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We are so excited you are joining us this week for our latest podcast session. This week are in our series on the book of James. The episode topic this week is called What A Christian Has Is A Confident Stand. We hope this helps you grow in knowledge, maturity and character. We hope you enjoy it!
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We are so excited you are joining us this week for our latest podcast session. This week are coming to the end of the series on our journey of Kingdom. The episode topic this week is Kingdom Rest.
We hope this helps you grow in knowledge, maturity and character. We hope you enjoy it!
Q1
- What is your ultimate life hack you know?
- Are you taking moments in your busy life to pause and be present?
- What does your pause look like?
- How do you recharge?
- Have you spent time with Jesus lately?
- How have you practised listening to His voice?
Big question segment
- Rest can look like many things. How do we distinguish between healthy rest and finding rest in unhealthy things?
- What’s your top rest tip?
Thank you so much for joining us on this podcast! Take time to rest and take care of yourself! Be blessed!
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We are so excited you are joining us this week for our latest podcast session. This week are continuing on our journey of Kingdom. The episode topic this week is called Kingdom Stories and we are talking about being in Godly Friendships with our amazing guest Dani Roberts. We hope this helps you grow in knowledge, maturity and character. We hope you enjoy it!
Question set 1:
What band or group were you a fan girl/boy of?
Question set 2:
What do Godly Friendships do for our lives?
What do value about your friends at church?
Question set 3:
How do you deal with conflict in friendships? Has that worked for you?
BIG QUESTION SEGMENT:
How do I support my friend if they don’t believe in Jesus?
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We are so excited you are joining us this week for our latest podcast session. This week are continuing on our journey of Kingdom. The episode topic this week is called Kingdom Stories and we are talking about being in a community. We hope this helps you grow in knowledge, maturity and character. We hope you enjoy it!
Question Set 1:
What is your funniest sports tour or camp story you have?
Question Set 2:
What do you enjoy about being in a friendship group or a church community?
Question Set 3:
What do you think are the benefits of being in community?
What do you think are the challenges of being in community?
Does your community or close circle build you up or do they pull you down?
BIG QUESTION SEGMENT:
I am a Christian and my relationship with Jesus is great but I don’t go to church very often and I wanted to know what is the value of being in community at a church?
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We are so excited you are joining us this week for our latest podcast session. This week are continuing on our journey of Kingdom. The episode topic this week is called Kingdom Stories and we have an amazing guest in Abi Friedemann to talk about worshipping the Lord. We hope this helps you grow in knowledge, maturity and character. We hope you enjoy it!
Question set 1:
What’s the funniest misheard worship lyric?
Question set 2:
What does worship mean to you?
Can you tell your group about a moment you felt that worship impacted you?
Question set 3:
Is there multiple forms of worship or is it just limited to singing?
How do you express worship to God?
Big Question Segment:
How do I know logically that God is real and that I can trust Him?
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We are so excited you are joining us this week for our latest podcast session. This week are continuing on our journey of Kingdom. The episode topic this week is called Kingdom Stories and we have an amazing guest in Belinda Ketse to talk about serving the Lord. We hope this helps you grow in knowledge, maturity and character. We hope you enjoy it!
Question 1: What is your hidden talent?
For even the Son of Man did not come expecting to be served but to serve and give his life in exchange for the salvation of many.”” Matthew 20:25-28 TPT https://www.bible.com/1849/mat.20.25-28.tpt
What made you choose to be in relationship with Jesus?
What does it mean to serve Him?
What gifts have you got that you can use to serve the Kingdom?
Big Question Segment:
I am a new believer and I’d love to know what I can do to build my faith and relationship with Jesus? How do I know I have my own relationship with Jesus?
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We are so excited you are joining us this week for our latest podcast session. This week are continuing on our journey of Kingdom. The episode topic this week is called Who Is Heaven where we speak about Jesus. We hope this helps you grow in knowledge, maturity and character. We hope you enjoy it!
Question set 1:
So who is Jesus to you?
What is your relationship with Him like?
Question Set 2:
If Jesus died on the cross and our sins with Him, we get to nail our sins to the cross with Him. What do you feel or think you need to nail on the cross?
What do you need Jesus to restore in your life?
Big Question Segment
Is all sin the same in the eyes of the Lord or are the different levels of sin?
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Not Heaven
We are so excited you are joining us this week for our latest podcast session. This week are continuing on our journey of Kingdom. The episode topic is called Not Heaven where we speak about hell. We hope this helps you grow in knowledge, maturity and character. We hope you enjoy it!
Question:
Do you think God is cruel for creating Hell? Are you grateful for Justice? Does the idea of God judging give you fear or peace?
“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.” Romans 7:15 NIV https://www.bible.com/111/rom.7.15.niv
Question:
Where do you see evil in your school and city? What areas in the life of Jesus do you find it hard to match up to? How has sin affected you personally?
Big Question Segment If I sin, am I going to hell?
“If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9 NIV https://www.bible.com/111/rom.10.9.niv
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Welcome to our new series on Kingdom. We are so excited that you are coming to learn more about Jesus, yourself and others. Our hope is that you grow in knowledge, maturity and faith.
This week’s episode we are talking about the Kingdom of Heaven and what it looks like to have it here on Earth.
Question 1
- What is the Kingdom of Heaven to you?
Question 2
- How have you seen Heaven?
- What does it look like for the Kingdom of Heaven to move on Earth?
- The Kingdom of Heaven changes and transforms the environment it enters into. Matthew 13:33 NIV
A small amount of Heaven will impact a large part of the Earth. The Kingdom of Heaven looks like the Presence of God manifesting on Earth. We are citizens of Heaven. We are of Heaven and therefore we carry the culture, characteristics and identity of Heaven. The best way to know what Heaven is like is to meet someone who came from there. Jesus is our point of reference and came to show the way of Heaven. We are in this world but not of this world. We have to act like Heaven in the world and not the way the world would act. If we want to know what Heaven is like we need to look at the life of Jesus. Every time people encounter Jesus they transform.
Bonus Questions
- Do people see Heaven in us when they see us?
- How are you encountering Jesus?
- In what ways do you see transformation in yourself?
- Love is always relevant. - Maya Noel-Barham
- Jesus’s love always required change. We can’t interact with the Kingdom of Heaven and stay the same.
- In what ways do you need to change?
- What areas of your life need to encounter the Kingdom Heaven to see transformation?
Big Question Segment: How do I get into Heaven?
- Do you know you're going to Heaven?
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Hope
Q1: What is your favourite song?
God is Good
- God has goodness in mind for you.
- Psalm 103:8-9
- We can have hope that He wants the best for us.
- Are we going to let our circumstances dictate your hope or are you going to let Jesus dictate your hope?
Q2: Tell your group about a time you saw the goodness of God?
Life is going to have disappointment and struggles.
- Our faith in the character of God and what He can do in our lives needs to become bigger than what we’re facing.
- John 10:10 The devil is going to try and rob you of your joy, hope and peace.
Q3: Tell your group about a time you found hope in a hard reality.
Choose
- Your attitude is your altitude.
- You get to choose to have hope, joy and peace in your life.
- Get aggressive about choosing what He has for you.
- 1 John 4:4
- He gives you something on the inside that is greater than anything the world will give you on the outside.
- Hebrews 6:19 Hope anchors our soul even in the face of a storm.
Q4: Tell your group 1 thing you can choose hope in this week.
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Growth Mindset and Grit Introduction
Romans 5:1-5
Pivoting
- The easiest, yet the hardest way we can change our lives is by pivoting. To pivot we have to change the direction we are going in. This can be a drastic or minor change. It is finding opportunities where none existed before. New realities need new skills and habits that you haven't tapped into yet. It may mean that you have to let go of old habits to move in a new direction. Life is going to be full of challenges and adversity and we are going to get practical about how to build a growth mindset, get gritty, pivot and become resilient.
Change
- If you want to change your life, change your feelings. If you want to change your feelings, change your thoughts. If you want to change your thoughts, change the way you talk to yourself.
- Change your close circle because you become like the people you surround yourself with.
- Change who you focus on [Jesus] not what you focus on [current situation].
Question 1
- What thoughts about yourself to you need to challenge?
Adapt
- Reframe hard realities to find opportunities to learn and grow. It doesn't mean you have to diminish the impact of the hard reality you are going through, but by reframing it does give you the mindset to keep going.
- View failure as a learning curve and not an ultimate ending.
- Change how much you believe in yourself. Remind yourself of your strengths and how you have worked through hard realities before. o Spend time with Jesus and make Him the centre of it all.
Question 2
- What are you passionate about?
- What have you learnt about yourself in the last year?
- Tell your group about a time where things weren't going well but you kept going and saw yourself grow.
Overcome
- Find yourself in community. United and unified. You don't have to carry a burden on your own.
- You are not a victim, but you are a survivor and victorious. Jesus overcame the world.
- Persevere because it builds you up. [Broken bone analogy]
- Be optimistic about the future because Jesus has the best in mind for you.
- Jeremiah 29:11
Question 3
- What hard realities can your group help you face?
- What do you think of when you hear that Jesus has the best in mind for you? Give an example.
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Question 1: What’s your favourite Disney Pixar movie? Disclaimer: We do not claim to be experts on this subject. We are speaking on our own journeys through this process. Ecclesiastes 3:4 https://www.bible.com/bible/116/ECC.3.4
Stage 1: Denial · It is minimizing the pain we are feeling. · Trying to survive and finding coping mechanisms. · To deny your hard reality and pain will mean that you are denying your healing. · Acknowledge the hard reality you are going through Stage 2: Anger · Give motion to your emotions. · Give yourself permission to feel. · Practically: Go for a run Do meditation Get around people who will get around you · Exercise will give you: A physical release A space to work through what you are feeling Endorphins that are released into the brain (combats Cortisol) Question 2: What do you need to be honest with God or others about? Stage 3: Bargaining · The WHAT IF/IF ONLY stage. · If this happens then I will do this (negotiating with Jesus). · Justifying anything and everything. · Disconnected from reality. · Acknowledge your emotions and thoughts but don’t accept them as facts. – Dr. Caroline Leaf Stage 4: Depression · Moving from the past and facing what is presently happening. · Be kind to yourself · It is ok to ask for help. · Take breaks from your feelings. · Feelings are like kids in a car. Question 3: - Where do you need support? - How can you be kinder to yourself? - How can you speak differently to yourself in hard realities? Stage 5: Acceptance · Learning to live with the new reality. · Finding hope for the future to hold onto. · Moving forward over moving on from reality. · Mindfulness · Newness and restoration · Phil 4:12-13: https://www.bible.com/bible/1849/PHP.4.12-13 How to help? · Avoid rescuing or fixing people. Support them. · Be present. · Be empathetic, not sympathetic. · Don’t force help onto people. · Be available and accessible (if you have the capacity) Big Question · What is God’s heart for us through each stage?
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Opening Passage: Psalm 34:17-18
1) Don’t do it alone
- Not ME but WE
- First group Question. What is important about community?
2) Fix your eyes on Jesus. His thoughts and ways are higher.
- Isaiah 55:9
- What you focus on becomes bigger.
- Second group Question. What are ways we can keep our focus on Jesus?
3) John 16:33
- We don’t understand why things happen but Jesus is there through it all.
- Third group question. What situation do you need peace in at the moment?
4) He is our all in all. Col 3:11
- Let Jesus into your situation fully because He can turn every situation around.
- In Him, there are gifts and opportunities in every day with Him.
- Take time to rejoice and be in worship. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
- Fourth group question. What are gifts and opportunities we can find in our every day with Jesus?
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