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.
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.
Galatians 5:13-26 — there seems to be no limit to how low discouragement can take us, set against weddings, births and people being helped in the streets.
Genesis 3:5 in a short topical run the preacher named Things Adam Wants to Talk About, before the Giant series on David begins.
A trillion dollars of unsecured consumer debt, and a credit card arriving like a lottery win — on the monetary system of worth that quietly enslaves.
Easter Sunday, Psalm 23 — and gratitude for a staff and a church that he would rather win with as a team than alone.