So…do you recognize this? Any idea what it is? 1,000 points if you do! Well, unless you were a sentient being in 1955 and an owner of the latest, greatest version of a Zenith television, you might not recognize a game changer when you are looking at it. This, my fellow couch-potatoes, was the Zenith […]
Beyond These Walls: Here We Go! Week 3 Devotional Day 6
DAY 6 – Saturday Daily devotional Read Mark 4:30-34, Ezekiel 36:26, Psalm 32:8 Ask What’s harder for you? Being proactive about partnering in the work of someone else’s spiritual growth, or surrendering control to let God be God with his part? Reflect Be honest, how did or do you feel about group projects in school? […]
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Beyond These Walls: Here We Go! Week 3 Devotional Day 5
DAY 4 – Thursday Daily devotional Read Mark 4:26-29, John 12:24, Psalm 25:4-5 Ask When have you been tempted to see yourself responsible for God’s part in someone else’s spiritual growth? Reflect As a little girl one of my favorite places was visiting my grandparent’s 20-acre farm in Missouri. Every summer they had two gardens […]
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Beyond These Walls: Here We Go! Week 3 Devotional Day 4
DAY 4 – Thursday Daily devotional Read Mark 4:26-29, John 12:24, Psalm 25:4-5 Ask When have you been tempted to see yourself responsible for God’s part in someone else’s spiritual growth? Reflect As a little girl one of my favorite places was visiting my grandparent’s 20-acre farm in Missouri. Every summer they had two gardens […]
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Beyond These Walls: Here We Go! Week 3 Devotional Day 3
DAY 3 – Wednesday Daily devotional Read Mark 4:1-34 Ask How does this passage build on what we have learned in previous passages in this chapter? Reflect Throughout Mark 4:1-34 we see a reoccurring theme of Jesus bringing his followers to new levels of understanding about how his kingdom operates. The kingdom Jesus describes belongs […]
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Beyond These Walls: Here We Go! Week 3 Devotional Day 2
DAY 2 – Tuesday Daily devotional Read Mark 4:26-34, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Ask What does this passage teach us about the nature of the kingdom of God? Reflect This is really good news for us: God’s kingdom grows from unseen places. While we’re sound asleep and when we’re rushing through our schedules, God grows eternal […]
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Beyond These Walls: Here We Go! Week 3 Devotional Day 1
DAY 1 – Monday Daily devotional Read Mark 4:26-34, Colossians 2:6-7, 1 Corinthians 3:6-9 Ask What can we learn about the different roles of people and God in growth in this passage? Reflect There’s a garden window above my kitchen sink. It serves as my mini greenhouse all year long and it plays host to […]
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Beyond These Walls: Here We Go! Week 3 Intro/LifeGroup Questions
WEEK 3 This guide pairs with Mark 4:26-34 and the sermon preached at Chapel Hill on May 18-19. Written by Jena Meyerpeter Jena and her family moved to Gig Harbor in the fall of 2017. Although she considers herself a Midwest girl at heart, she and her husband Josh are loving raising their three daughters […]
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Beyond These Walls: Here We Go! Week 2 Devotional Day 7
DAY 7 – Sunday Daily devotional Read Psalm 23 (or another passage of Scripture that is meaningful to you right now). Reflect Today we get to practice lingering. Carve out some time today where you can spend open-ended time with God uninterrupted. Read His Word. Don’t leave. If anything is distracting you, write it down […]
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Sending leaders
I was sitting in my classroom in Oxford on a cold Friday morning in January when two gentlemen, unfamiliar to me and the rest of the 19 students at the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics, walked into the room. There was an empty seat next to me and one of them sat in it. I […]