Points To Ponder 09/01/2013

**********
POINTS TO PONDER:
**********
Great leaders empower and release rather than dictate and confine. - George Barna
**********            
BIBLE QUIZ: 
**********
Old Testament/Stories of Solomon and the kings who followed him (I Kings 15:7 ff)

. . . Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah. And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had  . . . .

Why did Asa remove his mother from being queen?

**********