1 Samuel 17:19-49

We continue our fall sermon series on some of the most familiar stories of the Old Testament – the ones that are most often included in children’s story Bibles. As Children’s Bibles are used as an introduction to the scriptures, I thought this would be a fitting introductory sermon series for our new life together as pastor and congregation. It also has the advantage of serving as a primer for how we ought to read and understand the Bible as a whole.

The theme of the series will be to focus on the Bible as A Rescue Story. The series will highlight how, at its core, the Bible is not a book of rules to be followed or a book of examples to emulate. Rather, it’s a story about a broken relationship that only God can fix. And so all of the stories we look at will somehow point to what God did; what God is doing, and what God will do to fix his relationship with his children.

The series has 9 parts and is interrupted for two weeks (between parts 7 & 8) to incorporate Reformation Sunday and World Hunger Sunday. It takes us up to Christ the King Sunday which is the week prior to advent.

October 25 – John 19:28-30 – It Is Finished: Reformation Sunday and membership Sunday
November 1 – Luke 9:10-17: The Almighty Provider (World Hunger Sunday)
November 8 – Daniel 6:1-28 – A Disciple’s Warning. We will celebrate the sacrament of Baptism as well.

November 15 – Esther 2:12-3:2 – Unnamed Yet Unmistakable
November 22 – John 18:28-40: The King and The Cross (Christ the King Sunday)