Sunday, July 2, 2017, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at this Big Picture Question: What is a good day? We found the answer to that question in 1 Samuel 2:3-4. We read the first 4 verses for context: 1 Samuel 2:1 And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. 2 “There is none holy like the Lord: for there is…
Sunday, 6/18/17, we looked at this Big Picture Question: What right does God have over a person’s life? We looked 1 Samuel 1:21-28: 21 The man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow. 22 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the…
Sunday, June 11, 2017, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at this Big Picture Question Can God Redeem Good Desires with Bad Motives And we explored 1 Samuel 1:9-20 to answer that question I Samuel 1:9 After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord. 10 She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. 11 And she vowed a vow and said,…
Sunday, 6/4/17, we looked at this Big Picture Question: How is God hope for the hopeless? And we lookd at 1 Samuel 1:1-8 to answer our question: 1 There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. 2 He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And…
Sunday, 5/28, we started our 1 Samuel Series entitled, “King of Hearts”. In it, we asked this Big Picture Question: What is God’s heart for His People? And to answer that question, we looked at Judges 2:16-23: 16 Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside…
Big Picture Question: What do we learn from Peter about loving Jesus? We looked at John 21:15-25 to answer that big picture question: 15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”…
Sunday, 5/14, we looked at this Big Picture Question: How does Jesus send the church out? We looked at John 20:30-31 to answer that question: 30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. And we found these 3…
Sunday, May 7, 2017, we looked at this Big Picture Question: Big Picture Question: How does Jesus ease our doubt? And we looked at John 20:24-29 to answer it: 24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the…
Sunday, April 30, 2017, we attempted to answer this Big Picture Question: Big Picture Question: How do we receive the peace of Jesus? And we looked at John 20:19-23 to help us. John 20:19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When he had said this, he…
On Sunday (4/26/17), we looked at this question, How are we all like Mary? And we looked at John 20:11-18 to answer that question: 11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. 12 And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 13 They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said…