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 34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn “‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—36 a man’s enemies will be the members […]
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 […]
Numbers 27:12-23 12 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go up this mountain in the Abarim Range and see the land I have given the Israelites. 13 After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was, 14 for when the community rebelled at the waters in the Desert of Zin, both of you disobeyed my command to honor me […]
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. The text for our consideration this morning is taken from Paul’s letter to the Philippians, chapter 2. What brings you shame? When we come face-to-face with shame, we want to bow our head and turn away our eyes. You probably […]
Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes Prophet, what will you say? 1. What people what to hear? 2. What God reveals to be the truth? 10 Dressed in their royal robes, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the […]
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 […]
Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes John 16:5–11 5 but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. 7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that […]
Life Guide Life Guide: Leader’s Notes 2 Corinthians 4:13-18 13 It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, 14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and […]
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 […]