Author: Helen Redfern

Those of us that have faith don’t know how lucky we are. There’s plenty out there about holding onto your faith in tough times and in times of doubt, but that is based on...

The song of David as recorded in 1 Chronicles 16 is actually a mash up of at least three psalms – the start of Psalm 105, the second half of Psalm 96 and the...

Drowning in lists again but this verse stood out – All these were descendants of Asher—heads of families, choice men, brave warriors and outstanding leaders. The number of men ready for battle, as listed...

And so we continue…. Diving straight back into list after list of descendants in the tribes of Israel. And the familiar theme of ‘Trust and obey, for there’s no other way’ pops up –...

I’d heard of the Prayer of Jabez before but knew nothing about it really. Until today. It’s just one verse tucked away among these lists of names in the opening chapters of 1 Chronicles....

Yesterday marked a whole year since we set out on this crazy journey of reading the whole Bible in five and a half years. It makes me feel emotional actually – when I think...

At the end of 2 Kings 20, I overlooked this verse – As for the other events of Hezekiah’s reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which...

Hezekiah king of Judah gets more coverage than any of the other kings in the last several hundred years since King Solomon so we’ll give him a day all to himself today. The description...

I don’t know if you noticed yesterday, but the last king in the list was actually called the last king of Israel. That’s because Israel was attacked by Shalmaneser king of Assyria, who had...

Amaziah King of Judah twenty-five years old when he became king reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not as his father David had...