Fresh Faith

Ron Moore
Bob Freado
Maria Stockman

Question:
My spouse and I have decided to put our kids in public school so they can experience the world and be a light for Christ, but it’s really hard because they are getting exposed to so many ‘worldly’ things like sex, drugs, explicit language, etc. at a young age. How do we teach our kids to speak truth and stand up to things they know are wrong, without coming across like they are judgmental or think they are ‘better than’ their friends?"

Key Take-Aways:
• Anticipate these encounters
• Grounded in the word at a young age
• Give advice based on their kids
• Asking your children what’s happening at school
• No matter the situation, our kids will come against hard questions
• Develop our children as followers of Jesus

About Being Judgmental
• If it’s in scripture and we aren’t supposed to do it, you’re not being judgmental, it’s just what God says.
• Humility
• Talk through what scripture says
• We have to Build our lives on God’s Word
• Safety is more important than how they are viewed

Friendship Sermon: http://www.biblechapel.org/sermon/proverbs-friendship/

Parenting Sermon: http://www.biblechapel.org/sermon/parenting-part-2/
(M.A.T.E. reference)

Parenting Sermons: http://www.biblechapel.org/the-journey/category/parenting/


Question:
Can you explain the line between providing for your family and being greedy? I want to provide well for my family and ensure they are in the best situation possible, but don’t want to be too focused on success. Do you have tips or warning signs to watch out for in this area?

Key Take-Aways:
• Being in the Word/Prayer
• Look at scripture, not what the world tells us
• Not chasing after money  see 1 Timothy about running after money.
• Be generous to others
• What does it mean to provide for our family?

What does providing for your family mean?
• Food / Shelter / Clothing
• Being Intentional with your priorities
• Steven Covey example, sand, gravel, rocks
• Carve out time to talk to each other
• Doing devotions together
• Reading scripture and talking about it
• Praying together
• Godly marriage begins with spiritual development

Hosted by: 

Ron Moore
Maria Stockman
Rob Rucker
Tunch Ilkin
Question:

What can I do to praise God during the music time in church when singing really isn’t my thing and I just feel awkward doing it? 

Key Take Aways:

Difference between performance and worshiping God. When it comes to worshipping Jesus, we want thousands of voices, even like Tunch’s, singing loudly.
God knows whether or not we can sing because He made us!
We were created to praise. 
The Psalms tell us all over the place to sing. 
Singing is a spiritual exercise.
Question: 

What does your morning routine look like? How do you set yourself to focus on God and be ready for the day?

Key Take Aways:

Spend time in the Word
Being Intentional with your priorities
Steven Covey example, sand, gravel, rocks
Carve out time to talk to each other
Doing devotions together
Reading scripture and talking about it
Praying together
Godly marriage begins with spiritual development
 

If you have more questions please send them to Maria Stockman, [email protected].

Hosted by:

Ron Moore
Jack Keebler, Masters in apologetics from Biola University
Simon James, Director of Technical Arts, The Bible Chapel
Maria Stockman

Question:

Noah and the flood.  BBC has a series called A History of the World in a 100 objects http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/GOe8Mt6vRdSNcg-yeivrEA

Very interesting, except where they get to a scroll they claim to be much older than the time of Noah that describes the flood that covered the earth. They said when this news came out in 1930’s or 40’s a lot of Christians fell away from their faith because the historians said the Bible’s flood story was just someone copying a previous myth.  What are the facts? 

Things we talked about: 

200 flood stories in other cultures
Similarities but more differences
William Lane Craig 
 
Resources:

Navigating Genesis - Hugh Ross
Encountering The Old Testament
  

If you have more questions please send them to Maria Stockman, [email protected].

Hosted by:

Ron Moore
Zeb Thomas – The Bible Chapel, Washington Campus Director
Maria Stockman
Question 1: 

I’d like to better understand The Bible Chapel’s position on the rapture and tribulation. I know that this can get into a lot of complicated issues but I have recently gotten into a number of conversations with believers and think it’s important to have a clear understanding of our church’s position and why we adhere to it.      

Eschatology – the study of last things

As Evangelical Christians we believe the following

Jesus Christ one day is going to physical return to the earth. (Revelation 20)
There will be a bodily resurrection.
There will be a final judgement. For Satan, believers, and non-believers alike.
End Times Calendar:

Rapture -  Christ comes back; those who know Christ, first those who have died, their resurrected bodies reach their souls, those that are living are taken up

Tribulation –  At the end of this period Christ comes back to Earth

Millennium – Millennium kingdom, 1000 year reign then the Eternal State 

Link to Revelation Series - http://www.biblechapel.org/the-journey/series/revelation/ 

Question 2:

In Revelations 1:7 that Jesus returns with the clouds with every eye on him, even those who pierced him. Does that mean all of Heaven and Earth? Like the thief that was crucified with him that went to paradise? 

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
Revelation 1:7

“Not only is this talking about those who actually pierced him, but those who did so by their sins.”  

Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible  (Vol. 2, p. 552). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc. 

Those who pierced Jesus = All of us as we have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 

Question 3:

Here’s another one... what about all those Jewish people that died in the holocaust for being Jewish... they didn’t know Christ. But it always seems overwhelming that so many of God’s chosen people were exterminated...and yet?"

Zeb said a wise man asked him this question: What happens to an innocent man in the jungles of the Congo, who lives out all of his days without hearing the name of Jesus Christ. Are you saying that he would go to Hell because he didn’t know Jesus?

Inaccurately viewing the nature of humanity and the nature of sin and how God sees us.

There is no such thing as an innocent man. Scripture is crystal clear that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Everyone has an accounting to reckon for their sin. Apart from Christ we are lost. 

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:18-20

Jesus came to do what we could never do for ourselves.

Jesus is the only way, not one of many ways, the only way to have a relationship with God. Regardless of the persecution or challenges they may face.

 

If you have more questions please send them to Maria Stockman, [email protected].