Home Devotional Guides 07/28/2011
These are the three most recent home devotional guides, available for download. The most recent one, for this Sunday, keys in on the Letter of Jude, which we'll discuss this Sunday during the sermon. If you find these useful, please share them with others. 
Add Comment Family Devotional Guide / John 1:19-51 07/07/2011
The devotional guide this week includes readings and questions from Psalm 119:121-144 and John 1:19-51. These are the scripture texts we'll read and study in worship on Sunday. Please invite a friend! We'll be spending some time in John over the summer and early fall, and we can give your friends a copy of the Gospel of John that they can read and refer to throughout. Also, if you find this devotional guide useful, please share it with others!
This Sunday's devotional guide contains readings, questions, and prayer foci from Psalm 119 and the Gospel of John (1:1-18). We're starting our new sermon series on John this Sunday. Please use this devotional as a way of reviewing the Bible passages used in worship with your family. If you find this useful, please share it with others!
Bible Study Guide: John 14-21 and 1 John 11/17/2010
1. In John 14, what does it mean for Jesus to call himself the way, the truth, and the life? (v. 6) 2. What is one of the purposes of the Holy Spirit, according to Jesus in John 14:15-31? 3. What is the meaning of Jesus' teaching the vine and branches in John 15? 4. What else does Jesus teach about the Holy Spirit in John 16:1-15? 5. What three components are there to Jesus' prayer in John 17? What does it mean--in John--to be "one" (v. 21)? 6. What is different about Jesus' trial in John 18-19 than in Matthew, Mark, and Luke? 7. What is the importance of "John" believing without proof (20:8, 24-29)? 8. How did the disciples receive the Holy Spirit (20:22)? 9. What did Jesus want Peter to do after Jesus had been resurrected (John 21)? What does this correspond to for us? 10. What is the central message of 1 John? 11. What is sin in 1 John? 12. What are the "marks" of a true believer in 1 John? 13. According to 1 John, what is love? Where does it come from? What does it mean? 14. What is a sign of falsehood in 1 John? Bible Study Guide: John 1-13 11/03/2010
This bible study guide is for our Sunday morning bible class on November 14. A little early, but it still gives you something to think about! 1. How is the Gospel of John different from the other three gospels? 2. How does John introduce Jesus (1:1-18)? 3. How does Jesus' calling of disciples in 1:35-51 serve as an example for how we can live evangelistically? 4. What is the symbolic meaning of Jesus turning water into wine (2:1-11)? John states that this is a sign (2:11). Of what? What is the purpose of the "signs" in John? 5. What did Jesus teach Nicodemus about salvation (3:1-21)? 6. What is significant about Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman (4:1-42)? What does he teach her about salvation? What is the result? 7. What is the second sign Jesus performed, and what is its importance (4:43-54)? 8. What is the third sign Jesus performed, and what is its importance (5:1-18)? 9. What is the fourth sign Jesus performed, and what is its importance (6:1-15)? 10. What is the fifth sign Jesus performed, and what is its importance (6:16-24)? 11. What is the spiritual meaning of the feeding of the five thousand, as taught by Jesus (6:25-59)? What were the reactions to Jesus (6:25-71)? 12. What misunderstandings surface between Jesus and the people and religious leaders in chapters 7-8? 13. What is the sixth sign Jesus performed, and what is its importance (9:1-41)? 14. In chapter 9, how does the healing of the man born blind expose the spiritual blindness of the Pharisees? 15. How is Jesus a "good shepherd" (10:1-21)? 16. What is the seventh sign Jesus performed, and what is its importance (11:1-46)? 17. What does Lazarus' resurrection teach about Jesus (chapter 11)? 18. What is significant about Jesus washing his disciples' feet (chapter 13)? Audio Devotional: Pruned by God 11/04/2009
In this audio, I look at John 15:1-2 and what Jesus means when he talks about being pruned by God. | On this blog I typically post audio devotionals, Bible study notes or resources that I'm working on for use at the Otisville Church of Christ, where I preach, or short articles about ministry and church leadership. Occasionally I post a book review.
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