Dungeness Community Church - AUDIO

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...

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...

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...

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 a...

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 charac...

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...

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? Ho...

 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 di...

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 hear...

This Sunday, Pastor Tim Richards continues the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on Amalek.   SERMON QUESTIONS: 1. Has there ever been something you assumed to be true only to find out later it wasn’t what you thought? If so, what was it, and what changed your mind? 2. Carefully read the account of Israel’s battle against the Amalekites (Exodus 17:8-16) What...

Pastor Tim Richards continues the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on Water From a Rock. SERMON QUESTIONS: 1. Read Exodus 17:1-7. Massah & Merebah mean Test & Argue in Hebrew. Why do you think Moses named the place in recognition of the people’s arguing  rather than the Lord’s miracle? Where are the places in your life where you tend to argue or com...

This Sunday, Pastor Tim Richards will continue the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on Manna. SERMON QUESTIONS: 1. What was something you ate often growing up? Did you love it, hate it or other? 2. Read Exodus 16:17 -18. What lessons do you learn from the equal shares of manna all received? 3. Why do you think some people tried to keep manna left-overs (Exo...

Pastor Pastor Lance Lewis continues the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on Bitter Waters.    SERMON QUESTIONS: 1.How do you understand the wilderness in your own life? Have you spent time there? 2. What does it mean to live by grace in the wilderness of life? 3. How is living a life of obedience to God true freedom? BTW, don’t forget the Travel Log project...

Pastor Tim Richards continues the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on Cloud and Fire.   SERMON QUESTIONS: 1. Do you use GPS when traveling? If so, which do you find most helpful – A) reading the on-screen turn directions, B) looking at the map graphic, or C) listening to voice prompts? 2. Israel didn’t have GPS, but they did have a fiery cloud leading them...

Pastor Tim Richards continues the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on Crossing the Red Sea.   SERMON QUESTIONS 1. How and why did Israel end up stranded by the Red Sea (read Exodus 13:17 -18 and 14:1-4)? 2. Israel had just experienced a whole series of miracles (the plagues on Egypt) that had won their release. Why do you think they so quickly started compl...

Pastor Tim Richards begins the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness," focusing this week on Passover. SERMON QUESTIONS: 1. What is the longest journey you have ever taken? Did you go alone or with someone? Which do you prefer and why? 2. Read Exodus 12:1-14. Which of the instructions given stand out to you and why? 3. Thinking about the instruction(s) that impressed you in this pas...

Pastor Lance Lewis concludes the series "Forgotten Prophets," looking at Malachi.    SERMON QUESTIONS 1. How do you personally seek to honor the Lord in all aspects of your life? 2. Have you brought hard questions to God? What was the result? 3. How have you been guilty of 'half-hearted' obedience in your past? How can you encourage others in their obedience? 4. What areas of your life need to hon...

Pastor Tim Richards continues the series "Forgotten Prophets," looking at Zechariah.    SERMON QUESTIONS: Try comparing Zechariah, chapters 1-8 to Haggai. How many connections can you find between the two? Zechariah has a series of visions. Some of the imagery can be hard to understand but take a look at the vision in Zechariah 2:1-13. What does it mean? How would this have been encouraging to con...

This Sunday, Pastor Tim Richards will continue the series "Forgotten Prophets," looking at Haggai.    SERMON QUESTIONS 1. Have you ever had a project that hit problems, got delayed, then procrastinated on and eventually forgotten? What was it? Did you ever get it finished? 2. To understand Haggai’s prophetic challenge, you need to understand what had happened prior to his time. Read Ezra 3:8-4:5....

Pastor Tim Richards continues the series "Forgotten Prophets" looking at Zephaniah.    SERMON QUESTIONS   1. Zephaniah ministered during the reign of King Josiah. Read 2 Kings 22:8-13. What does this tell you about the spiritual environment of Israel in the days of Zephaniah? 2. Read Zephaniah 1:4-5. What more does this tell you about the spiritual condition of Isreal in the days of Zephaniah? Can...

Pastor Tim Richards continues the series "Forgotten Prophets," looking at Habakkuk.   SERMON QUESTIONS 1. If you’ve spent any time around kids, you’ve probably heard some funny “why” questions. Which ones do you recall (or any other really hard to answer questions you’ve heard kids pose). 2. Habakkuk finds himself in a dialog with God. It begins with Habakkuk asking God some hard questions (Habakk...

This Sunday, Pastor Tim Richards continues the series "Forgotten Prophets," looking at Nahum.    SERMON QUESTIONS   1. Both Jonah and Nahum are prophetic words directed to Ninevah. What can you find in common between them? 2. What differences do you find between Jonah & Nahum? 3. What encouragement for God’s people is there within the prophetic words of Nahum? 4. What encouragement can you dra...

Pastor Tim Richards continues his series "Forgotten Prophets," looking at Micah.    SERMON QUESTIONS 1. Micah’s prophecy is one of coming judgment because of the evils that have taken root in the social fabric of Israel. Take a look at the following passages and come up with a list of the evils Micah specifies (Micah 1:1-2, 8-9; Micah 3:9-11; Micah 6:10-12) 2. Read Micah 5:2-5. Why is this prophec...

Pastor Tim Richards continues the series, "Forgotten Prophets" looking at Jonah.   SERMON QUESTIONS 1. The prophet Jonah is famous for his encounter with a whale. That was only necessary because Jonah was trying to run away from what God wanted him to do. Have you ever tried to run away from something you knew God wanted you to do? If so, what was it that turned you around? 2. Jonah wanted nothing...