My Money  
Mark 10:13-27  
Our connections with others aren’t compartmentalized from our finances 

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It's Not About Me  
Your faithful life doesn’t revolve around you. A stewardship series

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...#1 Compare & contrast the example of the child (vv13-16) & the rich man (vv17-25). How does Jesus’ summary (vv26-27) emphasize & encourage child-like faith instead of adult achievement-oriented faith?   

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My Relationships  
Mark 10:1-12  
People aren’t disposable, like Amazon boxes and grocery bags 

Current Series:  
It's Not About Me  
Your faithful life doesn’t revolve around you. A stewardship series

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...#6 Our culture has a loneliness epidemic*. Family dissolution contributes heavily to it. How can you be a friend to someone who has lost their family? People often comment that following tragedy they felt forgotten as the world moved on faster than they could. See 1 Kings 5:1; Job 6:14; Proverbs 17:9, 17, 18:24, 27:10
*cf. www.artofmanliness.com/people/relationships/connection-in-a-lonely-world-vivek-murthy/ Podcast #618    

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Proof by Submission  
James 3:13-4:10  
Our human love is derived from Jesus’s love for the church 

Current Series:  
Prove It!  
Faith active in love

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...#2 Read Revelation 19:11-21 (cf. 1:16, 2:16; Isaiah 49:2). What makes vv7-10 a better “battle plan” than, well, everything else? See Psalm 66:3; Matthew 5:1-12, 11:28-29, 12:39, 23:12; Luke 18:14   

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