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
How to deal with evil in our hearts.
Be honest with yourself and with God. Are you as good as God? No one of us has lived a perfect life. Think now of some areas in your life where you are unlike God in his holiness. When you do this, you will be ready to fall on your face before God and confess, “God, I need you. I am a sinner. I am not what you want me to be.”
To deny that we have sinned or have sin in our heart is to deny God and make him out a liar because he has said that we are sinners (I John 1:7-2:2). It is the height of narcissism and arrogance to deny that we have sinned. The Apostle Paul thought that as a good, Jewish rabbi and scholar that he had not broken the will of God. When he read the tenth commandment against coveting, he realized that his heart was full of sin (Rom. 7:7-13).
You might read through the teachings of Jesus and ask yourself about each of them, “Have I perfectly obeyed this command?” As you read, think: “How do I measure up to what God requires?” (Matthew chapters 5-7). Read the sins of the pagan world in Romans 1:18-32 and yourself, “Am I guilty of any of these?” Another list of sins is in Galatians 5:17-21. Have you done any of wrongdoings? If you are still not convinced of your sin, here’s a question that will bring instant guilt: “Are you as good as God?” The Bible says, ‘You shall be holy as I am holy” (1 Pet. 2:14-15). Do you know anyone that good? Has anyone ever perfectly obeyed the greatest command to “love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength” (Matt. 22:37-40). All accountable persons have disobeyed some or many of God’s commands. We have all put ourselves and our selfish will before God.
We will never have peace within ourselves or peace with God as long as we deny that we have disobeyed God or as long as we do not repent of it and make changes in our life. There is a curse to hidden sins. The book of Proverbs says, “Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy” (28:13). After repentance, Jesus wants us to commit ourselves to him by being baptized to become his full-fledged disciple (Matt. 28:19). At that time, God takes away our sins and gives us his indwelling Spirit (Acts 2:38). After baptism, when we do wrong, fail to do right, or in any other way disobey God we should confess our sins and he will “forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (I John 1:9).
Sin cannot rule over us unless we let it. It is not a sin to be tempted. When we are tempted we can resist evil by remembering God’s word as Jesus did when he was tempted (Matt. 4:1-11). Through his grace, God helps us to resist evil (Jas. 4:6-7). When we draw near to God, he will draw near to us (Jas. 4:8). He will never leave us or forsake us (Heb. 13:5-6). We can lean on his strength, he will help us live our lives pleasing to him. By putting on the spiritual armor that God provides, we can “be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might” (Eph. 6:10-18). If we let him, he can do in us far more than we think or imagine (Eph. 3:20-21). Our faith can overcome the world (I John 5:4) because “the one in you is greater than the one who is in the world” (I John 4:4).