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Waterville Community Church Podcast episodes

November 29, 2015 Rooted In Christ: Hear-Understand-Repeat
This is the first sermon in a four-week Advent series called, "Rooted In Christ" which is a study of Paul's letter to the Colossians.

GROW Questions:
1. When you first "heard and understood" the "truth of God's wonderful grace" did it change your life the way it changed Paul's?

2. If not, is it possible you either didn't hear and understand what you were being told or you heard and understood something that wasn't Paul's "good news?”

3. How might God be calling you this Advent season to express deeper trust in Him by expressing greater love for those around you?

GO:
"Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. 2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God." -Ephesians 5:1-2 (NLT)

36 min
November 22, 2015 Vision - The Way I See It
Dana Keim shares a "Vision" message today.

GROW Questions:

1. Where are you being challenged the most right now in your understanding of God, the bible or church? How are you facing those challenges and resolving the struggle? Are these challenges to your understanding provoking you to Love God and Others more? How?

2. Where is your focus for personal spiritual growth right now? What action steps are you personally taking to ensure this is happening in your life? (reading your Bible, participating in a small group, serving, dealing with a conflict, forgiving, utilizing an accountabilility partner, etc.)

3. What action steps can you take to help our church to grow as a corporate whole? (serving on Sunday mornings, leading a small group, discipling another individual or starting/increasing your giving)

4. Lastly because Thanksgiving is just around the corner…Who do you need to thank for the role s/he has played in your spiritual development and how can you do this as a means of encouraging them to keep the faith and stay the course?

GO:
“When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required." -Luke 12:48 (NLT)

38 min
November 15, 2015 Revival - A Tradition of Betrayal
This is the eigth and final message in the "Revival" series which is a study of the New Testament Gospel of Matthew.

GROW Questions:
1. Is it possible the “tradition” you associate with “the good news” “betrays” what is really happening?

2. Are you willing to critique that tradition that God might breathe new life into your faith?

3. Will you obey everything Jesus taught you?

4. Will you actively and intentionally participate in the mission of inviting others to live in the kingdom of God?
GO:
"Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” -Matthew 28:19-20 (NLT)
43 min
November 08, 2015 Revival - Judgement Is Ironic
This is the seventh sermon in an eight week series called, "Revival" which is a study of the Gospel of Matthew.

GROW Questions:
1. Have you ever thought of God as a “suffering servant”—one who saves us from sin by living with us, suffering and dying at our hands, and rising to new life?

2. Have you ever thought of your vocation in Christ as being a similar “suffering servant?”

3. How would you characterize the posture of your spiritual life—self-protection or self-sacrifice?

4. How will you respond to Jesus’ warning that a posture of self-protection will cause you to lose the life you want to save and leave you unprepared to receive God when you finally meet?

GO Verse:
“A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them." -Matthew 24:45

45 min
November 02, 2015 Revival - Trick or Trust
This is the sixth message in an eight-week series called, "Revival" which is a study of the Gospel of Matthew.

GROW Questions:
1. Have you ever found yourself feeling offended by something someone has said about God? Why?

2. If there is truth to this distinction, how often would you say you profess Jesus as Messiah, Son of God but live the “way of Satan”—the way of protection and preservation?

3. What role has your religious culture played in nurturing that default posture and, like Peter, do you think Jesus may be trying rescue you from it?

4. What might it look like this week to enter into the scary place of confession and/or forgiveness?

GO:
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. 25 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.
-Matthew 16:24-25 (NLT)
45 min
October 25, 2015 Revival - Not Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
This is the fifth message in an eight-week series called, "Revival" which is a study of the Gospel of Matthew.

GROW Questions:
1. What expectations of God do you bring to your “faith?” Where did you form them?

2. Is it possible your expectations may actually cause you to “turn away” from Jesus?

3. How do you respond to the suggestion that God may be eternally, universally merciful? Like the crowd? Like the religious leaders? Like John the Baptist?

4. Are you currently finding rest for your souls in Jesus?

GO:
Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.” -Matthew 11:28-30 (NLT)

46 min
October 18, 2015 Revival - Pick Me
This week, guest speaker Dana Keim continues the "Revival" series which is a study of the Gospel of Matthew.

GROW Questions:
1. What do your innermost thoughts and desires as revealed by THE WORD say about God, others and yourself? Will you allow Him to change the way you think so you become a new person in Him? How?

2. Who might Jesus be asking you to be with or for that the religious system may not want you to be with or for? Will you follow Him here? How?

3. How will you handle it if others from your own family, circle of friends or church falsely accuse you of not following this book of the law in the process?

4. What will you do practically speaking to grow in your love for people through this…not only those Jesus is asking you to be with or for but including those who make you their enemy as a result?

GO:
"Those that say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did." 1 John 2:6 (NLT)
38 min
October 11, 2015 Revival - "I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means"
KNOW:
This is the third message in an eight-week series called, "Revival" which is a study of the Gospel of Matthew.

GROW Questions:
1. Do you need to “repent of your sins and turn to God for the Kingdom of Heaven is available to you?”

2. Do you need to rethink how you approach the Bible in light of Jesus’ words about completing or fulfilling the law?

3. How much of your life/faith is driven more by a “fear of man” (either the need to please or the need to protect) than an authentic desire to please God in your inner being?

4. Are you bearing the good fruit of love for your enemy? If not, what does that tell you about the health of your tree and what should you do about it?

GO:
"Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.” -Matthew 6:33 (NLT)
44 min
October 04, 2015 Revival - Safety Second
This is the second sermon in an eight-week series called, "Revival" which is a study of the Gospel of Matthew.

GROW Questions:
1. Does your religious system assume and reinforce the belief that:
a) God’s enemies are HUMAN and that
b) one day God will respond to those HUMAN enemies by destroying them?

2. Do you ever find yourself living on the safety spectrum?

3. Is it possible that Jesus as “God with us” and “the Lord saves” is actually trying to save us from this very belief?

4. Does it make sense that for God to save HUMANs he would have to destroy the evil that enslaves them?

5. Are you leaving church today a little more convinced that God is fundamentally good and entirely trustworthy?

GO:
Jesus responded, "The Scriptures also say, 'You must not test the Lord your God.'" Matt. 4:7

46 min
September 27, 2015 Revival - Complete The Mission
This is the first message in an eight-week series called, "Revival" which is the study of the New Testament gospel of Matthew.

GROW Questions:
1. Do you believe God is “with you?” Why or why not?

2. Do you believe God is with you as “one who saves?”

3 Is it hard for you to believe/embrace that all God has ever done, is currently doing, and will ever do is save?

4. Are you someone who is need of saving today?

5. Do you ever find yourself rejecting news about God in order to protect an already established kingdom?

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