Narrate Church

Isaiah 35:1-10
Matthew 11:2-11

How would you rate your ability to weather disappointment? This week Adam looks at this section on John the Baptist and how it might relate. 

In the second week of Advent, Adam continues exploring waiting...with HOPE! 

• Waiting for Christmas
• Waiting for Jesus' second coming
• Waiting with God

A probing question: What’s the stuff God has been talking to you about?

Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44

In the first week of the Advent series, Adam asks the question "What if being a healthy human means learning to wait?" Or to expand it further, "What if to being a faithful Christian means learning the difficult, tedious, exhausting, yet vital discipline of waiting for God and waiting with God?"

This week, Lacey introduced the Narrate community to Compassion International. Listen in as she talks about the children in Ethiopia and how we can be a part in helping them.

1 Corinthians 11v17 - 12v31

To what extent, if any, is community part of your strategy for a strong mental game? Listen in as Adam unpacks ideas around how community go along with being human. What does it look like to have life be something that we grow in together? 

This week, Adam begins with the question  - To what extent, if any, is prayer a productive activity?

Listen in as he shares some of his own journey and asks some great questions.

Luke 10v25-28
Philippians 4v4-9

In looking at how we might give effective boundaries to our use of technology - particularly our use of screens and the internet, Adam walks through 4 questions:

1. What if the Christian life is profoundly preoccupied with the life of the mind?
2. What if, above all else, we are stewards of energy?
3. How do we follow the God of the Sabbath?
4. How do we rest, or Sabbath, in a manner that compliments our calling and stewardship endeavors?

Questions for reflection:
1. Who am I striving to become? What is God calling me to be about? What is my vocation?
2. What are my intentional screen and internet boundaries?

Proverbs 13v1-8, 13-18

This week, Adam interviews local therapist Matt Wenzel and they discuss how following Jesus and paying attention to how the brain works can be beneficial. 

Genesis 1

What if a strong mental game requires maturing in your ability to discern when you have power and when you don’t? What does it look like to have a healthy relationship with control? 

Matthew 6v19-34

What words would you use to describe worry? What if worry tends to reflect a focus that’s too small? What if for the follower of Jesus, worrying lacks integrity? Listen in as Adam explores these ideas and more.