Sermon Text: 2 Samuel 1:17-27 Outline: Love for the Glorious Name of God (vv.20-21) Love of Justice (vv.22-24) Love of Sacrificial Love (vv.25-27) Reflection Questions: What is something that God is truly calling you to lament? Take 30 minutes or more to thoughtfully process your grief and agony, and write a lament about that thing. […]

Sermon Text: 1 Samuel 29-30 Outline: Man’s Plans & God’s Providence (29) Pain & the Power of God (30:1-8) Performance & Presents (30:9-31) Reflection Questions: Write down a memory of a time when God’s providence eclipsed your plans [i.e. a personal example from your own life of Proverbs 16:9] (the medium is up to you… use paper […]

Sermon Text: 1 Samuel 27:1-28:2 Outline: Behind Enemy Lines ( 27:1-4) Get’n Down to Business (27:5-12) Boasting (28:1-2) Reflection Questions How (specifically) does God’s control of everything inform your feelings (especially feelings of despair)? How (specifically) is God calling you to go about HIS business shrewdly, and – perhaps – in such a way that might […]

Sermon Text: 1 Samuel 26:1-25 Outline: See for Yourself (1-12) Show ‘Em the Standard (13-16 Scorn Separation from God… Savor the Salvation of God (17-25) Reflection Questions Do you assume the worst of those who have wronged you? …OR do you practice empathy and aim for repentance? Think of one enemy in your life who […]