Episodes
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Mercy, Giving & Exhortation
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Do you have any or all of these gifts? How can you or have you grown in them?
Think of a few people you believe have each of these gifts. Can you call this out in them? (let them know that you see this gift exercised well in their life). If someone calls out a gift in you, how does it make you feel?
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Generating the List of Gifts
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
A Few Things
What do you think the list is? How restrictively or liberally do you interpret the spiritual gifts list and why? 9? 17? 20? 30? 50?
Do you think Jesus could still be adding new gifts in our new context, or is the list closed? Remember the definition of Spiritual Gifts...
"A special ability(ies) given by the Holy Spirit intentionally to you, for the building up of the body and the expansion of the kingdom."
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Don't Be Uncle Jimmy!
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Friday Apr 17, 2020
ONE THING...
Discerning and Developing Our Spiritual Gifts
I mean I realize I just listed nine things above. But do the next one. Wherever you are in the process, do the next thing.
If you have 100% certainty about your gifts, ask Jesus how to utilize them more effectively, exercise them more, where opportunities may present themselves.
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Spiritual Gifts: What they are and how and why we receive them.
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Three things...
1). Do you think you have greater clarity of your gift(s) are or the "Position/body part" you are, and explain?
2). If you've done any work with your spiritual gifts, share a little about how you have grown in it through your time of practicing it.
3). How do you feel about your spiritual gift(s)? Do you love them, resent them, has your view changed since you identified them?
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Spiritual Gifts: Asking a Favor...
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Three Things.
1). What is your experience/familiarity with spiritual gifts? Are you an old-seasoned-pro, or a rookie?
2). Do you know what gifts you think you have? If so share with someone. If you don't know them, do you have a way to identify them with confidence in the next few weeks? (of course with help).
3). What are 1-3 questions you have about spiritual gifts that Miles, and perhaps a few others, could take time to answer in the following weeks?
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Acts 27 & 28: Series Wrap
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Individual: Reflect, journal, pray
Think back on your life and process your "fourteen days at sea story." How did God provide? Did you see it at the time? What good came from his protection?
Discussion: Call, facetime, zoom
Share ways you see the Inward, Outward, Upward & Forward relationships illustrated through Acts. (This was the previous sermon series if that language isn't familiar to you.)
Action: Comment Below
Share in the comments below how this study of Acts impacted you. Perhaps a specific story that resonated and how? Where the life of the early church seems hyper-relevant today? How it spoke to your current circumstances?
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Acts 23-26: Paul's House Arrest: How is it different than yours?
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Individual: Reflect, journal, pray
What can we learn about our time of sheltering in place by reading Paul's testimony through these chapters? What attitude adjustments do you need to make? Which of your attitudes, so far, do you need to celebrate?
Discussion: Call, facetime, zoom
Discuss with someone how you've been challenged and especially how you've grown through your time on "house arrest." I know we're normally framing things more positively, but its too good of a metaphor not to call it what it is!
Action
How do you develop the peace and steadfastness, of Paul when things are completely turned upside down? Where does your joy, contentment, peace come from, esp. in times like these?
Monday Apr 06, 2020
God's Call & Our Reasonable Excuses
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Individual: Reflect, journal, pray
Have you ever felt like you discerned God's will well and then shared the idea at your own ridicule from others? Were they speaking from their hearts, heads or spirits? How did you receive it?
Discussion: Call, facetime, zoom
Share a time you think you may have settled for something good when God might have had something great for you or others through you. Did you settle because it was too hard, because of fear, because it was unreasonable etc.?
Action
Make an intentional plan for discerning God's will in and for your life. If you already have a plan, even if it is simple, revisit it prayerfully and make necessary adjustments (additions and subtractions)
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Gallio & Priscilla, Aquila & Apollos
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Individual: Reflect, journal, pray
How do you respond to what you think is heretical? Do you investigate further your own views? Write that person off? Go to third parties about someone else's heresy? Confront them humbly to learn together?
Discussion: Call, facetime, zoom
God encourages us without being asked, it's the business he's in. Share in the feed below some ways that you think God has or is encouraging you that you may have overlooked. Slow down and witness his movement.
Action: Encourage
Without being asked, write a note of encouragement to someone, who may or MAY NOT need it! Not just cause they're "down" or "anxious," but because you love them. Use a pen, and card/paper, no digital nonsense here.
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Acts 17:16-34
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Individual: Reflect, Journal, Pray
Which of the 5 things Paul tells the Areopagus about God do you most need to be reminded of? (v. 24; 25; 26-27;28-29; 30-31). Revisit the text or video if needed.
Discussion: Call, Facetime, Zoom
Which ideology do you think is more prevalent in yourself and others; Epicureanism, or Stoicism?
Action: Pray to Meet
Sign up for "Bless Every Home" (See Jesse's recent Posts at Northgate's Facebook page). As you pray for your neighbors, ask God to guide your prayers and divine appointments, relative to their anticipated culture. This simply lays the groundwork for culturally sensitive interactions.