Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5 Three stories, three men, one pattern: when everyone else ran, they stood. Eleazar until his hand froze to the sword. Shammah in a field of lentils while Israel’s troo...  Read More

Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5 Before Jesus sent out the seventy-two, he had the twelve. Before he had the twelve, he had Peter, James, and John. Jesus did not collapse these circles into one. He ma...  Read More

Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5 From four hundred men in a cave to six hundred men in the wilderness — the community is growing, but it is not growing in comfort. They are still moving from place to ...  Read More

Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5 David and his men are fugitives, hiding from Saul, with no army and no kingdom. And yet when news reaches them that the Philistines are raiding Keilah, David’s first m...  Read More

Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5 he cave of Adullam is not where you would expect a great movement to begin. No prestige, no resources, no obvious promise — only four hundred men who had nothing left ...  Read More

Monday, June 22 – Sunday, June 28 At the end of his life, David does not hand Solomon a kingdom of regrets and call it inheritance. He hands him plans — detailed, deliberate, drawn from years of prepa...  Read More

Monday, June 22 – Sunday, June 28 “Be gentle with the young man Absalom, for my sake.” David gives this order to commanders preparing for war against the very son who drove him from his throne. It is ...  Read More

Monday, June 22 – Sunday, June 28 In the middle of his flight from his own son, David receives word that his trusted counselor Ahithophel has joined the conspiracy. His first recorded response is not ...  Read More

Monday, June 22 – Sunday, June 28 Before Absalom ever raised an army, he raised a posture — standing daily by the city gate, intercepting every complaint, offering sympathy David never had the chance ...  Read More

Monday, June 22 – Sunday, June 28 Two years. That is how long Absalom carried his sister’s disgrace before he acted on it — two years of silence so complete that Scripture says he never said a word to...  Read More

Monday, June 22 – Sunday, June 28 The threads of this account are subtle — a feigned illness, a request for privacy, a door quietly closed. The most chilling line in the whole chapter is the simplest:...  Read More

Our sermon devotional for Heavy is the Head....  Read More