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Inheritance - Joshua 2.1-24

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario
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Know
How does your faith compare to Rahab’s?
Grow
Was Rahab right to lie to the local officials when God’s people are strictly prohibited from lying?
How was there more to Rahab’s faith than just belief in doctrines about God?
How can we communicate the seriousness of the coming judgment to our family and friends without turning them away?
What purpose does Rahab serve in God’s plan of salvation? What do we learn from her about God’s concern for the nations?
Who in your family do you wish God to rescue along with you? What can you do to share the good news with them?
Show
Think of some imaginative ways that we as a church could use the Show Room to show Jesus’ love to others.

Inheritance - Joshua 1.1-18

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario
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Know
Why is the phrase “Be strong and courageous” repeated so many times in this chapter?
Grow
Like the generation of Israelites who died in the desert, have you ever experienced missing out on something you believed was God’s plan for you because of fear or disobedience? What did you learn through this experience?
What do you think it means when the author wrote that ‘God has given us the land of our experience for an eternal inheritance’?
Why is it important that it was the Israelites telling Joshua to be strong and courageous in verse 18?
If the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh did not settle on the other side of the Jordan, do you think they ‘entered the Promised Land’? Why or why not?
Why is the order of this ‘route to success’ so important?
Knowing God -> Trust -> Obedience -> Courage -> Success.
Show
If knowing God is so important and reading the Bible is the main way to do this, how can we improve in reading the Bible?

Inheritance - Joshua Overview

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario
www.wearecornerstone.ca
This is the first sermon in the series on Joshua. Read the book, one chapter a day (it'll take you less than a month). Any questions / thoughts / queries / concerns that come to the surface as you read, email dan.james.wallis@gmail.com and let him know!

An X Plan for 2018 (Psalm 90:12-17)

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario
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4 short prayers we can pray in 2018
Teach us to number our days so we may be wise
Satisfy us with your unfailing love that we may rejoice
Show us your work and your power
Favour us and establish the work of our hands
12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.13 Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants!14 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil.16 Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.17 Let the favour of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!
Psalm 90:12-17 ESV

White Noise (Joy to the World) - Advent 05

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White Noise (Silent Night) - Advent 04

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White Noise (What Child Is This?) - Advent 03

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White Noise (Go Tell It On The Mountain) - Advent 02

Know
Was there anything specific that encouraged you or challenged you from the updates we heard from the missionaries / ministries we partner with?
Grow
Take a minute or two to share your God-story with your growgroup.
Read Romans 10:9. Why is it not enough to believe to be saved? Why do you have to confess as well?
Read Romans 10:13. What does it mean to call on the name of the Lord?
Read Romans 10:14-15a. What part of this process are we doing well at Cornerstone? Where are we falling short? How could we improve?
Read Romans 10:15b. What are the feet beautiful of the person who preaches the good news? Why the feet?
Show
Share who you are going to invite to the Christmas Eve service. Take a couple of minutes to commit this to God and pray for them.

White Noise (O Come, O Come Emmanuel) - Advent 01

Know
When you hear the words “Christmas carols” what is
The first song that pops into your head?
The first image that pops into your mind?
Grow
As a group, recite O Come, O Come Emmanuel in the first person and replace the word “Israel” with me or I. How does the meaning of the song change when you view Israel as yourself?
What are you doing to prepare the way of the Lord?
What is distracting you from Christ?
What do you need to let go of?
What do you need to build into your life?
Do you hold onto God with the same tenacity that a bulldog holds onto things? Why or why not?
What can you do to deliberately put meaning back into Christmas carols this season so that they are more than just white noise?
Show
The carol tells us that “Son of God will appear” and that we should then “rejoice!” How will you do that this Christmas season?

JOY (Living Without Flip Flops) - Philippians 4.14-23

Know
Have you ever given recklessly (no need to share the details) to the work of God? If so, what was that experience like for you?
Grow
What is the difference between being complacent and being content?
Hudson Taylor said: “When God's work is done in God's way for God's glory, it will not lack for God's supply”. Do you agree? Why or why not?
If the sacrificial system had been fulfilled by Jesus and was no longer needed, why did Paul describe the generosity of the Philippians as an aromatic sacrifice (Leviticus 4:31)?
What are ways that Cornerstone is giving to the work of God around the world? What do you know about the missionaries / organizations we support?
How can we fulfil God’s command to go and make disciples (Matthew 28:19) without necessarily going overseas?
In a letter that is filled with finding joy in Jesus, why is it important that the letter starts (1:2) and ends (4:23) with ‘the grace of Jesus’?
Paul talks about the ‘saints of Caesar’s household’ greeting the Philippians. Using your imagination, how do you think Paul connected and interacted with these particular saints?
Show
Take time to pray for your outreach project this Christmas. Pray that God prepares you and mightily uses your growgroup to share the hope found in the gospel in whatever you do.