What’s Your Next Step?

What’s your next step?

Phil Woodman - 9/11/22

Key Passage: Deuteronomy 6:4-9

The Shema Prayer

• Deuteronomy 6:4-9

  • Hear/Listen!

• A fresh start

Where is your focus/commitment? 

• Joshua 24:14-15

  • How will you live?

  • Who will you serve?

What’s your next step?

Bible Reading

• Romans 12:2

  • Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

• Set manageable goals

• Pick a plan and finish it

• Share it with someone

Find Connection

• Hebrews 10:24

  • We weren’t made to walk alone

• Join an ABF or Bible Study

• Find a smaller group that will encourage and challenge.

Find a Place to Serve

• 1 Peter 4:10

  • Use the gifts you’ve been given to serve others!

• Serve the church body

• Serve our community

• Discover your gift and use it

Share Your Faith

• 1 Corinthians 11:1

• 1 Peter 3:15

  • Do people know you’re a believer?

  • Share your story.

  • Ask Questions.

Memorials

Memorials

“Therefore these stones will always be  a memorial for the Israelites.” Joshua 4:7 CSB

zakar: to pierce, to impress (on the memory), to remember or be remembered, to recollect, to commemorate.

zikrown: a memorial, reminder or remembrance. It is an object reminder or token act by which something is brought to mind. 

Why do we need them?

• We’re prone to forget

  • Deuteronomy 4:9

  • Deuteronomy 6:12

  • Joshua 4:6-7

  • Judges 2:10

What are their features?

• They’re a Statement

  • Joshua 4:24

• They’re Enduring

  • Joshua 4:7

• They’re Distinctive

  • Joshua 4:8

Communion as a memorial

Hello my name is: Eternal Father

Hello My Name is: Eternal Father

Phil Woodman - 12/15/19

Key Passage: Isaiah 9:6

The role of a good, loving father:

As a father, Jesus Disciples

• Deuteronomy 6:4-7

  • Teach your children diligently 

• Proverbs 22:6 - train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

• He showed them how to:

  • Spend time with God

  • Serve and love people

As a father, Jesus Disciplines 

• Mark 9:33-35 - who is the greatest?

• Mark 10:13-15 - let the children come!

• Mark 8:33 - get behind me Satan!

As a father, Jesus Empowers

• Luke 9:1-6 - sending the 12

  • He Listens

    • Luke 9:10 - they reported to Jesus all they had done.

  • He Celebrates Victories

    • Luke 10:17-18 - the 72 returned with joy...

  • He Comforts

    • Matthew 17:21

    • Matthew 14:22-33

As a father, Jesus Forgives

• Luke 15:11-32 - The Prodigal Son

  • V. 20 - “His father saw him and was filled with compassion...”