Jim Somerville: "God’s people asked for a king, and even though Samuel told them a king would be a taker, not a giver, they wanted one anyway.  The one they got was Saul."

Jim Somerville: "One of the things that’s about to begin is this summer sermon series called 'The Bold and the Biblical.' Yes, it sounds like a soap opera, but that’s because I’m going to be preaching through the books of 1 and 2 Samuel, which have so much of that quality about them."