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"Losing to Win" - Surrendering Your Time - Lance Lewis [VIDEO]

This Sunday, Pastor Lance Lewis will be continuing a 4-part series entitled, "Lose to Win", focusing this week on "Surrendering Your Time."

SERMON QUESTIONS:

1. How do you evaluate the time you spend on activities, work, kids, etc? Is there room in that schedule for discipleship and service?

2. How do love and faithfulness tie together?

3. How do we cultivate an attitude of sincere love for God in every aspect of our lives?

4. What does it mean to "stay chained to the chariot"? 5. How do the testimonies of others encourage your faith?

"Losing to Win" - The Blessing of Surrender - Lance Lewis [VIDEO]

This Sunday, Pastor Lance Lewis will be starting a 4-part series entitled, "Losing to Win," focusing this week on "The Blessing of Surrender."

 

SERMON QUESTIONS:

1. How does the world define success? What evidence is there in the US for how success is defined?

2. How does the Bible define success? What are the differences?

3. Have you faced a time in your life where you chose to retreat?

4. What does surrender mean to you? How do you go about daily surrender to Christ?

"Consider The Star" - Too Many Kings - Tim Richards [VIDEO]

Pastor Tim Richards continues his series, "Consider the Star." This week's sermon is entitled "Too Many Kings."

 

SERMON QUESTIONS

 

1. Read Matthew 2:1-16. Thinking about Jesus & Herod, how many points of comparison and contrast can you find?

2. Considering Herod’s claim that he too wanted to worship the new king, why do you think he met with the Wise Men in secret with his request (Matthew 2:7)?

3. What other historical examples are you aware of where a ruler acted with the type of cruelty displayed by Herod? What was their motivation?

4. Letting Jesus be king can be a challenge in every life. Can you identify areas in your life where you have had to submit your priorities to his? What was the outcome?

"Consider The Star" - Christmas for Pagans - Tim Richards [VIDEO]

Pastor Tim Richards will begins a 4-week Advent series called "Consider the Star." This week's sermon is entitled "Christmas for Pagans".

 

SERMON QUESTIONS

1. Have you ever been someplace where you had a really good view of the Milky Way? Where were you and what was it like?

2. Does it surprise you that God orchestrated the universe in such a way that the Magi from the East were able to determine Christ had been born by studying the stars? What does that tell you about God’s bigger plan of salvation?

3. Read Numbers 24:15-17. What about Balaam’s prophecy do you think caused later Rabbi’s to believe it was about a future Messiah and not just a message for the immediate conflict between Israel and Moab?

4. Have you ever known someone who came to faith in Jesus in a very unconventional way? How did it happen? What does it tell you about God’s love for people?

"Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness" - Caleb - Tim Richards [VIDEO]

Pastor Tim Richards completes the series "Long Journey Home", focusing this week on "Life in the Promised Land". 

SERMON QUESTIONS:
 
1. Joshua 21:43-45 is a description of Israel settled in the promised land. What images come to mind when you hear the term “Promised Land”?

2. In what ways do you think Israel’s experience in the Promised Land does or does not compare to our idea of heaven?

3. It appears that life in the Promised Land is not always free of conflict – at least not for now. In your own journey, what have been some conflicts you have faced? How did you find victory?

4. Thinking back over the journey we have been on these past 12 weeks, are there any lessons or new understandings from Isreal’s journey that have stood out to you? Why?

"Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness" - Caleb - Tim Richards [VIDEO]

Pastor Tim Richards will continue the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on Caleb.

 

SERMON QUESTIONS

1. Have you ever met someone who struck you as incredibly impressive? What made them seem special?

2. Read Numbers 13:1-2, 6, 25-30. How many impressive traits can you detect in Caleb from this account?

3. Read Deuteronomy 1:36 and Joshua 14:7-14. What character trait of Caleb is repeatedly emphasized? What are the implications of that trait?

4. Read Matthew 16:24-25. How does the teaching of Jesus connect with the character of Caleb? What does it mean in your own life to develop that kind of character?

"Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness" - JERICHO - Lance Lewis [VIDEO]

Pastor Lance Lewis continues the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on Jericho. 

SERMON QUESTIONS

1. Have you seen areas where contentment has crept into your life? How do we prevent that from happening to us spiritually?

2. Put yourself in Joshua's sandals. How would you have approached the challenge of Jericho? What reservations might you have? How have you experienced the power of God in your own life?

3. How has God gotten you ready for the next season of your life?

4. Do you have a personal Jericho in your life right now? How can we fight that battle on our knees in prayer?

"Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness" - Joshua - Tim Richards [VIDEO]

Pastor Tim Richards continues the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on Joshua. 

SERMON QUESTIONS:
 
1. Was there a dream or goal you had as a youth that you worked toward? What was it and what did you do?

2. Read Numbers 11:28, Exodus 24:12-13 and 33:7-11. Pay special attention to what is said about Joshua. What do you learn about him from these passages? How do you think this impacted and prepared him for God’s calling to lead?

3. Read Joshua 5:13-15. Who do you think was the mysterious commander of the Lord’s army? Why?

4. Why do you think God ordained an encounter like this with Joshua right before Joshua went into battle? What lessons can we learn from this?

"Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness" - Kadesh Barnea - Tim Richards [VIDEO]

 Pastor Tim Richards will continue the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on Kadesh Barnea. 

Sermon Notes:

1. Have you made any  big geographical moves? How did you prepare for the move? What excited or intimidated you about the move?

2. Read Deuteronomy 1:22 & 28. What was the difference between what the spies were supposed to do vs what they actually did?

3. Read Deuteronomy 1:26, 34-35 & 41-44. Why wasn’t God pleased when the people went to battle like he had told them to?

4. Has there been or is there a place in your life you could identify as a Kadesh Barnea – a place where God has asked you to do something that was beyond your ability without his help? How did you respond? What did you learn?

"Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness" - The Golden Calf - Lance Lewis [VIDEO]

This Sunday, Pastor Lance Lewis will continue the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on the Golden Calf.

SERMON QUESTIONS:

1. In your opinion, what makes an idol?

2. What do you think about Calvin's quote that “the human heart is a perpetual idol factory?”

3. Which of the surface idols do you/have you struggled with? What about the deeper idols in our hearts?

4. What do you think of the remedies to idolatry? Which stand out to you and why?