📝 Episode Summary:

In this powerful Mother’s Day message, Susie Lee walks through the story of Hannah in 1 Samuel 1, offering a deeply moving picture of surrender, sacrifice, and unwavering trust in God. Using Hannah’s example, Susie invites us to consider what it means to bring our deepest griefs and longings before the Lord — and to trust Him with the outcomes, no matter the cost.

This message reminds us: when we pour ourselves out before God, nothing is wasted.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Hannah Knew God’s Character

 Hannah’s story begins not with her barrenness, but with her deep relationship with God. She knew who He was — faithful, compassionate, and attentive.

• Prayer That Pulls No Punches

 In her anguish, Hannah approaches God with raw honesty. Her prayers are fervent and unfiltered, a model of humble and wholehearted petition (1 Samuel 1:9–11).

• Faith Looks Like Obedience

 Hannah’s vow wasn’t made lightly. Her willingness to give Samuel back to God — even before he was born — reflects radical obedience and trust.

• God’s Plan > Our Plan

 Even when her heart longed for a child, Hannah believed that God’s purpose for Samuel was greater than any dream she could design for herself.

• Praise in All Circumstances

 Hannah didn’t wait for her situation to improve to praise God. Her response — like David’s in Psalm 6 — shows that worship often begins in weeping.

• Surrender Is Our Calling

 The Christian life is marked by surrender. Hannah’s story reminds us that deep faith means laying everything — even our greatest desires — on the altar.

• God Sees Our Tears

 Just like David in Psalm 6 and Paul’s words in Romans 8:26, we are reminded that God sees, understands, and responds to our pain — even when we don’t know how to pray.

📖 Scriptures Referenced:

1 Samuel 1 – The story of Hannah’s anguish, prayer, and surrender.

Psalm 6:6–7 – David’s expression of grief and weariness.

Romans 8:26 – The Spirit helps us in our weakness, interceding when we don’t know how to pray.

🙏 Reflection Questions:

Where in your life do you need to bring honest, unfiltered prayer before God?

What might God be inviting you to surrender in faith, like Hannah?

Can you choose to worship today — even if you’re still in the waiting?

Speaker: Robert Lee
Church: Antioch Galveston
Date: May 4, 2025

🧠 Main Idea

This message explores how humanity’s original joy and freedom were fractured through the Fall in Genesis 3—and how even in humanity’s failure, God reveals His mercy and pursuit.

📖 Key Scriptures

• Genesis 3:1 – The serpent's deception

• Genesis 3:7 – Eyes opened to flesh, closed to God

• Genesis 3:8 – Hiding from God's presence

• Genesis 3:9 – God calling out: "Where are you?"

• Genesis 3:10 – Fear enters: Adam hides

• Sin changes perspective:
  Adam and Eve's eyes were opened to their flesh but closed to God's presence—a picture of spiritual death.

• Fear follows shame:
  Adam hears God and hides in fear. His new self-awareness leads to self-rejection:

  • God looked at Adam and said: “Very good.”

  • Adam looked at himself and said: “Not good.”

• God is still pursuing:
  After the fall, God doesn't abandon Adam. He seeks him out with the question, “Where are you?”—not in condemnation, but in pursuit.

God’s heart has always been to walk with humanity, not hide from it. Even in our worst failures, He calls out, “Where are you?”—and offers to clothe us, not condemn us.

🎤 Speaker: Robert Lee

📝 Episode Summary:
In the opening message of our Happy & Free series, Pastor Robert Lee takes us back to the Garden of Eden to show God's original design for humanity: intimacy, partnership, and freedom.
Through Genesis 2, we see that life with God was meant to be marked by personal connection, joyful work, and deep union. This message calls us to reclaim the "garden life" God intended — living face-to-face with Him, co-laboring in His creation, and finding true freedom in His presence.

📖 Main Scriptures:

• Genesis 2:7 — God breathes life into man

• Genesis 2:8 — God plants a garden and places man in it

• Genesis 2:19 — Man co-labors with God by naming the animals

• Genesis 2:21-22 — God creates a partner for man

🔑 Key Points:

• Man’s First Breath: Humanity’s very first moment was face-to-face with God — created for intimacy.

• The Garden Life: God intentionally prepared a place of beauty, purpose, and connection for man to thrive.

• Co-Laboring with God: Humanity was always designed to work with God, not apart from Him.

• Gift of Relationship: God provides what is needed — including deep partnership and community.

• The Gospel’s Heart: God's ultimate desire is still union with us, restored through Jesus.

🍷 Special Moment:
The message concluded with a time of Communion, remembering that through Jesus, we are invited back into full relationship with God.

💬 Quote to Remember:
"Man’s first breath and he beholds Jesus."

Resurrection Sunday | Pastor Robert Lee
In this Resurrection Sunday message, Pastor Robert Lee anchors the hope of the gospel in the trustworthy foundation of Scripture. Centering on 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, he reminds us that the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus happened “according to the Scriptures.”

Through key passages in Romans, John, and Luke, we see that Jesus is the Word made flesh—and if the risen Christ were physically present today, He would still use the Scriptures to reveal Himself. From the road to Emmaus to the upper room, Jesus pointed His followers back to the Word to awaken their understanding and ignite their faith.

Pastor Robert invites us to do the same: to take Jesus at His Word, to believe in His resurrection, and to trust in the power of the gospel for salvation. The message culminates with a time of communion, as a response of faith and remembrance.

Join us for this Palm Sunday message, “The Triumphal Entry,” as Robert Lee, senior pastor of Antioch Galveston, unpacks the significance of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. Through the lens of Scripture and heartfelt teaching, Pastor Robert invites us to reflect on the humility, kingship, and purpose of Christ as we prepare our hearts for Holy Week.

📖 Scripture Focus: Matthew 21:1–11
🎙 Speaker: Pastor Robert Lee
📍 Antioch Galveston
🗓 Originally preached on Palm Sunday

This message was shared after our Sunday message to share with our local church about God's word to our movement and basic house keeping so that we can be good stewards of God's increase.

Sunday morning at Antioch (4/6/2025

Sunday morning at Antioch Galveston, 3/2/3035

Antioch Galveston Sunday, 2/9/2025

Family Pastor Risa Adams shares a message about family on Family Service Sunday.