What impact do our prayers have on God's actions and intervention in the lives of people we pray for? What can we learn from how Jesus prayed for people? What about how Paul prayed? What does the Bible say about unseen forces and the impact of prayer in the midst of spiritual war? Is intercessory prayer still needed and effective today in reaching modern people?
Topic: Jesus: Lessons and Parables
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Jesus often saw opportunities where others saw a closed and impossible door. How can we be more mission minded and have church growth eyes and ears today? Can we be guided by the Spirit to opportunities for soul winning? How do we bring people to Christ? What about dealing with difficult people? How do we know when there's an open opportunity?
How can we live by the Word of God? How can we spend time with God and why is spending that time so important? What emphasis did Jesus place on knowing and understanding scripture while He was here on earth? How can we make God our teacher when we study the Bible? How can music help us commit to memory what God says in His Word?
What does Daniel learn about the cosmic conflict in Daniel 10? What does this teach us about spiritual warfare today? Why did Daniel pray for 21 days if God was listening from the very first day? What role did Jesus play in this cosmic conflict? Why is Gabriel held up from answering Daniel’s prayer? Why was Daniel so weak in his encounter with a heavenly being and why was he touched 3 times?
How is the church to serve the community? Is there a difference between acts of compassion and preaching the gospel in the context of the 3rd angel’s message? Or do both go together? How should members of the church treat one another? Why? How can we better be unified and work together? How does justice, grace, and love tie in to all that we do?
The mind is most easily deceived when it’s attention is not focused where it should be. The moment you get distracted, the moment you get pulled in a particular direction. You can miss something you should have seen but didn’t see because your eyes weren’t where they needed to be.
What hope does the second coming of Jesus bring? Is there hope in the judgment? Why do the wicked seem to prosper while the righteous suffer? Does God answer the prayers of His people? How long will he allow evil to continue? Why does the hope of the Christian center on the resurrection of Jesus Christ?
What can we learn from Jesus, Paul, and James about ministry in the new testament church? How is the church to consider the needs of the less fortunate? Should we be partial to those who are rich? What does equality look like? What can we learn from the common wealth established by the early Christians?
How did Jesus' ministry and life address those who were poor, in need, and oppressed? How did Jesus' life and death address the concerns of those who are broken? What did the miracles of Jesus intend to teach His people? How can we understand Jesus' actions in the temple overthrowing the money changers?
Are sacrifices, offerings, song, praise, fasting and prayer all that God is concerned with? Can we neglect our stewardship toward one another or forget about compassion as long as we do acts of religious practice? Can worship and compassion ever be divorced? What are the weightier matters of the law? How did the prophets understand God in the context of oppression and how to treat the disenfranchised?
Was the Sabbath only for Jews or for all of humanity? How did Jesus put the Sabbath in its proper context? Who was to abstain from work and enjoy God’s rest? How can relieving the suffering and burdens of others lead to rest in God? Is it a sin to heal on the Sabbath? Why did God give the land a rest? What principles can we learn from Sabbath rest about Creation, redemption, and the pursuit of happiness?
What can we learn about the 7 seals? What do they mean? How do they connect with the 7 churches? What are the four horsemen of the apocalypse? How is history represented in this prophecy? How do these events connect with the Reformation and the Dark Ages? What stages did the church go through from the first century until the present? How can we unlock the mystery behind the 7 seals?