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Alan Frow // Genesis 28

Joel Baker // Genesis 27:1-40 Sermon Questions.... 1. How should the truth that our older brother, Jesus, has given us his righteousness change how you are approach God? 2. Our father is not blind to us but sees us fully as we approach him. How have you been trying to hide parts of your heart from God? 3. Share areas of your life where God has recently given you spiritual blessings. Celebrate thos...

Alan Frow // Genesis 25:19-34 Compare the way in which Isaac and Rebekah show favoritism towards their sons with the way in which God shows favor? How is this a glimpse of the gospel of grace for us? How can it free us from trying to earn God’s unmerited favor? 2. Read 1 Cor 1:27-29) Tell how a willingness on your part admit our weakness and foolishness has enabled you to receive the God’s grace. ...

Alan Frow // Genesis 24:1-28 In this passage we see Abraham’s urgency before his death to find a wife for his son, Isaac. He calls his chief servant totravel back to his homeland in Mesopotamia to find a wife, thus ensuring that God’s promise of a faith family that blesses all nations would be fulfilled. God’s steadfast love is mentioned three times. Th word in Hebrew is ‘heed’ which means lovingk...

Andrew Wilson // Acts 4:5-31

Joel & Shannon Baker // Acts 2:42-47 1. What aspect of hospitality is more difficult for you? Hospitality of heart or hospitality of resources? 2. Share about a time where you received biblical hospitality and it made an impact on you. 3. Brainstorm easy and unconventional ways you as a group could be hospitable to your neighbors. 4. Where might God be inviting you to extend hospitality? Consider...

Ryan MacDonald // Acts 4:32-37

Alan Frow // Acts 8:4-13, 26-30

Alan Frow // Acts 21:8-14 1. Philip the evangelist and his daughters used their family stability to offer gracious hospitality to strangers - the controversial Paul, the unknown Luke and mysterious Agabus. Talk about how this connects with Jesus teaching on enemy and neighbor love in Matthew 5 and how He might be calling you to offer hospitality to either strangers or those with whom you are estra...

Kevin Meisch // Acts 7:54-8:1, 9:1-18 1. Forgiveness is a difficult thing to grasp when we haven't fully grasped what it means to be forgiven by God. How has the scandalous truth of you being forgiven by God changed the way you understand forgiveness?   2. As you have had time to sit with this sermon and allowed the Holy Spirit to do work within you, what has been the most freeing aspect of the se...

Alan Frow // Acts 3:9-21

Matt Henderson // Genesis 22:1-19

Alan Frow // Genesis 21 Sermon Questions: 1. Because of disappointment and delay, Abraham and Sarah laughed with skepticism at God’s promise of a child in Genesis 17 and 18. Skepticism protects us from the vulnerability of hope but it is a shallow kind of joy. Talk about your struggle with skepticism and how we can be a community that helps one another to keep hoping in God, even though this makes...

Alan Frow // Genesis 20:1-18

Ryan MacDonald // Genesis 18:22-19:29

Erik Santiago // John 10

Alan Frow // Genesis 17

Alan Frow // Genesis 16

How honest are your prayers with God? How have you seen God work through delay? Do you find it comforting that God's "no" to you maybe God's "yes" to someone else? How is God currently calling you to trust Him through delay and disappointment?

1. All of us have mixed emotions and different experiences with church leadership, what has been your experience with past and present church leadership? 2. Even though we all have different experiences with church leadership, in your own words, how have you experienced biblical, church leadership as a gift to you? 3. What is hard for you to hear as you listen to (or read) the script that is writt...

Community Group Questions for the 8:30am sermon: 1. When we put our faith in Jesus we are declared righteous and receive the peace of God, what are some of the other blessings we receive in Jesus? 2. Do you have a hard time receiving the blessing of God and living freely? Please explain to the group why you think it's hard to receive His blessing. 3. Do you feel at peace with God right now? If not...