Application Questions & Sunday Line-up

Scripture Reference: Matthew 28:1-8

Application Questions:

1. How are you encouraged to know that real reality is not this life, but Christ himself?
2. What areas, things or attitudes do you need to let go of since the problem of evil is only temporary? Have you placed more importance on trials, problems and/or people than Christ? What do you need to do to change?
3. How would you answer this question: Are you tempted more to despair, fear, worry, anger, apathy and the like more than joy? How can a resurrection-awareness (preach the gospel to yourself everyday) help you to go from sinful thinking to joy-filled thinking? How can your care group help you as you change? Be specific…

Sunday Line-up:

Because Of You
How High And How Wide
Blessed Be Your Name
How Deep The Father’s Love
Light Of The World
Be Thou My Vision
His Forever

Application Questions & Sunday Line-up

Care Group will not be at the Rawling's this week! Call the Rawling's (469.7023) or the church office (346.2361) for more info.

Scripture Reference: Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12

Main Idea: The exalted Lamb of God, bore our sins and suffered in our place, so that we might be made righteous before God.

Application Questions:

1. How does seeing God’s plan through the covenant history of the Old Testament magnify the gospel?

2. How does knowing that Jesus was the following things affect how you view the gospel and how you relate to Him?

He was…Marred; despised; rejected; pierced; wounded; a man of sorrows; acquainted with grief; as one from whom men hide their faces; despised; scorned; oppressed; afflicted; silent when wrongly accused; taken away in injustice; cut off out of the land of the living; stricken for our transgressions; crushed; numbered with the transgressors

3. How should knowing that all of our sins were imputed to Jesus on the Cross affect how we view our own, daily sins? What should our response look like?

4. How does knowing that we come before God, permanently wearing the righteousness that Jesus earned affect how we live?

Sunday Line-up

He Is Risen
Christ The Lord Is Risen Today
Crown Him With Many Crowns
In Christ Alone
You Led Me To The Cross
Mighty Mighty Savior

Sale Continues

Through March: ridiculously low prices on books and music, plus free U.S. shipping!

Why? Because Sovereign Grace wants to put these resources into as many hands as possible.

- Free library rate shipping (within the U.S.)
- Sovereign Grace CDs* & download sets: $6
- Accompaniment CDs*: $6
- Pursuit of Godliness books*: $5
- Songbook Set*: $40
- Individual Piano Scores: $1; Piano-score sets: $6
*While supplies last

Application Questions & Sunday Line-up

Scripture Reference: 1 Peter 2:4-8

Main Idea: Who are you?

Application Questions:

1. Do you primarily think of yourself as an individual stone or a part of a temple?

2. How does "individual stone" thinking affect your life? Your calendar? How you show up at a church meeting?

3. How does "part of a temple" affect your life? Your calendar? How you show up at a church meeting?

4. Why review your union with Christ? How does that affect your view of suffering? Of blessing? Of your resurrection?

Sunday Line-up

Your Praise Will Never Cease
For Your Glory Alone
Oh What Grace
In Christ Alone
The Wonderful Cross
You Are My King

Weights for Working Out

While there are many great books one could read, I think there are a few must-read books that we should all read and then re-read, because we get fit most often through consistent repetition.

In the challenge of staying spiritually “fit”, I’d like to recommend you put the following books on your “must-have” list:

The Cross-Centered Life, by C.J. Mahaney

Stop Dating the Church, by Josh Harris

Disciplines for Life,by John Loftness & C.J. Mahaney

The Discipline of Grace, by Jerry Bridges

How Can I Change?, by C.J. Mahaney & Robin Boisvert

Why Small Groups?, various pastors, edited by C.J. Mahaney

Knowing God, by J.I. Packer

The Holiness of God, by R. C. Sproul

Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands, by Paul David Tripp

When I Don’t Desire God, by John Piper