Peter Carolane - Responsibility to Response-Ability (19 July 2026)

In this sermon, Peter preaches from 1 Samuel 3 about the exhausting weight of living as though everything depends on us, and invites us to move from responsibility (the burden of controlling and managing life) to response-ability (the freedom of listening and responding to God). Through Samuel’s call, Peter shows that faith is not something we manufacture or achieve, but something we receive as we stop, expect God to speak, and learn to listen together. Ultimately, Jesus carries the weight we cannot bear, freeing us to lay down our anxious self-management and pray with Samuel, “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.”