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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Scripture & Questions for Sunday (7/27/14)

Don't forget the end of Vacation Bible School dinner Friday night at 6:00 pm. Come and enjoy hamburgers, hot-dogs and good fellowship. If you would like to bring something please bring a desert or salad to share.

Scripture
Romans 8:26-39 (ESV)  
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. [27] And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. [28] And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. [29] For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. [30] And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. 
[31] What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? [32] He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? [33] Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. [34] Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?  [36] As it is written,
    "For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
        we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
[37] No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [38] For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, [39] nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Questions for Reflection

  1. What type of sacrifices do people commonly make for the sake of a future reward?
  2. How did Paul describe the difference between his present and his future? (8:18)
  3. What is the world waiting to see? (8:19)
  4. For what reason has the world been forced to wait? (8:20-21)
  5. To what human experience did Paul compare his waiting? (8:22-23)
  6. For what are the children of God waiting? (8:23)
  7. What is and is not genuine hope? (8:24-25)
  8. In what ways do Christians live in glorious freedom?
  9. What frustrations do Christians feel as they wait for Christ to return?
  10. What do we learn about God’s love for us when we realize that the Holy Spirit helps us even when we cannot pray?


Friday, July 11, 2014

Scripture & Questions for Sunday (7/13/14)

Rev. Ronald (Ron) Guinn of Austin TX, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Our sympathies go out to his wife Ann, and family during this difficult time. Condolences may be sent to his wife at the address listed below. 

Celebration of Life Service ~ Saturday, July 26, 2014 ~ 2:00 PM
Longhorn Village
12501 Longhorn Village Drive
Austin, TX 78732

Ann Guinn
521 Vaughn Cove
Austin, TX 78732

Scripture
Romans 8:1-11 (ESV)  
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. [2] For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. [3] For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, [4] in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. [5] For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. [6] To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. [7] For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. [8] Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 
[9] You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. [10] But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. [11] If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. 

Questions for Reflection

  1. What impact can a good father or a bad father have on a person’s life?
  2. What is the status of a person who trusts in Jesus Christ? (8:1)
  3. How is a person set free from the law of sin and death? (8:2)
  4. What did God do that the Law was powerless to do? (8:3-5)
  5. What is the difference between those who live according to their sinful nature and those who live according to the Spirit? (8:5-8)
  6. How can a person know if he or she is controlled by the sinful nature or by the Spirit? (8:9)
  7. What promise is given to people living in the Spirit? (8:11)
  8. What feelings of condemnation and rejection may Christians feel?
  9. In what ways does knowing Christ set us free?


Tuesday, July 8, 2014

July 2014 Newsletter

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July 2014 Newsletter