Fight the Good Fight and Finish Well Reading: 2 Timothy 4:6-8 and Hebrews 12:1-3 Paul wrote from the end of his race, not from a place of comfort but from a place of hard-won faithfulness. He had endu...  Read More

Sound Doctrine in a World With Itching Ears Reading: 2 Timothy 4:1-5 Paul warned Timothy that people would seek out teachers who told them what they wanted to hear rather than what they needed to hear...  Read More

The Danger of Fearing People More Than God Reading: Proverbs 29:25 and Galatians 1:10 Saul confessed plainly: he was afraid of his men. That fear drove him to disobey God. The desire for human approva...  Read More

Partial Obedience Is Still Disobedience Reading: 1 Samuel 15:7-23 Saul destroyed what was weak and kept what was valuable, then called it faithfulness. But God had said everything. Partial obedience l...  Read More

The Cost of Impatience Reading: 1 Samuel 13:8-14 Saul could not endure the wait. Rather than trusting God's timing, he acted on impulse and paid a lasting price. Impatience is rarely just about time —...  Read More

He Is the Goal, and He Always Makes a WayReading: John 14:6 (Jesus declares Himself the way, the truth, and the life); Revelation 21:3 (God Himself will dwell with His people, and they will be His peo...  Read More

Disobedience Changes the PathReading: Lamentations 3:22-23 (God's mercies are new every morning); 1 John 1:9 (if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive and cleanse us)Saul's disobedi...  Read More

The Cost of ImpatienceReading: Isaiah 40:31 (those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength); Psalm 27:14 (the call to wait on the Lord and be of good courage)Saul had clear instructions. Wait...  Read More

Free Will and Its ConsequencesReading: Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (God sets before His people life and death, blessing and cursing, and calls them to choose life); Joshua 24:15 (the call to choose whom you ...  Read More

God Does Not Abandon the WaywardReading: 1 Samuel 11:6; Romans 8:38-39 (nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God)The Spirit of God came upon Saul even after the people had knowingl...  Read More

Set Apart for Something BetterReading: 1 Peter 2:9 -- This verse describes believers as a chosen people, set apart to declare the praises of the One who called them out of darkness and into His remark...  Read More

The Cost of Rejecting God's KingshipReading: 1 Samuel 10:17-19 -- Samuel reminds the people that in demanding a king, they have rejected the God who delivered them from every hardship and oppression.S...  Read More