This Sunday Pastor Britt Hemphill continues the series, "If Jesus Had a Fruit Stand," from Galatians 5:22-23. This week we looK at Goodness. 

SERMON QUESTIONS: 

1. What has been your experience of goodness?

2. What is one of your favorite accounts of Jesus being good? Why is this account meaningful to you?

3. How would you compare goodness and kindness?

4. Identify some settings in which you want to be more aware of the pontential for adding value to others? Which one of these will you make a priority this month?

Pastor Lance Lewis continues the series, "If Jesus Had a Fruit Stand," from Galatians 5:22-23. This week we'll be looking at Patience.

Sermon Questions:

1. How would you define patience?

2. Do you agree that it is the ability to handle delay graciously?

3. How has God demonstrated His great patience in your life?

4. How can we demonstrate patience to a microwave culture?

This Sunday Pastor Tim Richards continues the series, "If Jesus Had a Fruit Stand," from Galatians 5:22-23. This week we'll be looking at Kindness. 

Sermon Questions:

1. Think of a time when someone showed you true kindness. What did they do? Why is it so outstanding in your mind?

2. How would you define the difference between the gifts of the Spirit and the fruit of the Spirit?

3. Of all the positive character traits Paul could have named, why do you think he was led to pick kindness as one of the key evidences of the Spirit’s work?

4. When & why are you least likely to exhibit kindness? What deeper spiritual issues do you think God may want to address in your heart that might change that?

Pastor Josh Deshazerl continues the series, "If Jesus Had a Fruit Stand," from Galatians 5:22-23. This week we'll be looking at Peace.

Sermon Questions:

1. What does being at peace look like to you?

2. How do we get in our own way of experiencing peace?

3. How can Jesus giving us peace with God change the way we experience peace inside ourselves and with others?

4. What would it look like for you to experience peace through prayer this week?

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Sermon Questions

1. What has been your experience of joy as a Fruit of the Spirit?

2. In what ways have you experienced hope and imagination as ‘upstream’ from joy? How do you see these two things informing joy as a gift of the Spirit?

3. CS Lewis wrote: “All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still ‘about to be.’” Discuss this idea as it relates to joy as a fruit of the Spirit.

4. Is it difficult for you to distinguish joy from happiness? If so, in what ways?

Pastor Tim Richards starts a new series on the fruit of the Spirit called, "If Jesus Had a Fruit Stand," from Gallatians 5:22-23.

Sermon Questions

1. In your own words, how would you define “the works of the flesh”?

2. What is the difference between works and fruit?

3. Read John 12:24-25. Has God ever taken you through an experience that felt like a death but the end result was good? What happened?

4. Is there something in your life right now that you think God may be asking you to release to him? What will that require?

Guest Speaker Dan Stephenson preaches on “Radical Generosity” from Exodus 36:1-7 and 35:30-35. Click here to learn more about ZimZam Global.

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Sermon Questions:

1. Can you think of any additonal examples of “over the top” generosity – (a) in the Bible, or (b) in real life?

2. How have you seen the “Overflow Principle” in operation in your life? How about in the people around you? (God gave you something – money, possessions, skill, etc. – and you passed some or all of it along to someone else.)

3. Why is generosity so closely connected to the heart? Does God value generous acts that come from the heart more than those that don’t? Why?

4. Discuss the difference between “giving” and “radical giving” (giving something “up”). What else can you give “up” besides time? 5. What God-given skills do you have? How can those be employed in service to God? Help each other answer this question and think outside the box. 6. What really happened to the Ark of the Covenant?

Guest speaker Bob Peckham preaches on "The End from the Beginning" from Revelation 5:6-14 and 7:9-12.

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Sermon Questions

1. Read Psalm 130:5-6. What does it mean for our souls to wait for the Lord more than the watchmen for the morning? Waiting is not easy! What has helped you grow in waiting for the Lord?

2. Revelation 5 and 7 are throne room scenes. Who is there and what is happening? How do these scenes related to what still remains to be done in world missions?

. John Piper wrote, "Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't." What does this mean? In what ways should worship be the goal of the church and DCC's missions partners?

4. The advancement of the Gospel in this world is often met with persecution and suffering. How can this be explained in light of the Bible and particularly Revelation?

Doug Landro from One Collective is our guest speaker. He is speaking from Daniel Chapter 4. One Collective is a global non-profit that brings people together around the ways of Jesus to create lasting change in our world today.

Sermon Questions:

1. Which acting role best describes your Christian life--the star of the film or a supporting actor/actress in the story of Jesus?

2. How does one maintain happiness when their world is falling apart?

3. How does living as a supporting actor/actress help us avoid stress when our world is falling apart?

4. Fun question: Are you suffering from boanthropy? (they will have to Google it--this is the mental condition King Nebuchadnezzar suffered from Daniel 4)

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Pastor Tim Richards brings the final sermon in a series on the book of Revelation. This week we look at Revelation 1:1-19.

Sermon Questions

1. What points of comparison or contrast do you see between the culture we live in vs. that of the early Christians to whom Revelation was written?

2. What aspect of the description given of Jesus in Revelation 1:12-14 stands out most to you and why?

3. Pastor Tim outlined several surprising aspects of Jesus as the Lamb of God. Which of those is most meaningful to you and why?

4. What have been the most important take-aways for you from the series on Revelation?