Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes Forward in Faith This is the first week of our Forward in Faith sermon series. It’s four weeks looking at where our ministry might go in the next few years. We’re hoping maybe a new Bible study room, new school classrooms, less debt so we can do more […]
Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes 34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your […]
Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes Have you ever seen someone’s face the moment they find a treasure? Maybe you can think of a movie or TV show, but in 2006 it happened in real life.[1] Amanda Reece was remodeling her bathroom so she hired a contractor. He was under the medicine cabinet, ripping […]
Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” How’s that going for you? I think about my life and the lives of people I talked to this week. Our days fill up with errands and activities, and […]
Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes Some parts of the Bible are letters. Some parts of the Bible are stories. Some are songs. What would you call this? Jeremiah 20:7-13 7 You deceived me, LORD, and I was deceived; you overpowered me, and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me. 8 […]
Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes Nobody in this room would disagree: our world is hurting. Nobody in this room would disagree: God can help. But how? One time, God helped a hurting world by sending a prophet named Isaiah to be the voice of reason and the voice of comfort in a hurting […]
Ephesians 1:16-23 16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of your […]
Life Guide 1 Kings 18:16-45 (NIV) 16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?” 18 “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the Lord’s commands and have […]
Life Guide Children’s Message Dear people scattered around the world, loved by God wherever you are, hear God’s words from a letter written by St. Peter: 1 Peter 1:3-9 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living […]
Life Guide PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11 5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in […]