Living Theology is a blog series that draws out the theological principles of each week's sermon text and thinks through how we can apply them to our personal lives. In other words, this series asks how we can live out the theology of Scripture each day. Sermon Text: 1 Samuel 16 You can watch Pastor Brian's sermon on 1 Samuel 16 here. In 1 Samuel 16, God tells Samuel to move on from King Saul and anoint the man God has chosen to replace him. It's a tale of two kings as the Spirit of the LORD turns away from King Saul and rushes on to David. And the narrator sets the story up to give us a sneak peak behind the scenes of how he orchestrates his will through the actions of men (and evil spirits
Notes from the Study is a series that discusses some of the more interesting details of our sermon text that may not fit into the weekly sermon. This week we look at 1 Samuel 15 where God finally rejects Saul as king over his people, Israel. In "Saul, the Messiah," we discuss the Hebrew word for "anoint," from which we get the word Messiah, as well as the symbolism that anointing carries elsewhere in Scripture. In "Who Is Amalek?" we discuss the Amalekites, whom God commanded Saul to utterly destroy. What did these people do to deserve this? Finally, in "Did God Regret?" we ask whether God actually regretted making Saul King over Israel as we read in 1 Samuel 15, verses 11 and 35—especially
