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Amos 5:21-24 (NIV)

I hate, I despise your religious festivals;
    your assemblies are a stench to me.
Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
    I will have no regard for them.
Away with the noise of your songs!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.
But let justice roll on like a river,
    righteousness like a never-failing stream!

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Psalms 9:15-18 (NLT)

The nations have fallen into the pit they dug for others.
    Their own feet have been caught in the trap they set.
The Lord is known for his justice.
    The wicked are trapped by their own deeds.

The wicked will go down to the grave.
    This is the fate of all the nations who ignore God.
But the needy will not be ignored forever;
    the hopes of the poor will not always be crushed.

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This morning, Dave Blow wraps up our summer series on ordinary people experiencing God's extraordinary grace in the Old Testament with a reflection on the story of Ruth. Just a couple of housekeeping items: (1) next week, there will be no podcast as we will be meeting at the Baker's home for the inaugural HarbourFest (reach out for more information if you would like to attend), and (2) when we resume on September 13th, we will be jumping back into the series on the Book of Acts that we started in the spring.

Please find the slide deck for this week's teaching here.

Home Church Questions:

1. What stood out to you from this week's teaching?

2. Read the book of Ruth (preferably in multiple translations, though time may not permit). What stands out to you from this story?

3. When was a time where you lost faith? What was that like?

4. What is an area of your life in which God is prompting you act out of faith?

5. Pray with and for one another, our church community, and our world.

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This week, we welcome Mike White, member of the best home church, as he shares about the story of Daniel in the lions den.

Home Church Questions:

1. What stood out to you from this week's teaching?

2. Read Daniel 6 (preferably in multiple translations). What stands out to you from this passage?

3. Have you ever been targeted or punished for your faith? Do you know someone who has? What was that like? How did you/they handle it?

4. Faith isn't knowing that there will be an emergency exit but knowing that, when there is no emergency exit, God is there with us. What does it mean to have an "even if he does not" kind of faith?

5. Pray with and for one another, our church community, and our world.

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John 1:43-46 (NIV)

The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.”

Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

“Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked.

“Come and see,” said Philip.

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John 5:24-26 (NIV)

“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself."

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This week, Dave Blow continues our summer series with a teaching on the life of Jonah. There are times when we try to run from God, but he will never let us outrun his grace. There are times when we think we know better than God, but he is patient and will guide us home.

Please find the slide deck for this week's teaching here.

Home Church Questions:

1. What stood out to you from this week's teaching?

2. Read the Book of Jonah (preferably in multiple translations, though the passage is quite long this week). What stands out to you from this passage?

3. Have you ever tried to run from God? What was that like?

4. What is your Ninevah? What is God trying to get out of you?

5. Pray with and for one another, our church community, and our world.

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John 3:16-21 (ESV)

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

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Today, Dave Blow picks up our series on ordinary people in the Old Testament with a teaching on the prophet Elijah. What does it mean to be burnt out and weary, unable to go on? How does God help us in those situations? And as an added bonus, we captured Jay's prayer to start us off today.

Please find the slide deck for this week's teaching here.

Home Church Questions:

1. What stood out to you from this week's teaching?

2. Read 1 Kings 19:1-18 (preferably in multiple translations). What stands out to you from this passage?

3. When was as time that you felt too weak or insufficient? What stands out to you from that experience?

4. What would it look like to trust and rely on God more than you do now?

5. Pray with and for one another, our church community, and our world.

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Acts 2:37-41 (NIV)

When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”

With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

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