Finding Faith in Slow Motion
Without faith it is impossible to please God, right? How can I rest in that reality when I cannot say with certainty what that faith stuff even is?
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The Questions of Jesus
The Questions of Jesus
is a collection of fifty-two questions that Jesus asked or that people asked Jesus arranged in two-page chapters. All come from the Gospel accounts or the Acts of the Apostles. The book can be used like a devotional or for meditation. It would work well for group study in a small group or book club. Understanding Jesus' questions will help the reader to grow in spiritual maturity. Some of Jesus' parables are explained because they provide answers to questions or raise questions themselves.
The book provides something of a commentary on the most interesting questions in people’s interactions with Jesus—people like the Samaritan woman at the well, Nicodemus, and Mary and Martha. What was Satan doing when he challenged Jesus, "If you are the Son of God . . ."? Do you wonder what is the unforgiveable sin against the Holy Spirit? What did Jesus mean by the sign of Jonah? Jesus’ questions in the Sermon on the Mount are explored and many more too.
Jesus asked questions to engage His listeners or to challenge their thinking. His disciples often wanted to understand Him but sometimes to use Him; His opponents sharpened them as weapons against Him. Some of Jesus’ questions seem stupid, even rude—they’re not! As always with Jesus, there’s more to everything He said than at first appears. The interactions have lasting value too—for us. What lies behind the questions we sometimes ask God? What do His questions teach us about ourselves? His questions examine us and encourage us to think and live more like Him.
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ROOTED: First Steps for New Christ-Followers
ROOTED is a ten-session course designed to guide new and young Christ-followers through a series of discipleship basics. The intent is to provide a foundation and framework for the new life in Christ with Jesus as the cornerstone to that foundation (Isaiah 28:16-17, Ephesians 2:20). This is not a comprehensive course in discipleship. The intent of this study is only to get you, the reader, a running start at your new life in Christ.
[You are] fellow citizens with God’s people and members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
– Ephesians 2:19-20, NIV-1978
To build our foundation, this series of studies follows the pattern of the first Christ-followers, those who came to faith in Christ on the day of Pentecost, responding to the Acts 2 sermon delivered by the apostle Peter.
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
– Acts 2:42 NIV-1978