Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Responding to the Consequences of Sin” 2 Samuel 12:1-31 March 7, 2021 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We come tonight to Second Samuel chapter twelve for a third and final time. In chapter eleven we have the serious moral failing of David, as he […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Confession of Sin” 2 Samuel 12:1-15a & Psalm 51 February 21, 2021 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We come tonight to Second Samuel chapter twelve for a second time. In chapter eleven we have the serious moral fall of David. He commits adultery with […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Our Need for Prophets” 2 Samuel 12:1-15a January 17, 2021 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We come to Second Samuel chapter twelve tonight. It’s been a few weeks since we were in chapter eleven, so a little review will be important. In chapter eleven […]
Video Audio Download Audio Download Text “Adultery & Advent” 2 Samuel 11:1-12:1a December 6, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We return this evening, after some time away, to the Book of Samuel, chapter eleven through the first half of the first verse of chapter twelve. Please listen carefully, for […]
Video Audio Download Audio Text Download Text “Hesed Rejected” 2 Samuel 10 October 18, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We return again this evening to the Book of Samuel, chapter ten, where we read of David’s deeds as king of God’s people. Please listen carefully, for this […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Text: Download Text “Hesed Given & Received” 2 Samuel 9 September 27, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We return again this evening to the Book of Samuel. In Second Samuel chapter five, David is established as the king of all Israel. In […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Text: Download Text “The Ways of God’s Conquering King” 2 Samuel 8 September 20, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We return again this evening to the Book of Samuel. David has been established as the king of all Israel. He is settled into […]
Video Audio Download Audio Text Download Text “The Covenant” 2 Samuel 7 September 6, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We return again this evening to the Book of Samuel. David has been established as the king of all Israel. He is settled into Jerusalem. There has been a […]
Video Audio Download Audio Text Download Text “The Dangers of Spiritual Pride” 2 Samuel 6 August 30, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We return again this evening to the Book of Samuel. David has been anointed as king of all Israel. He has conquered Jerusalem […]
Video Audio Download Audio Text Download Text “Our Need for a Great King” 2 Samuel 5 August 23, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We return again this evening to the Book of Samuel. After years of division between the tribe of Judah and the other tribes […]
Video Audio: https://faithtacoma.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/2020/08/fpc-2020-08-02-pm-service.mp3 Download Audio Download Text “Means & Ends” 2 Samuel 4 August 2, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti Well, it’s been five months away from Second Samuel. And it’s good to be back with it this evening. To remember where we are in the story, Saul has died […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Forgetting God’s Faithfulness and Turning to Worldly Ways” 2 Samuel 3 March 8, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We come this evening to Second Samuel, chapter three. David is on the throne over the tribe of Judah. Ish-bosheth, the son of […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Pursuing the Goals of Yahweh According to the Ways of Yahweh” 2 Samuel 2:1-3:1 February 23, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We come this evening to Second Samuel, chapter two. Saul, the king of Israel, is dead. David, who has been called […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Responding When the Mighty Have Fallen” 1 Samuel 31 – 2 Samuel 2:2a February 16, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pastor Nicoletti We will consider two chapters from Samuel this evening. We will start in First Samuel 31:1 and end after the first phrase […]
Video: We apologize for the poor quality of this video recording. Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Delivered out of One Trial and into Seven More: A Portrait of a King After God’s Own Heart” 1 Samuel 29-30 January 12, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti We will consider two […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Saul’s Inferno” 1 Samuel 28:3-25 January 5, 2020 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti We’ve been away from Samuel for almost a month now, but this evening we return to First Samuel 28:3-25. As we have seen the rise of David since chapter […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Fighting on Multiple Fronts” 1 Samuel 27:1-28:2 December 8, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Our text this evening is from First Samuel, chapter twenty-seven, and extends to include the first two verses of chapter twenty-eight. Back in chapter twenty-six we had […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Identifying Our True Helper” 1 Samuel 26 November 24, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Our text this evening is from First Samuel, chapter twenty-six. It is the third of three episodes, told one after the other, in which David is mistreated by […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Abigail” 1 Samuel 25 October 27, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Our text this evening is from First Samuel, chapter twenty-five. It is a rather long chapter, but it tells us one story, and so we will take it as a whole. […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Responding to Our Adversaries” 1 Samuel 24 October 20, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti We return this evening to First Samuel, after a few weeks away. Tonight, we will look at chapter twenty-four. Saul continues to reign as king in […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “The Anointed & the World: His Own Did Not Receive Him” 1 Samuel 23 September 22, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti We are continuing in First Samuel this evening, looking tonight at chapter twenty-three. Saul is king of Israel. David has […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “The Sword of Goliath: Plunder, Temptation, Provision, and Equipping” 1 Samuel 21:8-9 September 15, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Last Lord’s Day evening we looked at chapters twenty-one and twenty-two of First Samuel. This evening we are going to focus […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Two Sons, Two Ways, Two Destinations” 1 Samuel 21-22 September 8, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti We return this evening to First Samuel, looking tonight at chapters twenty-one and twenty-two. Saul is king of Israel. David has been anointed as the […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Choosing the Son of Jesse to Your Own Shame: Neither You Nor Your Kingdom Shall Be Established” 1 Samuel 20 September 1, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti We return tonight to First Samuel after six weeks away from it. We’ll be […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “A Place for War and a Place for Peace: Rightly Distinguishing Our Calls to Spiritual Warfare and Calls to Spiritual Peacemaking” 1 Samuel 19 July 21, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Our text tonight is from First Samuel, chapter nineteen. […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Which Kingdom Are You Fighting For?” 1 Samuel 18:6-30 July 14, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Our text tonight is from First Samuel, chapter eighteen, verses six through thirty. We will begin with the last few verses which we considered […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Spiritual Friendship” 1 Samuel 18:1-9 July 7, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Our text this evening is First Samuel 18:1-9, though we will begin our reading a few verses earlier, in chapter seventeen, verse 57. David has just finished defeating Goliath, […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Two Kings, a Giant, and the Story of the Universe” 1 Samuel 17 June 16, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Our text tonight is a well-known one, from First Samuel, chapter seventeen. Please do listen carefully, for this is God’s word for […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Pentecost: Warfare by the Spirit” 1 Samuel 16:13-23 June 9, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Our text this evening is from First Samuel, chapter sixteen, verses thirteen through twenty-three. This is the next passage in our consecutive reading of the Book […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “Cultivating the Outward Appearance vs Cultivating the Heart” 1 Samuel 16:1-13 June 2, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Our text this evening is from First Samuel, chapter sixteen, verses one through thirteen. To bring us up to speed again: Israel asked […]
Video: Audio: Download Audio Download Text “The Fall of Saul, Part 3: Sin Regarding the World” 1 Samuel 15 May 26, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Our text this evening is from First Samuel, chapter fifteen. To give a brief refresher and recap, Saul was selected as […]
Download Audio Download Text “The Fall of Saul, Part 2: The Way of Saul vs The Way of Jonathan” 1 Samuel 14 May 19, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Our text this evening is from First Samuel, chapter fourteen. But before we get to chapter fourteen, we need […]
Download Audio Download Text “The Fall of Saul” 1 Samuel 13 May 5, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti Our text this evening is from First Samuel, chapter thirteen. As we come to our text it is helpful to remember again what came before it. Back in chapter […]
Download Audio Download Text “Three Trials, Three Verdicts, an Unexpected Sentence, and an Offer” 1 Samuel 12 April 28, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti It’s been over a month since we’ve been in First Samuel, and we return now to chapter twelve. In chapter eleven God worked through Saul to defeat […]
Download Audio Download Text “The Serpent, the Spirit, and the Second-Rate Servants” 1 Samuel 11 March 24, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti We return to First Samuel again this evening, chapter eleven. To refresh your memory, in the previous chapters we have covered, the Lord, through Samuel, secretly anointed […]
Download Audio Download Text “Fickle Followers & the Steadfast Sovereign” 1 Samuel 10:17-27 March 17, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti We return to First Samuel again this evening – the second half of chapter ten. We’ll be reading verses seventeen through twenty-seven. In the last passage, the Lord, through Samuel, […]
Download Audio Download Text “The Call of Saul” 1 Samuel 9:1-10:16 March 10, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti We return to First Samuel again this evening, picking up in chapter nine. We have a long passage tonight, from verse one of chapter nine through verse sixteen of chapter ten. It […]
Download Audio Download Text “Longing to Return to Slavery in Egypt” 1 Samuel 8 March 3, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti We return to First Samuel again this evening, picking up in chapter eight. Last Sunday we considered the pattern of Israel’s growth. Of course, one key piece […]
Download Audio Download Text “The Real vs The Ideal” 1 Samuel 7 February 24, 2019 Faith Presbyterian Church – Evening Service Pr. Nicoletti I’ve decided to return to the Book of Samuel in the coming Lord’s Day evenings, which I began preaching from last summer. It’s a little odd in some ways to begin […]
Download Audio Download Text “Dwelling with Imminent Transcendence” 1 Samuel 6:10 – 7:2 July 15, 2018 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pr. Nicoletti We’ll be looking at 1 Samuel 6:10-7:2 this morning. It could be helpful to recap again where we are at in the story in 1 Samuel. In […]
Download Audio Download Text “O Dagon, Where Is Your Victory?” 1 Samuel 5:1 – 6:12 July 8, 2018 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pr. Nicoletti We’ll be looking at 1 Samuel 5:1-6:12 this morning, but before we do, I want to put it into some context for us. We live in […]
Download Audio Download Text “Sin, Exile, and Cleansing” 1 Samuel 4:1b-22 July 1, 2018 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pr. Nicoletti We are continuing to look at 1 Samuel today, as we come to chapter 4. I’ll read our text in two chunks this morning – first verse 1b through verse […]
Download Audio Download Text “Why Samuel?: Three Patterns of Life Considered” 1 Samuel 2:11-4:1a June 24, 2018 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pr. Nicoletti The next four Sunday mornings we will continue to look at the first portion of First Samuel. Back in May we looked at 1 Samuel 1:1 thought 2:11. You […]
Download Audio Download Text “How God’s People Prevail in Dark Times” 1 Samuel 1:1-2:11 May 6, 2018 Faith Presbyterian Church – Morning Service Pr. Nicoletti We’ll be looking at First Samuel this morning. As I thought about what to look at today, as well as what to look at for the four weeks in June […]