Too Much Saul

A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings!  The text is 1 Samuel 11 from the New International Version of the Bible.  Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube.  Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca Dive-In Questions Do you agree with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: "If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"? In what ways have you been tempted to divide the world into good and evil people? Do you struggle with the violence ways in which Israel sometimes related to her neighbours? Can we say anything that might help us with this? How does the Amalekite attitude towards Israel play into this? How does this passage portray Saul? What does it reveal about God? What is at the heart of obedience? Where do you find this most difficult? In what ways do your religious activities hide a heart that only half-heartedly listens to God?