Bible@10:30 is a weekly profitable Bible study to deepen our love for God and equip us to serve others. Our vision is to delight in God’s Word and live out Christ!

From February 2025 we will be continuing our study of Old Testament books by examining the book of 2 Samuel using the guidebook, “The rise and fall of the king” by Tim Chester.

2 Samuel is full of powerful, dramatic, emotional action. We lurch from one electrifying moment to another. We move from victory to defeat and back to victory; from civil war to national victory and back to civil war again. We read of domestic dramas and national crises, miraculous interventions and faithful suffering. The big beasts of Israelite politics square off against one another on numerous occasions. It can all seem somewhat breathless. And alongside all the action is a good deal of ambiguity. Yes, we meet heroes and villains. But more often we meet people somewhere in between. We encounter heroic loyalty and treacherous betrayals in the same person. We find people whose lives are both good and bad, ugly and beautiful, selfless and self-serving—people just like us, in fact. But through it all we see the hand of God, who is the true hero of 2 Samuel. David sings a song at the end of his life in 2 Samuel 22. At the beginning, in the middle and at the end is the affirmation, “The LORD is my rock”. It’s the refrain of the song, the refrain of David’s life, and the overarching theme of the book of 2 Samuel. But more thrilling than any of that, you’ll see Jesus Christ. And seeing him in and through 2 Samuel will enable you to see him with fresh color and texture and understand more clearly the privilege and joy of following him today—because Christians do not follow a flawed and capricious king who rules on a whim, and for his own personal gain. We are privileged to serve a King who came not to be served, but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many.

Hard copies of the guidebooks may be purchased from the church office (CHF4). If you wish to purchase them yourself either as eBooks or hard copies, please use the following link.