Forgetting God In Good Times

Some may recall the surge in church attendance in the weeks following the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001 (Eric Ferrari, “After 9/11, A Short-Lived Rush to Church,” Duke Today, August 19, 2016, https://today.duke.edu/2016/08/after-911-short-lived-rush-church).The surge, however, was short-lived and subsided in two to three weeks. In times of distress, we rush to God, but many of us lose sight of God in good times. The Northern Kingdom was flourishing politically a...