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“From Word to Stone to Flesh: Torah’s Living Covenant,” Introduction 1 Samuel 3:1-11 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 3 Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. 2 At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to […]

Passage: 1 Samuel 3:10-18 | Message By: Chris Hutchison | Series: The Rise and Fall of the House of Saul - 1 Samuel 1-15How does a faithful parent love their sinning children? Or, more broadly, how does a faithful Christian love a sinning family member? That is a question that we've been asked in various ways over the past few weeks by the book of 1 Samuel. Eli the priest had two sons who used their position to serve their own appetites. Eli knew it, and he gave them a scolding, but he didn't do anything actively to stop them. And two times, two separate occasions, God rebuked Eli for his failure as a priest and as a parent. The first time was in chapter 2, where an unnamed prophet condemned Eli for honouring his sons above God by actually enjoying the fruits of their theft. The second time came in chapter 3, God spoke through the boy Samuel, and he rebuked Eli not so much for sharing in his sons' sins, but simply for not stopping them for what they were doing. “His sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them,” says verse 13. So twice over the last two weeks, as we've just been following along with what God has said in his book, we've heard about different aspects of this relationship between Eli and his sons and we've talked, briefly, about what lessons we might learn about this for the present day. But there's a lot more to say, and at some point it was clear that we just needed a part two to last week's sermon, which is what we're doing here today. Speak, Lord So let's pick up on where we left off last week, and not actually on the issue of Eli and his sons, but on the issue of God speaking the message about Eli and his sons to Samuel. Samuel said, "Speak, Lord," and received God's message, whatever it was. And he passed it on without tinkering with it at all. And like we saw last week, that was a hard message. It was a hard message that didn't come padded with any padding of encouragement. God spoke directly and without apology, even though He knew better than anybody else how much his message would upset His hearers. Just consider that. Today, if we find out that we've upset people by something we've said, we tend to assume we've made a mistake. And often enough that's true, but not always. God upset Samuel. Jesus upset his own disciples all the time, on purpose. And part of being a Christian means that Jesus has the permission to rock our boats as often as he wants to. Let's learn from both Samuel and Eli about our posture when we hear something from God's word that rocks our boats. Of course it's okay to ask questions to try to understand better. Of course it's okay to say, "How do I actually work that out? How does that apply to this or that situation?" But our default posture should be like Samuel: "Speak, Lord." Or like Eli: “It is the Lord. Let him do what seems good to him” (1 Samuel 3:18). 1. Family is From God Let's keep that in mind as we listen now to a number of passages from across the whole Bible, some of which we might find reassuring and comforting, some of which we might find profoundly challenging. Let's start back at the beginning: families are a part of God's good design. God created marriage and childbirth and all of the connections between parents and children and siblings, and this was a part of His good design. There are bonds of love between members of a family forged in shared experiences and connections that begin at birth and, if all goes well, get only stronger as years go on. And this was God's idea, and God's good design. So if we ever feel like our families are something that we need to protect from God's interference, we're missing something. Family itself was God's good idea and design. Our family is God's gift to us. 2. Family is About God Second, we want to remember that even in the goodness of the original creation, family was never an end unto itself. Just like nothing God created was ever an end unto itself. Everything in creation, from waterfalls to water bears, was made to declare the glory of God, and family does so in particularly unique ways. Out of all of his creation, God made us in His image, which applies to our relationships as well. The clearest example is marriage, and how Ephesians 5:32 tells us that all the way back in Genesis 2:24, God designed human marriage to be a picture of the divine relationship between Christ and His church. It's not like Jesus and His Church are kind of like a husband and a wife. It's that a husband and a wife are kind of like Jesus and His church. The same goes for fathers and their children. Long before human fathers and sons existed, God the Father lived in perfect eternal relationship with God the Son, and planned to draw us into that same eternal love relationship. So it's not like God is like a human father—it's that the best human fathers are kind of like God. He came first. And if God is our Father, then we're brothers and sisters, "members of the household of God" (Eph 2:19, 1 Tim 3:15). Which, if we're putting the pieces together, doesn't mean that the church is like a family. It means that a family is like the church. The family is a picture of the people of God, just like fathers are a picture of God, and marriage is a picture of Jesus. So family is not just from God, family is about God. Family is about God in other ways, as well. Families were designed by God to be greenhouses for training and discipleship in godliness, and families work best when God is actively at the centre of their life together. That's one reason we've poured hours into training parents and husbands and wives and dating couples—all of which you can find on our website. And the point here is that families are about God. 3. Satan vs. Family Not surprisingly, then, family is one of the first and repeated things that Satan has attacked in his long war against God. It's right there in the garden, where he works to weasel in between Eve and Adam. It's right there in Cain's murder of Abel. It's there in Ham's sin against Noah, Lot and his daughters, the sons of Jacob selling Joseph into slavery. It's there in our world today in every unmarried mom, every deadbeat dad, every rebellious teenager, every divorce, every act of abuse or neglect. The family is one of Satan's favourite places to attack because when he attacks the family, he attacks one of the places where we're supposed to see God's truth displayed and where God's truth is supposed to be taught and lived out. And that's why the Bible and our modern world give us no end of examples of families broken by sin in countless ways. 4. Family vs. God And one of the saddest ways that this can happen is when some members of a family choose to reject their creator and rebel against him, while others in the family want to stay faithful to him. That puts those faithful members of a family in a really, really tough spot. If family is from God and about God, what happens when part of your family starts working against God, and you need to choose between your family and God? And the Lord knew that these situations would arise, and told His people how to respond to these situations. Consider Deuteronomy 13. The first five verses announce that anybody in Israel who tried to entice the people to forsake God and worship other gods was to receive the death penalty. Anybody. Does that include your own flesh and blood? Listen to verses 6-11: “6 ‘If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9 But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 11 And all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you” (Deuteronomy 13:6–11). God knows that the people are going to hear the first five verses and say "uh-huh. Got it." And then when it's their own son or daughter or brother or wife, they're going to say "ahh, maybe things aren't so black and white." The natural thing for families to do in a situation like that is to yield, to listen to them, to pity them, to spare them, to conceal them from what the law required. That's what years of bonding and attachment and familial love make you want to do. That's what feels natural. But in reality, it's profoundly unnatural. Because families are from God and for God, a family that is actively working to pull its members away from God is a family that is working against what God designed them to do. And so the Lord is clear: your family doesn't get a pass when it comes to obeying and applying the law of God. There's no spiritual nepotism. No exceptions. Another example, slightly different, is found in Deuteronomy 21: “18 ‘If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, 20 and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' 21 Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear,

In this message, we explore the clearest way God speaks in a noisy world. While many of us long for direction through signs, feelings, or circumstances, Scripture reminds us that God has already spoken clearly through His Word. Drawing from 2 Timothy 3:16–17, this message challenges us to listen, respond, and build our lives on what God has breathed into Scripture. If you've ever felt desperate to hear from God, this message will help you tune in and take your next faithful step.

When we encounter something in the Bible, whether we're reading it or hearing it being faithfully preached, and we don't like what we hear for one reason or another, how do we respond?

Pastor Rob Ketterling continues Vision 26 Part 2 with a message on valuing God's voice and developing ears of the heart to truly hear Him. If God is speaking, we must be listening with attentiveness and openness.

Pastor Terry shares a timely message on becoming a Future Church—renewing our minds in God's Word and refusing to fear a rapidly changing world. This is a call to redeem culture through the Holy Spirit, live as salt and light in “Babylon,” and respond with hearts that say, “Speak Lord, for your servant is listening.”

Speak Lord, We Are Listening: Samuel's story reminds us that listening is at the heart of spiritual life. To love God and neighbor, including the unborn, we must first hear the Lord's voice and respond with obedience. God still calls. The question is whether we listen.

1/11/26 Adey looks at the story of Samuel and how it resonates with life today, especially as we seek to hear from God.

Pastor Rob recaps 2025 and shares our new vision for 2026: Speak Lord, We're Listening. God has positioned us for such a time as this. This is a call to align our hearts, our prayers and our actions with what God is speaking now—believing that when God speaks, His people respond.

This weeks message is by Jock James

Speak, Lord

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A vital part of any healing process is being able to reshape the inner voices of your life. From a faith perspective, learning to hear the ultimate Voice - God's voice - is such a big aspect of that journey. Today's episode explores the need for listening to God and discovering how to hear Him above the noise of daily life. For more information on my book Unshakeable: Stories To Anchor You Through Life's Storms as well and how to reach me on social media or read my weekly blog, visit my website at: https://www.opentogracealaska.com/

Bold Prayers | #2 | Speak, Lord, Your Servant is Listening | 11/9/25

Your mileage may vary" is an idiomatic phrase  is relatively new that was first used in car sales now is used as your experiences may be different than others.    In your faith journey.  You will be using the amount of faith you have been given by God.  And in your lifetime, you have the opportunity to grow your faith based on the trials, tests and situations that will happen in your life.    Jesus taught that it doesn't take much faith to move a “mountain”, but we take a lifetime to learn that.    In your life you will experience things that will test your resolve, your faith, your strength, your loyalty, your character, who you really are.     When you get closer to God, those shortcomings will be more evident.  As you grow closer to God, the enemy will be allowed to throw things at you.  It will be different for each of us.   What caused you to fall or fail is different for me.   Common challenges include personal issues like financial stress, health concerns (physical and mental), and relationship problems, as well as professional struggles such as work-life balance, career uncertainty, and workplace issues like communication gaps or lack of motivation. Other challenges involve coping with loss, managing stress, and dealing with life changes, which can lead to loneliness or other mental and physical health difficulties. On a global scale, challenges include climate change, poverty, and human rights violations.   It all depends on who you are, where you are, and what God has plans for you.  Mixed with how you cope, deal, overcome, or choose.     So what is the message here. Everyone one has a journey.  Everyone will have some issues. We have to learn to not respond to the sin of our  neighbors like we don't have any.  We have to listen more than we talk.  We have to open our hearts to God more.  We have to listen to Him. And when we don't hear Him, realize it is us, not HIM that has turned down the volume.  What must I do to be saved?  What must I do to change?  What must I do, Lord?  Speak Lord, for your servant is listening.     Becoming a Christian doesn't make you immune to bad stuff happening.  You might get more than your neighbor.  There is a lot of negatives in this world.  A lot of people are in dark places.  Misery likes no it loves company.  It motivates, inspires, and cultivates staying away from the Light of God.  You will seem foolish for kingdom thinking.  And on your good days, it is easy to get full of yourself and look down on others. Which will knock you off the path you were on.  It is precarious. It is easy to fall off.  To take the wrong path when you are on the right one. And just as easy to talk yourself into continuing to walk off the yellow brick road right to a witch.     We stray very easily.  We get full of garbage and then repeat it.  Someone cosigns on it and off we go.  Tearing others down.   Only you can save yourself.  You can't pray your kids into heaven. They have to make it on their own.  Your parents can't go to church and serve God for you.     But here's the worst part.  You can play a part in another persons destruction.  You can encourage, chase away, hurt and harm someone that trust your words.  You can make them lose their faith.   How?  Your actions.  I have seen the enemy and it is us. That phrase came from a comic strip by way of the War of 18112 but it applies.    Right now I am trying to overcome me.  I have a battle inside.  The good news is, you can't win a fight you don't know that you are in.  It's like the frog that went to sleep in the hot water and didn't realize that although it felt good, he was slowing being cooked.     Some of the stuff that is going on in your life is self sabotage.  behavior or thoughts, especially of an involuntary or unconscious nature, that are harmful to one's own interests or development.    We talk negatively, to ourselves.  You know that there is "life and death  in the power of the tongue". This means spoken words have the power to build others up, foster healing, and bring joy, or to cause deep emotional wounds through gossip, criticism, and harshness.   Don't forget to speak life to your situation.  Speak life to yourself.  Speak life to your children, spouses, friends, family and when you mature enough, even to your enemies.    I am learning in the midst of the trials in my life right now, I still have choices to make.  For good or evil.  For prosperity or destruction.  I can still have and do have a future at 63.     setting new goals and reinventing yourself at your age is beneficial because it promotes a renewed sense of purpose, boosts physical and cognitive health, and increases overall life satisfaction. This phase of life often comes with more clarity, accumulated wisdom, and fewer constraints from raising a family or building a career, making it an ideal time for personal growth.      Think of yourself as a classic car.  Vintage ones are valuable. But they must be restored.  They must be cleaned.  You try to get them to the factory settings or customed.  None of us can be reset to the purity of the day we were born but you can be Born again.       That means a new beginning with God. It involves repenting of sins, having faith in Jesus Christ, and being spiritually reborn through the Holy Spirit, which results in a change of heart, identity, and life.     How you get there is up to you.  Your mileage may vary.    love you,   Kenn kenn.blanchard@gmail.com 

Intimacy requires communication. On one hand, words need to be offered. If friends don't talk, if families don't share, and if spouses stop discussing—those relationships will weaken, fade, and eventually fail. On the other hand, words need to be received. If students can't understand their teachers, if athletes tune out their coaches, and if children ignore their parents—those relationships will suffer too.Intimacy requires communication. And we serve a God who communicates truthfully, powerfully, and clearly. He reveals himself rightly and sufficiently. He guides us wisely and effectively. The Creator of all things has always been speaking (Heb. 1:1–2). God wants us to know him—his character, his expectations, his purposes. He wants us to be saved by him, to abide in him, to live lives that reflect him, and to become more and more like him. God wants intimacy with us. So—he speaks. The question is: Are we listening?

At the core of our faith is the reality that the God we worship actively speaks to us. In this fifth and final installment of For This Child I Prayed, a series focusing on the first three chapters of 1 Samuel, Bishop Paul unpacks what it means for God to speak to us—and for us to hear him. The normative way that people in the Bible heard the voice of God was through meditating on Scripture, and it is the same for us today. Like Samuel, we are invited to orient our lives around the voice of God. He is speaking. Are we listening?

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This inspirational sermon emphasizes the importance of spiritual discernment and the necessity of hearing God's voice in our lives. It draws from Biblical stories, such as Samuel's, to illustrate the power of listening to the Lord's voice and encourages believers to foster a deeper relationship with God through prayer. Date of service June 18th, 2025 www.houseofglorychurch.org www.cathycoppola.org

This inspirational sermon emphasizes the importance of spiritual discernment and the necessity of hearing God's voice in our lives. It draws from Biblical stories, such as Samuel's, to illustrate the power of listening to the Lord's voice and encourages believers to foster a deeper relationship with God through prayer. Date of service June 18th, 2025 www.houseofglorychurch.org www.cathycoppola.org

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1st Samuel 3 “Speak LORD – Your Servant is Listening” 1. An attentive ear (v.1-9) 2. An obedient will (v.10-14) 3. A humble heart (v.15-21)

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This is a rebraodcast of my 2022 homily. The homilies of Msgr. Stephen J. AvilaPastor, St. Joseph, Guardian of the Holy Family Parish, Falmouth, MAThanks for listening! May God's Word find a home in you.

Do you want to hear from God? The answer might be obvious, but think carefully before you answer.Join me for today's Daily Word & Prayer to find out why I say that. Scripture Used in Today's Message1 Samuel 3:10If you've not read my book, Takin' it to Their Turf. request a copy on my website, www.CampusAmerica.com.You'll be inspired, encouraged, and learn plenty about evangelism and spiritual warfare through the 70+ stories I share of my campus evangelism expereinces.We send a copy to anyone who donates to our ministry, but if you can't do so, simply request a copy by sending us an email. Who do you know that needs to hear today's message? Go ahead and forward this to them, along with a prayer that God will use it in their life.To find Tom on Instagram, Facebook, TiKTok, and elsewhere, go to linktr.ee/tomthepreacher To support Tom Short Campus Ministries, click herehttps://www.tomthepreacher.com/support************ Do you want to have all your sins forgiven and know God personally? *********Check out my video "The Bridge Diagram" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Kjwrlind8&t=1sCheck out my website, www.TomthePreacher.com, to learn more about my ministry and sign up for my daily email. And make sure to request a copy of my book, Takin' it to Their Turf, when you visit my website.Check out my videos on this channel to learn how to answer tough questions challenging our faith.

When Samuel was a young man serving under Eli in the LORD's house, the LORD's Word rarely came as it had to Moses and Joshua. Yet the LORD was bringing about an increase in His Word through Samuel. He made Samuel, Eli, and all Israel certain of His call to Samuel as a prophet, even though it took some time for Eli and Samuel to catch on. Samuel's prayer in response to the LORD's call is one that all Christians do well to repeat, asking the LORD to speak and promising to listen. The LORD revealed to Samuel what He had previously told Eli concerning the coming judgment of Eli's house, and Eli received it faithfully. This was the beginning of Samuel's ministry as a prophet in Israel.  Rev. Sean Kilgo, pastor at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Lawrence, KS, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study 1 Samuel 3:1-21.  "A Kingdom Unlike All the Nations” is a series on Sharper Iron that goes through 1-2 Samuel. This time in Israel's history has its highs and lows, but the LORD's faithfulness never wavers. He provides His Word to be proclaimed faithfully through prophets like Samuel and Nathan. Even as princes like Saul and David sit on an earthly throne, the LORD remains King over His people, even as He does now and forever through the Lord Jesus Christ. Sharper Iron, hosted by Rev. Timothy Appel, looks at the text of Holy Scripture both in its broad context and its narrow detail, all for the sake of proclaiming Christ crucified and risen for sinners. Two pastors engage with God's Word to sharpen not only their own faith and knowledge, but the faith and knowledge of all who listen. Submit comments or questions to: listener@kfuo.org

Beginnings In Prayer - Part 4: Listening to God Because He Desires to Speak to Us MESSAGE SUMMARY: Prayer is: 1) spending time with God – acknowledging God's presence in all our lives' activities; and 2) conversation with God – listening to and talking with God. Prayer reflects on our relationship with God. Why don't we pray. The Apostle James, in James 4:2-3, provides a perspective regarding Prayer Life: “You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions." In praying, we should know the difference between prayers of "petition" (praying for one's own needs) and prayers of "intercession" (praying for the needs of others). God wants prayers of "petition" from us -- all our needs and concerns should be brought to Him in prayer because He loves and cares for us. However, God want us to, also, focus on others and their needs (intercession) -- physical and spiritual. "Intercessory prayer” is fundamental to deepening our prayer life and our personal relationship with God. We need to consider "how we listen" to and for God. Usually, God speaks through the Holy Spirit like He spoke to Mary. Jesus tells us about the Holy Spirit and “listening” through the Apostle John in John 16:13-15: “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.". God, mostly but not always, uses that "still small voice" in our minds. We need to seek out places and times so that we can listen for and to God. Listening validates relationships in our secular lives -- why would it be different in our relationship with God? God wants to speak to us because we have a relationship with Him -- He loves us and wants to be with us. God's "Counselor", the Holy Spirit, is His primary communication bridge to us. God speaks to us, through the Holy Spirit, as He promised. God guides us to all truth -- to His direction for our lives. When God speaks to you, write it down, as God tells us through the prophet Habakkuk in Habakkuk 2:2-3: “And the LORD answered me: ‘Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end — it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.'". God, often, speaks to us through the Bible, through other people, and through our circumstances. As we listen for God, we need to respond to God as Samuel did in Samuel 3:10b: "Speak Lord, for your servant is listening.". Pray specific prayers, in the Holy Spirit and in Scripture, for ourselves and for others -- be persistent.   TODAY'S PRAYER: Keeping the Sabbath, Lord, will require a lot of changes in the way I am living life. Teach me, Lord, how to take the next step with this in a way that fits my unique personality and situation. Help me to trust you with all that will remain unfinished and to enjoy my humble place in your very large world. In Jesus' name, amen. Scazzero, Peter. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Day by Day (p. 129). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. TODAY'S AFFIRMATION: I affirm that because of what God has done for me in His Son, Jesus, I AM A CHILD OF GOD. Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His Name, He gave the right to become children of God-- children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. (John 1:12f). SCRIPTURE REFERENCE (ESV): Jeremiah 33:3; John 16:7-14; John 10:1-25; Habakkuk 2:1-3; 1 Samuel 3:1-18. (Click the blue below to read the full Bible text for these scripture references in BOLD.). WEBSITE LINK TO DR. BEACH'S DAILY DEVOTIONAL – “Daniel's Prayer Was “seeking him {God} by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting . . . ‘O Lord, the great and awesome God . . . we have sinned and done wrong'””: https://awordfromthelord.org/devotional/ A WORD FROM THE LORD WEBSITE LINK: www.awordfromthelord.org DONATE TO AWFTL: https://mygiving.secure.force.com/GXDonateNow?id=a0Ui000000DglsqEAB

Speak LORD, for thy servant heareth

In this episode, we are reminded that we often need mentors that help us hear God speak, but that our response should be to listen and obey!

Daniella Zsupan-Jerome, assistant professor of pastoral theology at Saint John's School of Theology and Seminary and director of the Sustained Encuentro grant, discusses her new book, Speak Lord Your Servant is Listening: Reflections on Faithful Communication in the Digital Age, with host Amber Walling. Zsupan-Jerome provides insight on the format of her book and how its devotional format is accessible for all adult readers. The themes of scripture, prayer, communication and digital media are discussed as well as ways being a faithful communicator can assist in missionary discipleship. Speak Lord Your Servant is Listening: Reflections on Faithful Communication in the Digital Age, contains 20 reflections in its120 pages and is available for $19.95 at litpress.org and major online booksellers.

Learning to listen to God's voice is our most significant ability as believers. It's simple but not always easy. We'll learn from Samuel, the last judge of Israel, how he grew in listening to and following God's voice. 

This week's podcast, Dr. Griffin conveys a message from The Father of what He requires for continued access to Kingdom benefits. MUSIC by KYLE LOVETT, "Speak Lord"

Key ScriptureDaniel 7:9-10, 13-149 “As I looked,“thrones were set in place,and the Ancient of Days took his seat.His clothing was as white as snow;the hair of his head was white like wool.His throne was flaming with fire,and its wheels were all ablaze.10 A river of fire was flowing,coming out from before him.Thousands upon thousands attended him;ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.The court was seated,and the books were opened.13 “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. 14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.PrayerFather, thank you for your Son, my King and Savior Jesus!Holy Spirit, may your Word come alive in this place, in my church family and in me this morning.Reveal what you have for me so I can live for you this next week. Where I am week, help me to be strong. Where I am strong, help me to put my trust in you.Speak Lord and help me listen.In Jesus' name, amen

September 12, 2024 I Sam. 2:22-3:18; Ps. 106:1-2; Prov. 23:6-8; John 5:19-23

"Speak Lord, We Are Listening" Jason Meyer

Speak Lord, Your Servant Is Listening (1 Samuel 3) - Dr. Bill Cook

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In this reflection for the Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Adam Novotny reflects on recognizing and listening to God's voice in our lives. The post Enkindle 214 – 06.09.24 – Speak, Lord appeared first on numinous.fm.

In this sermon, the Reverend Jacob Smith articulates how God speaks to us clearly through two important yet often muddled words: Law and Gospel.