I Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20) John 1: 43-51 I was driving home from some time away this week-end. If you have ever headed north on Highway 65 through Alabama, perhaps you have seen it, too. It’s a billboard shouting the threat: “Go to church or the devil will get you!” The words are in bold black …
Tag: 1 Samuel
Mary and Hannah and a Woman in the County Jail
Luke 1:39-55 I find myself wondering at Mary now… wondering how it is that she came to be so articulate, so poetic, so very wise at such a young age. While there is much we cannot know about this young woman who was chosen for a life she could not have imagined, from what we …
God’s Call: Hannah and Eli, Samuel and Eli’s Sons
1 Samuel 3:1-20 1 Samuel 1-4 I got thinking about one’s ‘sense of call’ the other night. Here is how it was. They were just about to start boarding my flight home on Friday and so I made one last run to the restroom. As I came back down the escalator to the gate area, …
This Holy Calling
1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20) John 1:43-51 It is so that I have long struggled to help people understand that pastors are not the only ones who are ‘called.’ Or to communicate in a way that people understand this reality that ‘calls’ are not always dramatic in the way we hear about with young Samuel today. …
God Calling in the Night
1 Samuel 3:1-20 “The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread.” (1 Samuel 3:1) It was years ago now. I was still living in Rock Island and found myself traveling a great deal — so much so that it was …