Our craft activity tonight was to make pictures of good kings or bad kings (or queens). We also had a birthday to celebrate in advance (escaping on holiday for your birthday is no excuse...)

Alan brought the epilogue to tonight's family service. He commented on how many of the kings were a mixture of good and bad: Saul started well, prophesying and seeking God, but fell into sin because he wanted to please the people and he did not fully obey God's...

Tonight's family service looked at the kings of Israel. 1 Sam 8:4-9 makes it plain that God always intended to be the only King that Israel had, but when Samuel (prophet and judge for many years) was getting old and it was clear his sons were not following his godly...