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.