Wednesday Night Study Guide (Page 2)

Sermon Title: Jacob’s Ladder Text: Genesis 28:10-22; John 1:43-51 Resources: Click here to listen to or watch the sermon Download tonight’s printable study guide Brief summary Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder…

Sermon Title: It Cost Everything Text: 2 Samuel 24 Resources: Click here to listen to or watch the sermon Download tonight’s printable study guide Brief summary Then Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king,…

Sermon Title: Have Mercy On Me, O God Text: Psalm 51 Resources: Click here to listen to or watch the sermon Download tonight’s printable study guide Brief summary Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done…

Sermon Title: How is Our Culture Affecting Us? “That We May Be Like All the Nations” Text: 1 Samuel 8:19-22 Resources: Click here to listen to or watch the sermon Download tonight’s printable study guide Brief summary But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and…

Sermon Title: What Shall We Do? Text: Acts 2:37-41 Resources: Click here to listen to or watch the sermon Download tonight’s printable study guide Brief summary Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the…

Sermon Title: This Jesus Text: Acts 2:14-39 Resources: Click here to listen to or watch the sermon Download tonight’s printable study guide Brief summary Sunday was Easter, of course, and people throughout the world reflected on the resurrection of Christ. We studied Peter’s sermon in Acts 2 because it was the first sermon preached after the resurrection, and so it was the first sermon from the apostles that was shaped by their new awareness of who Jesus really was. Notice how Peter…

Sermon Title: Root Rot: Weathering Storms and the Damage Done by Sin Text: 2 Corinthians 5:17 Resources: Click here to listen to or watch the sermon Download tonight’s printable study guide Brief summary “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17) “‘For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.’ It is for discipline that you have to endure.…

Sermon Title: What Was Right In Their Eyes Text: Philippians 2:19-24 Resources: Click here to listen to or watch the sermon Download tonight’s printable study guide Brief summary In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. –Judges 17:6   In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. –Judges 21:25 To be frank, the book of Judges is a discouraging book. If you’re…

Sermon Title: No One Like Him Text: Philippians 2:19-24 Resources: Click here to listen to or watch the sermon Download tonight’s printable study guide Brief summary I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you. For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. But you know Timothy’s proven worth,…

Sermon Title: The Kindness and Severity of God Text: Romans 11:22; Deuteronomy 27, 28, 32 Resources: Click here to listen to or watch the sermon Download tonight’s printable study guide Brief summary “How America Sees God” (USA Today lead story from October 7, 2010)—the article is based on a study conducted over the last four years by two sociologists from Baylor University in Texas. Their work is published in a book called, America’s Four Gods: What We Say About God and What This…

Sermon Title: Nothing Compares To God Text: James 1:13-15 (ESV) Resources: Click here to listen to or watch the sermon Download tonight’s printable study guide Brief summary (what’s the point of this text/sermon?) God loves us desperately, infinitely more than we can even imagine and far more than we deserve. In spite of our faults and imperfections and weaknesses, he looks down on us with love and affection. How awesome it is to be loved by a perfect Being, the Father…

Sermon Title: Why We’re Here: A Worshiping Community Text:Luke 24:28-35 (ESV) Resources: Click here to listen to or watch the sermon Download tonight’s printable study guide Brief summary (what’s the point of this text/sermon?) This was the last of a four-part series under the heading, “Why We’re Here,” focusing on Luke’s description of the earliest Christians in Acts 2:42-47. The previous sermons have emphasized the church as a learning community, a sharing community, and an eating together community. Sunday we focused…