The captivity and return of the ark of God is a warning to us about the heavy hand of God’s presence and convenient, compromised, and careless worship before him.

1 Samuel 4 is a warning to us about our own presumption before God and God’s judgment. 

God calls people to an office for the purpose of ruling and protecting his people.

God prepares those who honour him to replace those who don't.

Hannah shows us a life fully surrendered to God and fully alive to God. She prays, she believes, she acts in faith, and she praises the Lord.

After Jesus was born Magi came from the East to Bethlehem.

Luke's gospel gives us a rare view of the early life of Jesus and his family.

Boaz redeems Ruth and marries her and she gives birth to Obed, the grandfather of King David in the lineage of Jesus.

The movement of the story of Ruth from emptyness to fullness in Bethlehem, the house of bread, begins to be realized.