God willing, I hope to preach through 1 & 2 Samuel in Term 3 2013. My method for this series is first to write a sermon script with big idea, footnotes, and exegesis. This is what appears on each new page. Then I take that script, and rework it, cutting out the footnotes, refining the big idea, and reducing it to less than 6 pages landscape 12 point with a new sentence on a new line, and less than 3000 words. Once I've got that, I save it in word as a word file and pdf and upload it at the bottom of the page. My main commentators are Woodhouse, Davis and Baldwin. I occasionally refer to Evans, Klein, Hertsberg, and Murphy. The IVP Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books, is a helpful reference, although at times it needlessly gets bogged down in critical issues. The IVP Dictionary of Biblical Theology is better from that perspective. The good old New Bible Dictionary (no longer so 'new') is still a faithful resource and help. Mark Boda's book on David in the P&R Gospel According to the Old Testament series is also helpful.
1. Hannah: The Barren Beloved Bears a Boy & Boasts (1 Samuel 1:1-2:11; 2:18-21), 21 July
2. Eli: Judge-Priest Dishonoured By Disobedient Sons (1 Samuel 2:12-36), 28 July, Matt Olliffe
3. Samuel: Yahweh Speaks to Samuel and Saves Israel (1 Samuel 7:3-17), 4 August, Matt Olliffe
4. The Rise of the King (1 Samuel 8:1-22; Coverage 1 Samuel 8, 12), 11 August, Matt Olliffe
5. The Rise & Fall of King Saul (1 Samuel 11:1-15; 15:1-35), 18 August, Chris Anstiss
6. David’s Rise, Goliath Falls (1 Samuel 16:1-13; 17:1-11, 32-54), 25 August, Chris Anstiss
7. Best Friends Forever: Jonathan and David (1 Samuel 20:1-42), 1 September, Matt Olliffe
8. The Christ Tested in the Wilderness (Reading 1 Samuel 26:1-27:4; Coverage 1 Samuel 18-2 Samuel 4), 8 September, Matt Olliffe
9. King David’s Dominion & Dynasty (Reading 2 Samuel 7:1-29; Coverage 2 Samuel 5-10), 15 September, Matt Olliffe
10. The Decline of David: Sexual Sin leading to Civil War (2 Samuel 11:1-12:15), 22 September, Matt Olliffe
11. The Sin of the Census And It's Surprising Outcome (2 Samuel 24), 29 September, Matt Olliffe