God’s Surprising Work Through Mothers
Scott Maze
1 Samuel 1-2
Today is Mother's Day, when one-fifth of all floral purchases are made for holidays. In a day where over programmed kids and hectic family schedules dominate, mothers are incredibly powerful not in the weightlifting sense of that word, but in the areas of trust, encouragement, hope, and courage. You are incredibly powerful in the life of your husband. You are an amazing influence in the lives of your children, adult or still at home. In fact, I would go so far as to say that for the average man, no one's opinion of him matters as much as his wife's.
Mothers, I have one point this morning - in hopeless times God works in surprising ways.
Today's Story
The book of 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel primarily tells the story of three men: Samuel, Saul, the first king of Israel, and David, the second and great king of Israel. You should read it as a continuation of the dark stories in the Old Testament book of Judges. Other than Genesis, these two books give us more stories than any other of the Old Testament books. The two books cover about a century and a half of history. These are dark days when everyone in the nation of Israel was doing what was right in their own eyes. The story begins approximately 3,000 years ago in an obscure village in the hills country of Ephraim, or in the middle of the 1100s BC. We can zoom in to 1 Samuel 1, a bit like Google Earth does, and we can zoom right down to a place called Ramah, or Ramathaim-zophim (pronounced ''Ra ma theme za foe im'') in verse one. We're not too sure where that is. It could be on the west coast near to Tel Aviv, or it could be just a few miles north of Jerusalem. This is the story of how Samuel, one of the main character of this part of the Bible, came to be.
A Man with Two Wives
We see ''a certain man'' who had two wives and our attention is brought immediately to a humble woman who is unable to have children. Now Hannah's inability to have ...
Scott Maze
1 Samuel 1-2
Today is Mother's Day, when one-fifth of all floral purchases are made for holidays. In a day where over programmed kids and hectic family schedules dominate, mothers are incredibly powerful not in the weightlifting sense of that word, but in the areas of trust, encouragement, hope, and courage. You are incredibly powerful in the life of your husband. You are an amazing influence in the lives of your children, adult or still at home. In fact, I would go so far as to say that for the average man, no one's opinion of him matters as much as his wife's.
Mothers, I have one point this morning - in hopeless times God works in surprising ways.
Today's Story
The book of 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel primarily tells the story of three men: Samuel, Saul, the first king of Israel, and David, the second and great king of Israel. You should read it as a continuation of the dark stories in the Old Testament book of Judges. Other than Genesis, these two books give us more stories than any other of the Old Testament books. The two books cover about a century and a half of history. These are dark days when everyone in the nation of Israel was doing what was right in their own eyes. The story begins approximately 3,000 years ago in an obscure village in the hills country of Ephraim, or in the middle of the 1100s BC. We can zoom in to 1 Samuel 1, a bit like Google Earth does, and we can zoom right down to a place called Ramah, or Ramathaim-zophim (pronounced ''Ra ma theme za foe im'') in verse one. We're not too sure where that is. It could be on the west coast near to Tel Aviv, or it could be just a few miles north of Jerusalem. This is the story of how Samuel, one of the main character of this part of the Bible, came to be.
A Man with Two Wives
We see ''a certain man'' who had two wives and our attention is brought immediately to a humble woman who is unable to have children. Now Hannah's inability to have ...
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