Today Father John begins a new sermon series looking at the lives of the “inferior” kings of Israel – those leaders who made serious mistakes and poor decisions that led to the weakening of Israel as a people, and eventually to their exile. It may surprise you how practical the lessons we find here are for our lives today! This sermon starts with II Chronicles 10, the story of Solomon’s son, Rehoboam, and his decision to listen to bad advise from his younger advisers. It’s a cautionary tale of the negative power of defensiveness in our lives.