We all have needs, we all have influences. We all make choices based on our influences on how to fulfill those needs. We learn from four kings about what influences and solutions are good, and which are not.

Paul shows himself a situational master at showing different sides of himself depending on who he was with. He also changed his argument depending on the audience. What was his guiding force and how can it help us share the gospel?

Jeroboam isn\'t interested in hearing God, so the Lord provides a prophet who loses his life to send a message.

What do you do when you know trouble is coming? Do you run the other way as fast as you can? Paul didn\'t and his example helps us when we face difficulty or when those close to us face trials.

Rehoboam and Jeroboam are not exactly model kings - both do harm in different ways and we can learn a lot by contrast of how not to lead the people of God.

Sometimes in the face of difficulty we need some encouragement to stay the course. That\'s what Paul gives us as we prepares for a very difficult time in his life.

Solomon had everything going for him, but he neglected to do some very crucial things and let himself be influenced by others. Learn how we as Christians can fall the same way and how to avoid it.

Finally after years of struggle, Paul sees victory after victory, even amidst tough opposition in Ephesus. It is an affirmation of his apostleship. What happens as God begins to work more through you than on you?

Solomon had all the success life could offer, power, wealth, women - but God warned Solomon that he needed to walk with Him - advice Solomon didn\'t end up taking. How can that hurt us as Christians?

Do you ever find yourself in a place where nothing is going right? The Apostle Paul came to Corinth in just such a state. Learn how God brought him help and fellowship just when he needed it.

Solomon builds and dedicates the temple. It represents God\'s presence on earth and the way for man to approach God, just as Jesus is God\'s presence on earth and the way to reestablish fellowship with the Father.

The philosophers of Paul\'s day are not really that much different from what we see in the world around us in a post-Christian society. How Paul addressed them can help us in dealing with people who collect thoughts like Matchbox cars.

Though God gave Solomon a huge task in building the temple, he focused on some important fundamentals that can guide us when God calls us into ministry of any size or kind.

When God\'s Word is communicated, the state of your mind can greatly affect how your heart receives what God is saying. We have the first part in a discussion from Acts 17 on the ways the Bible is communicated and received.

We begin to learn not about Solomon\'s actions but about his character and his relationship to God. We also see the seeds of disobedience that will cause great problems for Solomon and the nation later on.

Do you ever get into a situation where you are trying to follow God\'s will but things just don\'t seem to work out? If so, you are in good company. Find out how the Lord used a pinball to guide Paul, and you!

Enemies of God try to overthrow his promises as soon as Solomon is king and David dies.

Whether your dispute is with another believer or with a whole church, there are vital lessons to handling conflict contained in Acts 15. Learn how to find God\'s will, keep your integrity, and still be a family.

David appears weak physically, but thanks to some quick action by a godly man, he acts strong spiritually and wins the day. We can learn lessons about what to do when circumstances appear to go against the Lord

When faced with adversity, our tendency is to panic, take our hands off the wheel, and just let it happen to us. We see in the example of Paul and Barnabas that God is in control no matter what happens and that as long as you can share the gospel you can move forward.