Sermon Text: 1 Samuel 8:1-22 Outline: Exchanging Communion for Corruption Exchanging the Truth for a Lie The “Foolish” Exchange Reflection Questions: Do you regularly reflect on how desperately dependent you are? Read Romans 7:15-25 and 2 Corinthians 13:5 and list 2 things that you do not do that you want to do, and 2 things […]
Sermon Text: 1 Samuel 5:1-7:17 Outline: Small — God Is Captured Scared — God Is a Consuming Fire Submit — God Is Covenantal Reflection Questions: 1) Are you okay with God employing you in His Service of “Smallness” & “Silliness” (i.e. foolishness [see 1 Cor. 1:18-31])? Are you cool with God giving you Christ-like assignments of […]
Sermon Text: 1 Samuel 4:1-22 Outline: Right Theology, Wrong Practice (vv.1-4) Misplaced Confidence (vv.5-11) Missing God’s Presence (vv.12-22) Reflection Questions: In what ways have you or do you try to conjure or control/manipulate God to get what you want? What is your confidence level with God, particularly as it concerns your well-being? In what way […]
Sermon Text: 1 Samuel 3:1-4:1 Outline: THE WORD OF THE LORD WAS RARE… RARELY SPELLS ROTTEN …AND GOD REJECTS ROTTEN! REVELATION TO THE RESCUE! Reflection Questions: Would it honestly bother you to go an entire week without reading the Bible? …Think of something that matters to you so much – that if you went a […]