Women's Bible Study

Today in Luke we will meet a man by the name of Levi who recognized that when he decided to follow Jesus - everything would change. We will talk about what happens when a person truly comes to Jesus and the life changes that happen because of it...

Today we will see a turning point in Peter's life as he comes face to face with who Jesus is and when he recognizes who He is - it will change Peter's life forever. One encounter - a long night of fishing - exhaustion - no fish - and then Jesus shows up and asks Peter to step out one more time - "throw the nets back in the water and see what I can do..." And now Peter has a choice - do what Jesus says and be blessed or walk away. And thankfully for us we get to see the great lessons Peter learned about Jesus as he obeyed and threw his nets back in the water...

Join us today as Jesus not only heals the paralytic but says He forgives his sin. We will work through the fact that Jesus covers our sin the moment we come to Him but working the sin out of our lives is a daily occurrence. Many people feel the sin in their past is something that God will never forgive but today we will see that is not true! Our position in Christ is always secure but our journey to look more and more like Jesus is continuous until the day we die!

Today we will see Jesus as He shows His authority over everything on this earth and in the spiritual realm. We will come face to face with who He is as He casts out demons and heals the sick. What we will learn is that the more we get to know Him for who He is - the less and less we will ever worry or be fearful in this life because we know He controls it all.

Today we will talk about religion and ask the question: Are you following a church, a set of rules and regulations or are you following Jesus? There is a really big difference between the two and we will see how Jesus dealt with the religious Pharisees of His day.

Today's lesson in Luke will show us from the life of Levi that we all have a choice: let the sins of our past devastate our future or forget our sinful past and allow God to use us regardless of what we have done. We will see that any sin: murder, adultery, lying, those who suffer from depression, addiction and those who deny Jesus for a season can ALL come back to Him and live a life of service to Him until the day we die...

Today we see John the Baptist come on the scene - a very strange man who dresses funny and eats locusts in the desert. But his message is shocking to the religious people of the day - the people who thought they knew God because of their religious background. But then they hear of someone out in the wilderness calling people to repentance - calling people to turn from their sin and turn to God. We will learn that repentance begins with us - with looking within and asking - "is there anything I am doing that goes against what God asks of me?" And with John the Baptist comes a new era - not religion but a relationship with Jesus that begins with repentance.

Today we will continue on as Jesus confronts those in the Nazareth and we will ask the questions: Why do you go to church? Whydo you give money and read your Bible Is it because you want God to love you? If that is your answer - you might be held captive to religion and Jesus wants to FREE you! Jesus doesn't want you to work harder for Him - He wants you to love Him!

To be a follower of Jesus we have to determine who He says He is. Was He just a moral person, a great teacher, a compassionate leader? Or was He who He said He was which was...God? Then we will move on to seeing Jesus spending time alone with His Father -much needed time to re-fill His life with all the things needed to continue His mission to save people. What we will learn today is the importance of quality down time spent with God each day.

Today we will take a break from Luke as we talk about the difficult days when God seems silent.  Those days we will call the Ravine.  We look at the Christian life as moving from one mountain (when you first become a Christian) to another mountain (when you have learned to trust God) but it is the in between - the Ravine - between the mountains that God does His best work.  Those are the days God seems silent, He feels distant, it feels like He doesn't care.  But those are the times that we learn the most of about Him when we see His faithfulness through the dark times.