Speak, Lord, for Your Servant Is Listening

A boy sleeping near the ark in Shiloh hears his name called in the night, and only slowly does Eli realize the Lord is speaking. Opening a series on 1 Samuel, the sermon sets Samuel's call against the dark days of the Judges and argues that God's word always meets us where we are but never leaves us there. The Lord's gentleness with a frightened child, and the hard first message he gives him, show grace that both receives and transforms.