Read Philippians 2 vv5-11 1) Each person think of when you needed to hold on tightly.
Read Mark 14 v 3-9: Reflecting on your own life, what is your alabaster jar?
How easy or difficult would you find it to do with your alabaster jar what the woman in the story did? Why?
our cell group is designed to help us reach our spiritual destiny as Christians in three particular areas: God has called us to be (i) a living Community of Jesus (ii) growing disciples (iii) Radical followers of the Radical Jesus.
write down the metaphors Paul uses to describe the Ephesians before they became Christians and what they mean. On the right hand side, list the words Paul uses to describe the Ephesians now that they are Christians.
What does Ephesians 3:20-21 say about God’s ability to answer prayer? Does this challenge the way in which you pray?
in Ephesians 1:1-14. We are told that God has “blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ”.
Only God could make the kind of impact necessary to redeem humankind from it’s sin and itself. V11 unto you a Saviour is born, he is Christ the Lord. Christ the Lord is the Anointed One, the chosen one of God to redeem all of humankind!
The Christmas story, the story of Jesus’ birth, is just one part of a much bigger story – God’s story – which starts at creation and ends at the creation of a new heaven and new earth. We can divide this story into five parts:
In the verses from Acts 4, God challenges the disciples to a lifestyle of sharing possessions and we read that there were no needy people among them – incredible! God calls his people to a life of harvesting what we have and who we are for him on a daily basis. So how can we live harvest lives?
WORD OUTLINE The Kingdom of God· Harold built up a diagram that explained the different ages of God’s Kingdom.· The Jewish concept of time has the ‘present age’ and the ‘age to come’. But, frustratingly for them, they are still waiting for the ‘age to come’ because they haven’t recognised the coming of the Messiah.· [...]
Cell Notes 061210 – Luke 3:1-20: Action Plan WORD & WITNESS Material for Sunday 10th December 2006 Luke 3:1-20: Action Plan – A Sermon SUMMARY Luke 3:8 Prove by the way you live your life that you have really turned from your sins. John gave this message to the religious leaders – it was a [...]
WORD & WITNESS Material for Sunday 3rd December 2006 Luke 1:57-80: Action Plan – A Song SUMMARY Zechariah was silenced by the angel Gabriel for his lack of faith. But we shouldn’t be too harsh on him because we receive truths from God week by week and yet sometimes we doubt these living and active [...]
WORD & WITNESS Material for Sunday 15th October 2006 Matthew 25:14-30: Fulfilling our Commitments Summary of Talk Thinking about the true community of God. In this story the Master is Jesus, the Servants are us and the gap in time refers to the time between now and the return of Christ. The topic of this [...]