Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 20:1-22:23 Focus: 1 Samuel 22:6-19 The old saying goes, “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The double-edge sword of leadership, the power and authority of leadership, can be dangerous in the hands of anyone, even the most careful of leaders. For…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 17:32-19:24 Focus: 1 Samuel 17:33-40 We live in a world where society holds up models and celebrities as the people we should try and become. Beautiful, wealthy, popular, trend-setters, etc. Magazines are filled with models, clothes, accessories, cars, an array of…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 15:1-17:31 Focus: 1 Samuel 15:22-25 It’s so easy for us to say, “Serve God, not people.” However, we walk out the front door and we’re confronted with a way of life which must choose to live as the world…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 12:1-14:52 Focus: 1 Samuel 12:1-15 We constantly say, “learn from the past…learn from the mistakes of history…” Yet, how often do we repeat the mistakes of the past? Most of the time, we don’t realise it till it’s…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 8:1-11:15 Focus: 1 Samuel 8:6-9 As people, as physical beings, we desire tangible objects to associate and interpret our world. The basis of science is the observable world, not the invisible and intangible—that which is intangible remains under the category…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 3:19-7:17 Focus: 1 Samuel 5:1-5 It is somewhat difficult to apprehend how people see the truth before their very eyes and still refuse to accept the truth before them. We live in a world that is slowly decaying and being destroyed…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 1:1-3:18 Focus: 1 Samuel 1:9-11, 21-28 The name Samuel means “heard of God” and it is apt given that the birth of Samuel was an answer to his mother’s prayer. His mother, Hannah, was barren but continued to pray that…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Chronicles 4:1-6:47 Focus: 1 Chronicles 6:1-30 In the beginning of Chronicles there is a genealogy which sets the historical basis of the kings. Interestingly, there is also another genealogy, but this time tracing the historical basis of the priesthood and those that…