Today Mike O'Shea interviews Tom Ostrosky, founder & director of The Lazarus Experience.

This is the sixth and final message in our series studying Paul's second letter to the Corinthians.   

     

For sermon notes and Scripture references through YouVersion, click here: http://bible.com/events/409998   

     

1. Do you tend to think of faith as being more about what you believe or how you live?   

2. Are you engaged in any regular practices or self-examination and/or testing?   

3. If not, what's one thing you could begin doing to help prepare you to pass the test of love?   

     

"Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine.  Test yourselves.  Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith."  2 Corinthians 13:5 (NLT)

This is the fifth message in a six-week series studying Paul's second letter to the Corinthians. 

For sermon notes and Scripture references through YouVersion, click here: http://bible.com/events/405707

1. When you first chose to follow Christ were you told you would suffer?  What did you think that meant then?  How has that changed?

2. When, why and how have you chosen comfort over suffering?  Did you happen to discover that suffering still often came in another form?

3.To what do you need to die in order experience resurrection life, reclaiming your soul?

"Since you excel in so many ways...I want you to excel also in this gracious act of giving. I am not commanding you to do this. But I am testing how genuine your love is..." - 2 Corinthians 8:7-8a (NLT)

Music by Jeremy Mockensturm. Check out more of his music at https://soundcloud.com/papajerbear

This is the third message in a six-week series studying Paul's second letter to the Corinthians. 

1. When you first chose to follow Christ were you told you would suffer?  What did you think that meant then?  How has that changed?

2. When, why and how have you chosen comfort over suffering?  Did you happen to discover that suffering still often came in another form?

3.To what do you need to die in order experience resurrection life, reclaiming your soul?

"We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.  We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.  Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies." - 2 Corinthians 4:8-10 (NLT)

Music by Jeremy Mockensturm. Check out more of his music at https://soundcloud.com/papajerbear

This is the third message in a six-week series studying Paul's second letter to the Corinthians. 

For sermon notes and Scripture references through YouVersion, click here: http://bible.com/events/398015 

1. Do your words and actions tell the truth about who God is and about how the world is supposed to be?

2. Have you chosen disobedience to Jesus to avoid the suffering of slander?

3. Is there an opportunity in your life right now to embrace obedience and face the potential suffering of slander?

"God blesses those who are persecuted for doing right, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs. God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers."   ~ Matthew 5:10-11  (NLT)

Music by Jeremy Mockensturm. Check out more of his music at https://soundcloud.com/papajerbear

This is the second message in a six-week series studying Paul's second letter to the Corinthians.   

     

For sermon notes and Scripture references through YouVersion, click here: http://bible.com/events/394285   

     

1. How do you respond to the suggestion that real love for the other begins with how we see the other?   

2. Do you avoid the suffering of introspection as an unconscious way of justifying an unloving posture?   

3. Do you find yourself agonizing over how to act in love toward some people?  What does that say about how you see them?   

     

"Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. But when it is unhealthy, your body is filled with darkness. Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness." - Luke 11:34-35 (NLT)   

     

Music by Jeremy Mockensturm. Check out more of his music at https://soundcloud.com/papajerbear   

This is the first sermon in a six-week series studying Paul's second letter to the Corinthians.   

     

For sermon notes and Scripture references through YouVersion, click here: http://bible.com/events/391891   

     

1. Do you believe your life's purpose is to bear witness to God's kingdom on earth by being faithful to Jesus even if it means suffering and death?   

2. Do you want to be faithful to God more than anything else you could want in this life?   

3. Where are you struggling to be obedient to Jesus b/c it means suffering?   

     

"For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives." - Romans 6:4 (NLT)   

     

Music by Jeremy Mockensturm. Check out more of his music at https://soundcloud.com/papajerbear

This is the final message in our five-week series studying several of the minor prophets.   

     

For sermon notes and Scripture references through YouVersion, click here: http://bible.com/events/385749   

     

Music by Jeremy Mockensturm. Check out more of his music at https://soundcloud.com/papajerbear

This is the fourth message in a five-week series studying several of the minor prophets in the Bible.   

     

For sermon notes and Scripture references through YouVersion, click here: http://bible.com/events/383992   

     

1. What might it look like for you to "come out" from a life of sin and evil?

2. What tangible behaviors could/should you engage in today that would only make sense if Zechariah's vision of an eventual God-rule is true?

3. How does Jesus as the priest/king anticipated by Zechariah, deal decisively with sin and evil?   

     

"So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up." - Galatians 6:9 (NLT)   

     

Music by Jeremy Mockensturm. Check out more of his music at https://soundcloud.com/papajerbear

This is the third message in a five-week series studying several of the minor prophets in the Bible.   

     

1. How have you brought less than your best to God and others?

2. What is getting in the way between you and God that will necessitate some time in the fire?

3. How have you reaped what you have sown in your life...good and bad?

4. What is one hard thing (be specific) you will commit to doing this week?  

     

"This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.  There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends." - John 15:12-13   

     

Music by Jeremy Mockensturm. Check out more of his music at https://soundcloud.com/papajerbear