Saul stood on a ridge at Gilboa looking down at more Philistines than he had ever seen, and he did the thing you would want him to do. He asked God. Dreams, Urim, prophets, three ways God had spoken t...  Read More

This Sunday the text sets two men side by side in the same week, on the eve of the same battle, asking the same God the same kind of question. One of them gets a wall and one of them gets a promise, a...  Read More

Beginning Sunday, September 13, our first worship service moves from 9:00am to 8:30am.Here’s the reason: We want to give Sunday school a real hour.Under the current schedule, the 9:00 service lets out...  Read More

This Sunday David gets a second chance to kill Saul, and he won't take it. Then, one chapter later, with Saul finally off his back and a fresh blessing still ringing in his ears, David walks straight ...  Read More

One chapter after David spared the king who was hunting him to kill him, he strapped on his sword to wipe out an entire household over an insult. Same David. Same sword. The difference was not the siz...  Read More

Preparing for Sunday - 1 Samuel 25This week we come to one of the sharpest turns in David's story. Last Sunday he stood in a cave and would not lay a hand on the king who was hunting him. This week a ...  Read More

Yesterday we stood in a cave with David.Saul had hunted him for years, and now the man who wanted him dead was right there, alone, close enough to kill. Every voice in the cave said the same thing his...  Read More

This Sunday we come to 1 Samuel 23:1-24:22. Saul hunts David every day and can't lay a hand on him, and when God finally puts Saul in David's hand, David won't close his hand on the kingdom. Read the ...  Read More

A tired, frightened man showed up at the tabernacle in Nob with no bread, no sword, and no story anyone would like. He was the most famous soldier in Israel, and he was completely alone. When Ahimelec...  Read More

Preparing for SundayThis Sunday we follow David out of the palace and into the wilderness, running with no bread, no sword, and no one beside him. Before you gather, read 1 Samuel 21-22 slowly and wat...  Read More

He was five years old when everything ended.The news came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan were dead on Mount Gilboa, and the household went into a panic. A nurse snatched up Jonathan's little boy ...  Read More

This Sunday we're in 1 Samuel 20, and it's the chapter where David's old life ends. Two men swear a covenant out in a field, in a hurry, while a king back at the palace sharpens a spear for one of the...  Read More