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Archive for the ‘The Big Picture’ Category
A Different Type of Advent Calendar
Posted in I forgot to pick a category, The Big Picture on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Small Group questions–Revelation
Posted in The Big Picture, Wednesday questions, tagged small group, The Big Picture, Wednesday questions on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why do you think people spend so much time thinking about the end of the world? Revelation 13:16 says the number of the beast/man is 666. Why would God want us to know that? David Crowder says, “We’ve already won.” Is that easy or difficult to remember when hard times hit? Why? Why would God [...]
Revelation
Posted in Sunday Lesson, The Big Picture, tagged Sunday Lesson, Sweet and Aweful, The Big Picture, YouTube on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who wrote it? The Apostle John Where did he write it? On the island of Patmos (Revelation 1:9) Why did he write it? Jesus told him to. What’s it about? Jesus’ opinion of 7 different churches The judgment of the world His ultimate victory over evil And then we talked about David Crowder*Band and how [...]
Acts–small group questions
Posted in The Big Picture, Wednesday questions, tagged small group, The Big Picture, Wednesday questions on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is your favorite “part” of attending services (aka Church) on Sunday mornings? What’s the best part of coming Wednesday nights? What are the least liked “parts” of Sundays and/or Wednesdays? What would you do differently? What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever heard about or seen at a church service? Why did you find it [...]
Acts of the Apostles
Posted in Sunday Lesson, The Big Picture, tagged Sunday Lesson, Sweet and Aweful, The Big Picture on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday’s Scripture lesson: Acts 2:42-47 (ESV) “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they [...]
Wisdom Literature–small group questions
Posted in The Big Picture, Wednesday questions, tagged small group, The Big Picture, Wednesday questions on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Read through Psalm 23. What makes this particular psalm so popular thousands of years after it was written? Read the first verse of Psalm 22. Where have you heard those lines before? Who spoke them and when? Why would He choose that verse at that time, in your opinion? Proverbs is a fantastic book (in [...]
Wisdom Literature
Posted in Sunday Lesson, The Big Picture, tagged Sunday Lesson, Sweet and Aweful, The Big Picture on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The books of Wisdom found in the Old Testament are: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon). Our lesson focused on the general theme found by the writer of Ecclesiastes who writes, “It is useless; it is like chasing the wind” quite often. He lists accomplishments he has achieved but [...]
Prophets: Small Group Questions
Posted in The Big Picture, Wednesday questions, tagged The Big Picture, Wednesday questions on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Prophecy Books of the Bible Small Group Questions 1. Jeremiah 29:11 is perhaps the Greatest Verse for Graduation Gifts Ever. It reads, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD. “Plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.” Why is that verse still [...]
The Prophets
Posted in Sunday Lesson, The Big Picture, tagged Sunday Lesson, Sweet and Aweful, The Big Picture on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday’s Lesson: To understand what the prophets of the Bible were saying, we should look at when they said it. The prophets (the ones who wrote the books in the Bible, anyway) were speaking during a period of time when Israel kept turning from God and following the nations around them. They worshipped false idols [...]
Torah! Torah! Torah!
Posted in Sunday Lesson, The Big Picture, Wednesday questions, tagged Sunday Lesson, Sweet and Aweful, Wednesday questions on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday’s lesson: What is the Torah? The Hebrew word for law and the first 5 books of the Old Testament. Who wrote the Torah? The traditional belief is that Moses wrote the Torah. There are other theories (JDP writers, for example) but for the sake of time and simplicity, we’ll stick with Moses for right [...]
