Coming back from captivity, the Israelites had one thing on their mind: Making Jerusalem look good on the outside again. The problem was that they were not as concerned about following God.

As we continue on in our series of looking at the Bible from 30,000 feet, we come to the place where the Israelites are taken into captivity by Babylon. We will see some God’s temple destroyed, meet a guy named Daniel, and take a look at the prophetic dreams of a man named Ezekiel. Don’t miss this pivotal week in the story of the God as we start to hear about the coming king that will rule forever.

This week we are looking at the part of God's story where the Kingdom of Israel is split and the kings of both struggle to follow God, and in turn the people they lead struggle to do the same.

Join us as we take a look at the first two kings that ruled over the Israelites, Saul & David, to see what we can learn from their two very different seasons as kings.

This week, our big picture view of the Bible from 30,000 ft will look at 6 stories from the book of Judges. We will see a cycle of turning away from God, punishment, repentance, salvation, and complacency play out over and over again through this book and talk about what it looks like for us to consistently follow Jesus instead of getting stuck in this cycle ourselves.

This week, our big picture view of the Bible from 30,000 ft starts with the birth of Moses and ends with death of his predecessor, Joshua. We will look at how Moses led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt before passing leadership on to Joshua, who led them into a land of their own where they could be set apart for God.

We're taking the next month to take a 30,000 ft view of the Bible. This week we are looking at the first 2,200 years of human history that highlights people like Adam & Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, & Joseph.

Don't miss week #1 of 30,000ft.

So many things have been changing this year that we have had to pivot and change the direction our lives are going in different ways.

America is known as a country full of wealth and freedom. Those are great things, but sometimes they can be negative things when it comes to our relationship with Jesus.

If you are speaking the Truth with little or no concern for the person you are speaking to, you are not speaking the Truth in love. So what does this look like?