Me & My Big Mouth: Part 4 - Avoiding Fish MouthOur big mouths can be destructive, but they also have the power to build others up. What we say can impact the quality, and even the direction, of the lives of the people around us. How can we use this power for good? STUDY GUIDE

Me & My Big Mouth: Part 3 - Demolition Derby All the sins of the tongue are deadly. Profanity, insults, lying negativism, complaints, and criticism are all harmful. But gossip has destroyed more people, tarnished more reputations, broken more friendships, and split more churches than any of those. Gossip is quickly told, quickly heard, and quickly spread. Worst of all, gossip is quickly believed. People will confess to theft, adultery, even murder. But very few confess to gossip.Study Guide

Me & My Big Mouth: Part 2 - Humble, Honest, Kind The way we speak to others is directly related to our influence with them. If we want to influence them thoughtfully we should get in the habit of asking three questions about our speech: Is it humble? Is it honest? Is it kind? We’ll look again to Proverbs to see how we can speak thoughtfully and influence others positively.Study Guide

Me and My Big Mouth: Part 1 - Hollow Mouth Words are powerful. They can beat us down and lift us up. They wound and they heal. And the right words at the right time can be exactly what we need to hear—or what we need to say. In part 1, we look at the power of our words to make promises, set plans and follow-through, and the importance of being slow to rush into words we might regret.Study Guide

A Remarkable Ending: Part 2 - Spoiler Alert Nobody likes it when a movie or story gets spoiled. We even have language to make sure it doesn’t happen, “Spoiler alert!” We don’t typically want the ending of a story ruined for us. But when it comes to Easter there’s no need for a spoiler alert because we know how the story ends. Or do we?

A Remarkable Ending: Part 1 - Death of a KingMark guides us through the final hours of Jesus’ life. From a triumphant entrance into Jerusalem to the excruciating pain of the cross. It’s the kind of storyline movies are made of. But the point can’t be missed: all those years ago, God took the judgment we deserved onto Himself. The question is: how will you respond? 

Under the Sun: Part 6 - Old Time Religion“Evangelical” is a word you probably hear more in the news than you do at church. The word simply means to be about the good news of Jesus but it’s come to be known as a conservative voting bloc who lack compassion. Has the church in America lost their way and their voice? We’ll wrap up our series by looking at how religion under the sun is not the answer. Study Guide

Under the Sun: Part 5 - The Loneliest NumberEvery terrorist organization in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits. There’s a reason the worst punishment you can get in our prison system is called solitary confinement. It’s excruciating to be forced to be alone because we were created in the image of a triune God. We were literally made for relationship. Isolation is nothing new under the sun but there is a solution

Under The Sun: Part 4 - In JusticeNelson Mandela. Atticus Finch. Oskar Schindler. Rosa Parks. Orange Scott. William Wilberforce. Sojourner Truth. Susan B. Anthony. Some names we recognize, some names we don’t, but they’re all individuals who decided to defend defenseless people. This is a theme all throughout the book of Ecclesiastes, actually all throughout the Bible. In part four of Under the Sun, we’ll look at what God says about injustice and our role in addressing it.Study Guide

Under the Sun: Part 3 - Sunrise, Sunset Life is like a drier in a laundromat, it goes around and around and around and those of us in it end up wrinkled. This seems to be what the teacher is saying in chapter three. Life under the sun is boring, mundane, and purposeless. But the good news is that living under the sun is not all there is.Study Guide