C3: COCKTAILS & CHRISTIAN CONVERSATIONS
meets 5pm, Fri, Sept 26 @ Perkins’ Home
- Bring an hors d’oeuvres to share.
- Hosts David & Ginger Perkins will provide adult beverages.
- Join us for good company, conversation and artwork inspired by this week’s scripture.
- Resources for further study and exploration:
- BibleProject overview video: Book of 1st Samuel: https://bibleproject.com/videos/1-samuel/
- BibleProject guide to key information and resources for Books of Samuel: https://bibleproject.com/guides/books-of-samuel/
- Related:
- BibleProject podcast: Hannah’s Poem and Power Reversals: https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/hannahs-poem-and-power-reversals/
- BibleProject podcast: When You Feel Powerless: https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/when-you-feel-powerless/
- BibleProject podcast: Good News for the Poor: https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/luke-part-3/
SCRIPTURE for Study:
1 Samuel 1: Hannah … said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the Lord, and he will live there always.”
“Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her.
After he was weaned, she took the boy with her… and brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh. When the bull had been sacrificed, they brought the boy to Eli, and she said to him, “Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord. I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked … So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord.”
And he worshiped the Lord there.
1 Samuel 2 — Hannah’s Prayer: Then Hannah prayed and said: “My heart rejoices in the Lord; in the Lord my horn is lifted high. My mouth boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your deliverance.”
“There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.”
“…for the Lord is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed. The bows of the warriors are broken, but those who stumbled are armed with strength. Those who were full hire themselves out for food, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. She who was barren has borne seven children, but she who has had many sons pines away.”
“The Lord brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up. The Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor.”
“For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s; on them he has set the world. He will guard the feet of his faithful servants, but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness.”
“It is not by strength that one prevails; those who oppose the Lord will be broken. The Most High will thunder from heaven; the Lord will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
Then … boy ministered before the Lord under Eli the priest.
1 Samuel 3 —The Lord Calls Samuel: The boy Samuel ministered before the Lord under Eli. In those days the word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions.
One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house of the Lord, where the ark of God was. Then the Lord called Samuel. Samuel answered, “Here I am.” And he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.”
But Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.” So [Samuel] went and lay down.
Again the Lord called, “Samuel!”
And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.”
“My son,” Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.” Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord: The word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.
A third time the Lord called, “Samuel!”
And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.”
Then Eli realized that the Lord was calling the boy. So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!”
Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”
And the Lord said to Samuel: “See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tingle…’”
The Lord was with Samuel as he grew up, and he let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the Lord. The Lord continued to appear at Shiloh, and there he revealed himself to Samuel through his word.
1 Samuel 4: And Samuel’s word came to all Israel.