1 Samuel

Discipleship & Obedience You Did No Harm. Did You Do Good? We can let someone suffer and still believe we did nothing wrong. From the Good Samaritan to Eli’s silence, Scripture shows that the good we knowingly… Discipleship & Obedience You May Have Forgotten What You Sowed—God Has Not Time can make us believe that what we once sowed has disappeared. Scripture says otherwise. Evil is not forgotten because its consequence is delayed, and faithfulness… Discipleship & Obedience Nothing Escapes the Eyes of God Human beings see appearances, actions, and fragments of another person's life. God sees what no human observer can see: motives, thoughts, hidden choices, secret wounds, private… Discipleship & Obedience God Sees What People Cannot See Human beings see appearances and fragments. God sees the whole person—the motives beneath actions, the hidden sins no one discovers, the wounds no one notices, and… Sin, Temptation & Spiritual Warfare The Serpent Is Not an Uninvited Guest in the Garden of Eden: Understanding God’s Divine Plan Through Temptation Why would a sovereign God allow the serpent into Eden, place the forbidden tree within reach, and permit His people to face wilderness, giants, sifting, exile,… Faith & the Narrow Way Trial Is Not Proof of Rejection Trial is not necessarily evidence that God has rejected us. Jesus was declared the beloved Son and then led into the wilderness. David was anointed and… Discipleship & Obedience You Set Your Heart; God Shapes Your Mind. The world assumes that a stronger mind produces a wiser life. Scripture reveals something deeper: the heart directs the mind. Knowledge and intelligence cannot preserve a… Purpose, Calling & Faithfulness What You Sow on Earth, You Reap from Heaven We work, plan, sow and build, yet the results do not always match our effort. Scripture reveals why: man may sow on earth, but lasting increase… Sin, Temptation & Spiritual Warfare The Soul that can hear the Voice of Good and the Voice of Evil The soul is a battlefield because it can hear competing voices. Peter could speak from divine revelation and shortly afterward embrace a mindset contrary to God.… Purpose, Calling & Faithfulness The Voice That Shapes the Soul The soul is never neutral. It is always being shaped by the voice it trusts and obeys. Scripture shows that discernment, correction, repentance and restoration all… Faith & the Narrow Way The Voice You Obey Becomes the Master You Serve Fear, pride, desire, approval and control all compete for our obedience. The voice we repeatedly obey gains authority over us until it can become the master…