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Study Questions – Mark 13:21-37

Keith Waters Bible Studies 16th September 2018#newconnexions, bible, bible. love, communication, end times, eschatology, faith, faithfulness, Grace, healing, Holy Spirit, humility, new connexions, persecution, power, repentance, scripture 0 Comment

The sermon this week can be found here: Watch out…. FOR HIM!

The ‘Olivet Discourse’ has been a challenging passage for the preachers – how has it been for you; i.e. have you learnt anything new, disagreed with anything you have heard? been confused or surprised by anything? Talk these things through as a group.
Read Mark 13:21-37.
Watching out for deception has been mentioned a lot, in which ways might we or others be deceived.
The sermon ended with three points of application. Discuss what they were and how as a group and as a church we might help each other with these?
In which other ways should we apply this passage?

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Where’s Your Baggage Handler?

Keith Waters Bible Studies 18th February 2018bible, calling, communication, discipleship, discipline, following, humility, Jesus, new connexions, truth 0 Comment

A study based on Mark 3:1-15 and based on this sermon: Stretch Out In Faith

What was it about Jesus that really annoyed the Pharisees? Who were the Herodians and why would they be an unlikely ally for the Pharisees?
What did Jesus ask the man with the crippled hand to do? What must we learn from this?
In the sermon we spoke a lot about how we might have surplus baggage. What was meant by surplus baggage and how might it drag us down? How can we help each other deal with it?
Discuss whether we have the authority to drive out demons…
Why is it important for disciples to be willing to leave everything and spend time with Jesus? How might this be a challenge for us?

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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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A Study on Mark 1:1-20

Keith Waters Bible Studies 14th January 201814th January 2018bible, discipline, faith, forgiveness, Grace, humility, Jesus, mercy, new connexions, power, repentance, Satan, sin, truth 0 Comment

If you missed the sermon, here’s the link: Don’t Mend Your Nets!

Reading Mark 1:1-20.

What do we know about Mark, who was he, why was he writing and who to, when was he writing?
What was John the Baptist doing and why? Discuss what it must have been like to have been around with him?
Why was Jesus baptised? Discussed what happened when He was.
Mark hardly mentions the temptations, but He mentions enough to tell us the important facts – what are they and what difference does it make to our understanding of Jesus?
What does it mean to follow Jesus, and what might be stopping us from following Him more obediently (what kind of nets might we be mending?)

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