan uses modern distractions, even good things, to pull hearts away from prayer, Scripture, and obedience. He reminded the church that God spared not His own Son, that faith requires action, that a double‑minded man is unstable, and that no one can serve two masters; we must choose daily whom we will serve. And with conviction he called the congregation to draw near to God, resist the devil, cleanse their hands, guard their eyes, and rejoice—not in earthly victories or entertainment—but in the eternal truth that their names are written in heaven.

Fairview Union Church — Whitwell, Tennessee