Scripture & Questions for Sunday (9/1/19)

Scripture
ESV Hebrews 13:1-16

1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. 5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." 6 So we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?" 7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. 16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Questions for Reflection
1.    What kind of love are Christians to demonstrate? (13:1)
2.    Why did the author encourage his readers to entertain strangers? (13:2)
3.    What kinds of people does God want Christians to try to help? (13:3)
4.    What fact about God can foster a contented spirit? (13:5)
5.    How can we learn to be content? (13:5)
6.    What attribute or characteristic of Christ is highlighted here? (13:8)
7.    Why do you think is it so difficult to be content?
8.    What is significant to you about the fact that Jesus never changes?
9.    How can we draw contentment from God’s unchanging nature?
10. What does hospitality mean or entail?
11. How are you able to extend hospitality to others?

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Scripture & Questions for Sunday (8/25/19)

Scripture
Luke 13:10-17 (ESV) 
10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11 And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” 13 And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. 14 But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” 15 Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? 16 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” 17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.

Questions for Reflection
1.    When has someone criticized you for doing something good?
2.    What did Jesus do when He saw the crippled woman? (13:12)
3.    What led to the crippled woman’s healing? (13:12-13)
4.    How did the woman respond to what Jesus had done? (13:13)
5.    Why was the synagogue ruler indignant? (13:14)
6.    What did Jesus think of the religious leaders? (13:15)
7.    What example did Jesus give to justify His healing of the woman? (13:15-16)
8.    How did different people react to what had happened? (13:17)
9.    How did the Jewish leader view the Sabbath?
10. What must it have taken for the crippled woman to go to the synagogue?
11. What do you think the crippled woman expected?
12. What do you think Jesus’ touch meant to the woman He healed?
13. What restrictions do we foolishly put on God’s work?

Scripture for Sunday (8/18/19)

Sunday August 18, 2019  Baptism of the Sullivan Twins 5 PM in the Llano River at their house with a catered meal. Take 377 North toward London. It is the second gate on the right past Gentry Creek. The gate will be marked.

Scripture for Sunday
ESV Hebrews 11:29 

By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as if on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. 31 By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies. 32 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets- 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. 35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. 36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated- 38 of whom the world was not worthy- wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. 39 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. 

12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Scripture & Questions for Sunday (8/11/19)

Scripture
Luke 12:22-34 (ESV) 

22 And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 26 If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! 29 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. 30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you. 32 “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Questions for Reflection
1.    About what do people you know tend to worry?
2.    Why did Jesus start talking about worry? (12:22)
3.    About what are we not to worry? (12:22)
4.    What is more important than food or clothes? (12:23)
5.    What are we to learn from birds? (12:24)
6.    What does worrying accomplish? (12:25-26)
7.    What do flowers teach us? (12:27-28)
8.    What does worry about clothes indicate about us? (12:28)
9.    On what basis are we not to worry? (12:30)
10. What does God want us to seek? (12:31)
11. What situations bring out the worrier in you?
12. What has worrying done for you?
13. How do the images of God’s provision for birds and nature affect you?
14. When have you seen the truth that God knows your needs and meets them?

August Calendar Date | Scripture for Sunday (8/4/19)

August Calendar Dates

• Jim and Laurie at Bloys Camp Meeting August 1-6.  We are leaving today after lunch to go to Ft. Davis. We will return late Tuesday night. We will not have any cell service or internet access while we are there. We will answer emails and texts on Wednesday.
• Men’s Breakfast is Saturday, August 3rd, 8 AM. Coffee will be on at 6:30 so come early to visit and bring a friend.
• First Day of School is August 15th. 
• Wednesday Bible Study continues on August 7, 14, 21, & 28. 
• Session Meeting on August 20th.
• Baptism of the Sullivan Twins at the river on Sunday, August 18th at 5 PM with a catered dinner.  All are invited.

Scripture for Sunday

Exodus 14:10-16 (ESV)

10 When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD. 11 They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” 13 And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. 14 The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” 15 The LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. 16 Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.