A curated series inside Dove Creek Bible Church's Podcast.
Apr 26, 2021 1:21 PM America/Chicago
The Bible records David's triumphs and David's transgressions. He was both a man of faith and a man of failure. It has been suggested that there were four cycles in David's life and in each cycle we find a moment of great failure which followed a moment o
Apr 19, 2021 6:24 AM America/Chicago
The next chapters describe conflicts David has to deal with after Absalom’s rebellion, David’s Song of Praise which is an overview of the Lord’s faithfulness to him, and his last words meaning his last divinely inspired words not the last words he e
Apr 12, 2021 6:29 AM America/Chicago
If you have significant dysfunction in your family...have you ever tried to trace it all back to where it originally began? David's relationship with his sons is dysfunctional. What went wrong between David and his sons and who or what is to blame?
Mar 29, 2021 4:13 PM America/Chicago
Elizabeth O’Connor once wrote, “Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven. Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be.” In this text, David struggles wit
Mar 22, 2021 8:48 AM America/Chicago
The bitter fruit of David’s sin, begins to blossom in Chapters 13-15 beginning with troubles in David’s family. David tore Uriah’s family apart and now his own family will be torn apart. David sowed sexual sin and murder in Uriah’s family, now he
Mar 14, 2021 2:34 PM America/Chicago
When is it appropriate to confront? Our struggle as to "when" is two-sided. How do we determine "when to confront" in the sense of is this something we should be confronting someone about at all...is confrontation even necessary in this situation? Second
Mar 8, 2021 7:18 AM America/Chicago
In 1st Peter 5:8, Peter wrote "Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." In today’s text that devil lion finds David unprepared and unguarded so he devours him. In truth, the devil
Feb 22, 2021 7:38 AM America/Chicago
Some people have a "No-Face". Some people have a "Yes-Face". If you have ever stood at the side of the road or in a parking lot with some jumper cables in your hands you have looked in desperation for a "Yes-Face" amongst a sea of "No-Faces". Are you a "Y
Feb 16, 2021 6:25 AM America/Chicago
William Carey said, "Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God." Today we see that David wants to attempt a great thing for God, but God says "No, instead I want to do a great thing for you”.
Feb 7, 2021 11:07 AM America/Chicago
Today we see how David learns a terrible lesson concerning how God is good, but He isn’t safe.
Jan 31, 2021 6:16 AM America/Chicago
Have you ever had a time in your life when you finally achieved some lifelong goal and then the thought occurs to you...now what? In these chapters David finally becomes king...now what? What kind of king will he be?
Jan 25, 2021 7:01 AM America/Chicago
When someone dies...how do we evaluate their life...how do we encapsulate it? Do we consider it as a whole? Or should we focus on the last few years? Or if their life ended badly do we only remember the early years? I think of this whenever I read an obit
Jan 17, 2021 4:12 PM America/Chicago
Today we finish 1st Samuel with the death of Saul, but before we examine the final product of Saul's life, the fruit; we will look at the seed that gave life to that fruit. Saul proudly planted seeds of defiance and he consequently reaped the thorns of de
Jan 11, 2021 8:57 AM America/Chicago
David’s life appears to be running smoothly since he made the decision to defect to the Philistine camp. He doesn’t have to wander all over the desert anymore hiding in caves, in fact, a whole town has been given to him. Saul had even given up his pur
Dec 14, 2020 5:45 AM America/Chicago
One of mankind’s greatest wishes is to communicate with the dead and there are popular "psychics" today that skeptics refer to as “grief vampires”. They find people who are trapped in a place of non-acceptance concerning the death of a loved one and
Dec 7, 2020 6:05 AM America/Chicago
In today's text David is discouraged. He is tiring of this renegade in the wilderness routine...tired of being the pea in God's Shell Game with Saul. He is weary of fixing the same old problems, resisting the same old temptations, and constantly having th
Nov 29, 2020 9:15 AM America/Chicago
We all have a button that can be pushed...a switch that can be flipped that will send our composure into a tailspin and very often it’s the little things that send us over the edge. We steel ourselves against losing our composure over a big thing only t
Nov 24, 2020 5:27 AM America/Chicago
Few things in life are as tempting as the opportunity for revenge. In today’s text, David faces this temptation. His opportunity for revenge comes slickly packaged in the wrappings of providence. It is as though God has delivered Saul to David for this
Nov 15, 2020 8:46 AM America/Chicago
Last time we observed that Saul’s relentless persecution and pursuit wore David down and caused him to flee in fear. He became a fugitive. Sometimes this period of David’s life is called David’s outlaw years. David had to evade Saul not for 36 days
Nov 9, 2020 7:19 AM America/Chicago
Forty or fifty years ago, the nation's heroes were usually portrayed only in the best light for there was a desire to keep their public reputations pristine. Rarely, if ever, was the country made aware of their personal shortcomings...their alcoholism, th
Nov 2, 2020 5:18 AM America/Chicago
Someone has said, "If you must make enemies, make lazy ones." Say what you will about Saul…but one thing is sure…he certainly was not lazy. He attempts to get rid of David in a variety of ways. He will try stealth operations and he will try open aggre
Oct 26, 2020 5:05 PM America/Chicago
Thus far, in our study of David we have concentrated on his tender side...the gentle shepherd...the sensitive musician songwriter, but today we meet the other side of David. Shepherd, Psalmist...Warrior. We have to reconcile this gentle shepherd boy who w
Oct 19, 2020 6:28 AM America/Chicago
1st Samuel, chapter 17, the story of David and Goliath, is one of the most, if not the most, familiar passages in the entire Bible. We love the story because the underdog, a shepherd boy, defies all odds and somehow defeats the warrior, the giant Goliath.
Oct 4, 2020 10:00 AM America/Chicago
David didn’t know it, but his training as a shepherd and development of skill as a musician songwriter were preparing him to become the next king. In this text we see how his musicianship opened the door for him to the king’s palace.