It is so sad that we live in a world so obsessed with image. As someone said recently, I love cocky, whereas God hates it. That is what is being taught to children and adults in all areas of life. There is nothing wrong with looking and doing your best, but not...
In Luke 14:12-24 Jesus gave a gracious invitation to all who would come and trust in Him and asked them to do so. Salvation is a free gift given to all who will receive it, but living for Jesus is costly. So many preachers and Christians today teach that salvation...
Here is one of the most famous parables of Jesus in Luke 15. We see the story that is commonly called the prodigal son, but is really the story of the loving father. We see this young man asking for his inheritance before the father is dead and then living for...
In these first few verses of the book of Ruth we see 3 fatal mistakes. Elimelech had a family to take care of and yet he walked by faith instead of sight, then he focused on the physical not the spiritual, and lastly he should have known that it was better to be...
In this last chapter of Ruth, we see Boaz is a picture or type of Jesus Christ. This reminds us that to be a redeemer He had to become related to us before He could redeem us. He became flesh and blood so He could die for us on the cross (Heb. 2:14–15). In order to...
In the first 6 verses of chapter 10 we see Samuel anointing Saul as the king that the people wanted. Samuel spoke of three signs that would show that Samuel had been picked and anointed in accordance with God’s will. The first of these would have given Saul the...
Samuel did what any good leader should do. He knew that the people had rebelled and sinned against God, but this could not be undone. Instead he encouraged the people to follow the Lord with all their heart and remember all the good things God had done for them. ...
Saul was told by God to completely destroy the Amalekites, but decided that he apparently knew better than God what to do. Part of this was based on the fact that he was not really a leader, but was more concerned with what the people wanted than what God did....
In chapters 1 Samuel chapters 9-10 we saw Saul looking for donkeys and Samuel the prophet had been sent by God to find the man selected by Him to be King. Who should he find but Saul who was physically impressive, tall, and handsome. At this time, he would have...
Here we see in 1 Samuel 17 David’s righteous anger at the defiance of Goliath and his blasphemy of God. All the rest of the Israelites were afraid of this giant who probably was at least 9’6” tall. But David trusted in God and knows how great He is and had been...
