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[Sunday] - Say What?! God Help Those who Help Themselves
When does God begin to help us? What does it mean to be in need? The apostle Paul understands what it means to have a lot or a little. But through it all, he is content because God is helping him all the way.
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Questions for the Week
When have you heard the phrase “God helps those who help themselves?” Why is it normally said?
Read Genesis 12:10-20. Describe what happens when Abram takes things into his own hands and tries to help himself in a time of distress. How do we often try to do the same thing?
Read Philippians 4:10-15. What does this say about contentment?
Describe a time when you have been strengthened by Jesus’ presence in your life.
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[Sunday] - Say What?! God Won't Give You More Than You Can Handle
When someone we love or know faces some kind of distress or trouble, we often, in an attempt to comfort them, say, “Don’t worry. God won’t give you more than you can handle.” But that is a heavy yoke to give someone when Jesus’ yoke is easy, and His burden in light.
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Questions for the Week
Describe a time in life when you’ve felt overwhelmed.
Which Biblical stories can you think of where people were overwhelmed, given more than they could handle on their own?
Read 2 Corinthians 1:3-11. What does Paul say about suffering and being overwhelmed? During his time in Asia, was he able to handle it himself? What was the result of that suffering?
Read Matthew 11:25-30. What is Jesus’ invitation for you in times when it feels like you have more than you can handle on your plate?
How would you encourage someone who is going through a rough time, feeling like they had more than they could handle?
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[Easter Sunday] - Life Together
It’s clear that women played an important role in the story of Jesus. It’s intriguing that almost all of Jesus’ male disciples abandoned him in his final moments, but it’s women who are the first to witness and proclaim a new life and forgiveness for all.
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Questions for the Week
Describe a time when you’ve had to make the most out of a bad situation.
Read Mark 16:1-8. What are the women expecting to happen? How are they trying to make the most of a bad situation?
What actually happens? What are they told to do in response to Christ’s resurrection?
How should we live in response to Christ’s resurrection?
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Good Friday - Stations of Loss
The Stations of Loss
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[Maundy Thursday] Peter - Life Together
We talk with Peter on the Skype line.
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[Sunday Service] Palm Sunday - Life Together
Jesus and his followers have made the long uphill trek to Jerusalem, and they begin to feel victorious. After all, they had just climbed a mountain, and they are with the one who will continue to climb all the way to the top of Rome itself. But is that what Jesus does, climb mountains to the top? Or is he calling us to follow him to the trenches of God’s work, the cross?
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Questions for the Week
When you had a big accomplishment (such as a graduation or promotion), how did you celebrate it?
Read Mark 11:1-11. How do the disciples and Jesus’ followers celebrate as Jesus comes into Jerusalem at the time of the Passover? Who do they think Jesus is?
Read John 12:12-26. In John 12:24, what do you think Jesus means about a grain of wheat falling, dying, and then bearing fruit?
What does John 12:24 have to do with Jesus’ death and resurrection? What does this have to do with our life as we follow Jesus?
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[Wednesday Service] Pilate - Life Together
He washed his hands of the dirty situation with Jesus. He did not have to worry about it anymore. He was clean. But was he?
What a Friend we have in Jesus
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[Sunday Service] Natural Light - Life Together
Natty light, Bud Light, and Miller Lite - they can be found everywhere; you’re always able to find one on tap. But which one of these would Jesus drink? I have joked that Jesus would only want the best, some local craft beer brewed by someone wearing suspenders and a mustache. But after reading about his last drink, I think he would have shared a Natty Light after a late shift.
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Questions for the Week
What are you thirsty for? What’s your beverage of choice?
Read John 19:17-29. What causes Jesus to thirst? What is he thirsting for?
Read 1 Peter 4:1-6. In times of suffering, what are some things that you’ve thristed for that have let you down?
According to Peter, because of Jesus and his love for us, in times of suffering, what should you love and desire?
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[Wednesday Lent Service] - Thief's Father
A Skype Call from the Thief’s on the Cross withe Jesus Father.
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[Sunday Service] Invisible Love - Life Together
Jesus, while on the cross, looked up into the sky and yelled, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me?” This seems appropriate for today, as we see so much change in the last two weeks. Things are closed, the economy is bad, and I am watching worship on a screen. Is God somewhere else as well? But Peter encourages us to remember the God that is always here, the invisible love.
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Questions for the Week
Describe a time where you didn’t feel and see Jesus working and wondered where he was.
Read Mark 15:21-39. Have recent world events caused you to read this differently? If so, how so?
Read 1 Peter 1:6-9. According to Peter, where is Jesus when you don’t see him?
Describe a time in the past when you faced challenges that you realized Jesus was near. How can you encourage someone with that this week?
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The End is Near - Life Together
The world is shutting down, and people are hoarding toilet paper and hand sanitizer. But when the end is near, Peter reminds us that we are people who have been saved by the ending, the cross and death of God. And because we are people of God, we love like God.
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Questions for the Week
In the big Hollywood disaster movies, how do people respond when they know that “the end is near?"
Read 1 Peter 4:7:-11. How does Peter tell us we should live knowing that the end is near? Do you agree with this? Why or why not?
What enables us to live in the way that Peter calls us to live?
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This Is It - Life Together
When we look at our own stories it can leave us with the feeling of "This is it?" One of the criminals on the cross looked over and yelled, "This is it?" But Jesus has shown us that he on the cross truly is.
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Questions for the Week
Who is a celebrity who has died where you felt great loss? Why do you think you felt so much loss?
Read 1 Peter 1:3-5. According to Peter, what is our defining story made up of?
What about this story is contrary to what the world finds value in?
What do you find valuable about Peter’s words in 1 Peter 1:3-5, as you live out your life and faith?
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Who are You - Life Together
Peter says Heaven and earth will pass away but Jesus and his love for us will last forever. When everything seems to be so vapid, we need to hear those words.
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Sustaining the Kingdom - UnBelievable - 2 Kings 9-10
Here at the end it seems like God is sending his prophet to finally get things back on track. Elisha the prophet anoints Jehu king and tasks him with ridding the country of everything that has to do with Ahab and Jezebel. Jehu is thorough in his accomplishments, well, right up until it requires him to give up what he loves.
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Go In Peace - UnBelievable - 2 Kings 5
Naaman is the best ever. He is second to the king and a virtually undefeated war general, but he just discovered he has leprosy. So he grabs every bit of wealth and power and goes to visit the only one he knows who can heal him. Will Elisha accept his gifts to heal this gentile power?
Questions for the Week
Who is the most prideful person you know? What about them makes them prideful?
Read 2 Kings 5;1-7. What is Naaman prideful about? What is he trusting in most? When are times that we trust in similar things?
Read 2 Kings 5:8-14. Describe how Naaman is healed. How have you seen God work in the humble and small things?
Read 2 Kings 5:15-19. Now that Naaman has seen the true God, what is his problem with his job of serving the foreign king? What does Elisha tell him to do?
What is your first response when you find yourself in a situation where someone makes it difficult for you to live out your faith? How can you follow Elisha’s advice and simply “go in peace” knowing you are forgiven and God is with you in those times?
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Why Are You Here? - UnBelievable - 1 Kings 19
Elijah just had a huge win against the prophets of Baal; however, he leaves scared because Jezebel is threatening his life. He runs into the wilderness to the very mountain of God to hide from his sure defeat. But God, in a still, small voice asks him, “Why are you Here?”
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Battle at Baal Bluff - UnBelievable - 1 Kings 18
Mt Carmel is a picturesque bluff overlooking the Sea. Over the years many of God’s people have sacrificed to the LORD in that place, but now that alter is in disrepair. But Baal worshipers have built a new altar and the place is now known for worshiping the god of rain and fertility where the rain begins. One could say it’s the home-field advantage for Baal in a godly battle.
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A Dry Hope - UnBelievable - 1 Kings 17
Baal is not in charge. Elijah is the Lord’s prophet, and he has stopped the rain for long enough to make the rivers run dry. Everyone is suffering, especially the widows, and God sends his prophet to one of those widows to bring hope.
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Prophets and Kings - UnBelievable - 1 Kings 17
Times are dark. Since the times of David, the kingdom seems to be moving away from God in search of more and more power and wealth. This power and wealth have come at the cost of wanting to be like the other nations and have left the people serving the other gods around them. Into all of this we meet God’s prophet Elijah.
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Boy Jesus in the Temple - Arrival - Luke 2
Little is recorded about Jesus’ life between His birth and the age of 30. But this one episode tells so much. Jesus’ family life is a lot like anyone’s, full of mishaps and misunderstandings. As Jesus enters young adulthood, He begins manifesting an extraordinary sense of identity. (Remember, a 12-year-old isn’t “just a kid” in Israel; he is becoming a man.) He has a direct relationship with God as His Father, and He knows His life will follow a path of working for God.
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Introducing Him who completes all of creation with everything humanity has to offer.