Elijah Chronicles - Chapter One: "Trust & Obey"
This week I'll be starting a new sermon series at my church---a three part series from the stories of Elijah from 1Kings entitled, "The Elijah Chronicles." We will be re-imagining this story as if it was set in an apocalyptic future, inspired by films like "Book of Eli," "I Am Legend," and comics like "Judge Dredd" or "The Walking Dead." The story of Elijah is very cinematic, actually. "In a time of desolation... when the people of God had forgotten who they were... a prophet walked in from the wilderness and helped them to remember." You can almost picture that, right? Take a look at the graphic above, and you can actually... picture it. The setting of Elijah's story is in the northern part of the divided kingdom of Israel. In the end, God's prophecy to King Solomon came true---because he turned away from worshipping God alone, his kingdom was torn from his family and divided. In the time of...