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Paul showed us our past last week, not to depress us, and not to excuse or justify our continuing to sin. He showed it to us so that we would deeply and truly understand what God has done for us, and we would be broken…

Passage Read: 1 Samuel 9-12 Meditation Verses: 12:12-15 What a way to start your kingdom, by hearing that you being made king is rebellion against the Lord. It'd make you question whether you really want to be king, the thing that is sin in God's…

Passage Read: 1 Samuel 5-8 Meditation Verses: 6:18-20 How often is this the response to God's holiness, to His righteous standard? Send Him somewhere else! Get away from Him, but not too far. The Philistines couldn't stand before Him, so they sent Him away. They…

Passage Read: 1 Samuel 1-4 Meditation Verse: 3:18 Eli had given up on his sons and on his line. He had rebuked his sons, but they didn't listen, and that was it. He didn't remove them from their priesthood or do anything else to try…

Passage Read: Ruth 1-4 Meditation Verse: 4:15 This story of Ruth and Naomi is a welcome counterpoint to the stereotype of mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. Naomi must have been a very godly woman to inspire such loyalty among her daughters-in-law. Though the one went home, they…