{"id":2884,"date":"2018-02-12T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/?page_id=2884"},"modified":"2022-02-17T08:43:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:43:56","slug":"facing-goliaths-famous-old-testament-story-weve-never-heard-lent-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/facing-goliaths-famous-old-testament-story-weve-never-heard-lent-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing our Goliaths: The Most Famous Old Testament Story We&#8217;ve Never Heard &#8211; Lent 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U957LAqpBCY?rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"summary\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>In this talk, Dr. Scott Powell discusses the story of David and Goliath in a different perspective. He shares how this particular story is a centered on David\u2019s willingness to trust God\u2019s will and to stand up for Him. Dr. Powell encourages us to do the same, to entrust our lives to Him as a way of showing up for the battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not Registered, yet? Don\u2019t miss the rest of the talks! Register for the Pray More Retreat!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/2018-lent-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click Here to Register!<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"downloads\">Downloads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"audio-mp3\">Audio MP3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/audiolent\/12%20-%20Scott%20Powell%20-%20Facing%20Our%20Goliaths%20-%20The%20Most%20Famous%20Old%20Testament%20Story%20We%27ve%20Never%20Heard.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click&nbsp;here&nbsp;to download audio file.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-study-guide-pdf\">Printable Study Guide PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Facing-Our-Goliaths-The-Most-Famous-Old-Testament-Story-Weve-Never-Heard-Study-Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to download the printable study guide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-transcript-pdf\">Printable Transcript PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Facing-Our-Goliaths-The-Most-Famous-Old-Testament-Story-Weve-Never-Heard-Scott-Powell-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to download the transcript of the video presentation.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"reflective-study-guide-questions\">Reflective Study Guide Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>After Saul accepted that David was going into battle, he gave David his armor, but David took it off because it didn\u2019t fit him. He wanted, instead, what fit him, what he had, what he had used. Similarly, we are intended to fight our battles with our personal armor &#8212; not that of another person\u2019s. God gives us the strength and graces we need to handle each situation that presents itself in our lives. How has He given you what you needed to fight your battles?<\/li><li>Saul was responding out of fear and David was responding out of faith. How have you chosen faith over fear? What is it that you need to continue to choose faith over fear?<\/li><li>The small pebble that David threw at Goliath hit him in the forehead and knocked him over, dead. It\u2019s hard to believe, isn\u2019t it? But this is the kind of thing that happens when someone denies him or herself and stands for God. Impossible things can happen. Have you witnessed this before? How God gives the strength to someone in a situation where it seemed like an impossible feat?<\/li><li>The Hebrew people said, \u201cGod has intervened. God has performed a miracle this day. Why? Because this guy had the guts to show up on the battlefield.\u201d The moral of this story is that if we trust Him and show up, God will have the victory everytime. He will fight on our behalf. Where do you need Him to do that? Where is He calling you to show up and fight?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"text-the-most-famous-old-testament-story-we-ve-never-heard\">Text: The Most Famous Old Testament Story We&#8217;ve Never Heard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Well, hey there, everybody. It\u2019s Scott Powell here. And I\u2019m really excited to talk to you today about a story that you\u2019ve probably heard about before, but maybe haven\u2019t heard the whole story. I think it\u2019s one of the most famous stories in the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/bible-101-a-crash-course-in-scripture-part-ii-advent-2018\/\">bible<\/a>, that most of us have never actually heard, or never heard the fullness of. It\u2019s the story of David and Goliath, David and Goliath! This great story, this great underdog story that I will propose to you today is actually something far different from that. So, before we jump in, let\u2019s open in a <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/sitting-in-silence-with-the-lord-lent-2021\/\">prayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"opening-prayer\">Opening Prayer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\"><em>In the name of the Father, and the of the Son, and of the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/how-to-lean-on-the-holy-spirit-during-suffering-healing-2019\/\">Holy Spirit<\/a>. Amen. Lord Jesus, we come to You today with prayers and thanksgiving. We thank You for the gift of this conference, the gift of this retreat, and all of the people who are listening and watching online. Please be in my words. Let me not say anything that\u2019s outside of Your will. Be with all of the other presenters and all of the people who are organizing this thing. Please bless our Lent, and help us <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/pray-like-saint-wisdom-growing-closer-god-part\/\">grow closer<\/a> to You. We pray this all through Christ, our Lord. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Alright, David and Goliath. I don\u2019t know that there is a more famous, you know, kids story in the bible, so to speak, than the story of David and Goliath. Which is a huge bummer to me, because once a story gets relegated to sort of a children\u2019s tale, it sort of gets forgotten about, and washed over, or mythologized or, you know, whatever we do with things like this. It\u2019s actually why I have a huge beef with children\u2019s bibles with pictures of Noah\u2019s ark on the cover. which sounds like a strange thing to say, but I feel like I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever seen a children\u2019s bible that doesn\u2019t have a cute little picture of Noah\u2019s ark on the front of it. which is totally fine, and children\u2019s bibles are awesome, and I have a ton of them because I have children, and I love that. But, all of a sudden, once you relegate something to a children\u2019s story, those of us who are adults and trying to actually grow in the faith kind of forget that those stories have anything to say to us, because they\u2019re sort of put in a little box. David and Goliath is kind of one of those. We sort of feel like we\u2019ve got a handle on David and Goliath. It\u2019s the great underdog story! Little David, he\u2019s fighting the big Goliath and all of this stuff. That\u2019s really not what the story is about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"open-to-god-s-will\">Open to God&#8217;s Will<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I want to take a step back and I want to talk about this story. It shows up in the book of First Samuel, First Samuel. And it\u2019s in the book, it\u2019s in chapter 17. And the first thing we need to know about the story of David and Goliath is what happens just before this. Because this is not really a story of just some kid named David who comes and fights a giant, it\u2019s a story about what happens when a person is receptive and open to God\u2019s will and God\u2019s spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">In the previous chapter, chapter 16, King Saul, who is the reigning king in Israel. And if you know anything about the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/the-messiah-advent-2019\/\">salvation<\/a> history, King Saul, Israel\u2019s first king, was a lousy king. He was terrible. He made bad decisions, he was selfish, kind of went crazy by the end of his life. He&#8230; it was not a pretty picture. And there\u2019s a moment in which, because of his sin, and his obstinance, and his rejection of God\u2019s will in his life, the Spirit of God actually leaves King Saul and goes and rests on a young man named David, who is going to be the king. And this story is about what it looks like when God\u2019s Spirit rests upon a person who is open to God\u2019s Spirit working in their lives, and that\u2019s what this story is all about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"david-and-goliath\">David and Goliath<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So, here\u2019s the story: David\u2019s a little kid, there\u2019s a big war going on, Israel at the time is fighting the Philistines. And the Philistines, they\u2019re a people who show up all throughout the Old Testament. They\u2019re a constant sort of thorn in Israel\u2019s side. They\u2019re often at battle with each other. And the way that warfare worked in the Old Testament world was that they would show up on the battle field, there would often be battles, but there would often come a point in the warfare in which they would decide each side would choose one of their&#8230; they would choose their strongest warrior, the strongest person to go and fight against the other side\u2019s strongest person. And it would be a one-on-one match, and whoever won that oneon-one match would be the victor. And whoever lost, the entire army would then be enslaved by the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so that\u2019s the point we\u2019ve come to in this battle with Israel and the Philistines. And the Philistines have said \u201cWell, we\u2019ve got the&#8230; we\u2019ve got the trump card. We\u2019ve got the money-maker. We\u2019ve got Goliath!\u201d Who is described in the text in these huge ways. There\u2019s different versions of the Old Testament. In one translation he\u2019s described as nine feet tall, in others he\u2019s described differently. But he\u2019s massive. He even made it into an adjective in our vocabulary. \u201cHe\u2019s a Goliath of a man,\u201d right. He\u2019s huge, he\u2019s foreboding, he\u2019s formidable, all the other \u201cfor\u201ds you can think of. He\u2019s a huge threat. And Israel, as a result, is terrified. They\u2019re cowering, and they\u2019re looking around, and they\u2019re saying \u201cWe don\u2019t have anybody who can compare to this guy.\u201d So for 6 weeks, 6 weeks, this Goliath comes out and taunts the armies of God every single day. And for 6 weeks, the armies of job cower in their tents, terrified. And every day he comes out, and he says \u201cWho is going to come and fight me? Who\u2019s got the guts to stand up to Goliath?\u201d And everybody says \u201cchk\u201d, and they\u2019re all terrified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Into the picture comes little young David. David is too young actually to go into battle. He\u2019s not at battle. He\u2019s back home, he\u2019s tending the sheep, he\u2019s keeping the family\u2019s flocks. And his father, Jesse, sends him out to the battlefield, both to bring some lunches to his brothers, who are off fighting in the battle, and some gifts to the leaders and the king and everything like that. So here comes David, and he\u2019s like \u201cI\u2019m bringing some lunches for people,\u201d and he shows up on the battlefield and he finds that everybody is cowering in their tents. And he\u2019s like \u201cWhat\u2019s going on?\u201d And he hears Goliath, and he sees and he hears the things that he\u2019s saying, and David is shocked by what he finds. And I want to read to you what he actually says. I\u2019m going to read from 1st Samuel, chapter 17, starting in verse 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It says this. It says <strong><em>All of the men of Israel, when they saw the man that is Goliath (\u201cThe man\u201d) they fled from him, and they were much afraid. And the men of Israel said \u201cHave you seen this man who has come up? <\/em><\/strong>This is them speaking to David, because he\u2019s like \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d And they\u2019re all like \u201cHave you seen that guy?\u201d <strong><em>Have you seen this man that has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the man who kills him, the king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughters and make his father\u2019s house free in Israel.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, it\u2019s become so dire that king Saul is actually offering bribes to anybody who will go and fight this guy. \u201cI\u2019ll give you riches, I\u2019ll free you from taxes, I\u2019ll give you my daughters to marry, anything. Just please go fight this guy.\u201d And everyone was like \u201cIt ain\u2019t gonna be me.\u201d And David comes up and he\u2019s like \u201cWait a second,\u201d this is in verse 26: <strong><em>David said to the men who stood by him \u201cWhat shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Little David, little kid, tending the sheep, brings the lunches. All the warriors, the mighty, trained armies of God are hiding in their tents, but little David says \u201cUh-uh, who is this man?\u201d Not \u201cWho is this guy who\u2019s insulting us?\u201d Not \u201cWho is this guy who is a threat to us?\u201d He says \u201cWho is this man who has the gall to defy the armies of the living God he blasphemes?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Because his taunts, no doubt, are blaspheming God. Because in the ancient world there\u2019s no separation between church and state. So you were the strongest nation if you have the strongest Gods. And so what the Philistines are saying is \u201cYour God is pretty weak. Your God is nothing, because none of you guys have the guts to do anything about it. And if God really <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/the-joy-to-be-loved-healing-2020\/\">loved<\/a> you and really cared for you, maybe he would have somebody stand up.\u201d And David says \u201cWait a second, we are insulting God. We are allowing our God to be insulted. I\u2019m going to fight him. I will do it. Nobody else is going to do it?\u201d He looks around and he says \u201cFine, I\u2019ll go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And everyone looks at him like \u201cWhat are you thinking? You\u2019re a little kid. This is impossible.\u201d And there\u2019s this great line, there\u2019s this great line that I want to read to you. It\u2019s actually very beautiful, it\u2019s in verse 31: When the words which David spoke were heard, he said \u201cWe\u2019ve got to do something. I\u2019m going to do it.\u201d They repeated them before Saul, the King. Like \u201cHey, we found this kid. He\u2019s willing to do it.\u201d So they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him, and David said to Saul \u201cLet no man\u2019s heart fail because of that guy. Let no man\u2019s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight this Philistine.\u201d And Saul said to David \u201cWait a second, you\u2019re not able to go fight against this Philistine, to fight with him, for you\u2019re but a youth, and he\u2019s been a man of war from his youth.\u201d But David said to Saul \u201cYour servant,\u201d I love this, <strong><em>\u201cYour servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion or a bear, and took the lamb from the flock, I went after him, and I smote him, and I delivered it out of his mouth. And if he rose against me, I caught him by the beard and I smote and I killed him. Your servant has killed both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s huge. And you\u2019re like \u201cYeah David!\u201d It\u2019s such a great scene. And so, Saul\u2019s like \u201cOkay. I\u2019m going to let you go into battle. Fine.\u201d And so, he gives him his armor. And there\u2019s a great scene which we don\u2019t have the time to go into, where Saul gives his armor to young David, and David finds out that it doesn\u2019t fit. \u201cIt\u2019s too big, it doesn\u2019t feel right. I need my slingshot hand. I need to be able to kind of be free to fight.\u201d And there\u2019s a great spiritual metaphor in there, that we should never wear somebody else\u2019s armor to go fight our battles. God has called each and every one of us to the battles that He\u2019s put before us, and He\u2019s going to give us the grace and the armor to fight those battles. And we shouldn\u2019t do it on somebody else\u2019s behalf. Don\u2019t wear somebody else\u2019s armor into battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And David says \u201cNo, I don\u2019t want to do this.\u201d The irony, of course, is that if you\u2019re the king of Israel, if you\u2019re the king of any nation, but Israel in particular, because they are the manifestation of God on earth, they\u2019re supposed to be an image of God. And if nobody else is going to fight, well, who should go? The king should go. He\u2019s the one, the buck should stop there. But he says \u201cNo, I\u2019ll give my armor to this kid.\u201d So it\u2019s a good insight into Saul and his response out of fear. But David\u2019s response out of faith. It\u2019s the difference between fear and faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-smooth-stone\">The Smooth Stone<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So he says fine. David Goes. And I don\u2019t know if you remember he story, he goes to face Goliath, and he goes out, and there they are, face-to-face, and Goliath is like \u201cWho is this kid?\u201d And there\u2019s an amazing scene, if you remember it even from your childhood perhaps, remember David goes down to the riverbed and he finds 5 smooth stones. 5 stones, little stones, pebbles, right. And he takes one of those stones and he heaves, he launches it out at Goliath. This is where I want us to take a step back, and I want you to, for a moment, forget everything you know about this story. Forget your childhood tellings of this story, forget every football announcer analogy who\u2019s like \u201cOh, it\u2019s a David and Goliath.\u201d And this mashup, you know, whatever analogies we have in our society for this story. Forget all of them for a second, and I want you to actually hear what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David, the kid, takes a stone, a pebble from a riverbed, heaves it at this potentially nine-foot-tall, whatever he is, giant warrior. The pebble, mind you, smacks him in the forehead, and he falls down dead. The pebble hits him in the forehead and he falls down dead. And David goes, it gets a little bit gory, he cuts his head off and he\u2019s like&#8230; And we don\u2019t have to go into that. But just think about that for a second. The David and Goliath story that we all know, of the underdog who has the guts to fight and overcomes, that\u2019s not what just happened. He took a stone, he hit him in the forehead with it, and the giant falls down dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"standing-up-for-god\">Standing Up for God<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hebrew people did not read this story and said \u201cWow, what a great underdog story. We should use some football analogies from that.\u201d No, they said \u201cOh my goodness, this is what happens when someone has the guts to stand up on God\u2019s behalf. To follow the will of God. To deny themselves, to put themselves in the backseat and say \u201cI mean to stand for God.\u201d Because there is no logical reason that a tiny pebble hit in the forehead should have knocked a giant warrior over dead. So what the Hebrew people said is \u201cGod has intervened. God has performed a miracle this day.\u201d Why? Because this guy had the guts to show up on the battlefield. He doesn\u2019t do almost anything except heave a little stone, and the miracle takes place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sword that David uses to cut off the head of Goliath is actually taken and put into the tabernacle, in the holy of holies, in the temple which will eventually be in Jerusalem. And it is venerated, not because David is so great, but because God has performed an utter miracle on his behalf. That\u2019s the story. It\u2019s not \u201cIf you\u2019re scrappy enough, you can beat the bad guy.\u201d The story is \u201cIf you have the guts to stand up for God, trusting that He will have our back, then God will have the victory every time.\u201d Because with God, we always have the majority. Anyone with God, we\u2019re going to win. We have the majority. We can overcome, not because we\u2019re so strong, not because we\u2019re so scrappy, but because God will fight on our behalf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">The constant refrain of the Old Testament is that when Israel wins its battles, it\u2019s because God fought on their behalf, not because they fought and were so great. That\u2019s why I love this story so much, because it gives me a profound amount of hope. Because I\u2019m not a great warrior, and I don\u2019t have all the gifts that David had. I can\u2019t&#8230; I don\u2019t think I could chase down a lion, grab it by the beard and kill it. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d have the guts to do that. But there are a lot of bears and lions and goliaths in my life. There are a lot of things that face me that I don\u2019t know how to deal with, or what to do with. And what this story tells me is that if you put your <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/trusting-god-in-the-unknown-healing-2019\/\">trust not in yourself, not in your scrappiness, not in your abilities, but you put your trust in God<\/a>, and you show up to the battlefield, God will fight the battle, and He will give you victory, not because of you, but because of Him. But we have to do our half. It\u2019s not a half, we have to do our fraction. We have to show up, and we have to say \u201cHere I am Lord. I come to do Your will.\u201d And if we do that, then He will give victory. It won\u2019t make us look great all the time. He will be glorified through us, through our smallness. That is a glorious story. Let\u2019s close with prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"closing-prayer\">Closing Prayer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, it is now and ever shall be. World without end. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Thank you all, enjoy the rest of the conference.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"about-dr-scott-powell\">About Dr. Scott Powell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:28% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"382\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scott-Powell-Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-751 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scott-Powell-Headshot.jpg 310w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scott-Powell-Headshot-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/speaker-dr-scott-powell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Dr. Scott Powell<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/a>is a teacher, theologian, author, and the director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thomascenter.org\/aict\/\">Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought<\/a>, an outreach to the University of Colorado in Boulder. Scott has spent the last decade speaking and teaching theology and the Scriptures to groups of all ages. He and his wife Annie are the founders of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/camp-w.com\/\">Camp Wojtyla<\/a>, a Catholic adventure program for youth based in the Colorado Rockies. Scott also co-hosts and produces the popular Catholic podcast, \u201cThe Word on the Hill with the Lanky Guys,\u201d and he has appeared in numerous Augustine Institute Studio productions, including Symbolon, Beloved, Reborn, YDisciple and the Opening the Word series. He has been featured on EWTN, Catholic Answers Live and numerous other Catholic outlets. He holds a PhD in Catholic studies from Maryvale Institute\/Liverpool Hope University in England. Scott, his wife Annie and their three children \u2014 Lily Avila, Samuel Isaac and Evelyn Luca \u2014 live near Boulder, Colorado.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Facing-our-Goliaths_-The-Most-Famous-Old-Testament-Story-Weve-Never-Heard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Facing-our-Goliaths_-The-Most-Famous-Old-Testament-Story-Weve-Never-Heard.jpg 800w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Facing-our-Goliaths_-The-Most-Famous-Old-Testament-Story-Weve-Never-Heard-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Facing-our-Goliaths_-The-Most-Famous-Old-Testament-Story-Weve-Never-Heard-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Facing-our-Goliaths_-The-Most-Famous-Old-Testament-Story-Weve-Never-Heard-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"316\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Pray-More-Lenten-Retreat-Image-without-many-words-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Pray-More-Lenten-Retreat-Image-without-many-words-1.png 701w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Pray-More-Lenten-Retreat-Image-without-many-words-1-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary In this talk, Dr. Scott Powell discusses the story of David and Goliath in a different perspective. 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