Mar 13, 2022
Good News! – Isaiah 61
By: Ben Lairamore
Series: Isaiah
Questions for Discussion & Application
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
- How does this passage challenge you personally? How will you respond in obedience to what you have heard?
- Why are we confident that this chapter is fulfilled by Jesus? (See Luke 4:14-21.) How does this inform and shape our whole lens for interpreting Isaiah?
- In verses 1-3 what does the anointed one provide? Which of these provisions is most encouraging to you personally?
- What do we learn about God’s character in verse 8? How does this encourage you?
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- Mar 13, 2022Good News! – Isaiah 61Mar 13, 2022Good News! – Isaiah 61By: Ben LairamoreSeries: IsaiahQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
- How does this passage challenge you personally? How will you respond in obedience to what you have heard?
- Why are we confident that this chapter is fulfilled by Jesus? (See Luke 4:14-21.) How does this inform and shape our whole lens for interpreting Isaiah?
- In verses 1-3 what does the anointed one provide? Which of these provisions is most encouraging to you personally?
- What do we learn about God’s character in verse 8? How does this encourage you?
- Mar 6, 2022A Glorious Future – Isaiah 60Mar 6, 2022A Glorious Future – Isaiah 60By: Ben LairamoreSeries: IsaiahQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
- How does this passage challenge you personally? How will you respond in obedience to what you have heard?
- Apart from the light of Christ, the world is covered in thick darkness. What does this darkness look like?
- In verses 3-14 we see the nations coming to the Light. How does this strengthen our resolve to share Jesus, the Light of the World, with the lost in all the earth?
- What descriptions of Zion in this chapter do we see repeated in the New Testament? (See Revelation 21:9-27, Hebrews 12:22, and I Peter 2:5.) How does this encourage you?
- Feb 26, 2022Instructions for Parents & Kids – Ephesians 6:1-4Feb 26, 2022Instructions for Parents & Kids – Ephesians 6:1-4By: Ben LairamoreSeries: Sunday Morning MessageQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
- How can I continue to honor my parents even as an adult?
- As a parent, am I doing things that may provoke my child? If so, how will I seek to address this?
- As a parent, how do I need to grow in providing loving discipline for my children?
- As a parent or grandparent, how can I be more intentional in providing spiritual training for my children or grandchildren?
- As a young person, how do I need God’s grace to better honor and obey my parents?
- Feb 20, 2022True & False Fasting – Isaiah 58Feb 20, 2022True & False Fasting – Isaiah 58By: Ben LairamoreSeries: IsaiahQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
- How does this passage challenge you personally? How will you respond in obedience to what you have heard?
- Have you ever fasted? What is the difference between a true and false fast?
- This passage challenges us to pour ourselves out for the hungry/needy (vs. 10). What are some specific ways that you can live this out?
- How do the promised results of sacrificial love and care for the needy motivate you to action?
- Feb 13, 2022Join the Banquet – Isaiah 55Feb 13, 2022Join the Banquet – Isaiah 55By: Ben LairamoreSeries: IsaiahQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
- Why is it essential that we understand that the LORD calls us to a feast that is free? Who paid for the feast on our behalf?
- In what way are we to seek the Lord according to verses 6-7?
- Does it encourage you to know that God’s Word will always accomplish the purpose for which the Lord sends it out? If yes, why?
- How have you seen the reality explained in verses 8-9 that the LORD’s thoughts and ways are higher than our thoughts and ways?
- Jan 30, 2022The Suffering Servant – Isaiah 52:13-53:12Jan 30, 2022The Suffering Servant – Isaiah 52:13-53:12By: Ben LairamoreSeries: IsaiahQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
- Why are the predictions of our passage rightly seen as miraculous? How does this encourage and strengthen your faith?
- What is meant by being “healed” by the Servants wounds in Isaiah 53:5? How do we experience this healing now? How will we experience it in the future?
- Why was the Servant’s bloody death necessary for God to count sinners as righteous?
- Has God sprinkled you with the Servant’s blood, healed you, and counted you as righteous? If yes, how does this assurance of being forgiven impact the way you live your daily life?
- Jan 23, 2022COLOSSIANS 1:15-23Jan 23, 2022COLOSSIANS 1:15-23By: Nick WebbSeries: ColossiansQuestions:
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of Scripture?
- Why would people find the statements in Colossians 1:15-20 so offensive? How would you respond to someone who thought these claims were ridiculous?
- Jesus is the image of the invisible God: how would you describe what Christians believe about Jesus and his deity to a friend?
- How do you feel about the importance of church in general, and your church in particular? How have the ideas of this passage changed those views?
- Could you explain in a way that a non-believer could understand the reasons why Jesus had to become a living, breathing human being in order to save us?
- How does Jesus’ sacrificial death make peace? What could be offensive about that claim?
- What has changed in your own life since you first trusted in Jesus? What steps do you need to take to remain “stable and steadfast” in your faith?
- “Holy”, “blameless”, “above reproach” (v 22). How would believing these truths to be accurate descriptions of yourself change the way you live and feel about your Christian life?
- Jan 16, 2022The LORD’s Servant – Isaiah 49:1-7Jan 16, 2022The LORD’s Servant – Isaiah 49:1-7By: Ben LairamoreSeries: IsaiahQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
- Who is the Servant of the LORD spoken of in Isaiah 49:1-7? How do we know?
- What can we learn from verse 4 about how to handle discouraging results as we seek to labor for the Lord’s Kingdom?
- God was accomplishing something bigger than just the return of Judah from exile. What would God do through the Servant? (See verse 6.)
- How are you also a part of the bigger picture of what God is doing in the world?
- Jan 9, 2022The Folly of Idolatry – Isaiah 44:6-20Jan 9, 2022The Folly of Idolatry – Isaiah 44:6-20By: Ben LairamoreSeries: IsaiahQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
- Why are all people so prone to the worship of idols?
- How does God demonstrate in Isaiah 44-45 that He alone is God?
- What are common idols of today? Where is your heart tempted to trust in an idol?
- Why is idolatry so foolish? How have you experienced this to be true in your own life?
- What is the remedy for man’s idolatry?
- Jan 2, 20224 Prayers for 2022 – Matthew 28:16-20Jan 2, 20224 Prayers for 2022 – Matthew 28:16-20By: Ben LairamoreSeries: Sunday Morning Message4 Prayers for 2022 - Matthew 28:16-20
- Lord, help us to remember that we exist for your glory. May the glory of your name be our overarching purpose in all things and at all times.
- Lord, help us to fulfill our mission of reaching the lost with the glorious hope of the Gospel in Ozark and to the ends of the earth.
- Lord, help us to fulfill our ministry of encouraging one another to grow and mature more and more into the image of Christ as His disciples.
- Lord, help us to trust your ordained means of working in and through your people as we proclaim your Word and pray.
