Thursday October 15, 2009

Men's Manly Bible Study...

Jesus is getting at our reliance on Him. He wants us to rely on Him more deeply.
Hebrews 10:32 and following...

How does the Reality of the Kingdom, and our hope of the Resurrection affect our interaction with the created realm? Having confidence in the promise of That Day (1 John 3:2), we set our hearts on the "things above" (Col.3:1ff) (ff means "and following").

We are anchored in Christ, seated in the heavenlies! One day we will be revealed. Check out Romans 8:18ff. This is the stuff we're supposed to really think about life, when the bills are due and there's no money, or our wives are mad about something we don't sympathize with, or our kids are dumb teenagers...

so the way we handle and are affected by this created world is "seasoned" by this hope. Look in 1 Corinthian 7:29-31... We are liberated from the cares of this created order, no matter how gnarly it gets.

but our hearts are also awakened to see the signs and hints of God everywhere! We can more fully enjoy Him, now that we have received his spirit, and the hints he has embedded in creation stoke our hope! So we get stoked and refreshed by the Gospel all the time!

Some thoughts.

Wednesday Night October 14, 2009

This was a prayer night, but instead of prayer, I got us into a teaching about a bunch of stuff. The anchor scriptures that crossed the plate were:

John 14:1-6
2 Corinthians 5:1-11
1 Corinthians 15: 35-58
1 Peter 3:1 and following (ff)
1 Cor. 7:1-9
1 peter 3:15

Welcome!!!

After a year or so off from regular blogging, I have started up this blog as a tool to speed my friends here in study of the Bible passages that get brought up in our meetings. For years, I have encouraged everyone to write down the Scripture references, but frankly, that gets done on a kind of "seldom" basis... so I'm going to do my best to provide those Scripture lists here, as well as break down what we discuss, a little more...

Massive Blessings in Christ.