[Bible Study] Chapter 4-5 | Gospel of Mark

4-6-22 Wednesday - How Do You Like Me Now

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What Had happened at Grace this week. 

[Sunday] Mark 14 | Pride & Power - Revealing True Power

Questions for the week

1. Describe a time when your pride caused you to miss out.

2. Read Mark 14:43-72.  Describe ways where you see pride and lusts for power push people further away from Jesus.

3. Read Mark 14:12-25.  Even though Jesus knows Judas will betray him and Peter will deny him, who does he invite to his table?  What does he do for them?

4. What does Jesus do for you and me, even though our pride and lust for power get in the way?

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[Bible Study] Chapter 3-4 | Gospel of Mark

Jesus Is After You

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young woman named Kelly Tietsort was called by God to be a missionary to Boys Town, a red-light compound controlled by a cartel near the border town of Reynosa, Mexico. 

To be clear, she wasn’t a missionary in the traditional sense. She didn’t establish a church or even a school. Instead, she walked around Boys Town and prayed for the women and children trapped inside and for the men who traveled from near and far to the hellish destination. 

One day as she sat outside the gate to Boys Town, a gray Crown Victoria car slowly drove past. The driver with gelled up hair and big reflective, Robocop sunglasses locked eyes with Kelly and gave her a smirk. Clearly keeping an eye on the guests at Boys Town, the spiky hair driver asked Kelly what she was doing. …………………

3-30-22 Wednesday - Running Shame

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[Sunday] Mark 13 | Stacking Bricks - Revealing True Power

Questions for the week

1. Describe a time when you have clung to something that was falling apart.   Where was your hope in that situation?

2. Read Mark 13.   How does Jesus bring peace in the midst of the horrors he describes in this chapter?

3. Describe a time when Jesus brought you rest in a difficult or scary situation.  

4. How might you be the hands and feet of Jesus to someone else in one of these scary times?

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A Conversation with a Ukrainian Refugee Pastor (featuring Rev. Scott Yount)

So much is still happening overseas and it’s effecting the lives of millions of people in the country of Ukraine. Our friend Scott Yount has been a Missionary Pastor in Ukraine since 2014 and is now experiencing being a Refugee and helping so many across the boarder. We would love for you to hear his story and there is even other ways to help out his work.

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Offering Dangerous Promise In Rural England

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Another way too exciting, frightening, and extreme Lenten season. I feel like I’ve said that several years now, in a row. Can we turn it down a bit, Lord, even now, like right now? Something a friend of mine (David Babikow) said to me recently got me thinking about the incarnation and Lent. It gets right at something I’m somewhat worried about, what with the triple crown of crappy years………………….

[Bible Study] Chapter 2 - 3:20 | Gospel of Mark

3-23-22 Wednesday - Weakness

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[Sunday] Mark 12 | Widows' Homes - Revealing True Power

Questions for the week

1. What is your opinion of those who absolutely need to be the center of attention?

2. Read Mark 12:1-12 & Isaiah 5:1-7. Jesus is obviously quoting this poem from Isaiah. What is Jesus saying about the leaders of Israel, and what is Jesus saying about himself?

3. Read Mark 12:38-44. What are ways that you have seen people in power steal from those like the widows and the downtrodden? 

4. What are ways that may seem small that you can help and encourage your neighbors?

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[Bible Study] Chapter 1-2:12| Gospel of Mark

God Grows His Vinyard Isaiah 5

Read from the bible Site at https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+5%3A1-7&version=NIV

The Song of the Vineyard

5 I will sing for the one I love
    a song about his vineyard:
My loved one had a vineyard
    on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones
    and planted it with the choicest vines.
He built a watchtower in it
    and cut out a winepress as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
    but it yielded only bad fruit.

3 “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
    judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What more could have been done for my vineyard
    than I have done for it?
When I looked for good grapes,
    why did it yield only bad?
5 Now I will tell you
    what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
    and it will be destroyed;
I will break down its wall,
    and it will be trampled.
6 I will make it a wasteland,
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain on it.”

7 The vineyard of the Lord Almighty
    is the nation of Israel,
and the people of Judah
    are the vines he delighted in.
And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed;
    for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

Like a seed sown in the Ground

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If you ask ten different people on the street what Christianity is all about, you will likely get ten different answers. Is it to love one another? Political partisanship? Serving the poor? Being nice? Preaching the gospel? To be fair, Christians themselves aren’t exactly sure how to answer the question either…………………..

3-16-22 Wednesday - Seeing in the Dark

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[Sunday] Mark 11 | Throw This Mountain - Revealing True Power

Questions for the week

1. Describe a time when you got so busy that you missed out on what God was doing.

2. Read 1 Kings 8:22-56.  This is Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the temple.  What does this prayer show us about the purpose of the temple?   What does this prayer show us about God?

3. Read Mark 11: 12-26.   What has the temple turned into?  Is it reflecting the prayer Solomon prayed?  How does Jesus respond to what He sees in the temple?

4. As you are baptized and have the Holy Spirit dwelling in you, how might you reflect the presence of God to those around you this week?

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[Bible Study] Chapter 38-42 | Book of Job

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Clowning Around in Lent

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Episode 205 of This American Life premiered back in 2002, featuring an interview of Cuervo Man, from the tequilla brand, Jose Cuervo. It’s quite the interview, an insight into the life of a man who is paid to party on behalf of a liquor brand. Cuervo Man’s real name was Ryan McDonough, a Princeton English major whose life-of-the-party skills turned out to be more marketable than his degree. At one point in 2002, Ryan McDonough was doing 150 events a year on behalf of the liquor brand around New York City. Ryan would show up at bars with a car trunk full of promotional t-shirts and koozies and host an evening bacchanal with free shots and revelry on the company dime. Cuervo intro…………………………………….