10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Skip Kings

Pastor Mike introduces a new summer sermon series on Kings with ten anchors for understanding the period. Kings is the largest single unified book and covers an era when many prophetic, wisdom books, and most Psalms were written, comprising about one-third of the Bible. Israel shifted from God as king to a monarchy after 1 Samuel 8, rejecting God to be like other nations. The series traces major covenants—Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, and the coming new covenant—showing how Kings connects to Jesus and the Davidic promise of an eternal throne. It surveys the united kingdom, the divided kingdom, 20 kings north and 20 south, rival empires, Assyria’s conquest and the Samaritans’ origin. It ends with exile and longing for a true king, emphasizing heart-level evaluation and God’s covenant faithfulness.