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A study on Mark 6:1-13

Keith Waters Bible Studies 22nd April 2018#newconnexions, bible. love, discipline, evangelism, faithfulness, Grace, Holy Spirit, Jesus, obedience, prayer, redemption, repentance, scripture, second chance, truth 0 Comment

A study based on the sermon: Go!

Read Mark 6:1-6 Discuss the reaction of the local people to Jesus what was their first reaction and then what was their response? What can we learn from this?
How do you think Jesus might have felt about being rejected? How did He respond?
Read 6:7-13 Discuss the way Jesus sent the disciples out, what they had authority to do and what they were instructed to do.
What was the result?
Spend a good amount of time discussing what we can learn from this passage and apply to our own lives and walk with The Lord.

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A Study of Storms…

Keith Waters Bible Studies, Prayer 18th March 2018bible, communication, discipline, healing, new connexions, prayer, storms, teaching, testing, truth 0 Comment

This study is based on Mark 4:35-41 and the sermon The Teacher Tests Us

What is the setting of this passage, i.e. what has been going on during the day before we get to the ‘that evening’ in our passage?
Did Jesus know that there would be a storm? If so, why did He tell His disciples to sail into it?
How do we know whether our circumstances are as a result of, spiritual attack, our own disobedience or our obedience?
Why does Jesus test us, and what should we expect to learn through that testing?
take a look at our verses of the year and compare them to this passage. How might our following the encouragements of those verses enable us to support one another and be supported in the storms that come our way?
Spend some time lifting up the work and life of God’s Church at New Connexions in prayer.

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A Study on Mark 4:21-34

Keith Waters Bible Studies 11th March 201811th March 2018#newconnexions, bible, faithfulness, Jesus, mercy, parable, prayer, scripture, truth 0 Comment

A Study on Mark 4:21-34 based on the sermon The Kingdom of God

Discuss your understanding of the reasons why Jesus began to speak in parables?
Read vs 21-25 In this parable how do you understand the imagery of the lamp and what does this mean for Christians today?
Why is it important for us to “consider carefully what we hear”? What are the consequences of doing or not doing this?
Read vs 26-29 Once the seed (God’s word) has been sown, is that the end of our responsibility? If not, what else can we do to enable the seed to bear fruit?
Read vs 30-34 Consider the size of the church when these words were spoken and how far it has spread in the following centuries.
Discuss what you consider are the greatest threats to church growth today?

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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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