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Where Was Abigail?
Two wise women, one king, and the question 2 Samuel 13 asks without saying a word
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Kingdom: What A King Beholds Devotional 18 min read
When the House Falls Apart: Five Days in 2 Samuel 13–14
A five-day guided reading from 2 Samuel 13–14, where the trouble Nathan warned about comes home to David's own children. Written for someone who's heard this sermon — in the room or however you caught it since — and for someone who hasn't; you don't need the sermon to follow along. Read one day at a time.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Devotional 24 min read
When Kings Behold: Five Days in 2 Samuel 11–12
A five-day guided reading from 2 Samuel 11–12, where a king sees what he shouldn't, does what he can't undo, and then finds out someone has been watching. Written for someone who's heard this sermon — in the room or however you caught it since — and for someone who hasn't; you don't need the sermon to follow along. Read one day at a time, and read the verses out loud if you can.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guides
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Study guide 32 min read
When the House Falls Apart: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 13–14, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group tracing a compromised king who can't resolve what he's afraid to face, a family that learns to cover, and the uncompromised King who doesn't.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 29 min read
When Kings Behold: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 11–12, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group tracing a king who sees, sends and takes, the prophet God sends, and the Advocate who stands beside us.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 25 min read
When Hesed Is Refused: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 10, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group tracing what happens when kindness is read as a threat: a whisper that cascades, a king who sends again, and the One who sees better.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 24 min read
The King's Table: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 8–9, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group tracing what a king does with a great name: an oath kept, a name said first, and a seat at a table nobody swore.
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Blog 25 min read
Where Was Abigail?
Two wise women, one king, and the question 2 Samuel 13 asks without saying a word
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 32 min read
When the House Falls Apart: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 13–14, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group tracing a compromised king who can't resolve what he's afraid to face, a family that learns to cover, and the uncompromised King who doesn't.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Devotional 18 min read
When the House Falls Apart: Five Days in 2 Samuel 13–14
A five-day guided reading from 2 Samuel 13–14, where the trouble Nathan warned about comes home to David's own children. Written for someone who's heard this sermon — in the room or however you caught it since — and for someone who hasn't; you don't need the sermon to follow along. Read one day at a time.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 29 min read
When Kings Behold: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 11–12, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group tracing a king who sees, sends and takes, the prophet God sends, and the Advocate who stands beside us.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Devotional 24 min read
When Kings Behold: Five Days in 2 Samuel 11–12
A five-day guided reading from 2 Samuel 11–12, where a king sees what he shouldn't, does what he can't undo, and then finds out someone has been watching. Written for someone who's heard this sermon — in the room or however you caught it since — and for someone who hasn't; you don't need the sermon to follow along. Read one day at a time, and read the verses out loud if you can.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 25 min read
When Hesed Is Refused: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 10, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group tracing what happens when kindness is read as a threat: a whisper that cascades, a king who sends again, and the One who sees better.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Devotional 22 min read
When Hesed Is Refused: Six Days in 2 Samuel 10
A six-day guided reading from 2 Samuel 10 — the chapter where a king sends kindness across the border and gets his messengers back with half a beard. Written for the person who was in the room Sunday and the person who wasn't; read one day at a time.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 24 min read
The King's Table: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 8–9, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group tracing what a king does with a great name: an oath kept, a name said first, and a seat at a table nobody swore.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Devotional 16 min read
The King's Table: Six Days in 2 Samuel 8–9
A six-day guided reading from 2 Samuel 8–9 — the chapters where a king with a great name goes looking for the one man he has every reason to forget. Written for the person who was in the room Sunday and the person who wasn't; read one day at a time.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Blog 14 min read
The Sure House on the Mountain Road
Abigail, 1 Samuel 25, and the first word anyone spoke about David's house
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Devotional 21 min read
The King Who Sat Down: Six Days in 2 Samuel 7
A six-day guided reading from 2 Samuel 7 — the chapter where a king who wants to build God a house is told, gently and completely, that God is the one doing the building. Written for the person who was in the room Sunday and the person who wasn't; read one day at a time.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 21 min read
The Forever Throne: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 7, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group tracing the chapter where David offers to build God a house, and God promises to build him one instead.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Blog 12 min read
The Fallen Tent Rebuilt
Amos 9, Acts 15, a scroll from Qumran, and what happened to the house God promised David
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Blog 11 min read
Make Your Name Great
Babel, Abram, David, and the name above every name — Genesis 11–12; 2 Samuel 7; Philippians 2
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Blog 9 min read
Why Did Uzzah Die?
2 Samuel 6:6–8, and the question the commentaries have never agreed on
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Devotional 11 min read
Whose Ark Is This? Five Days in 2 Samuel 6
A five-day guided reading from 2 Samuel 6 — the chapter where David finally brings the ark home, and where a death, a foreigner's blessing, and a wife's contempt all turn out to be circling the same question: who's actually in charge here? Written for the person who was in the room Sunday and the person who wasn't; read one day at a time.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Blog 7 min read
The Foreigner Who Kept the Ark
2 Samuel 6:9–12; 1 Chronicles 26:1–8, and the question of who Obed-edom actually was
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 15 min read
Sovereign: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 6, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group tracing the chapter where David brings the ark home twice: once his own way, and once God's.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 22 min read
What A King Takes: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 5, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group tracing the chapter where David finally receives the throne, and quietly starts taking more than he was given.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Blog 18 min read
The Names Nobody Reads
1 Chronicles 11–12, and what a list of soldiers is doing at the front of David's reign
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Devotional 13 min read
Ask Again: Five Days in 2 Samuel 5
A five-day guided reading from 2 Samuel 5 — the chapter where David finally receives the throne, and, in the same chapter, quietly starts taking more than he was ever given. Written for the person who was in the room Sunday and the person who wasn't; read one day at a time.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Blog 7 min read
What a Name Won't Let You Forget: Ish-bosheth, the Beerothites, and a Kingdom Built Out of Body Parts
A name later scribes couldn't leave alone, a chapter told in severed hands and feet, and a buried motive seventeen chapters wide — the details a Sunday sermon never has room for.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 12 min read
The Long Road to the Throne: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 2–4, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group walking through David's long wait for a throne that was already his.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Blog 8 min read
"Put the Sword Away": The Word Hiding Behind a Very Old Refusal
One Hebrew verb links a stolen crown, a general's power grab, and a sword in a garden — and it explains why David waited seven years for a throne that was already his.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Blog 5 min read
Common People Pay When Kings Play Games
One verse, one weeping man on a road to Bahurim — and the pattern underneath a whole civil war, about who actually bleeds when the powerful fight for a throne.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Devotional 15 min read
Ask Before You Climb: Five Days in 2 Samuel 2–4
The seven and a half years David spent wearing one tribe's crown while he waited on the other eleven — five days for the person who was in the room on Sunday, and for the person who wasn't.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 8 min read
When a King Falls: A Study Guide
Word studies and discussion questions through 2 Samuel 1, movement by movement — for individual reflection or a small group working through the chapter together.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Blog 4 min read
Two Histories, One Throne Room: How to Read the Bible's Double Account of the Kings
Why Samuel and Kings tell the same story Chronicles already told — and how learning to read both together unlocks the season ahead.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Blog 6 min read
"Surpassing the Love of Women": What David and Jonathan Actually Was
A verse the internet is sure it has figured out — and what covenant loyalty actually cost the men who lived it.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Study guide 3 min read
Kingdom: What A King Beholds — Field Guide
A companion guide for the whole Kingdom: What A King Beholds series — word studies and discussion questions to work through alongside each week, on your own or in a group.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Devotional 8 min read
How the Mighty Have Fallen: Five Days in 2 Samuel 1
A five-day guided reading from “When a King Falls.” This is a devotional about grief, and it does not tie a bow on it — if you're in the middle of a loss right now, you don't need to arrive anywhere by Friday. You only need to bring it to God.
Kingdom: What A King Beholds Devotional 9 min read
The King Who Sat Down
A three-day devotional in Psalm 110, for the week following "The King-Priest" — chasing the New Testament's most-quoted verse across the church's own history, and what it means to live under a King who has already sat down.
Summer Psalms 2026 Study guide 11 min read
The King-Priest: A Study Guide
A five-movement study guide through Psalm 110, for individual or small-group use — word studies and discussion questions that trace the King-Priest from David's own confession to the true Adam who finally receives the office.
Summer Psalms 2026 Blog 6 min read
The Job Adam Never Finished
Sunday we watched one Hebrew word tie Psalm 110's King straight back to the garden. Here's the part we ran out of time for. And it changes what the King is actually doing.
Summer Psalms 2026 Blog 4 min read
The King Who Was Finally Clothed
Every coronation in the ancient world was an act of dressing. Psalm 2 installs a King, and behind that installation sits an older, unfinished story about clothes humanity was never quite given.
Summer Psalms 2026 Study guide 8 min read
The King: A Study Guide
A four-movement study guide through Psalm 2, for individual or small-group use — word studies and discussion questions that move the same way the psalm does: from "they," to "we," to "welcome."
Summer Psalms 2026 Devotional 16 min read
The Hand That Holds the Rod
A five-day devotional in Psalm 2, for the week following "The King" — the parts of the story a thirty-minute sermon never had room for.
Summer Psalms 2026 Blog 3 min read
Reading Psalm 2 as a Play
On the page, Psalm 2 looks like one voice. Read it as it was almost certainly meant to be heard, and it's a four-character drama, and the Hebrew itself has a soundtrack running underneath it.
Summer Psalms 2026 Blog 6 min read
Powers: Behind the Idols
The Story You're Actually In: Understanding Idolatry's Hidden Power
Idol Blog 6 min read
Jesus: The True Image
The Slow Transformation: Why Our Hearts Don't Change Overnight
Idol Blog 5 min read
Dehumanized: How Idolatry Corrupts
The Mirror We've Become: When We Worship What We Make
Idol Blog 5 min read
The Exchange: The Problem of Idolatry
The Magnetic Pull of the Heart: What Really Has Your Life?
Idol Blog 6 min read
Made In His Image: Our True Identity
You Were Made to Reflect Glory: Rediscovering What It Means to Be Human
Idol Blog 5 min read
Kingdom Series: Wages
The Two Mountains: A Tale of Two Kings
Kingdom Blog 5 min read
Beloved: Sent
Love: The Foundation of Everything
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Beloved: Abiding
Living Through Love: How to Experience the Fullness of God's Heart
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Beloved: Adoption
The Greatest Family Story Ever Told
Blog 6 min read
Beloved: Identity
You Are the Beloved: Rediscovering Your Identity This Advent
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Kingdom Series: Mercy
The Revolutionary Power of Mercy: Lessons from a Cave
Kingdom Blog 4 min read
Kingdom Series: Friend
Kingdom Blog 4 min read
Kingdom Series: Struck
The Power of Divine Reversal: Finding Victory in Apparent Defeat
Kingdom Blog 4 min read
Kingdom Series: Jealous
The Unexpected Cost of Faithfulness
Kingdom Blog 5 min read
Kingdom Series: Giant
The Tale of David and Goliath: More Than Meets the Eye
Kingdom Blog 5 min read
Kingdom Series: Consequences
The Power of Choices: Lessons from Ancient Kings and the Ultimate Anointed One
Kingdom Blog 4 min read
Waiting on a Word
The Power of Words: Sweetness for the Soul and Healing for the Bones
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Kingdom Series: Torn
The Paradox of Obedience: Finding Freedom in Surrender
Kingdom Blog 4 min read
Kingdom Series: Honey
The Ripple Effect of Sin and the Redeeming Power of Grace
Kingdom Blog 4 min read
Psalm 63
Finding God in the Wilderness: Lessons from Psalm 63
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Psalm 67
The Power of Purposeful Prayer: Becoming a Blessing to the World
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Psalm 84
Finding Our True Home in God's Presence
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Psalm 90
The Paradox of Mortality and Eternity: Finding Our True Home
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Psalm 91
*Finding Refuge in the Shadow of the Almighty*
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Kingdom Series: Warning Signs
The Power of Remembering: Finding Strength in God's Faithfulness
Kingdom Blog 5 min read
Kingdom Series: Fear
Fear Not: Embracing God's Peace in a World of Anxiety
Kingdom Blog 5 min read
Kingdom Series: Serpent Crusher
The Search for the True King: From Eden to Eternity
Kingdom Blog 5 min read
Kingdom Series: Signs
When God Calls: Embracing the Mystery of Faith
Kingdom Blog 5 min read
Kingdom Series: Donkeys
The Humble King: Reflections on Palm Sunday and the True Nature of Leadership
Kingdom Blog 4 min read
Kingdom Series: Holiness
The Holiness of God: Not a Tool, But Our Ultimate Help
Kingdom Blog 4 min read
Kingdom Series: Prophet
The Lamp That Never Goes Out: A Journey Through Scripture
Kingdom Blog 5 min read
Kingdom Series: Contempt
The Weight of Our Choices: Honoring God in a World of Contempt
Kingdom Blog 4 min read
Kingdom Series: Pray
The Power of Persistent Prayer: Lessons from Hannah's Story
Kingdom Blog 4 min read
Proverbs: Journey
Finding Purpose in Our Work: A Divine Calling
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Proverbs: Humility
The Power of Humility: A Path to Wisdom and Grace
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Proverbs: Community
The Profound Importance of Community in Our Spiritual Journey
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Proverbs: Identity
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Proverbs: Jesus in Proverbs
Idol Blog 5 min read
Proverbs: An Introduction
Date Title Scripture Sermon Type
OCT 25, 2026 
When the House Falls Apart: A Study Guide 2 Samuel 13–14 When The House Falls Apart Study guide
When the House Falls Apart: A Study Guide 2 Samuel 13–14 When The House Falls Apart Study guide OCT 25, 2026 When the House Falls Apart: Five Days in 2 Samuel 13–14 2 Samuel 13–14 When The House Falls Apart Devotional
When the House Falls Apart: Five Days in 2 Samuel 13–14 2 Samuel 13–14 When The House Falls Apart Devotional OCT 18, 2026 When Kings Behold: Five Days in 2 Samuel 11–12 2 Samuel 11–12 When Kings Behold Devotional
When Kings Behold: Five Days in 2 Samuel 11–12 2 Samuel 11–12 When Kings Behold Devotional OCT 11, 2026 When Hesed Is Refused: Six Days in 2 Samuel 10 2 Samuel 10 When Hesed is Refused Devotional
When Hesed Is Refused: Six Days in 2 Samuel 10 2 Samuel 10 When Hesed is Refused Devotional AUG 23, 2026 What a Name Won't Let You Forget: Ish-bosheth, the Beerothites, and a Kingdom Built Out of Body Parts 2 Samuel 2–4 The Long Road to the Throne Blog
What a Name Won't Let You Forget: Ish-bosheth, the Beerothites, and a Kingdom Built Out of Body Parts 2 Samuel 2–4 The Long Road to the Throne Blog AUG 23, 2026 The Long Road to the Throne: A Study Guide 2 Samuel 2–4 The Long Road to the Throne Study guide
The Long Road to the Throne: A Study Guide 2 Samuel 2–4 The Long Road to the Throne Study guide AUG 23, 2026 "Put the Sword Away": The Word Hiding Behind a Very Old Refusal 2 Samuel 2–4 The Long Road to the Throne Blog
"Put the Sword Away": The Word Hiding Behind a Very Old Refusal 2 Samuel 2–4 The Long Road to the Throne Blog AUG 23, 2026 Ask Before You Climb: Five Days in 2 Samuel 2–4 2 Samuel 2–4 The Long Road to the Throne Devotional
Ask Before You Climb: Five Days in 2 Samuel 2–4 2 Samuel 2–4 The Long Road to the Throne Devotional AUG 16, 2026 Two Histories, One Throne Room: How to Read the Bible's Double Account of the Kings 2 Samuel 1 When a King Falls Blog
Two Histories, One Throne Room: How to Read the Bible's Double Account of the Kings 2 Samuel 1 When a King Falls Blog AUG 16, 2026 "Surpassing the Love of Women": What David and Jonathan Actually Was 2 Samuel 1 When a King Falls Blog
"Surpassing the Love of Women": What David and Jonathan Actually Was 2 Samuel 1 When a King Falls Blog AUG 16, 2026 How the Mighty Have Fallen: Five Days in 2 Samuel 1 2 Samuel 1 When a King Falls Devotional
How the Mighty Have Fallen: Five Days in 2 Samuel 1 2 Samuel 1 When a King Falls Devotional