Passage: Mark 4:26-34 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Read Mark 4:26-34: And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. 27 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. 28 The earth produces by itself, first…
Passage: Mark 4:1-20 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Read Mark 4:1-20: Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land….
Passage: Mark 2:13-17 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Read Mark 2:13-17: He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. 14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to…
Passage: Galatians 4:21-31 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Sermon Overview In Galatians 4:21-31, Paul uses an allegory to describe two basic approaches people take towards life. It is worth considering these two approaches, and which one we’re living, because the implications are vast: one way leads to freedom and adoption, and the other…
Passage: Galatians 3:14-25 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Sermon Overview In Galatians 3:7-14, Paul draws upon the rich biblical history of blessing and curses to show the Galatians that only through trust in Christ will they obtain the blessing that they have always longed for. What, then, is this “blessing” we long for?…
Passage: Galatians 1:11-24 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Sermon Overview In Galatians 1:11-24, Paul shares his personal testimony with the aim of showing that the gospel he now preaches is, in his own words, “not man’s gospel” (1:11). While he is most immediately concerned with refuting false claims about the origins of his…
Passage: Galatians 1:6-10 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Sermon Overview The Apostle Paul comes out swinging right at the beginning of his letter to the Galatians. What so provoked Paul, that he forwent even his customary greetings and launched into a blazing invective against the Galatians? What was he so passionate to protect?…
Passage: Galatians 5:1-5 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Sermon Overview Paul’s letter to the Galatians is all about the freedom and confidence we have in Christ, because of the gospel, as well as the kind of community that emerges from this freedom. At the beginning of Galatians, Paul greets the church with great…
