Daily Thoughts From God's Word

It was time for Samuel to make his exit, and he gave his farewell address (ch. 12). The people applauded him and acknowledged that he...

The people had demanded a king. God gave them a king, the first being Saul. He was a handsome man (9:2). There’s an obvious...

Over the years, I have tended to read chapter 8 as a stand-alone daily reading. It is so pivotal and important in that which it teaches...

“When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. Then the Philistines took the ark of God and...

Kate Hankey and William Fischer wrote the hymn “I love to tell the story.” Might I rephrase that a bit: I love to read the stories over...

I love the story of Ruth and Boaz. It is full of inferences regarding God’s gracious provisions and the gospel. Bereaved of her husband,...

On the heels of the Samson stories is the story of Micah and the Levite, who stole the silver from his mother. When he restored the...

“And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord” (13:1). Again!! But an angel of the Lord appeared to the...

Does anyone ever get the sense, while reading the history of Israel, of the absolute humanness (probably, I should write, “the sinful...

After defeating Jabin king of Canaan, Deborah and Barak sang: “That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered...

Israel failed to drive all the Canaanites out of the land, and many of their enemies remained among them, albeit in the roles of slaves...

After taking the land, it was time to allot the land among the tribes. Most of the rest of the book of Joshua relates all this in...

Israel settled in the Promised Land but “when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not...

The Lord had fought for Israel and her enemies, one after another, had fallen. They were in the land of promise, they were settling into...

All the nations gathered together to fight against Israel (9:1-2), but what they did not realize is that, really, they were gathering to...