Sunday we're in Hebrews 10:19-25, a letter written to a people who were coming apart.Spend a few minutes in the text before you get here.Critically ThinkRead Hebrews 10:19-25. Verse 19 opens with "The...  Read More

Eleven men climbed a mountain in Galilee because Jesus told them to be there. They saw Him. They fell down and worshiped. And then Matthew writes the sentence he could have left out: "but some doubted...  Read More

Preparing for Sunday - Matthew 28:16-20This Sunday we start a ten-week series called The Church He Builds, and we're beginning at the very end of Matthew's Gospel. Eleven men stood on a hillside in Ga...  Read More

This Sunday we finish 1 Samuel. Twenty-two weeks ago we opened this book with a woman praying so hard at Shiloh that the old priest took her for a drunk, and it closes on a hill called Gilboa with the...  Read More

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