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Desire the Impossible

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Sermon Text: 2 Samuel 18:1-33 Outline: Bent on Retribution Bound for Restoration Reflection Questions: What’s a big problem?  How do you desire to handle that problem?  What’s your best – most sensible – solution? …Does Jesus agree with your solution? When was a time that God called you to do something that you thought was […]

The Unshakable Kingdom

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Sermon Text: 2 Samuel 17:1-29 Outline: Conflicting Ideas God’s Intervention Reflection Questions What wicked counsel are you telling yourself or others? To what wicked counsel are you listening? Specifically, how are you trying to justify your sin to make it sound more palatable (so that you may continue in it)?   How shakable is your […]

Enmity

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Sermon Text: 2 Samuel 16:1-23 Outline: Ambulance Chasers (vv.1-4) Angry Mob (vv.5-14) Aggravated Assault (vv.20-23) A Friend Amidst the Enmity (vv.15-19) Reflection Questions: What are 3 ways you act like Ziba (i.e. you manipulate, angle, and attempt to engineer things in such a way so that you come out looking like “The Good Guy,” and/or […]

The Cost of Discipleship

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Sermon Text: 2 Samuel 15:13-37 Outline: Faithful Following (vv.13-29) Lamentation (v.30) Petition & Shrewd Diligence (vv.31-37) Reflection Questions: Being a consumer is easy and commonplace, and it leads to destruction; and those who walk the path of consumerism are many. But discipleship is costly, and though it leads to life everlasting, few are those who […]