Acts 3:1-11 Pastor Rick’s Study Notes and Group Questions
The “normal” can change in a moment when God’s Spirit works through God’s people to bring His Kingdom.
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Acts 2:1-13 Pastor Rick’s Study Notes and Small Group Questions
. I remember coming through the gates as we returned from Italy, and feeling the sense of being home and being America, when the guy behind the window stamped my passport and said simply “welcome home.” But it should never bother you, it should never feel you are less than, it should never be illegal or scorned or embarrassing to say I belong to Jesus above all.
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3 John 1:1-14 Pastor Rick’s Study Notes and Small Group Questions
Gaius was a generous Jesus-follower. We keep cultivating a generous lifestyle with our time and resources. When we give God our time, our skills, our money – all of it, he blesses all of it and lets us use most of it to have a beautiful life. And what we are generous with by giving it, he multiplies into other’s lives for the Kingdom.
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Philemon – Pastor Rick’s Study Notes and Small Group Questions
In Scripture, there is a developing awakening through both words and actions that slavery is not a Kingdom value. In the OT, the people of God used slaves. In the NT, slave owners became Christians and are challenged to embrace the redeemed slave as brother. The declaration is this to the Colossians: “neither Jew nor Gentile, slave nor free, man nor woman – you all are one in Christ Jesus.” Slavery was universal throughout this time. But the seeds of heaven’s values were firmly planted into redeemed hearts and slavery’s days for the Christian were numbered.
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Pastor Rick’s Study Notes on Isaiah 6:6-8
Pastor Rick’s Study Notes: Isaiah 6:6-8 vv. 6-7 Then one of the seraphim took a set of tongs, carried a glowing coal from the altar, then flew to me and placed it in my mouth. He said, “See: this live coal has touched your lips and now your guilt is removed and your sin is…
