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Foolishness is bound up in the heart of men but is undone by the grace of the woman Abigail. 1 Samuel 25

In the midst of our wilderness wanderings God displays his character and invites his servants to learn to trust him. 1 Samuel 24

God's people often find themselves in the wilderness of life, seemingly pursued by enemies and struggling to respond faithfully. But perhaps surprisingly they also find themselves delivered in various ways and able to praise in the midst of...

Covenant Friendship is a bond of love, for the good of the other, at your own expense, because of Christ. 1 Samuel 20

David engages Goliath with both motivation and enablement drawn from the heavenly plane as opposed to the earthly plane. In so doing he not only defeats the giant but he also points us to the Heavenly Champion. 1 Samuel 17

Amos, taken from following the flocks and sent to (and rejected by) Israel, shows us what is required of Christ’s ministers and the kind of gift God graciously gives us in those who preach his word to us. Amos 7:10-17

The anointing of David, a man after God's own heart, foreshadows the anointing of Jesus, as well as our own anointing as disciples of our Lord. 1 Samuel 16

When confronted with all the ways we stop short of full heartfelt obedience, our hearts are drawn to hope in the King who always listened. 1 Samuel 15

Our ultimate hope rests in God’s unlikely deliverance through an unexpected King. 1 Samuel 14

In 1 Samuel 12 Samuel reflects on the characteristics of the the relationship between a people and their leadership as they walk together through life.

God's providence shapes the lives of his people, supplying their needs and inviting their faithful response. 1 Samuel 9-10

This chapter helps us see how easy it can be in the midst of legitimate need to settle for God substitutes. I Samuel 8

The Gospel is the good news of how God's people are met at the very point of their failures and experience the deepening presence of God. I Samuel 7

In I Sam 4-6 we learn to appreciate that we cannot put God in a box, but that ultimately we discover that He is the God we need.

In the midst of a dark time for God’s people, God breaks the silence by establishing his word through the prophet Samuel. 1 Samuel 3:1-21

In the midst of our barrenness we must learn to surrender to the Lord who is working, even if in the shadows. 1 Sam 1:1-20, 2:12-26

The book of Samuel invites followers of Jesus to realize that he is the true King that every heart longs for and to swear fealty to him. 1 Samuel 2:1-10

The surpassing glory of God. Luke 9:28-36

Jesus is resurrected, but Thomas still has doubts. In many ways Thomas mirrors the journey for all disciples, including us. Will we confess a resurrected Jesus as our Lord and God? John 20:24-29

Only Jesus has the compassion and the power to heal the blindness of this beggar, a blindness that is symbolic of the the spiritual blindness all disciples must be healed of in order to be transformed into followers of Jesus. Luke 18:35-43