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Sunday Recap 11/19: Big Picture Question: Will God defend a sinful believer?

Sunday Recap 11/19: Big Picture Question: Will God defend a sinful believer?

Sunday, November 19, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 11:1-11: 1 Samuel 11:1 Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.” 2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel.” 3 The elders of Jabesh said to him,…

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Sunday Recap for 11/12 Big Picture Question: What happens when we judge by appearances?

Sunday Recap for 11/12 Big Picture Question: What happens when we judge by appearances?

Sunday, November 12, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 1:17-27: 17 Now, Samuel called the people together to the Lord at Mizpah. 18 And he said to the people of Israel, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’ 19 But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all…

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Sunday Recap for 11/5 – Big Picture Question: What do we learn about God’s character in our struggles?

Sunday Recap for 11/5 – Big Picture Question: What do we learn about God’s character in our struggles?

Sunday, November 5, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 16:1-5: 1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.” 2 And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take…

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Sunday Recap recap from 10/29 where we looked at the Big Picture Question: How does God equip us for the task to which He calls.

Sunday Recap recap from 10/29 where we looked at the Big Picture Question: How does God equip us for the task to which He calls.

Sunday, 10/29, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 10:1-16: 1 Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, “Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince…

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Sunday Recap for 10/22 – Big Picture Question: How is God at work and redeem even the most mundane of moments?

Sunday Recap for 10/22 – Big Picture Question: How is God at work and redeem even the most mundane of moments?

This past week, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 9, and we answered this Big Picture Question: Big Picture Question:  How does God use and redeem even the most tedious of moments in our lives? And we found these 3 answers to our question: God works in family life. God works in church life. God works in your persona life. God works in family life. 1 Samuel 9:1 There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the…

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Sunday Recap for 10/15, Why should we listen to wisdom from others?

Sunday Recap for 10/15, Why should we listen to wisdom from others?

Sunday, October 15, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 8:10-22 10 So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king from him. 11 He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and…

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Sunday Recap for 10/8, What do we do when we want something good but for all the wrong reasons?

Sunday Recap for 10/8, What do we do when we want something good but for all the wrong reasons?

Sunday, October 8, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 7:15-8:19. 1 Samuel 7: 15 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. 16 And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah. And he judged Israel in all these places. 17 Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the Lord. 8:1 When Samuel became old, he…

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Sunday Recap for 10/01, What does it mean to be rescued by God?

Sunday Recap for 10/01, What does it mean to be rescued by God?

Sunday, October 1, 2017, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 7:3-17 1 Samuel 7:3 And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.” 4 So the people of Israel put away the Baals…

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Sunday Recap for 9/24 Big Picture Question: How should the holiness of God change us?

Sunday Recap for 9/24 Big Picture Question: How should the holiness of God change us?

Sunday, September 24, 2017, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 6 – 7:2 1 Samuel 6:1 The ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months. 2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place.” 3 They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do…

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Sunday Recap for 9/17 Big Picture Question: What does it mean that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess?

Sunday Recap for 9/17 Big Picture Question: What does it mean that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess?

Sunday, September 17, 2017, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 5. 1 Samuel 5:1 After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 2 Then they carried the ark into Dagon’s temple and set it beside Dagon. 3 When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord! They took Dagon and put him back in his place….

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