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Inheritance - Joshua 3.1-4.24

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario
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Growgroup questions
Know
Did anything stand out to you or strike you about today’s message? What did you feel that God was drawing your attention to?
Grow
Have you ever considered the fact that you will most likely be forgotten in 2 generations? How does this make you feel?
Dan summed up Joshua chapters 3 and 4 in this statement: “We give God our trust. He gives us our story”. What did he mean by God giving us a story?
Dan shared 3 steps from our passage on Sunday that leads to God giving us a story. Do you remember what they were? (If no one remembers: 1) Prepare 2) Participate 3) Promote)
Why is pursuing holiness such an important part of preparing ourselves (3:5)?
Read 3:9 and 3:11. Discuss the importance of these two truths we learn about God in these verses: a) the Living God is among you and b) the Lord of all the earth will go ahead of you? What emotions do these truths bring out in you?
Why do you think Joshua built two altars – one in the middle of the Jordan (4:9) and the other at Gilgal where the people camped on their first night (4:20)?
Think of someone who ‘oozes Jesus’ that you can intentionally spend time with this week or next week just to be with them and listen to their stories.
Who can you connect with who needs hope in their life, who needs someone who oozes Jesus, who needs you?
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What are you going to add in or take away this Lent season (starting Feb 14)?

Ultimate Questions - Worldview

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario
www.wearecornerstone.ca
 
Know
In your own words, try to explain what a worldview is.
Grow
Try to describe what a matterist is (also known as an atheist). Think about the metaphor of the painter and painting.
Do the same for mindist (pantheist)
Do the same for Godist (theist)
Describe a situation in which you discovered that your worldview was very different from the worldview of someone else.
With the differing worldviews, do you think that Christians just mind their own business and stop trying to convert people? Why or why not?
Read Genesis 1:1. According to Dan, why is the miracle of creation so important in how we view or address the rest of the Bible?
In Canada, do you think we live in a largely matterist, mindist or Godist society? Explain your answer.
Read Romans 1:20-22 – using the ideas of Godist, matterist and mindist, describe what we’re seeing in these verses.
What were the consequences according to verse 24 and 25?

Inheritance - Joshua 2.1-24

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario
www.wearecornerstone.ca
 
 
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?
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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
www.wearecornerstone.ca
 
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.
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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

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario
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White Noise (Silent Night) - Advent 04

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario
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White Noise (What Child Is This?) - Advent 03

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario
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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?
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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.