Parkway Baptist Church Sermons

Overview - Spiritual foolishness brings consequences but cannot frustrate God's plan.1. Spiritual foolishness is marked by empty religion and superstition.2. Spiritual foolishness leads to futility and failure.3. In the face of spiritual...

Overview - Trust in the Lord who cannot be hindered from saving.1. God is the Hero who saves.2. God saves through faithful servants.3. God's True Faithful Servant is Jesus!

Overview - Solutions based on worldly wisdom are foolish and ineffective.1. Worldly solutions won't result in lasting peace.2. Worldly solutions won't lead to faith in or obedience to God.3. Worldly solutions won't help us escape...

Overview - Despite the mess we've made God is gracious to reconcile.1. Our relationship with God is established by His gracious deliverance.2. Our response to God is faith: whole-hearted repentance and surrender.3. Our reliance on God is grounded...

Overview - We rejoice greatly because God has worked salvation through His anointed King. 1. By God's salvation, we escape the oppression and mutilation of sin.2. By God's Spirit, He completes His work in and through us.3. By God's...

Overview - Rejecting God as King is just plain silly.1. Rejecting God as King is silly because only He is sovereign.2. Rejecting God as King is silly because we must submit to Him.3. Rejecting God as King is silly because only He can satisfy.4...

Overview - A king like the nations is not good enough.1. At times God gives us the thing we want even though it's not what we need.2. God gives us the thing we want to show us it's not the thing we need.3. God has given the King we need.

When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes...

And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the...

The ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months. And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place.” They said, “If...

When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day...

A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head. When he arrived, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man...

And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines. They encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek. The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was...

Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.     At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down...

And there came a man of God to Eli and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Did I indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt subject to the house of Pharaoh? Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest...

Then Elkanah went home to Ramah. And the boy was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli the priest.      Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the Lord. The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man...

And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. “There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our...

The man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow. But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of...

There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other...

Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom...