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Ice Breakers:What are some things that you often use the word “love” to describe your relationship to.What are some words you could use instead of “love”?Questions:What difference does it make to your view of your sin and yourself when you see sin as idolatry, and idolatry as adultery?In what ways can we replace God in today’s culture? In what ways can we reduce him? Which is more attractive and why? As a case study, check out this article on the mall as a place of [...]

Ice Breakers:What are some things that you often use the word “love” to describe your relationship to.What are some words you could use instead of “love”?Questions:What difference does it make to your view of your sin and yourself when you see sin as idolatry, and idolatry as adultery?In what ways can we replace God in today’s culture? In what ways can we reduce him? Which is more attractive and why? As a case study, check out this article on the mall as a place of [...]

This past Sunday, Pastor Jeremy led us through a bit of a self evaluation. He focused our exploration of Exodus on two key questions, what is our greatest need, and what is our mission. On your own, or in the trust relationships if your Life Group, process the difference between felt needs and actual needs. One way to easily begin dissecting these two is to consider a child and how they express their needs. The profound feelings of immediacy, the emotional attachment to what is or is not right i [...]

This week Pastor Jeremy walked through the significance of the Tabernacle. Rather than reinventing the wheel, for our study this week we would like to point you to 2 wonderful resources.This first is a video from the Bible Project. This is an overview of the last half of the book of Exodus. The second resource is from Rob Laidlaw and his Strategic Discipleship curriculum. Click here for his website.Below is a .pdf file of Rob's study of the Tabernacle and how it points us to C [...]

This week Pastor Jeremy took us on an overview of several chapters from Exodus called “The Law”, Exodus 21-24.To begin with, take a look at the story of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32Pastor Jeremy pointed out attention to the way we often are able to identify more with the older brother in this story. Take a few minutes to chat about this. Do you agree? Do you more naturally relate to one of the other characters? (the Father, the younger son?)Jesus boils the law down to 2 essentia [...]

In this weeks sermon, Pastor Brennan unpacked the iconic 10 Commandments of Exodus from a few different perspectives.​As you open your Bible to Exodus 20, take a few minutes to chat about the word ‘law’. Have you ever had a brush with the law? Do you abide by the law? Do you find yourself reading or avoiding all the legal mumbo jumbo on your itunes account? What does law mean to you? Read through the 10 commandments as a group, each taking turns to read one. Which [...]

Exodus 19:1-6Read Exodus 19:1-14As God called His people to prepare for Him to come down “in the sight of all the people” (verse 11), he told them they were to wash their garments.  Have you ever had a time in your life when you weren’t able to dress yourself? If so, how did that make you feel?God “dressing” His people is a theme that we see all through scripture. Take a look at the following passages and discuss their meaning in the original context and thei [...]

What is it that you look to for hope? Really think about this. Every day we are encouraged by media sources, government, and countless advertisements, to place our hope in people, systems, and products that will make life easier for us. Or possibly they promise us relief from things like stress, anxiety, conflict, or toil. So look back over your week and think about the people, systems, and products, that make life better for you. What would it be like if even one of these were taken away? It [...]

The title for this week’s sermon may have misled you. We haven’t talked about a bunch of God, and now this week we’re looking at the rest of him. No, Pastor Jeremy took us back to Exodus 16 to look at the divinely ordained rest, called the Sabbath rest. To begin with, talk about your relationship with rest? What type of rest do you crave the most? Mental, physical, emotional? Why?Where do you look for rest and is rest a synonym for relaxation? Or do they mean different things [...]