1 Samuel 4:1-11, the week after some two hundred people came forward asking for more of the Holy Spirit — and a caution about looking for fireworks.
The second half: Israel trusted spiritual activity over spiritual obedience, and God's stuff over God's presence — a great deal of religion with nothing behind it.
A Memorial Day service that begins with an empty chair set at the front for those who did not come home, before turning to the woman at the well.
The second half: the unnamed woman at Sychar has no name because she has all of them, and every bucket lowered into Jacob's well leaves you thirsty again.
1 Samuel 1:1-20 and Hannah, preached after a twelve-year wait — told alongside the preacher's own season of a studio apartment, no job and no insurance.