1 Samuel 26, David on the run again, opened with a prayer for a clear signal in a world full of static.
1 Samuel 25:28-34 and Abigail, in the second arc of the David story — David the Fugitive, after the boy of unconscious competence.
1 Samuel 24:1-7. David has Saul at his mercy in the cave and cuts only the corner of his robe. Announced alongside a worship night given to healing.
1 Samuel 23 and David on the run, with an aside on watching your own child want to worship when you were not that kind of child yourself.
Psalm 9:9 — the Lord a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble — from a preacher currently rehabilitating one injury into another.
1 Samuel 20 and the covenant between David and Jonathan, read by an elder in training who was married in this church the year before.