Sunday, July 30, Evident Grace Fellowship, we attempted to answer this Big Picture Question: If someone sins against God, who will help them And we looked at 1 Samuel 2:22-36: 22 Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 23 And he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For…
Sunday, July 23, Evident Grace Fellowship attempted to answer this Big Picture Question: How is God at work even when it looks like He is not? And we looked at 1 Samuel 2:11-21 to answer our Big Picture Question: 1 Samuel 2:11 Then Elkanah went home to Ramah. And the boy was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli the priest. 12 Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the Lord. 13 The…
Sunday, July 16, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at this Big Picture Question: How does God serve and protect His people? And we looked at 1 Samuel 2:9-11: 1 Samuel 2:9 “He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail. 10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends…
Sunday, July 9, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at this Big Picture Question: What does it mean that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble And we looked at 1 Samuel 2:4-8 4 The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength. 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is…
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…
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…