Oct 17, 2021
Theme of Colossians: The Centrality of Christ in All Things
Series: Colossians
  1. Was there anything confusing, challenging, or encouraging from Colossians 1:1-8?
  2. What things do you give thanks to God and/or pray for the most?[1]
  3. How is Christ central in Paul’s prayer? How can He be more central in your own prayers?
  4. Our cultural understanding of a ‘saint’ is someone who is particularly wholesome or Christlike. However, Scripture refers to believers in Christ as saints (someone who is set apart by God for God) because they have trusted in Christ for salvation. This is a designation you cannot earn. It is given to you. Why is it hard for us to remember and think of ourselves as saints?
  5. Paul offers sincere thanks to God for the faith and love he sees in the Colossian Christians. Whose example of faith and love are you thankful for?
  6. How can believers grow in seeing themselves as “in Christ”? How does resting in Christ’s work for us empower us to live for Him?
  7. Faith, hope and love: In what ways can our hope for heaven motivate both our love and our faith now (v 5)? Which of these three areas of Christian believing and living do you think you are weakest on? Why might that be?[2]
  8. Paul says the Gospel is powerful and effective. He believes that God will continue to powerfully work through His Word to bring salvation and life-change. What areas is it easy for you trust in God’s Word to be powerful and effective? What areas is it less easy?
[1] Mark Meynell, Colossians: Confident Christianity, (THe Good Book Company, 2016), 38. [2] Mark Meynell, Colossians & Philemon for You, ed. Carl Laferton, God’s Word for You (The Good Book Company, 2018), 17.
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  • Oct 17, 2021Theme of Colossians: The Centrality of Christ in All Things
    Oct 17, 2021
    Theme of Colossians: The Centrality of Christ in All Things
    Series: Colossians
    1. Was there anything confusing, challenging, or encouraging from Colossians 1:1-8?
    2. What things do you give thanks to God and/or pray for the most?[1]
    3. How is Christ central in Paul’s prayer? How can He be more central in your own prayers?
    4. Our cultural understanding of a ‘saint’ is someone who is particularly wholesome or Christlike. However, Scripture refers to believers in Christ as saints (someone who is set apart by God for God) because they have trusted in Christ for salvation. This is a designation you cannot earn. It is given to you. Why is it hard for us to remember and think of ourselves as saints?
    5. Paul offers sincere thanks to God for the faith and love he sees in the Colossian Christians. Whose example of faith and love are you thankful for?
    6. How can believers grow in seeing themselves as “in Christ”? How does resting in Christ’s work for us empower us to live for Him?
    7. Faith, hope and love: In what ways can our hope for heaven motivate both our love and our faith now (v 5)? Which of these three areas of Christian believing and living do you think you are weakest on? Why might that be?[2]
    8. Paul says the Gospel is powerful and effective. He believes that God will continue to powerfully work through His Word to bring salvation and life-change. What areas is it easy for you trust in God’s Word to be powerful and effective? What areas is it less easy?
    [1] Mark Meynell, Colossians: Confident Christianity, (THe Good Book Company, 2016), 38. [2] Mark Meynell, Colossians & Philemon for You, ed. Carl Laferton, God’s Word for You (The Good Book Company, 2018), 17.
  • Oct 10, 2021Seeing God’s Faithfulness – Exodus 2:23-3:22
    Oct 10, 2021
    Seeing God’s Faithfulness – Exodus 2:23-3:22
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
    2. How can you relate to Israel’s seemingly impossible situation?
    3. God has promised that people from every tribe will be saved and be present around Jesus’ throne in heaven (Revelation 7). What are the obstacles that can make this feel impossible?
    4. Do you ever struggle to trust the faithfulness of God? What has helped you to continue trusting Him?
    5. We express our trust in the faithfulness of God through prayer and obedience? How have you experienced this to be true in your own life?
    6. Why is Jesus the greatest expression of God’s faithfulness?
  • Oct 3, 2021Assyria, the Lord’s Tool – Isaiah 10:5-19
    Oct 3, 2021
    Assyria, the Lord’s Tool – Isaiah 10:5-19
    Series: Isaiah
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
    2. Is there ever a time when God is not in control? Even when His enemies seem to be strong?
    3. How have you seen God work through persons who are rebellious against Him?
    4. What successes do you need to give credit to God for?
    5. How will God ultimately humble His enemies? (See Revelation 20:11-15.)
    6. How does it encourage you to see the bigger picture of what God is doing and how things will ultimately end?
  • Sep 26, 2021What Child is this? – Isaiah 9:1-7
    Sep 26, 2021
    What Child is this? – Isaiah 9:1-7
    Series: Isaiah
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
    2. Why does humanity continually look for a perfect king, ruler, or government? What are we seeking in this pursuit?  How does Jesus fulfill this longing?   
    3. Why must this prophecy be about Jesus? How does this prophecy help to establish that Jesus is God in human flesh?
    4. What aspects of Jesus’ reign described in this prophecy appeal most to you? Why?
    5. What blessings of Jesus’ reign do we already see realized? What blessings of His reign are we still waiting for Him to fulfil in the future? (See Matthew 11:2-6, Isaiah 11, and Revelation 21.)
    6. Which title used to describe Jesus in verse 6 stands out most to you? Why?
  • Sep 19, 2021Making and Maturing disciples for the glory of God
    Sep 19, 2021
    Making and Maturing disciples for the glory of God
  • Sep 12, 2021What do you Fear? – Isaiah 7:1-25
    Sep 12, 2021
    What do you Fear? – Isaiah 7:1-25
    Series: Isaiah
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
    2. What have your own reactions to trials revealed about what you trust in?
    3. How is a person with no faith in the Lord like a tree shaken by the wind?
    4. How have you found the statement of verse 9 to be true… “If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all”?
    5. What will help us to grow in trusting the Lord even when we go through trials?
    6. What was the ultimate outcome for King Ahaz because he feared and trusted in men rather than God? Does this pattern still prove true today? How do you see it?   
  • Sep 5, 2021A Life-Changing Vision of God – Isaiah 6:1-13
    Sep 5, 2021
    A Life-Changing Vision of God – Isaiah 6:1-13
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
    2. What do we learn about God from Isaiah’s vision? Do you think this is the common understanding of God in the American church today? How is this vision of God challenging to you? 
    3. In Isaiah 2 we saw God’s commitment to opposing human pride. In today’s passage we see that Isaiah’s vision of God’s holiness humbles him completely. Why is a proper vision of God the path to true humility? 
    4. Where do we see a proper vision of God’s greatness and holiness today? How has a vision of God transformed your life?
    5. God did not overlook or excuse Isaiah’s sin, rather He cleansed him of it. How do we experience cleansing from God? How has the assurance of such cleansing changed your life?
    6. Isaiah’s experience of being cleansed by God propelled him to embrace a mission of serving the Lord. How have you experienced this same reality in your own life?
  • Aug 31, 2021Looking at Life Correctly – Isaiah 2:6-22
    Aug 31, 2021
    Looking at Life Correctly – Isaiah 2:6-22
    Series: Isaiah
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
    2. Why were the false hopes of Judah expressions of pride against the Lord?
    3. What examples of human strength are you tempted to put your trust in rather than trusting the Lord?
    4. What expressions do we see today of the world flexing its’ muscles in pride against the Lord?
    5. How does it change the way you live now, when you realize that every expression of human pride that is opposed to God will be utterly humiliated?
  • Aug 25, 2021Baptiist Faith and Message Session Two
    Aug 25, 2021
    Baptiist Faith and Message Session Two
  • Aug 22, 2021Empty Religion – Isaiah 1:10-20
    Aug 22, 2021
    Empty Religion – Isaiah 1:10-20
    Series: Isaiah
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
    2. How have you been tempted to focus on the external activity of religion without a sincere focus upon and trust in the Lord?
    3. What might be some examples of false motivations for religious activity besides the worship of God and love for others?
    4. As those who have received God’s love, who are the weak and vulnerable around us that we are called to love? How is God using you to care for such persons?
    5. Is there any area where you need to heed the call to repent of empty religion and be washed clean? What gives us certainty that we can be made clean when we turn to the Lord?