Dryden Full Gospel Church: Recent Episodes
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Reading 1: Ex 20:22-24 (worship); 21:1-6 (slavery); 21:22-27 (sanctity of life); Reading 2: 22:1-4, 21-23, (compassion for the poor); 24:3-4, 7-11 (the people respond).
Jesus reveals his abundant compassion to the hungry crowds, and abundant grace to his disciples (and us!). Jesus invites us into his mission of Gospel compassion, and has the grace you and I need for whatever we find ourselves in today.
Two big questions: “Don’t you care that we’re perishing?” wrestles with God’s presence and purpose in the storms of life. The second, “Who is this!?” is about Jesus’ divinity. There’s only one who can command creation – GOD himself.
By speaking in parables, Jesus invites his listeners (and us!) to consider the truth of God’s Kingdom: What is the ‘soil’ of our hearts? Are we open to God, and his desire to cleanse and transform us? Will we trust his plan and timing in our lives?
Jesus engages with four different groups, each with their own agendas, and responds by showing us his mission: inviting all who will repent and believe into a life of discipleship and relationship with God.
Mark shows us three episodes of Jesus interacting with the hard-hearted Pharisees. Though Jesus is offering God’s life, rest and healing, the Pharisees only see him as a threat and begin plotting to kill him. How will you respond to Jesus?
Our first week of five on spiritual disciplines. We look at the way prayer and Scripture were central in Jesus’ life, and explore the practice of Lectio Divina as a way of prayerfully reading the Bible today.
Saul and his army are undone with anxiety before the terrible Goliath. David responds instead with an imagination crafted by God, and is able to respond correctly. Are we overwhelmed with our hardships, or do we lean on Jesus to teach us how to respond?
God calls David to a new workplace where he ministers healing and life to the broken King Saul. Likewise, God calls us to see our work as a participation in his work, and our workplaces as places to bring God’s healing and life to bear on his world.
God calls Samuel to choose and anoint the forgotten shepherd boy, David, as Israel’s new King. Sometimes we feel forgotten, yet, in Christ, God has called and anointed each and every one of us to a new life and calling in Christ.