David
237Peter's Pattern for Preaching - Part 2
11 May 2026
28:04¶ 92
“This is a good moment to remind people that if we’re thinking historically the way that those in the Old Testament could look forward…”
28:42¶ 93
“He’s reasoning here, “If my son is going to live forever, he has to overcome sin and death, or someone has to overcome it…”
29:34¶ 95
“We can see David’s capacity to put two and two together, in a sense, even if he can’t see exactly what Jesus will be.…”
189The Covenant of Kingship
15 Apr 2024
8:57¶ 24
“But we come to David the shepherd boy. Yes, it’s a real story. Yes, it really happened. Yes, he actually slew a giant who…”
9:24¶ 25
“Saul has a bad ending. He ends up being very afraid of the invading Philistines so goes to a witch to consult with spirits,…”
10:07¶ 26
“He's of the line of Judah, so that was the tribe that God a long time ago had said would bear the scepter, so…”
143The Point of No Return
7 Nov 2022
28:02¶ 86
“[laughing] Jumping off what you just said, God picked someone for them and he picked the best person he could, the man after his…”
28:39¶ 87
“He’s going to not involve himself in his family, and let his kids grow up wild until they’re raping and killing each other. He’s…”
28:59¶ 88
“Well, this is what God had to choose from and this was the best – and yet God continues to use him. He makes…”
110Rulers
21 Mar 2022
26:59¶ 64
“Now, in saying these things, David is not himself becoming a Statist. He knew better than anybody else that kings have their problems, because…”
28:16¶ 67
“Yes, this is what a just king should be. I failed,” and when the man after God’s own heart, one of the greatest kings…”
2:23¶ 6
“David on his death bed had a different opinion of this. This is from 2 Samuel 23 –”
109Absalom
14 Mar 2022
3:44¶ 11
“Certainly Bathsheba is responsible for her sins, but God’s judgment throughout is pointed at David. He did great evil, two capital crimes before we’re…”
11:18¶ 39
“Yeah, the failure to deal with sin. In some ways that’s what this discussion is about. I think it becomes clear in this one…”
21:48¶ 78
“At this point David had a choice. He was in Jerusalem and Absalom had announced his succession elsewhere. David could have stayed, fortified Jerusalem,…”
108The Davidic Covenant
7 Mar 2022
1:19¶ 4
“Then David comes along. God anoints David by his servant Samuel. David is on the run for many years fleeing Saul, who’s very jealous…”
1:35¶ 5
“We saw last time that he brings the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem, to Mount Zion, with the idea of stabilizing and centralizing…”
2:07¶ 6
“Having defeated many of his enemies and having established some sort of peace, he thinks “The ark is in a tent. I’m in a…”
107The Tabernacle of David
28 Feb 2022
4:21¶ 11
“David has now come to the throne and he’s taken Jerusalem, the old city of Melchizedek, and he’s understood probably by divine revelation that…”
4:46¶ 12
“Zion was this little crag of a mountain in the middle of Jerusalem where David would build his palace, and David decides that his…”
8:12¶ 21
“But David of course is a musician. He’s a psalm writer and plays the harp himself. He may have played other instruments, so this…”
106To Kill A King
21 Feb 2022
11:54¶ 48
“He is the Lord’s anointed. God, by a particular act within history, designated him to be king, and neither you nor I have the…”
12:39¶ 53
“Now, David is a prince of this Philistine town called Ziklag, so he is a legitimate magistrate and he’s in Ziklag at the time,…”
14:46¶ 60
“Exactly. So obviously he had seen Saul dead – dead enough that he could remove the royal treasures from him – the crown, too.…”
105The Witch of Endor
14 Feb 2022
41:14¶ 184
“I’m sure David is relieved when he hears of Saul’s death, and yet at the same time we don’t hear that relief verbalized. What…”
41:45¶ 185
“It’s interesting too that that reaffirms the fact that David is the one in the right, because he recognizes the unfitting-ness of the authority…”
30:48¶ 140
“Up to this point Samuel never named David. Saul had to figure it out, and it was kind of obvious, but now for the…”
104David the Anointed King
7 Feb 2022
19:50¶ 75
“So this is where we’re going with all this. David is the anointed of God, anointed by an official prophet, not self-anointed, not in…”
26:54¶ 105
“But David is not allowed to do anything violent to the king, or on the one occasion he doesn’t, and when he’s slightly tempted…”
5:23¶ 16
“Side note – here might come a lot of moralistic applications of, “Yes, little child, you can go out and fight giants, too.” No.…”
94Samson
29 Nov 2021
47:57¶ 227
“I’m thinking now of David. David had much the same problem, and David’s solution was to multiply wives, which is a semi-legal way of…”
48:21¶ 228
“Samson is very much alone. He doesn’t really have friends. He doesn’t have a support network, as David did. He doesn’t have prophets pointing…”
73Success
4 Jul 2021
17:57¶ 54
“Yeah, so it’s nice when you come to say when David sinned against Bathsheba and the writer says, “But the thing that David did…”
18:13¶ 56
“He conned Bathsheba and no one’s saying anything bad, but this was wrong, right? This is the man after God’s own heart, but it’s…”
18:52¶ 57
“An interesting thing here is to compare Kings and Chronicles, which cover much of the same territory, and yet there are some very real…”
69Should Christians Read Fiction?
9 May 2021
27:17¶ 75
“David is deceived for a very short time, but the purpose is not to deceive David but to undeceive him, to break through the…”
25:26¶ 71
“Things we can relate to. I was thinking of the prophet Nathan when he confronted David, the way that he approached this very difficult…”
26:53¶ 74
“When people say, “Shouldn’t you be where things could happen?” Well, ethically this can happen. This is the world of creation, of sin and…”