What a difference we see between Saul and David. One impressed men by his exterior appearance; the other impressed God by the condition of his heart.
An overview of 1 Samuel including statistics of the book and background material.
Israel will continue to spiral downward away from their God but He will continue to hear their pleas for help and send them deliverers.
Ordination is first of all a simple confirmation that God has indeed called a man and that he has faithfully shown the evidences of this call. It places some honor from those who do the ordaining upon the man who is being ordained.
At the Feast of Pentecost there was to be offered a new meat offering. The new meat offering was like other meat offerings in most regards. There was, however, to be one major difference. The new meat offering was to be offered with leaven. Leaven, the type of sin, was to be included. Why?
