In the story of a group of distressed and discontented misfits who became David's mighty army, Pastor Lon Allison finds parallels to God's mighty warriors today and to the One David foreshadowed Who brings the ultimate victory and peace to a lost and broken world.

In the friendship of David and Jonathan, Pastor Hanibal Rodriguez finds a picture of what godly friendship looks like and explores some of the barriers that keep us from experiencing the kind of friendships God wants for us.

In 1 Samuel 18, the relationship between David and King Saul takes a serious turn for the worse as envy poisons Saul's heart. From the story of Saul's life Pastor Rob explores the damage envy can cause if left unchecked and points us to the antidote to envy that can rescue us from this destructive emotion.

The story of David and Goliath offers the obvious moral lesson that "David took on his giant and I can too." But Pastor Rob explores deeper and ultimately more important principles in this story that have great significance to each of us today.

The story of Saul—one of the most sober but most helpful stories in the Bible—shows us a man of great promise and power who self-destructed because fear and insecurity led to a failure to take God seriously.

David, the forgotten son, points us to Jesus, the greater forgotten son who became small to rescue us from our appearance addiction.

Independence and self-sufficiency—characteristics celebrated in our culture—are the very things that can keep us from fully investing ourselves in community with God's people, the Church. But in Philippians chapter 2, we discover the key to a whole new way of living in unity and service toward others—not focused on ourselves and our own needs but humbly committed to living in community with others.

We say yes to community because community is the very thing for which we were created.

In Psalm 23, we discover what the shepherding love of God for His people looks like—loving, gentle, intimate, sacrificial, and all-sufficient to meet every need of defenseless sheep, who are sometimes overcommitted, often arrogant and self-centered, prone to wander, and daily in need of His grace.

God knows we live in a sinful, fallen, and broken world. For that reason He has given us Psalm 88, so we can navigate life—and so we can help others—when things go terribly wrong, when the lights go out and life gets dark. In this message, Pastor Rob shares four things this psalm teaches us about trouble and three ways we should respond when trouble threatens to overwhelm.