Whether you use Snapchat or not, you may be familiar with the fleeting nature of the pictures people send using the app.  The images are only visible for a brief period of time and then  they are gone.  As we open 1 Samuel 11 today, we find a biblical sort of Snapchat.  As Saul steps […]

When you face a hard day, when things are not going your way, when if feels like you’ve wandered far from God – how do you find your way back?  What reminders, what arrows, do you have to point the way back to God?  In other words, what Ebenezers have you placed in your life?  […]

When your day seems darkest, when all hope seems lost, when everything is falling apart… Where do you turn?  The nation of Israel found themselves facing one of the darkest days as 1 Samuel chapter 4 came to a close.  The glory had departed the nation.  God was gone, essentially.  Where do you go from there?  […]

“It was the best of time, it was the worst of times…” Even as Charles Dickens starts his famous book “A Tale of Two Cities,” the book of 1 Samuel could start with the same words. For the nation of Israel, it was indeed both the best and worst of times.  There was no king […]