Coffee & Devotions

1 Samuel 9:17-26

1 Samuel 9:17-26

In this Coffee and Devotions episode, we study 1 Samuel 9:17–27, where Saul meets Samuel for the first time. Discover how God sovereignly prepares His...

1 Samuel 9:17-26

Chosen Yet Unaware

Samuel and Saul meet for the first time as God directs the events that will lead to Saul's anointing. Samuel's supernatural knowledge, the place of ho...

1 Samuel 9:1-16

1 Samuel 9:1-16

While searching unsuccessfully for his father's lost donkeys, Saul follows his servant's counsel to seek the man of God and arrives just as Samuel com...

1 Samuel 8

1 Samuel 8

Israel reasonably rejects Samuel's corrupt sons but hard-heartedly demands a king so it can resemble other nations. God explains that the people are r...

1 Samuel 6:20-7:17

1 Samuel 6:20-7:17

After the ark is entrusted to Eleazar, Israel laments and heeds Samuel's call to put away Baal and Asherah, return wholeheartedly to the Lord, fast, a...

1 Samuel 6:1-19

1 Samuel 6:1-19

The Philistines test whether their plague truly came from Israel's God by returning the ark with golden guilt offerings on a cart drawn by untrained n...

1 Samuel 5

1 Samuel 5

The Philistines place the captured ark beside Dagon, but their idol repeatedly falls before the Lord and is broken. As the ark moves from Ashdod to Ga...

1 Samuel 4:19-22

1 Samuel 4:19-22

Phinehas's pregnant wife hears that the ark has been captured and that her husband and father-in-law are dead. The shock brings on labor and death; un...

1 Samuel 4:12-18

1 Samuel 4:12-18

A messenger reports Israel's defeat, the deaths of Hophni and Phinehas, and the capture of the ark. When Eli hears about the ark, he falls backward, b...

1 Samuel 4:1-11

Reverence, Not Ritual - 1 Samuel 4:1-11

1 Samuel 3

1 Samuel 3

In a time when revelation is rare, the Lord repeatedly calls the boy Samuel until Eli teaches him how to answer. God gives Samuel the hard message of ...

1 Samuel 4:1-11

Reverence, Not Ritual

Israel treats the Ark of the Covenant like an idol that can force God to deliver them. The Philistines defeat Israel, capture the Ark, and Hophni and ...

1 Samuel 2:22-36

1 Samuel 2:22-36

Eli rebukes his sons for sexual sin and for making the Lord's people transgress, but they will not listen and Eli has honored them above God. A man of...

1 Samuel 2:12-21

1 Samuel 2:12-21

Eli's sons do not know the Lord and abuse both worshipers and the sacrificial system for their own appetite, making people despise the Lord's offering...

1 Samuel 2:1-11

1 Samuel 2:1-11

Hannah praises the uniquely holy Lord who answered her prayer and reverses human fortunes: the mighty fall, the weak rise, the hungry are filled, and ...

1 Samuel 1:21-28

1 Samuel 1:21-28

In this Coffee and Devotions episode, we explore 1 Samuel 1:21–28 and Hannah’s faithfulness in keeping her vow to God. Learn what it means to trust th...

1 Samuel 2:1-11

God Turns the Tables

Hannah praises the holy and incomparable Lord who heard her prayer. Her song celebrates how God reverses human circumstances by strengthening the weak...

1 Samuel 1:1-20

1 Samuel 1:1-20

Childless Hannah is cruelly provoked by Peninnah and pours out her grief before the Lord at Shiloh, vowing to give a son wholly to His service. Eli in...

1 Samuel 1:21-28

Promises Must Be Kept

Hannah keeps her vow by bringing the child for whom she prayed to serve the Lord at Shiloh. Her love for Samuel remains clear even as she wholehearted...

Ruth 4

Ruth 4

At Bethlehem's gate, the nearer relative declines redemption when he learns that acquiring Elimelech's land also entails preserving Mahlon's line thro...

Ruth 3

Ruth 3

Naomi instructs Ruth to approach Boaz privately at the threshing floor and ask him to act as kinsman-redeemer. Boaz receives Ruth's bold request chari...

Ruth 2

Ruth 2

Ruth diligently gleans in the field of Boaz, a wealthy relative of Elimelech. Having heard of her faithful care for Naomi and refuge in Israel's God, ...

Ruth 1

Ruth 1

A famine drives Elimelech's family from Bethlehem to Moab, where Naomi loses her husband and sons. Naomi returns bitter and destitute when God restore...

Jude 1

Jude

Jude urges believers to contend for the once-delivered faith because sensual, divisive, unbelieving false teachers have entered among them. Their impr...