Sermons About Saul
Making Life Work - Be Kind
Proverbs says that kindness is part of the path of wisdom. The Hebrew word for kind means merciful or compassionate rather than just being nice. Kindness has something to teach us about dealing with people, especially in situations where how you feel like treating them is something other than mercifully, compassionately.
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Dangerous Devotion: Kingdom Life According to Saul
Israel's first king is a violent and volatile man, large in stature and small in character. He plunges from the pinnacle of God's favor to a position of arrogance and rebellion against God. The prophet Samuel confronts Saul in a moment of open disobedience to God. We all learn in that dramatic moment that it is more important to do what God says than to try to appease him with religious activities.
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David and Jonathan
Why we need connection with others, encouragement with others, and understanding the true essence of fellowship by looking at the relationship David had with Jonathan in 1 Samuel 18:1-7.
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Looking for Leaders
Leaders are in big demand but short supply. The kinds of leaders that move family faith forward, mobilize members in ministry, and advance the cause of Christ with courage. What lessons can we learn from Israel's look for leaders?
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2 Samuel 21:1-14 - The Cost of Covenant Breaking
Chapter 21 starts a new section (21-24) in closing the book of 2 Samuel. Some thing think that this secion is an intrusion to our the them of transition (David to Soloman). But I believe that the author is making a conclding point on how God's kingdom is to be goverend. In our passage in 2 Samuel 21, David's kingdom is experiencing a famine which causes David to pray to find out its cause. God says it is because the bloodguilt on Saul because he put the Gibeonites (who had made a Covenant with Israel in the name of the Lord (see Joshuah 9)) to death. David Doesn't pray for a solution but seeks atonement with the Gibeonites who want 7 men to pay with their lives. The difference between David and Saul is show by David loyality to the covenant he made with Jonathan to protect Mephibosheth (Jonathan's son). it ends with showing Rispah love for her son in protecting the bodyas and David giving Saul, Jonathan and the other that were hanged to bury them. We learn how misplaced zeal can cause us not to rely on our covenant with God and his mercy.
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Spiritual Blindness
Often our heart's affection is easily directed away from the Giver of good gifts to the gifts themselves. We make romance, money, health, work, and other gifts into an ultimate passion which displaces, or at least diminishes our affection for the Giver. So we seek Him in what feels like vain cries to deaf ears, not because we want Him, rather we want what He can give us. God has become our sugar-daddy and we try to hustle Him and use Him as currency to purchase our idols. We know only He can give it to us, so we beg Him like junkies trying to get a fix so that we can scurry off into a dark corner, away from His sight, to worship the real treasure of our hearts.
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Chosen By God (Acts 9:1-18)
Left to ourselves, every person who lives would continue to walk in their own sinfulness without any hope of changing. However, God in his grace saves people from their sin and uses them for his redemptive purposes in the world. Nowhere is this more clearly seen than in the life of Saul of Tarsus. Saul hated Christians until one day he became one. Understanding Saul's conversion helps us understand our own conversion.
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Acts 9 : From Enemy to Emissary - The Conversion of Saul
Back at the end of Acts chapter 7 we meet a young man named Saul. It was he who held everyones cloaks so they could throw rocks at Stephen more easily. He gave consent to his murder. Here in Chapter 9 we encounter Saul once again. Luke tells us Saul went on a manhunt to arrest followers of the WAY – the new sect of Judaism which was, as he saw it a false religion that needed to be snuffed out. And Saul was committed to doing everything he could to make that happen...that was until Saul met Jesus along the way.
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Transformissional Conversion Part II
We've been looking at the story of Paul's conversion and early ministry, how an enemy of God who was spiritually an orphan was welcomed in to become a child of the Father. Luke, however, abruptly shifts from Paul's life to Peter's life and the two miracles mentioned at the end of chapter 9.
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Transformissional Relationships
We are back in the great historical narrative of Acts. One of the great joys of this book is its seemingly inconsequential detail from Luke the historian, yet in these details are found treasures if we’re willing to dig a bit for them. We’ve been on a quest to determine what it was that so captured the hearts and minds of the early Christians that it created such an explosive spread of the Gospel in such a hostile environment.
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