Description:In Saul's last days as king over Israel we see him searching for direction, yet God remains silent. In contrast, David is strengthened by the Lord in the middle of a tragedy. Why did God guide David and leave Saul looking for answers? Download Outline:
01 SAMUEL 28-29 – WHEN GOD GOES SILENT – PART 1
Description:King Saul finds himself in the middle of desperate circumstances but God has gone silent. Where will he turn for direction now that God has withdrawn His presence? Download Outline:
01 SAMUEL 27 – DAVID IN THE LAND OF PHILISTINES
Description:David seems to "give up" running from Saul and moves to the land of the Philistines. He sees it as his only way to get out of Saul's reach. But this also puts him in a very compromising position of having to lie! Download Outline:
01 SAMUEL 26 – MOMENTARY CONVICTIONS
Description:What does is take to live a life of consistent faithfulness in a culture of weak convictions and broken commitments? Download Outline:
01 SAMUEL 25 – BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Description:Why do people “of good understanding” continue to marry “harsh and evil” people? In this case – Abigail is the one with the brains and the beauty, but the brains must have failed her when she decided to marry Nabal. Isn’t it amazing that people that would...
01 SAMUEL 24 – DAVID, TRAINING BY EXAMPLE
Description:David has an opportunity to take KIng Saul's life and end all of his own pain, but he doesn't take it. Instead, he tries yet again to assure King Saul that he means him no harm. Even David's own army felt he would be justified killing Saul, but he was...
01 SAMUEL 21-23 – RUNNING TO THE LORD
Description: In our study of 1st Samuel we have seen David go from a shepherd boy to a national hero and now, to a fugitive on the run from a jealous king. What seems to be an unfair turn of events for David is God's sovereign path guiding David to the throne of...
01 SAMUEL 20 – A PROMISE IS A PROMISE
Description:Saul is jealous of David and that jealousy is eating him up. He just wants David dead and out of the way. In essence he is fighting against the Lord, because the Lord doesn’t want David dead. He is to be the next King, so this is a battle that Saul CANNOT...
01 SAMUEL 19 – REJECTING GOD’S ANOINTED KING
Description: Do we see the cross of Jesus Christ as a symbol of divine compassion and salvation or a personal threat to our way of life? Download Outline:
01 SAMUEL 18 – WHAT IS LOVE?
Description: 1st Samuel 18 seems like an odd place to find the biblical definition of love, but as we study it, we will see it has as much to say about what true biblical love is as Paul’s letter to the church in Corinth. Download Outline: