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David and Goliath (part six) – What about You?

June 28, 2008

The story of David and Goliath confronts us with the question of our own faith. As we contemplate this encounter, where do you stand in the story? Saul Perhaps you are like Saul, a member of God’s people but conscious that you have little or no trust in God. The truth is your life is [...]

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David and Goliath (part five) – The Living God

June 19, 2008

In our last post, David had reacted to Goliath’s challenge in disbelief that anyone could be so foolish as to challenge God.  He asked King Saul to let him go out and fight for God. In 1 Samuel 17:37, perhaps against his better judgment, Saul agreed to let David fight Goliath: Go, and the LORD [...]

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David and Goliath (part four) – A Boy after God’s Own Heart

June 14, 2008

In 1 Samuel 17:12, the writer introduces David into the story for the first time. We learn in verses 12 to 16 that while Goliath had been bringing his challenge twice a day for forty days, David had been serving as a shepherd on his father’s farm in Bethlehem, some twenty kilometres away. Like Saul, [...]

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David and Goliath (part three) – A Faithless King

June 8, 2008

We’ve been looking at the Biblical account of the battle between David and Goliath.  In the last post we saw that the Philistines had brought their armies together and invaded Israelite lands.  As the Philistine and Israelite forces lined up before each other in the valley of Elah, the Philistine champion Goliath came out to [...]

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