1 Samuel | The Weight of Glory, Part 1

Mission Hills Church

Is there something in your life that’s keeping you from being everything God designed you to be? Something holding you back from being part of everything He built you for? And how do you know? How do you identify those things that are tripping you up and holding you back? Join us this weekend as we explore the answer to that so-important question in the book of 1 Samuel.

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Littleton Campus
620 Southpark Dr, Littleton, CO 80120, USA
Saturday 5:00 PM, Sunday 8:00 AM, Sunday 9:15 AM, Sunday 11:00 AM
Dove Valley Campus
14076 E Briarwood Ave, Centennial, CO 80112, USA
Sunday 9:30 AM
North Littleton Campus
5804 S Datura St, Littleton, CO 80120, USA
Sunday 11:30 AM

Welcome to Mission Hills!

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Mission Hills is a church family—a family who wants to extend to you the same love, hope, and joy that we have received. We know that we cannot be all things to all people. But we do want to be one thing to all people. We want to be the place where anyone, of any age, of any level of spiritual maturity, of any economic class, of any ethnicity, of any church background—or no church background—can meet God in a way that transforms their life…forever!

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And Samuel's word came to all Israel. (1 Samuel 4:1a)

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Judges 21:25 NIV

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Transitions expose our weaknesses.

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Now the Israelites went out to fight against the Philistines. The Israelites camped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines at Aphek. The Philistines deployed their forces to meet Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand of them on the battlefield. (1 Samuel 4:1b-2)

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“No one will be able to stand up against you;” (Deuteronomy 7:24)

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When the soldiers returned to camp, the elders of Israel asked, "Why did the LORD bring defeat on us today before the Philistines? (1 Samuel 4:3a)

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The kinds of questions we ask determine the kinds of answers we get.

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The key to your next breakthrough might be a better question.

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Let us bring the ark of the Lord's covenant from Shiloh, so that he may go with us and save us from the hand of our enemies. (1 Samuel 4:3b)

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The more we try to put God in a box, the more we're tempted to think we can control Him.