Elder Jesse begins his sermon series on family worship by teaching what God's Word says about the family and it's foundational role in God's creation and purposes.

In this sad text, Saul is deposed as king. In it, we learn about a concept often repeated in the Old Testament, that God delights in love and obedience more than the ceremonial sacrifices. What does that mean and look like for us today?

Open-Theists use divine repentance/regret texts to argue God does not know the future. Is that true?

In this sermon we take head on the difficult command from God to destroy the Amalekites, including the women and children. We discuss two ways not to react to a text like this, and then four things which put the text in proper perspective, helping us to understand it better.

Saul makes a rash, sinful oath which nearly gets his son killed. Through this we learn about how to avoid taking the Lord's name in vain, and about how serious God is about His oaths and vows.

Jonathan fights the Philistines without telling his father. He gains courage from his great faith, and God uses his fight to bring victory to Israel. In this sermon, we learn how we can apply the same great faith of Jonathan in God's ability to save.

In this sermon, Saul grows impatient and offers the sacrifice without Samuel, breaking the commandment of God. God punishes him by rejecting his dynasty. We takeaway three important things from Saul's unlawful sacrifice.

Samuel leads the people to renew their covenant, and we learn how we can also renew our covenant commitments after we have sinned.

Saul gets an early chance to prove his worth, and he does so by protecting his people from the Ammonites, and by showing mercy on those who doubted him. In this, we learn of two qualities of a good king: wrath and mercy. Then we explore whether or not Jesus exhibits those two qualities Himself.

Saul is finally crowned king, but the story is very anticlamactic. In this sermon we explore how Christ's crowning ceremony was also anticlimactic, and what we do about that.