Category: Sermon Follow-Up
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1 Samuel 23: Sermon Follow-up
I preached from 1 Samuel 23 on Easter Sunday. A few notes: The structure of the chapter is obvious. Two stories of David being betrayed (by the men of Keilah and Ziph) are wrapped around a story of loyalty to David (demonstrated by Jonathan). It’s disloyalty/loyalty sandwich, with faithful Jonathan at the center, surrounded by…
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Sermon follow-up: 1 Samuel 22
In 1 Samuel 22:2, a rag tag bunch of 400 men come to David. They are obviously outcasts and losers. These were angry, disaffected young men (you’ve probably seen the type – they are common today as well). These men are in distress, in debt, and discontent. We are not told if their suffering is…
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Odds and Ends, June 2024
I wanted to give a little follow-up on my sermons on 1 Samuel 14 from the last couple of weeks: A few links I want to share: At some point, we will have conference video from the “Courageous Church, Hostile World” conference we held at TPC back in February. In the meantime, I wanted to…
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Sermon Spin-off — 12/10/23 (1 Samuel 7)
This a slight reworking of the last portion of my sermon from 12/10/23. The end of 1 Samuel 7 describes the great blessings that accrued to Israel because of Samuel’s ministry as priest, prophet, and judge. Samuel, like Moses, held a multiplicity of offices usually assigned to many men instead of one. It was obviously…
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Sermon Follow Up (11/12/23)
Robert Rayburn’s sermon on 1 Samuel 6 captures the essence of the point I was driving at in my sermon on the same text, namely the demand that our faith in God must produce fear of God and obedience to God. Here some excerpts from his sermon (the last two paragraphs are especially important): “Behold the goodness…
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Sermon and Sunday School Follow Up (11/5/23)
These notes went out in last week’s updates email. The bulk of the message is follow up material on Sunday School (audio available soon) and the sermon from 1 Samuel 5 (audio available here). In Sunday School, we looked at various roles and titles ascribed to Mary in Scripture and in church history. We spent a…
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Sermon Follow Up: Living in an Enchanted Cosmos
“There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” I want to give a little follow up to my sermon from 7-30-23 entitled “The Christian Cosmos” on Ephesians 1:20-23. I preached other themes from this same passage on Ascension Day this year; last Sunday’s sermon was really intended to…
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Psalm 19 and Divine Revelation (Sermon Follow Up, Part 2)
I want to provide a little more follow up to my two recent sermons on Psalm 19. As I pointed out, some view the psalm as having two parts: verses 1-6 on creational revelation, and verses 7-14 on biblical revelation. Others view it as having three sections; the third section is found in verses 12-14,…
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Psalm 19 and Lent (Sermon Follow Up, Part 1)
I recently preched two sermons on Psalm 19 (available here and here). In this blog post, I want to follow up on the second sermon, with a point that seems especially appropriate for Lent. In the closing verses of the psalm, David turns from examining the heavens and the Scriptures to look at his own heart. He realizes…
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Christ the King Sunday 2022 — Sermon Follow Up
Sermon — How the Story Ends: Living Every Day in Light of the Last Day (1 Thess. 4:9-18) A few notes, following up on yesterday’s sermon: 1. Frank Senn on the eschatological/political background of Christ the King Sunday: “Christ the King is not a festival of great antiquity, supplying the church year with neat narrative…
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