Which do you think is worse – a sore loser or an ungracious winner? Well, after David’s smashing victory over the Amalekites, he certainly had an opportunity to gloat. After all, verse 17 says that David and his men continued the battle all night and all the next day, killing…

Can things get any worse? Maybe you are worn out by a parade of problems that just keep on coming: sickness or grief, debt or addiction, broken promises or broken relationships. You don’t have the strength within yourself to handle it all. And maybe you don’t have a clue about…

The Philistines and the Israelites were heading for a showdown, but whose side would David take in the battle? Achish, the Philistine king of Gath, believed that David would remain loyal to him. But David had actually been deceiving him for years, claiming to carry out raids on the Israelites…

Saul knew good and well that God’s people weren’t supposed to try to communicate with the spirit world – after all, that’s why he had “removed” all the spiritists and mediums from the land (28:3,9). But he was so desperate to know what to do about the Philistines’ latest threat…

“There are no such things as ghosts.” That’s what I was told as a child. But don’t we Christians believe in the possibility of spirits being separated from bodies? After all, we remember Jesus’ words to the thief on the cross: “Today you shall be with Me in Paradise (Luke…

David clearly had a call from God to be the next King of Israel (16:13). And yet the prophet who had anointed him had died (25:1), and the people he had been trying to help kept betraying him to the king he was supposed to replace (23:12, 19; 26:1), the…

Haven’t we seen all this before in chapter 24? David is on the run from Saul, when he unexpectedly finds Saul within his grasp. David refuses to kill Saul, but instead takes some kind of incontrovertible evidence that he had certainly had the opportunity to do so. And then David…

What in the world could Abigail have told Nabal that made his heart die within him “so that he became as a stone” (verse 37)? Well, it probably wasn’t just that she had put an end to the fight he had picked with David. No, just learning about that part…

“Blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9). But what does it mean to be a peacemaker in real life? Well, Nabal’s wife Abigail gives us quite a few good ideas, doesn’t she? After all, unlike most of us Southerners, she is open and honest about the reasons for the conflict between…

We have all met folks like Nabal, haven’t we? You know the type: bragging about their clothes or cars, or about how much money they make, or about how influential their friends are. Just so, in verse 11, Nabal boasts about “my bread, my water, my meat, my shearers.” And…