Today is the 7th day of May.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I'm Brian, it is a joy to greet a brand new shiny sparkly week around the global campfire

together as we move forward.

Move forward into this new week.

Moving out over it, it's a beautiful vista from here.

And we can go down into this week and make it the depths, or we can walk through this

week in wisdom.

And one of the ways that we do that is orienting ourselves to God through His word, each and

every day.

And so that's what we've come to do.

Step into the new week together, step into the next step in the scriptures.

And that next step leads us into some new territory.

So we navigated our way through the book of Judges.

And then we came to the book of Ruth, which is a breath of fresh air and a beautiful story

that also comes from the time of the Judges.

And now we are moving into the book of First Samuel.

And we are still kind of in the time of the Judges.

Samuel is the final judge of that era.

And so during the books of Samuel, we will, well actually during the book of First Samuel,

we will transition from Judges and be introduced to the very first monarch, the very first

king of Israel, which brings about a new era and the lives of the children of Israel.

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