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      When I was a little girl, my family would travel to my Grandmother and Grandfather’s home and eat the noon-day meal with them on Sunday.  This meal, or should I say feast, was a big deal and everything about it needed to be properly prepared to my Grandmother’s standards. This included setting the table [...]

     When our children were small, family vacations were times that they relished.  It was a time for them to get away, do something fun and they looked forward to having an opportunity to spend their saved allowances on whatever treasure their heart desired. They also knew, from previous vacations, that if their funds were [...]

     Today’s lesson speaks to us about being present and “paying attention to God”.  It is easy to be focused and pay attention to God when we offer up our prayers to Him as individuals, but do we become distracted when we gather together and worship Him as “one body”?  Are we more intent on [...]

Then have done with falsehood and speak the truth to each other, for we belong to one another as part of one body. – Ephesians 4:25  We have been adopted, called, empowered and gifted to receive the incredible privilege of being co-laborers of God, lovers of one another, and those who shared God’s love with [...]

Never cease to love your fellow Christians.  Do not neglect to show hospitality; by doing this, some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:1-2  Never neglect to show kindness and to share what you have with others; for such are the sacrifices which God approves.  Hebrews 13:16 
In today’s lesson, What Defines Christian Community, Maxie Dunnam says [...]

Knowing — and doing — God’s will.  That’s what today’s lesson is about.  How do we discern God’s will?  Maxie Dunnam gives us three means of doing so: (1) Scripture study; (2) Christian “conferencing”; and (3) divine conviction through the Holy Spirit.  Have you experienced understanding God’s will in your life through these avenues?  What [...]

Prayer.  We’ve discussed this before in other 40 day studies as well as in the course of our regular Adult Bible Studies.
In looking at today’s chapter, let’s start with some scripture:
9 “So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for [...]

Maxie Dunnam writes, “According to Jesus, the cost of discipleship is losing our lives in order that we might find them.”  This is the paradox of our faith:  that we must die to this world in order to find eternal life — abundant life.  If we are to be true followers of Christ, we must [...]

Recent events in my life have prompted me to keep a daily journal of my prayers and conversations with God.  I’ll call these my “Love Letters to God.”   Maxie Dunnam reminds us, and emphasizes, that “Jesus is alive today” and, therefore, the physical act of writing to Him allows me to “put our relationship in [...]

Ephesians 2:8 speaks to us of God’s grace through Christ.  How do you relate this to the “spirit of adoption” that Paul writes of in Romans 8.  How do we accept that we are children of God, and not just children, but “joint heirs with Christ”?  Do you feel that this requires some overt act [...]