Posts with the category “elemental-season-1”
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Elemental Season 1 - End of Week 3
May 27th, 2023
Deconstruction - how you take your faith apart matters (deconstruction, tools of deconstruction, inspiration, interpretation, what can we really know, epistemology)INTROThe following is a guide to hel... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 20
May 26th, 2023
So is this really a question of truth, or is it a question of what you can know and what you can’t know? Or is it a question of what is possible to know, or is it something else? The philosophical ana... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 19
May 25th, 2023
This is a fair question. If the biblical narrative is not as simple as we have perhaps been led to believe, how can we really know what is happening in the Bible at all? This is one of the reasons we ... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 18
May 24th, 2023
So why can’t we just say that we believe what the Bible says and that we live our lives according to it? Wouldn’t that simply make things a bit easier? Yes, of course, it would.But unfortunately, that... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 17
May 23rd, 2023
I was in a songwriting seminar with Rich Mullins, and he made an interesting comment. He asked if any of us had been in a talent show or had seen one where someone said: “God woke me up and gave me th... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 15
May 21st, 2023
When I was in high school, I got the best job opportunity. It was the opportunity to work maintenance at the school. Doesn’t that sound good to you? Then you are not a 15-year-old boy with a driver’s ... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - End of Week 2
May 20th, 2023
INTRODUCTIONThe following is a guide to help facilitate discussion. Feel free to add or subtract or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.OPENHow woul... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 13
May 19th, 2023
Happy are those who make the LORD their trust, who do not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods. —Psalm 40:4Have you ever felt like going to church was a little like going to scho... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 12
May 18th, 2023
Trust is hard. It is difficult for us to trust one another, to trust institutions, to trust our spouses even. When I do premarital counseling with a couple we talk about intention and how they need to... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 11
May 17th, 2023
Let me be CLEAR, we should think about God, and we should even seek to think correctly about God. But we are super complex beings. We have big brains, and we have deep spiritual thoughts and experienc... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 10
May 16th, 2023
Here is a question or two to ponder; does our understanding of God limit God? Is God beholden to the words that we say about God? I guess another way to ask the question is to ask if we create God in ... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 9
May 15th, 2023
Great question. I have felt like in this series and in this discussion we sort of have to figure out why and how we ask the questions first before we jump into the scriptures. You see, it is too easy ... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 8
May 14th, 2023
Do you follow the Bible? I think we all want to. There was a journalist by the name of A.J. Jacobs, who wrote a book called; “The Year of Living Biblically.” and I got a chance to hear him speak after... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - End of Week 1
May 13th, 2023
INTROThe following is a guide to help facilitate discussion. Feel free to add or subtract or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.OPENWhen you were a... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 6
May 12th, 2023
As we finish this first week of dipping our toes into the deconstruction pool, I want you to understand a bottom line that I think is important: “I can choose to trust God with a childlike trust regar... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 5
May 11th, 2023
Orthodoxy, in its simplest definition, is right thinking. And we were taught to think rightly, or correctly, or whatever. From my first memory of church, we were taught to think about God correctly. W... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 4
May 10th, 2023
Thus far, we haven’t encountered much scripture. I hope that is okay. Through the Elemental series, we have to set the background for what we are attempting to take on. The growth that is needed is no... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 3
May 9th, 2023
Church should be the safest place to take risks. Let me say that again. Church should be the safest place to take risks. The Church should hold a place of value in our lives because we can ask questio... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 2
May 8th, 2023
If you have ever had a moment when you question your faith, or feel some doubt, then you know that the people around you get pretty nervous and anxious about what you are going through. People don't l... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Day 1
May 7th, 2023
Have you ever had something that triggered a response you were not expecting? Something that brings you back to either you didn’t want to go or somewhere you have never been before and are not sure yo... Read More
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Elemental Season 1 - Introduction
May 6th, 2023
Deconstruction is a big word with a significant meaning when having to do with faith. You have probably encountered it in the last couple of years, as it has been a big topic in the world of belief. I... Read More
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