All right, my Bible in 365, brothers and sisters.

We have made it to the book of First Samuel.

And folks, this one is a big deal.

I love this book.

I think this book is amazing.

And that's why I'm going to walk you through all of it

because there's so much to learn from it and you will recognize a very cohesive theme.

By the way, this book is so personal to me.

And the reason why it's so personal to me is, as many of you know, I have three adopted children.

And the first two children that I adopted were siblings.

One was two years old and the other

was 19 days old when they came to me. And the very first Bible study that my little baby got to

hear came out of this book. And I thought it was important to tell her that mom and I were praying so desperately to the

Lord to bring us precious children and God answered our prayers. By the way, it's not any kind of

irony to fall upon us that my son is named after this book, actually after my

dad who was named after this book, and it is a very special and meaningful book to me.

Now, let's just talk about this for a second because there are some big themes we have to

hold on to with this book.

And by the way, they very much matter for a lot of reasons.

Okay, first and foremost, First Samuel is in essence a transition from the judges to

the kings.

Matter of fact, a lot of people call First Samuel, First King, Second Samuel, Second

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