1 Samuel 2:18-36 Why does Eli put up with the evil of his sons? When the high priest sees that his sons are using the temple to serve...

1 Samuel 1:21-2:17 In the Beatitudes, Jesus tells us it’s those who are poor in spirit, not the rich, who will inherit the kingdom of...

1 Samuel 1:1-20 In our reading from 1 Samuel this morning, Hannah is looking for comfort and struggling to find it. Hannah is grieved to...

Judges 14 When Samson takes a Philistine wife, he doesn’t outwardly break the law of Moses, but he does break the spirit. While the...

Galatians 2 The closing verses of Galatians chapter 2 that we just read a moment ago are often described as the thesis statement of...

Galatians 1 Usually, Paul likes to begin his letters with some note of praise or thanksgiving to God for the saints that he’s writing to....

Judges 6:25-40; Acts 15:6-21 One thing that we see in both our readings for this morning is that when God starts working to redeem his...

Acts 14: 19-23 It’s quite the ordeal that Paul goes through on his first visit to the city of Lystra. First, the mission to the Gentiles...

Judges 2:6-23 “A little leaven leavens the whole lump.” In a way, the book of Judges is an intense historical manifestation of this...

Joshua 24 In a sense, the story of salvation, both for Israel and for all mankind, is a story about going home. When God sets His people...

Joshua 23 You have to imagine that Joshua knows full well that his people are not going to heed his commands after his death. He was with...

Joshua 8:1-29 One of the more misunderstood passages of the Bible comes from Matthew 16, when Jesus tells us that the gates of hell shall...

Ps 114 Our Psalm for this morning—Psalm 114—describes the spiritual significance of Israel’s exodus from Egypt. When the people of Israel...

Acts 15: 1-21 The Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, Apostles In our reading from Acts, we see a helpful example of how the faithful church...

Joshua 3 In our reading from Joshua, the people of Israel are on the verge of entering the land of promise. There’s just one problem. ...

Joshua 2 Despite the fact that Rahab is famous for telling a lie, she is a fiercely honest woman, especially with herself. And, in a...

Joshua 1 Moses is dead. And Joshua is called to be the man who will lead God’s people over the Jordan river and into the land of promise....

Proverbs 27:1-24 “The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise,” Solomon tells us near the...

Proverbs 25:1-22 In our reading from Proverbs 25 this morning, Solomon tells us that it is the glory of God to conceal things, but the...

Proverbs 24:1-22 Back in the day, there used to be this thing called “the Pepsi challenge” where the Pepsi people would go around, giving...