Tag Archives: book of Samuel

Sermon: A Soft Answer Turns Away Wrath (1 Samuel 25)

Posted on 24 October 2025 by Benj

This is the audio (21:24, 20.2 MB) of a sermon I preached at the Madison Avenue (elementary) campus of Grove City Christian Academy on October 24, 2025. The proverb of the week was Proverbs 15:1, so I preached on 1 Samuel 25 to illustrate. Continue reading →

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Sermon: An Eternal King (2 Samuel 7:8-16, 22-24)

Posted on 3 February 2024 by Benj

A sermon I preached at the Mill Street (5th-12th grades) campus of Grove City Christian Academy on February 2, 2024. Continue reading →

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Did the Medium of En-dor Really See Samuel’s Spirit?

Posted on 18 January 2024 by Benj

I had a student last year who wrote a paper on 1 Samuel 28 in South Asian context. It was a very interesting paper, informed by his Christian community’s encounters with spiritualists and mediums. One of the things that we discovered as he was doing his research, as that historic Christian interpreters have been divided on the question of what exactly the medium (and possibly Saul) actually witnessed when she conjured Samuel’s elohim. Continue reading →

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