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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
Psalm 70
Matthew 27:1-26 [NKJV]
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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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[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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Elijah to Elisha - UnBelievable
In this transitional section of the narrative, Elijah denounces idolatrous Ahaziah and later gets carried up to heaven; Elisha takes up the prophetic mantle in the spirit of Elijah.
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Peace - Arrival - Luke 1
This season can seem so overwhelming. This party, that shopping, those friends; it can seem like there is so much you have to do that it is just overwhelming. Think about Mary the mother of Jesus. How overwhelming would her life be here with so much pressure? Yet in feeling all of her pressure, she sits in humility and sings a song of excitement.
Questions for the Week
A week before Christmas how do you normally feel? Excited? Anxious? Overwhelmed? Something else? Why do you feel this way?
Read Luke 1: 46-56. This is Mary’s song of praise. What themes do Mary highlight? Where do you see Jesus living out these themes in his life and ministry?
In our gospel lesson we see both Mary and Elizabeth covered in excitement as God has come to the unworthy and humble. What are some ways you can get wrapped up in this true excitement of Christmas this week?
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Uncomfortable King - Uncomfortable - Daniel 2
The king wakes up and yells for his wisest men. They run in and see a distraught and angry king. He had a terrible dream and wants to know what it means or he will kill all of his wise men. Is this what true power looks like -- that it can wake up on the wrong side of the bead and end life in whomever it chooses? Perhaps Daniel’s description of the dream will bring comfort to the king, but maybe not.
QUESTIONS TO REFLECT ON DURING THE WEEK -
Read Daniel 2:1-16. How would you feel working for someone like King Nebuchadnezzar?
Read Daniel 2:17-30? What does this tell us about God? How is He different from others who have power in the world?
Read Daniel 2:31-45. What does the King’s dream ultimately mean? How does remembering that the kingdoms of the world are temporary give you a sense of hope?
Read Colossians 2:14-15. How does Jesus disarm these powers to give you an eternal sense of hope?
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Here Am I, Send Me - The Spirit Experience - Acts 28
At the closing of the book of Acts, Luke beckons us to look back, not only looking at the successes and failures of the church but to look at them through the life of Paul. We see where challenges and struggles with eyes that will not see and ears that will not hear take place. Yet, Paul, in chains, still preaches without hindrance. He continues to say, “Here am I! Send me!” May we face the challenges with the same creed.
QUESTIONS TO REFLECT ON DURING THE WEEK - “Rough Seas”
Tell a story of a time when you tried to tell someone something important and they didn’t understand.
Read Acts 28:17-31. What does Paul do in Rome? Why do so many people not believe his message about Jesus?
Read Isaiah 6:1-13. Isaiah is a prophet called by God to speak His word to His people. What is the message Isaiah has to say to God’s people who had gone astray in the Old Testament?
Why do you think Paul quotes Isaiah at this point in Acts?
What should we do with the message Jesus gives us, in a world that often doesn’t want to hear? How does the ending of Acts give you hope?
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The Beautiful Name - The Spirit Experience - Acts 3-5
Outside the temple there was a gate called Beautiful. This gate was a sign post as to how the kingdom of God was here with the people, and that kingdom was making everything beautiful. However, outside this beautiful gate is a disabled beggar asking for change. This gate is hardly living up to the expectation of its name, but then Peter comes by and gives this beggar life and beauty in a name that is above every name.
As you read through Luke, what has been one new thing you have learned about Jesus?
What does the name of Jesus mean to you?
Read Acts 3:1-10. What does the crippled man ask for? How does Peter respond? How does Jesus work in this situation?
What do you think the name of Jesus means for the disabled man after he is healed?
Read Acts 4:1-14. How do the leaders of the temple respond to the healing? Why do you think they are so upset?
What does Peter say in response? What does it look like for you to trust in the name of Jesus only?
How can you use this story to encourage someone this week?
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Free To Live - God's Grace
Today we see that although we have nothing to give in exchange for our salvation, God, in his grace, sets us free through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now we have much to give—all of the riches of God’s grace to share with others in Jesus’ name.
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Insiders - Heavenly Armor
“Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.” The Lord has brought us into His unity, and now we put on His strength and His armor to not fight in flesh and blood but against all forms of evil which desire to divide.
“Paul is encouraging us, saying through Jesus, the promise of Abraham, has come true, that those who were once outsiders are now insiders; those who were lost are now found. “A plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.” Ephesians 1:10 ”
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Teach us to Pray - Yours is the Kingdom, Power, and the Glory
What does this mean? This means that I should be certain that these petitions are pleasing to our Father in heaven, and are heard by Him; for He Himself has commanded us to pray in this way and has promised to hear us. Amen, amen means “yes, yes, it shall be so.”
Here is an interesting article about the ending of the Lord's Prayer
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ReForm Generosity - Lion and the Mouse
There once was a mouse that wanted to be bigger because it feared everything around it. Fear and anxiety can cause us to want to be bigger than we are currently. This fear can deal a blow to our generosity because we are always afraid we will not have enough. But God will always watch over us.
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ReForm Generosity - Back on Track
God sends us signs to get us back on track. What are these signs for you that have helped get your life back on track? John the Baptist was the biggest sign to show us Jesus, who gets us back on the right track.
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Beyond the tomb's despair, its emptiness unveils the way cleared for our return home. Matthew Chapter 28