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The power of story as God's Word to the community of faith is never more clear than in the books of Samuel. Emotion, drama, complexity of character, and mystery fill the pages of these two biblical books. Eugene Peterson's commentary emphasizes the resonance and interplay between these stories of kings and prophets and the social and cultural issues that concern us today.
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“In the normal course of things, a place of worship does not make us into something we are not, but, rather, intensifies whatever we bring to it.” (Page 16)
“The only person fully in touch with reality that day in the Valley of Elah was David. Reality is mostly made up of what we cannot see. This human life is mostly a matter of what never gets reported in the newspapers. Only a God-saturated, as opposed to a Goliath-saturated, mind can account for what made holy history that day in the Valley of Elah.” (Page 99)
“The barrenness of the spiritual life at Shiloh parallels the barrenness of Hannah’s womb in chapter 1. And Samuel is God’s response to both.” (Page 37)
“You are the woman!’ God’s word, however it begins, and however long it takes to get there, always ends up direct and personal: me, you.” (Page 184)
“This is the marvel of a prophet’s work: in his words the invisible God becomes audible’ (Heschel, The Prophets, 22).” (Page 40)