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Waterville Community Church Podcast episodes

April 17, 2016 Vision - Relationships Part 2: Rightness With God
Every so often we take a break from our regular schedule of teaching through the books of the Bible to talk about WCC's mission, vision, and values. This is a two-part Vision series on the topic of relationships: our relationship with God and with others.

GROW Questions:
1. How do you feel about the suggestion that God did not and does not expect moral perfection?

2. How does that change the Christian narrative for you?

3. Have you died and risen with Jesus?

GO:
"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)

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43 min
April 10, 2016 Vision - Relationships Part 1
Every so often we take a break from our regular schedule of teaching through the books of the Bible to talk about WCC's mission, vision, and values. This is a two-part Vision series on the topic of relationships: our relationship with God and with others.

GO:
"Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you." - 2 Corinthians 13:11 (NET)

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39 min
April 03, 2016 Grace Awakening
This is just a one-week sermon on the book of Titus called "Grace Awakening."

GROW Questions:

1.How could your life be different if you saw yourself as DESERVING of God’s grace?

2.How could the life of others be different if you saw them as DESERVING of God’s grace?

3.How/where/when specifically has your life reflected the same type of integrity Jesus had?

4.How do your beliefs/way of being affect your behaviors or outcomes/results/consequences in life?

5.How does His grace help you with #3 & #4?

GO:
“Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.” - 1 John 2:6 (NLT)

34 min
March 27, 2016 Unfollow - As For You, Follow Me: Blocking Jesus by Refusing To Reconcile
This is the seventh and final message in the "Unfollow" series where we've studied the Gospel of John.

GO:
“As for you, FOLLOW me.” - John 21:22b (NLT)

37 min
March 20, 2016 Unfollow - You Can't Handle The Truth: Blocking Jesus for Truth as WHAT
Sermon #6 in a seven-week series called "Unfollow" where we're studying the Gospel of John.

GROW Questions:

1. Are you accustomed to thinking about “truth” as a WHAT category?

2. If truth is a WHO category, if God is truth, and God is reflected in the person of Jesus, how would you answer the question, “what is truth” or “what is true?”

3. Is the Spirit of Truth convicting you in some way?

4. What keeps so much of Christianity from being united?

GO Verse:
“I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me." - John 17:22-23 (NLT)

45 min
March 13, 2016 Unfollow - If You're Not First, You're Last - Blocking Jesus for Cultural Scripts
This is the fifth sermon in a seven-week series called "Unfollow" where we study John's Gospel.

GROW Questions:

1. Do you think you are you being shaped by scripts that are contrary to Jesus and his kingdom?
2. What can you do to begin giving Jesus space to reveal and reverse them?
3. Are you prepared to embrace a life of pruning?

GO:
“I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love." - John 15:9-10 (NLT)

43 min
March 06, 2016 Unfollow - Get Busy Livin' or Get Busy Dyin'
Mike Strole teaches the fourth sermon in the "Unfollow" series in which we study the Gospel of John.

GROW Questions:

1. Do you tend to think God as someone who takes life or one who gives life?

2. Have you ever betrayed yourself in order to preserve a part of your life? What did it do to you?

3. Are there things in your life you hold tightly to, and are afraid to lose? What would happen if you let go?

GO:
"Jesus told her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?' " - John 11:25-26 (NLT)
35 min
February 28, 2016 Unfollow - Blocking Jesus for Christianity
This is the third semon in a seven-week series called "Unfollow" where we are studying the Gospel of John.

GROW Questions:

1. Is your version of Christianity more about Jesus or “what the Bible says?”

2. Have you ever experienced a Christian culture where answers were assumed, people didn’t ask questions, and if you did you experienced pressure to conform?

3. Is it possible that today there exists a Christian majority that is walking in darkness, slaves to sin, unable to see reality clearly but firmly believing it does?

GO:
"Jesus said to the people who believed in him, 'You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.' " - John 8:31-32 (NLT)

42 min
February 21, 2016 Unfollow: Jesus Is >
This is the second sermon in a seven-week series called "Unfollow" studying the Gospel of John.

GROW Questions:
1. Are you comfortable with the idea that Jesus is “better” or “greater” than other revelation, even revelation in the Bible? Why or why not?

2. Do you find yourself going back to the same wells for “satisfaction?” Is it possible it’s because your image of God is based on Jacob’s “water” instead of Jesus’?

3. Do you make Jesus point to the scriptures or the scriptures point to Jesus?

4. If you could have either the Bible and no Jesus or Jesus and no Bible which would you choose?

GO:
"At this point many of his disciples turned away and deserted him. Then Jesus turned to the Twelve and asked, “Are you also going to leave?” Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life. We believe, and we know you are the Holy One of God.” - John 6:66-69 (NLT)

39 min
February 14, 2016 Unfollow - Saving The Best For Last
This is the first message in a seven-week series called "Unfollow" where we study the Gospel of John.

GROW Questions:
1. Do you tend to think about and relate to God as arbitrary power or unfailing love? Do you prefer one over the other?

2. If God does everything for his own glory, as many Christians are taught, how does the fact that his “glory” is “unfailing love and faithfulness” change your understanding of the sorts of things God does?

3. Do you ever find yourself “blocking” something Jesus said or did because of something else you think the Bible says?

GO:
"Jesus told them, 'This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent.' ” John 6:29 (NLT)
35 min