David and Jonathan

Pastor Bill Bush · May 30, 2021

True trust is both a noun and a verb: a bold confidence that expresses itself in action. Pastor Bill traces this idea through Psalm 119 and the friendship of David and Jonathan, showing that God is the only perfectly trustworthy One because His Word and His ways are one. By anchoring our deepest relationships in a shared trust of God — and by understanding that broken trust requires sacrifice, boundaries, consistency, and faith to rebuild — we can become the kind of people whose ways genuinely match our words, just as Jesus, the Word made flesh, perfectly modeled for us.

Pastor Bill Bush · Jan 28, 2018

Drawing on the friendship of David and Jonathan, this sermon argues that God designed friendship not for peacetime comfort but for adversity. True 'war buddy' friendships — modeled on Jonathan's loyalty to David — require three commitments: staying loyal even when it is costly, rooting for a friend's success even when it is personally painful, and pointing one another toward God's hand in the midst of hardship. Jesus is the ultimate war buddy, and His example calls believers to pursue and cultivate this kind of intentional, covenant friendship in every relationship.