Jan 1, 2023
4 Prayers for the New Year
Questions for Application & Discussion:
  1. What did you find confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of Scripture?
  2. What mistakes might we make as individuals and as a church community if we forget that our overarching purpose is the glory of God.
  3. How are you participating in our mission of reaching the lost? What lost person can you resolve to pray for and reach out to this year?
  4. How are you helping others in our church family to grow as followers of Jesus? Who is helping you to grow as a disciple?
  5. Why is it important to trust that the proclamation of the Scripture and prayer are God’s planned means of working in our lives?
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  • Jan 1, 20234 Prayers for the New Year
    Jan 1, 2023
    4 Prayers for the New Year
    Questions for Application & Discussion:
    1. What did you find confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of Scripture?
    2. What mistakes might we make as individuals and as a church community if we forget that our overarching purpose is the glory of God.
    3. How are you participating in our mission of reaching the lost? What lost person can you resolve to pray for and reach out to this year?
    4. How are you helping others in our church family to grow as followers of Jesus? Who is helping you to grow as a disciple?
    5. Why is it important to trust that the proclamation of the Scripture and prayer are God’s planned means of working in our lives?
  • Dec 25, 2022What Is the Good News of the Incarnation? – Philippians 2:5-7
    Dec 25, 2022
    What Is the Good News of the Incarnation? – Philippians 2:5-7
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s message?
    2. How does today’s message challenge you personally?
    3. Why is the incarnation such an amazing miracle? What emotions are stirred up in you by reflecting upon the incarnation?  Why?
    4. How does the incarnation assure us of God’s love and determination to rescue sinners? How can we follow Jesus’ example from the incarnation in how we relate to the lost?
    5. Does it encourage you to know that Jesus has walked through the same difficulties of life that you face? How?    
  • Dec 18, 2022What Does the Passover Teach Us? – Exodus 11-12
    Dec 18, 2022
    What Does the Passover Teach Us? – Exodus 11-12
    Series: Exodus
    What Does the Passover Teach Us? - Exodus 11-12  Sin requires death.   Forgiveness requires blood.   God makes a distinction.  God’s People need reminders.   Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. How does today’s passage challenge you personally?
    3. How does Jesus fulfill the Passover? (See Matthew 26:26-28, John 1:29, I Corinthians 5:7, and I Peter 1:19.)
    4. How does it strengthen your faith to see the foreshadowing of the Old Testament fulfilled by Jesus in the New Testament?
    5. Why is it so important that we make a distinction between those who are the people of God and those who are not? How are Christians set apart as the people of God?
    6. Why is it actually loving towards the world for us to make this distinction?
    7. What reminders of His grace has God given to us as His Church?
  • Dec 11, 2022Let My People Go – Exodus 7-10
    Dec 11, 2022
    Let My People Go – Exodus 7-10
    Series: Exodus
    Let My People Go – Exodus 7-10  What does a hard heart look like?  How does God work through a hard heart?   Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. How does today’s passage challenge you personally?
    3. Why does the all-powerful God ask Pharoah to let His people go? Does God need Pharoah’s consent?
    4. In the various descriptions of Pharoah’s hard heart, which of them stands out most to you? Why?
    5. What is the Bible’s remedy for a hard heart? (See John 3:3.) 
    6. How does it encourage you to see that God triumphs over His enemies in displays of glory and judgment? (See Exodus 9:14-16 & Philippians 2:9-11.)      
  • Dec 4, 2022Seeing God’s Bigger Plan – Exodus 5-6
    Dec 4, 2022
    Seeing God’s Bigger Plan – Exodus 5-6
    Series: Exodus
    Seeing God’s Bigger Plan – Exodus 5-6  Moses’ obedience to his mission led initially to greater suffering for Israel.    Israel grumbled about the increased suffering of their lives and failed to see and trust the bigger plan of what God was doing.  Moses questioned God and asked why He had sent him to Egypt since God had not immediately delivered Israel but had instead allowed their suffering to intensify.   God mercifully encouraged the weak faith of Moses and of Israel with a reminder of His bigger plan.   Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. How does today’s passage challenge you personally?
    3. When has obedience to God caused you to experience more difficulty in life? How did you respond to this increased difficulty?
    4. Have you ever struggled with grumbling about the suffering and difficulty in your life? How does it encourage you to remember that God has a bigger plan and purpose? (See Romans 8:28-29.)    
    5. Have you ever found God’s timing to be difficult? What helped you to be patient as you waited on God? 
    6. What is God’s bigger plan for us as Christians that we need to remember? (See Revelation 21:1-22:5.)  How will remembering this bigger plan help you to trust God in the midst of your current difficulties?
  • Nov 27, 2022God’s Mercy in Moses’ Calling – Exodus 3-4
    Nov 27, 2022
    God’s Mercy in Moses’ Calling – Exodus 3-4
    Series: Exodus
    God’s Mercy in Moses’ Calling – Exodus 3-4  God chooses to accomplish His mission through Moses, a weak and doubting vessel.   Before God calls Moses to his difficult mission, God mercifully reveals Himself to Moses and assures Moses that He will be with him.    God mercifully encourages the weak faith of Moses and makes concessions to help him embrace his mission.   Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. How does today’s passage challenge you personally?
    3. When God calls us to a difficult task or to a difficult step of obedience, who must be the object of our focus if we are to be faithful?  
    4. Why does God choose to use weak and doubting vessels to accomplish His mission (see 2 Corinthians 12:9)? How have you seen this to be true?
    5. What difficult mission has God called all Christians to embrace? How has God encouraged you to embrace this mission?   
  • Nov 20, 2022God’s Promise & Plan – Exodus 1-2
    Nov 20, 2022
    God’s Promise & Plan – Exodus 1-2
    Series: Exodus
    God’s Promise & Plan – Exodus 1-2   In fulfillment of God’s promise and plan, Israel multiplied in Egypt despite oppression.     In fulfillment of God’s promise and plan, Moses was drawn out of the water that was meant to bring him death.      In fulfillment of God’s promise and plan, God heard the groaning of His people.   Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. How does today’s passage challenge you personally?
    3. How does it encourage you to see that the plans of Pharoah were repeatedly thwarted by God, especially when we consider what is happening in the world today?
    4. How does trusting in God’s promise and plan lead you to act with courageous obedience?
    5. When is the last time that you groaned to the Lord? How did you see His faithfulness?   
  • Nov 6, 2022Why Community? – Acts 2:37-47
    Nov 6, 2022
    Why Community? – Acts 2:37-47
    Why Community? – Acts 2:37-47  Because God’s plan has always been to create a community of people for Himself.  Because there is safety in the community of God’s people.   Because the community of God’s people shows the beauty of God to the world.   Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s message?
    2. How does today’s message challenge you personally?
    3. As Americans we are conditioned to think in very individualistic ways. How does God’s Word challenge you to think less as an individual and more as a part of a church community?  What specific steps does this lead you to take? 
    4. How does it make you feel to know that you are part of such a wonderful community as the church?
    5. What impact has our church community had on your life personally?
    6. What examples have you noticed of God’s beauty being seen through our own church community?
  • Oct 30, 2022Singing Well – Psalm 96
    Oct 30, 2022
    Singing Well – Psalm 96
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. How does today’s passage challenge you personally?
    3. What songs of the faith have most ministered to you? Why?
    4. Is the Lord the audience that you think of when you sing in congregational worship?
    5. What can you do in order to better “sing to the Lord a new song”?
  • Oct 23, 2022How Should We Live in Light of the Coming Day of the Lord? – 2 Peter 3:11-18
    Oct 23, 2022
    How Should We Live in Light of the Coming Day of the Lord? – 2 Peter 3:11-18
    Series: II Peter
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. How does today’s passage challenge you personally?
    3. Why must we be convinced of Jesus’ return in order to live in a way that pleases God? What are some examples where we find this to be true?
    4. What does it look like in your everyday life to be waiting for the Day of God?
    5. In this book, Peter is seeking to guard believers from falling away from following Christ. What things have you learned from 2 Peter that will help you to persevere in the faith?