Grand Lake Church

Thank you for joining Grand Lake UMC online today, we hope that this service will be a blessing to you and your family and pray that one day you may be able to join us in person. If you have any questions about this service or anything else we offer at Grand Lake UMC please contact the church office by email or phone. Thank you and enjoy God's word this morning! Read Luke 24: 44-53 A Prayer for Me...

Thank you for joining Grand Lake UMC online today, we hope that this service will be a blessing to you and your family and pray that one day you may be able to join us in person. If you have any questions about this service or anything else we offer at Grand Lake UMC please contact the church office by email or phone. Thank you and enjoy God's word this morning! Scripture and Questions for Study a...

Thank you for joining Grand Lake UMC online today, we hope that this service will be a blessing to you and your family and pray that one day you may be able to join us in person. If you have any questions about this service or anything else we offer at Grand Lake UMC please contact the church office by email or phone. Thank you and enjoy God's word this morning! Read Psalm 46: 1-3 1. In what ways...

Scripture and Questions for Study and Reflection: Read Luke 24:13-18, 28-35. 1. How do you relate to the two disciples who were going back to Emmaus, discouraged and dejected? Have you ever felt that way? When? What causes those kinds of feelings? 2. What did you think about the idea of Emmaus being a place we go to escape? Where do you go/what do you do when you need to escape? 3. How might going...

Easter Joy Jesus came to earth, To show us how to live, How to put others first, How to love and how to give. Then He set about His work, That God sent Him to do; He took our punishment on Himself; He made us clean and new. He could have saved Himself, Calling angels from above, But He chose to pay our price for sin; He paid it out of love. Our Lord died on Good Friday, But the cross did not destr...

Go Deeper This Week Scripture and Questions for Study and Reflection: Read John 19: 30 and Luke 23: 44-49. 1. Why are Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday celebrated on the same day? 2. To what was Jesus referring when he said, “It is finished”? In what way might this be considered a victory cry? 3. What is the significance of the darkness in verses 44 and 45? What does this darkness represent? 4. What...

Scripture and Questions for Study and Reflection: 1. Read Mark 15: 29-34. What does Jesus’ Fourth Word from the cross mean to you? What does it teach you about faith? What does it teach you about commitment? What does it teach you about love? 2. The passage from Mark 15: 29-32 states that multiple people were mocking and taunting Jesus while he was hanging on the cross. Who are these people? Who d...

Read John 19: 25-27. 1. Who is there at the foot of the cross while Jesus is being crucified? Who is not there? 2. What must it have been like for Mary at the foot of the cross? How important was it for her to have support in that moment, and in the time following Jesus’ death? 3. In what ways are Mary and John “family” after the crucifixion? In what ways are we part of that same family? 4. What d...

Go Deeper This Week Scripture and Questions for Study and Reflection: Read Luke 23: 39-43. 1. What do you think of when you hear the word “paradise”? 2. Pastor Mick said the word translated as “paradise” has its root in a Persian word that means “the king’s garden.” What garden might this be? 3. Pastor Mick talked about “paradise lost” through Adam and Eve and “paradise found” through Jesus. What...

We are continuing a 6-week sermon series on The Book of Jonah by Eric Mason on RightNow Media. Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets. The book is small in size but it is power-packed to impact your life. Read Jonah 4: 5-11. 1. Eric Mason begins this week’s video session saying, “God is seeking to cover us with His mercy, cover us with His grace, cover us with His love. And the purpose of Him c...

We are continuing a 6-week sermon series on The Book of Jonah by Eric Mason on RightNow Media. Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets. The book is small in size but it is power-packed to impact your life. Read Jonah 4: 1-4. 1. Why is Jonah so bitter and angry in today’s passage? Is his bitterness and anger legitimate? 2. Have you ever been bitter and angry when you thought someone didn’t receiv...

We are continuing a 6-week sermon series on The Book of Jonah by Eric Mason on RightNow Media. Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets. The book is small in size but it is power-packed to impact your life. "Read Jonah 3: 6-10. 1. What did you think about Pastor Mick’s example using a modern- day Washington D.C. to help us understand what Jonah was doing? How does that help us better understand t...

Thank you for joining Grand Lake UMC online today, we hope that this service will be a blessing to you and your family and pray that one day you may be able to join us in person. If you have any questions about this service or anything else we offer at Grand Lake UMC please contact the church office by email or phone. Thank you and enjoy God's word this morning! Read Jonah 3: 1-5 1. Why do you thi...

We are continuing a 6-week sermon series on The Book of Jonah by Eric Mason on RightNow Media. Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets. The book is small in size but it is power-packed to impact your life. 1. Read Jonah 1:17. What do you notice about this verse? Now read Matthew 12:40. What are some similarities in these passages? Are there other things you have heard or read in the Bible that c...

We are continuing a 6-week sermon series on The Book of Jonah by Eric Mason on RightNow Media. Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets. The book is small in size but it is power-packed to impact your life. Read Jonah 1:7-16. 1. Why is it important to fess up when you mess up? What else is needed beyond merely fessing up? 2. Jonah messed up by running from God and fessed up to the sailors that he...

Thank you for joining Grand Lake UMC online today, we hope that this service will be a blessing to you and your family and pray that one day you may be able to join us in person. If you have any questions about this service or anything else we offer at Grand Lake UMC please contact the church office by email or phone. Thank you and enjoy God's word this morning! Read Jonah 1:4-6. 1. In this week’s...

Today we are beginning a 6-week sermon series on The Book of Jonah by Eric Mason on RightNow Media. Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets. The book is small in size but it is power-packed to impact your life. Read Jonah 1:1-3. 1. Pastor Mick spent some time at the beginning of the message describing the historical and geo-political background for the book of Jonah. Why is this information impo...

Read John 1:10-18. 1. Today is Epiphany Sunday. What does Epiphany mean in this context? What Biblical story do we usually associate with Epiphany? 2. Pastor Mick talked about insiders and outsiders today. Who were the insiders and the outsiders in Jesus’ time? What does this tell us about the values of God’s kingdom verses the values of this earthly kingdom? 3. Read verses 10 and 11. Who were “hi...

Read Luke 1:46-56. 1. Pastor Mick started off talking about the way magnification (microscopes) helps us to see things we couldn’t otherwise see. How does Mary’s Song, the Magnificat, help us to see God? 2. What are some ways we can magnify the Lord in our own lives? (Hint: Pastor Mick talked about worship, prayer and service) Are there other ways besides the ones Pastor Mick highlighted? (Hint: t...

Read Luke 1:39-45. 1. Pastor Mick shared an excerpt from one of Bishop Palmer’s recent newsletter articles in which he shared Psalm 27:13-14. Read this Psalm and discuss why Bishop Palmer might have chosen this Psalm for the Advent season. Does this Psalm make you think about Elizabeth and Mary? If so, how? 2. Bishop Palmer said in his letter, “We would do well to claim afresh practices of active,...

Scripture and Questions for Study and Reflection: Read Luke 1:26-38. 1. Last week we reviewed that Advent is a season of waiting...waiting with excitement and expectation. Zechariah and Elizabeth reminded us to “expect the unexpected” in the ways God works in our lives. How might this week’s passage reinforce the message to “expect the unexpected”? 2. Pastor Mick invited us to see ourselves in Mar...

Read James 1:22-25. 1. Think back to the first week of this series, when we found ourselves in the throne room of God. How did it make you feel to think about the magnificence and grandeur of God that day? Here we are 11 weeks later, is that feeling the same/as strong? If not, what does that tell us about ourselves? 2. Chan says regarding our faith lives that, “We often have ‘aha!’ moments but don...