We continue this week with the next section of 1 Samuel. This week, we’ve reached God’s choosing of David, son of Jesse, as king of Israel. Pastor Justin called this sermon, Character over Competence, and pointed to three lessons to be learned from David’s life at this point.

Scripture for this week is from 1 Samuel 16:1-13. This is the place where Samuel is getting older and the people no longer want to follow his prophetic words. They now want a king so that they are like the other nations.

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