GENESIS 24 Abraham was great because he led his family to serve the LORD (18:18-19). How does leading your family to God make you great? What can we be doing today to lead our families closer and closer to God? For Abraham’s son to be close to God, he needed a godly wife (24:1-4). How…
Elder Bryan McKee presents a lesson on preparing for the Christian walk, both practically and spiritually.
EPHESIANS 4:17-24 Introduction: This Tuesday marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation movement, but what other significant events and individuals allow us to have freedom in Christ today? Worldliness progresses along a specific path (v.17-18). How does hardness of heart lead to ignorance then to worldliness? What can we do to prevent our hearts from…
Elder Bob Kline discusses the stories of Naaman from Second Kings (5:1-19) and Hezekiah from Second Chronicles (30:1-22), in an effort to determine the nature with which God desires his people to worship, during a study entitled, “Grace in Worship.”
PSALM 80 Restore us to a close relationship with you O God (v.1-3). How close was God to Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh? (Num. 10:21-24) What is our plea when we aren’t as close to God as we long to be? Restore us from our tears to your presence (v.4-7). What is our plea when we…
Ephesians 1 The only way to get bread is to go where it is (Genesis 41:54, 57). Why couldn’t the grain be delivered to other places? What is the parallel for salvation? (II Timothy 2:10). All spiritual blessings are found in Christ (Ephesians 1:1-3). How is salvation more than just being saved? What is the…
ACTS 2:42 The early disciples were devoted (v.42). What happens to marriages and all relationships when there is a lack of devotion? What is involved in being completely devoted? They were devoted to the apostles’ teaching (v.42). How did they practice devotion to the apostles’ teaching? How can we better display devotion to the apostles’…
LUKE 1:26-38 The angel Gabriel had been sent 530 years earlier to Daniel (Daniel 9:21). What is the relationship between prayer and the arrival of angels? What factors in this story encourage you to more devoted prayer? The angel Gabriel had been sent six months earlier to Zechariah (Luke 1:11-20). After over four centuries of…
COLOSSIANS 4:12-13 Epaphras was always wrestling in prayer for his congregation (v.12). Of all the ways he could have struggled, why is this behavior complimented? How do things change when we wrestle in prayer for our brethren? Epaphras prayed for them to stand firm, be mature and have assurance (v.12). How does his ‘prayer journal’…
Listen to Jodi Luke’s summary of her mission work in Italy and her upcoming mission work in Scotland. Apologies, as the recording starts a few seconds into her presentation.