Hannah is spiritually concerned woman driven to prayer by her infertility but able, too, to see the wider need around her. Yet the leaders who should help her in this time – the priests – are failing: they give no
From a small seed
Israel around the year 1100BC is in social chaos with no reliable, godly leadership to bring them out of it. The mess is clearly visible in the personal pain of one man’s family. They may worship God together but the
God writes history
God is the sovereign ruler over all the earth and over all its history. His work in history, however, follows repeated patterns. So by learning of what he’s done in the past we can better understand ourselves in the present.
He has risen! He is not here.
This sermon is an alternative, more devotional look at the verses, centring on the great gospel message of repentance and faith in the risn Christ. It was preached in an evening sermon to complement the regular morning preaching as part
This is the end?
Sabbath has passed, a new week begins and on it God blows life into the new creation. The women who go to honour Jesus’ corpse, find the tomb unlocked and a stranger present. They came to find a crucified man,