With so very much anger, bitterness, and even violence still swirling around from the recent election, we will look at a far more peaceful transfer of power. Saul is chosen…
We will pray, but not talk a lot of politics even though in his good providence we come this week to the chapter where Israel wants a king "like all…
So, the holiday weekend is upon us! There are in fact two. The big one most everyone is celebrating. The other one far fewer know or care about. Ya know,…
There are two major and related returns in chapter 7 of 1 Samuel. The first is the return of Samuel to the story after a three chapter absence. The second…
So the Old Testament reading could pretty well fill our time this week. Need to take in the next three chapters. They form one story and it does not, in…
Chapter 3 brings us to the call of Samuel. Actually several as God calls and Samuel thinks it is Eli. We learn something of the patience of God, the judgment…
Difficult not to marvel at Gods good providence as this morning we were preparing the service to remember a dear brother and saint passed into glory and got word of…
So we got started in 1 Samuel and my intention had been to cover the complete Hanna story but you know how that goes. So we will revisit Hanna and…
Getting back to work, we are going to spend some time in 1 Samuel. After the times of the Judges Israel is still a mess. The book begins with the…