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A study on Mark 15:22-39

Keith Waters Bible Studies 4th November 2018#newconnexions, bible, communication, cross, faith, faithfulness, forgiveness, Grace, healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, new connexions, redemption, repentance, sin, truth, unfaithfulness 0 Comment

If you missed the sermon on Mark 15:22-39, here it is: A Gamers view of the crucifixion (or looking out with Jesus)

Discuss the different people who were present at the crucifixion – what were they doing there, what motives might they have had, how did they respond on the day?
Discuss your reaction to the crucifixion (look at all the gospel accounts and Psalm 22).
In the sermon it was suggested that the crucifixion requires a response? Does it? If so, what is your response?
We were challenged earlier in the service to encourage eachother with scriptures which have been helpful to us this year. Spend some time as a group doing this and consider learning a new scripture, together, each week.

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A study – Mark 14:32-52

Keith Waters Bible Studies 14th October 2018#newconnexions, Betrayal, bible, cross, discipline, faith, faithfulness, forgiveness, Grace, humility, justice, law, love, mercy, power, prayer, Satan, scripture, sin, truth, unfaithfulness 0 Comment

If you missed the sermon, you can pick it up here: It started with a kiss….

Read the passage: Mark makes a point of translating the Hebrew word Abba, to ensure everyone knows what this word means – why is it a significant word and what does it tell us about the kind of relationship God wants to have with us?
Discuss and work out what we can learn from:
1. the words of Jesus prayer – what exactly did Jesus mean?
2. why did the disciples keep sleeping?
3. why did Jesus pray the same things more than once?
What if anything surprises you about Jesus arrest?
If Peter was willing to draw a sword and fight, what made all the disciples run away?
What can we learn from this passage for our lives in the here and now in Ely?

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The Good Shepherd and the Gospel

Keith Waters Bible Studies 1st October 2018#newconnexions, bible, choice, communication, cross, faith, faithfulness, Gospel, Grace, heaven, hell, joy, judgement, justice, love 0 Comment

Here is the sermon, in case you missed it: Your Choice

1. Read through the ‘Good shepherd passage’ John 10: 7-18. As a group discuss the passage, unpicking the various aspects i.e. who are the sheep, who is the hired man etc. etc.

2. Sunday’s message focused on verse 10. What is this ‘rich and satisfying life’ that Jesus talks about? How might Christians be missing out on experiencing this life in the present?

3. The Gospel message is more than ‘God is Love’ – Discuss.

4. People need to hear the Gospel. A) how can we as individuals tell them? B) how as a church can we encourage and enable each other to share that Good News.

5. Spend some time in prayer thanking God for those who visited on Sunday and also praying for those individuals.

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Isn’t CS Lewis Great!?

Keith Waters Christian Comment 5th February 2018#newconnexions, communication, cross, discipline, eschatology, faith, Holy Spirit, hope, humility, Jesus, new connexions, power, prayer, redemption, repentance, scripture, second chance, Trinity, truth 0 Comment

Every now and then, in this crazy society we live, I think we need reminding of this:

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

C.S. Lewis

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