Our sermon continues into the life and times of David by studying how Saul offered David a wife from his own household in 1 Samuel 18:17-30. David’s response is very insightful, it shows us his humble nature. Our lesson examines David’s response to Saul’s schemes, then we look closely at the nature of God-pleasing humility. We learn 3 marks of false humility…

Our message comes from 1 Samuel 18:6-16, the story of Saul’s envy and attempted murder of David. Saul is declining in his sanity, his sin and torment are pushing him ever-deeper into irrationality. As the Israelites celebrate the victory over the Philistines, the women sing and praise both King Saul and David, the new national hero. But Saul is displeased, for David…

Our message is from 1 Samuel 18:1-5 where we find the beginnings of an unusual and unprecedented friendship. David and the royal heir-apparent, Jonathan, become the best of friends. This relationship is a model relationship for Christians. We will look at it in terms of redemptive history by examining the relationship between David and Jonathan, David and Saul, and David and the…

In this part two of our sermon on David and Goliath, we look at the latter half of the epic battle of champions. Our passage, 1 Samuel 17:41-58, demonstrated three different ideas: First, the contrast between Saul, David and Goliath. Second, we examined the nature of the victory there in Israel, but also the greater…

Our message begins with a reading of the entire story told in 1 Samuel 17. This tale is one of great typology and serves to point us to so many gospel truths that we cannot cover them all in one message, and two sermons will only hit the high points. In our sermon today, we…

This week, we go to 1 Samuel 16:14-23, where we learn how terrible a life without God really is. We also look at many of the ways that unregenerate people try to soothe the terrors and convictions they experience when they perceive that the wrath of God awaits them. Hopefully these various false-remedies will not be found in our own lives, for…

Note: We experienced some audio issues this Sunday, the first minute or two of audio are slightly distorted. Today’s sermon is from 1 Samuel 16:1-13. We turn the corner at this midway point in the story and get to meet David for the first time. Obviously, he is no stranger or obscure Bible character, we all should know David, his life, his…

This sermon will wrap up our study of 1 Samuel 15. We will visit several verses in the chapter, and will look at God’s regret and Saul’s repentance. God’s regret is not as we might guess, and Saul’s repentance is not as it seems. In the first half, we study some doctrinal goodies, like “anthropomorphism” and “impassibility.” We see how these are…

Here we examine 1 Samuel 15:1-23. We get to investigate three related topics that Saul’s failure as King highlight. They are: 1.) God uses imperfect people for Kingdom work; 2.) God desires obedience to his actual commands; and 3.) which is really a sub section of number 2, the deadly deceitfulness of sin. Sin will destroy, and the deceiver will gladly ambush…

Our sermon is entitled “God’s Glory in Judgment” and is taken from 1 Samuel 15:1-3. As we look at the story of Saul’s battle with the Amalekites, we will see a sad failure once again, and the ultimate rejection of Saul. But we can’t simply pass by passages in the Bible that shock us. When the Lord says “destroy them all, men,…