How does God provide for David while in Saul's court? What is Goliath's sin and how does Israel fail to come up to the challenge until David intervenes? How can Saul not know who David's family is despite his having served him? How can David kill Goliath? What are we to do with the Goliaths in our lives? How do David and Jonathan become best friends? Why is their relationship strictly platonic? What is the cost of having a poor view on friendships between men? Why would David stay in the same house as his abuser and what are we to learn from this? Who is Michal and how does she factor into the story?

Does God condone genocide? How are we to handle the deaths of the Amalekites? Why did they deserve death? Why is Saul faithless to not follow through with God's commands? How does Samuel prove his righteousness instead? Why does God honor love and obedience more than sacrifices? How does God choose a good king? What are the qualities that God looks for in His followers? How does David become the man God knows He can be? Did God send an angel, demon, or something else to attack Saul for his apostasy? How does David show His righteousness in the midst of this?

How is Saul challenged by the Philistines? How does he rise or fall to the occasion? Who is Jonathan and how does he prove himself a better man than Saul? Why was Samuel late to meet Saul? Why was it wrong for Saul to offer sacrifices to God? How does God help rout the Philistines? What is the foolish vow Saul makes? How does Israel save Jonathan from Saul? How can we learn to be better disciples and teachers through this passage?

How is Saul challenged as king? How does he rally Israel together? Why the Ammonites and not the Philistines? How does Samuel address Israel to follow God and their king? Which takes priority in that scenario?

How is Saul introduce and why does God make him king? How does Samuel factor into this? Why would God make a Benjamite king? How would this have happened? Why does Saul hide at first? How does Saul show his best and worst aspects early on?

How does Israel handle the return of the Ark of the Covenant? How does Samuel rally them to serve God and destroy their idols? What can we do to devote ourselves to God alone? Why does Israel call for a king after being shown they don't need one? Is Samuel a bad father? Can a righteous family raise an unrighteous child? Why does God warn Israel about having a king? Is there anything wrong with having a king? Why would God give us what we want even when it's not good for us? How can we learn from this lesson?

How do the Philistines handle the Ark of the Covenant compared to the Israelites? How does God prove His sovereignty through this brief exile for the Ark? What is the significance of this event? How does God engineer matters to return the Ark to a not fully believing Israel? What is God teaching Israel and us through this?

How does Samuel grow in wisdom? Why is God's voice so hard to hear? How can we listen for it? What should our response be to what God tells us to do? How does Eli's response help us understand how to submit to God's judgment? What is the Ark of the Covenant and why is it so important? How does God allow it to be captured? What is the ultimate fate of Eli and his family?

Who wrote 1 Samuel? Does it matter? When was it written? Who is Hannah and why does she matter? How can we show faith like Hannah when approaching God? What lessons can we learn from Eli and his leadership? How do we deal with wicked children? How do we honor the promises we make to God? How does this parallel aspects of Jesus' birth and life?

How do Naomi and Ruth plan to secure their kinsman-redeemer? How does God act as our redeemer? Did Ruth and Boaz have premarital sex? If they did, then does this somehow de-legitimize the story? Why are so many people adamant that they sinned? How did Boaz and Ruth show themselves to be worthy people? How are they blessed by the people? How does the genealogy of David factor into the Book of Ruth? How can we see Jesus in the story?