A king abandoned by God. A witch the law says must die. A ghost who offers no forgiveness. In the final sermon of our 1 Samuel series, the most unlikely person in the room might be the one who shows us what God is really like.

Was the love between David and Jonathan just friendship, or is there more to the story? Today we take a close look at one of the most famous relationships in the Bible, and at what it reveals about David himself.

In this message from Paradox Church, Craig walks through 1 Samuel 17 with the Dead Sea Scrolls open on the table: Goliath's actual height, the ancient practice of champion warfare, and the contradiction in 2 Samuel 21 that forced Israel to rewrite its own history 300 years later.

In this message, Craig Hadley discusses each passage where God speaks directly to Samuel. Looking at all of these moments together, he then asks what we believe about who gets to hear the voice of God, and what that belief says about our understanding of God.