This past Tuesday at Prayer & Praise, Scott Kastman came and spoke to us about prayer. He had us focus on the Lord’s Prayer. We split into three groups, each group looking at a specific part of the Lord’s Prayer. My group had ‘Give us this day our daily bread’. What is our daily bread? It is everything we NEED to get through the day, not our selfish wants and desires, but truly our most basic needs. Prayer is a relationship with God. We need to get more comfortable with it. Most of us pray when we need help and not as much for thanking God for what he has given us. We should always pray with humility. He gave us the Lord’s Prayer to teach us how to pray. We closed with a group prayer.
Word of the week: xebec n. ancient three-masted Mediterranean pirate ship
Tim Laufer was thinking up his next great evil plan of how to take over the world, much like Pinky and the Brain used to do, when he had an epiphany, “I will rule the seas and the land will follow!” he said with an undeniably evil undertone. So he started to build his fleet of xebecs, proven to be quick and stealthy during the 17th century. The end.
Wisdom for the week: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
"Self" Questions
The Christian life is meant to be one of growth and progress. We are even commanded in 2 Pet. 3:18, "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." How can we know that we are growing in grace?
Encourage your group members to ask themselves these 10 questions to make sure they are still growing:
1. Are you more thirsty for God than ever before?
2. Are you more and more loving?
3. Are you more sensitive to and aware of God than ever before?
4. Are you governed more and more by God's Word?
5. Are you concerned more and more with the physical and spiritual needs of others?
6. Are you more and more concerned with the Church and the Kingdom of God?
7. Are the disciplines of the Christian life more and more important to you?
8. Are you more and more aware of your sin?
9. Are you more and more willing to forgive others?
10. Are you thinking more and more of heaven and of being with the Lord Jesus?
Taken from "10 Questions to Make Sure You're Still Growing" by Donald Whitney (Discipleship Journal, Issue 97, January/February 1997). Donald Whitney is also the author of Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health.
Encourage your group members to ask themselves these 10 questions to make sure they are still growing:
1. Are you more thirsty for God than ever before?
2. Are you more and more loving?
3. Are you more sensitive to and aware of God than ever before?
4. Are you governed more and more by God's Word?
5. Are you concerned more and more with the physical and spiritual needs of others?
6. Are you more and more concerned with the Church and the Kingdom of God?
7. Are the disciplines of the Christian life more and more important to you?
8. Are you more and more aware of your sin?
9. Are you more and more willing to forgive others?
10. Are you thinking more and more of heaven and of being with the Lord Jesus?
Taken from "10 Questions to Make Sure You're Still Growing" by Donald Whitney (Discipleship Journal, Issue 97, January/February 1997). Donald Whitney is also the author of Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health.
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