The tragic end of Israel's king Saul, should cause us to lament, and long for the King we need, whom God has given.

Living by faith in Christ is consistently viewing ourselves and out lives as part of God's epic story, with all our trials and joys as merely brief chapters, rather than the all-encompassing narrative.

God's unbreakable mercy to his people will not give up on us, but has provided us with the blameless king that we need.

There is no situation as desperate as when God will no longer hear our calls to him or when he will no longer speak to us. How can we be sure we do not follow Saul into this desperate situation?

In our weariness, it is right that we desire rest, but there are pitfalls to seeking rest apart for God's provision.

God's kingdom is safe only in God's hands.  So his people can expect merciful frustrations to keep them from trying to 'save' themselves, and need their eyes opened to what they do not currently see.

The job of the Christian minister isn't to smile more - it is to be text-based, and Christ-centered, so that you treasure Jesus Christ above all other things.

The promises the LORD makes to his people, come through resisting the temptation to short-cut the path of faithfulness the LORD calls us to walk.

The LORD is providentially in control over all things to show mercy to his people.

"There is a fountain filled with blood, that flows from Immanuel's veins.  And sinners plunged beneath that flood, loose all their guilty stains."  What Christians have become, through the shed and sprinkled blood of the Lord Jesus.