Focus Church Sunday Night Gatherings

We continue with tips to help you become a lifelong student of scripture. Just one tip today. Read it with the understanding it is one story with one message.

Last week I hoped to inspire you to become a lifelong student of scripture. Today I hope to give you some tips to make your beginning a little easier. (or your next step if you've already begun)

How do we know discipleship is happening? It's all about trajectory. Is improving scriptural literacy one of the trajectories we see among the disciples of Christ?

In a life full of important actions and beautiful words, what actions and words would David find important enough to make his last on the public stage?

Of all the things we've seen in David's life, the good, the bad, the ugly, there is one beautiful thing which is consistent

With apologies for less than stellar audio on this one. We had some technical difficulties with the recording. The most infamous acts of David. What can we learn from them?

Two different distractions lead to the two lowest points in David's life. American Christians face both distractions regularly today. Paul prayed over the same concern for the Corinthians Christians. Apparently this is something worth being aware of, and wary of.

We return to our series on David with what is possibly the best picture (among many beautiful pictures) of God's Grace in the Old Testmanet. A short story with a powerful punch.

David wants to give something special to God and God says no in the most amazing way!

2 Corinthians 1 is one of my favorite passages and Kevin Megil is one of my favorite guest speakers, so here's a treat where we combine both of them. Kevin is not only my brother, but also one of our Focus Group Leaders at Focus Church .

Two ideas about God we do best to hold in tension at all times.

Just because something is God's will doesn't mean it won't be messy or slow...

Let's take a short detour to see what we can learn about the heart of God from the poetry of David.

Sometimes being a man or woman after God's own heart, means that you will be almost as strange as God to the culture around you!

What do you do when God is silent, or you no longer remember what He said? How do you find your way back when you aren't sure you can remember the shepherd's voice?

Resurrection is a great claim. It requires some great evidence. Something like 500 people seeing him alive, talking with him, eating with him, hanging out with him for over a month. Yeah, something like that.

This is arguably the lowest point in David's life, when David is acting with a level of violence and selfishness unlike his normal behavior.

Possibly the most important lesson someone in leadership can learn. The secret of greatness.

What changed between hiding out with the enemies and becoming the Israelite Robin Hood?

What happens when a man after God's own heart forgets God's heart is for him?

The contrast between Saul's scrambling to make things happen and David's peace in God's work is really inspiring.

What does the story about David and Goliath tell us about being a man or woman after God's own heart?

Such a quiet anticlimactic introduction to the most important King in Israel's history.

What is the context around the statement that David is a "man after God's own heart?" What was the culture of Israel like? Who were the influences in David's life?

Why do a character study on the life of David in the Bible?