What You Need

Swiss Cove Christian Church · Jul 19, 2026

In this message, "What You Need," Elliott looks at the difference between sincere love and studied love in marriage. Drawing from the story of Hannah and Elkanah in 1 Samuel 1, he shows how two people can love each other completely and still miss each other — because sincerity isn't the same as knowledge. Elkanah loved Hannah deeply, yet his words to her ("Don't I mean more to you than ten sons?") reopened the very wound he meant to heal. God, by contrast, "remembered" Hannah — a specific, knowing action rooted in intimate understanding of her pain.Using Boaz's example in Ruth 2 and Peter's…