Reformed Bible Study

27. Samuel, Kings and Chronicles

Welcome to the Reformed Bible Study. Today we survey three of the Old Testament's most historically rich books — Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles — asking what they are, who wrote them, and why they still matter. Together they span six centuries of Israel's covenant life and tell one relentless story: every human king failed, the priesthood was compromised, and the nation went into exile. The failed story continues until the King the prophets promised finally came.

26. Ruth

Welcome to the Reformed Bible Study. Set against the dark backdrop of the Judges period, the book of Ruth tells the story of a Moabite widow whose covenant loyalty leads her into the lineage of David — and ultimately of Christ. In Boaz, the kinsman-redeemer who pays the full price to claim what another would not, we find one of Scripture's richest portraits of the Redeemer who assumed our debt and covered us with his own righteousness.

25. Judges, Part 2

Welcome to the Reformed Bible Study. The closing chapters of Judges offer no heroic deliverers, no foreign oppressors, no familiar cycle of sin and salvation — only two grim appendices that function as the book's final verdict on a people who have abandoned the covenant. What we find here is the inevitable logic of apostasy: corrupted worship breeds a corrupted society, and without a king who can deliver Israel from itself, the cry that frames these chapters, a longing for the one Mediator no merely human judge could ever be. It anticipates the coming of the true King — Jesus.

24. Judges, Part 1

Welcome to Reformed Bible Study. The book of Judges confronts us with a sobering paradox: a people who have witnessed the mighty acts of God and sworn covenant loyalty to him, yet who spiral downward through a relentless cycle of sin, servitude, and desperate supplication — and through it all, a God who remains faithful to his faithless people. In the two judges we examine today, Deborah and Jephthah, we see that faithfulness and foolishness can inhabit the same story, and that the Lord accomplishes his purposes through the most unlikely instruments, pointing us forward to the one Deliverer who would succeed where all others fell short.

23. Joshua

Welcome to the Reformed Bible Study. Today we will examine the book of Joshua, a book about a God who keeps every one of his covenant promises. Even the name Joshua, which means 'Jehovah saves,' signals that he is a type of Christ. Join us as we trace God's sovereign grace from the Jordan River to the walls of Jericho to the division of the land, discovering along the way that the rest Joshua gave Israel was only a foretaste of the perfect, eternal rest secured for us by our greater Joshua, the Lord Jesus Christ.