There is an old trope in acting that the camera is the fourth wall. This convention imagines a wall between actors and their audience. While the audience can see through this “wall,” the convention assumes that the actors cannot.Every once in a while, you will see an actor look directly into the camera or at the audience, and they will speak through the Fourth Wall and break that convention. This ...  Read More

INTRODUCTIONThe following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.OPEN QUESTIONSHave you ever had the opportunity to go to the mission field and work, whether that mission field was on the other side of t...  Read More

DAY 34 - LUKE 9:44-62 Jesus Again Predicts His Death43 While everyone was marveling at everything he was doing, Jesus said to his disciples, 44 “Listen to me and remember what I say. The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies.” 45 But they didn’t know what he meant. Its significance was hidden from them, so they couldn’t understand it, and they were afraid to ask him abou...  Read More

DAY 33 - LUKE 9:37-43 37 The next day, after they had come down the mountain, a large crowd met Jesus. 38 A man in the crowd called out to him, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, my only child. 39 An evil spirit keeps seizing him, making him scream. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It batters him and hardly ever leaves him alone. 40 I begged your disciples to cast ...  Read More

DAY 32 - LUKE 9:28-36 28 About eight days later Jesus took Peter, John, and James up on a mountain to pray. 29 And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed, and his clothes became dazzling white. 30 Suddenly, two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared and began talking with Jesus. 31 They were glorious to see. And they were speaking about his exodus from this world, which was about t...  Read More

DAY 31 - LUKE 9:18-27 18 One day Jesus left the crowds to pray alone. Only his disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”19 “Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say you are one of the other ancient prophets risen from the dead.”20 Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?”Peter replied, “You are the Messiah sent from God!”Jesu...  Read More