Wondering What to Believe?
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Does Nature Give Proof of God?8 Digging Deeper
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Can I Hear God's Voice?8 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- Does God Care About My Concerns?
- Best practices for a thriving relationship.
- God wants us to know Him
- Ways that God communicates to us today.
- God gives us scriptures through men.
- Life changing love letter from God.
- God provides us a way for a relationship with Him through Jesus.
- Are you too busy for God?
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Who is God?8 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- God reveals himself throughout time so that people can worship the one true God.
- Evidences of the Existence of God.
- A God that always keeps his word.
- God’s ways above our ways.
- The Truth of God’s Nature.
- God is a loving, caring, beneficent God.
- A God that is God is long-suffering and forgiving.
- Striving to become more like God.
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Who Wrote the Bible?8 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- The Truth in the Bible.
- The Origin of the Bible
- The single author behind the many writers in the Bible.
- God foreshadowing discoveries made in today’s world.
- Why people downplay the evidences in the Bible.
- Foreshadowing of Jesus in the Old Testament
- Using doubt as an excuse to not change.
- What it means to have faith in the Bible.
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Can I Trust the Bible?7 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- Is it possible for us to know if the Bible is true?
- The differences and similarities between faith and trust.
- The significance in the magnitude of New Testament manuscripts compared to other ancient manuscripts.
- How large numbers of discovered manuscripts support the authenticity of the Bible.
- Why do you think about the very small (.001) part of critical textual variations found in the New Testament?
- How has the Bible impacted your life?
- Do you trust the Bible?
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Is there a Right and Wrong?7 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- The different standards for determining what is right and what is wrong.
- Is it in our nature to know what is right and wrong?
- Is right and wrong discerned by each person for themselves or is it ultimately determined by a higher authority?
- What to do in a situation where two people have different beliefs on what is right and wrong?
- Is there a standard when determining what is right and wrong?
- Is the Bible is our absolute moral standard for topics such as honesty, sexuality, the value of human life?
- Do you believe you can determine with absolute certainly what is right and wrong?
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Why Does God Allow Evil?9 Digging Deeper
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Who Am I?7 Digging Deeper
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What is the Meaning of Life?7 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- What is the meaning of your life? What is your purpose?
- How Jesus brings meaning to our lives.
- How does knowing Jesus will judge both the good and the bad in our lives impact the way we live?
- What do you make of the reading from Ecclesiastes 5:15?
- What do you want to be said about your life when you’re gone?
- How our understanding of the meaning of our life impact the way we live.
- What would you say was the meaning of the life you’ve lived so far?
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Does God Love Me?5 Digging Deeper
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Group Progress
Group Progress
The best definition of love.
The word “love” is one of the most overworked words in our language. We use it to describe our desire and delight in everything from chocolate ice cream to puppy dogs, from our wish to do something (as in, “I’d love to go to Hawaii”), to our relationship with God (“I love God”) and our families (“I love my children”).
What is the best definition of “love”? Genuine love is giving, sharing, putting others ahead of self, serving others without expectation of reward, giving others pleasure or helping them to enjoy life.
The greatest example of love is when someone sacrifices his or her life to save the life of another. Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). But in his own life, Jesus went even further: he laid down his life for those who hated him and rejected him. He “came into the world to save sinners” (I Timothy 1:15). While on the cross, he said about those crucifying him, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). He voluntarily and deliberately sacrificed himself to save others (23:35). God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only son to die for us while we were yet sinners (John 3:16; I Corinthians 15:3). The greatest gift that God could ever give us is Jesus, the pure and righteous one who alone was God in the flesh and who alone could atone for our sins (Romans 8:32). His death and resurrection three days later paid the price for all the sins of the entire world from the first man, Adam, until the end of time (Hebrews 7:6-7; 9:26-28).
No other gift of God could satisfy or pay the price for our sins. This was the only way that God could satisfy his moral and just nature and prove his love for sinners. A perfect angel could not die for us. An angel is a creation of God, not God himself. Jesus is God in the flesh, not someone God made, but God himself, the one and only God who is blessed forevermore (John 1:1-4, 14; Romans 9:5). Jesus is the “radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature” (Hebrews 1:3). The preeminence and glory of Jesus is detailed in these words from the Apostle Paul: