Sacred Series Part 1 – August 2, 2026
Sacred Scripture: How We Handle the Holy Word
2 Timothy 3:10–17
Discussion Questions
- Paul reminds Timothy of the cost he paid to bring the Word (persecutions, endurance, rescue by the Lord). How does remembering the price paid for Scripture change the way you approach daily Bible reading? How does it move you from casual habit to genuine reverence?
- Pastor's message challenges us to let Scripture search us before we search it for answers or proof texts. Where have you recently felt the Word correcting, cutting, or counseling you? How did you respond? Did submission come naturally or was there resistance?
- Scripture is profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness so that we may be complete and equipped. Which of these four areas is the Holy Spirit currently pressing in your life, and what would “quick obedience” look like this week so that sacred living begins to match the sacred Word?
Sacred Series Part 2 – August 9, 2026
Sacred Church: How We Behave as the Set-Apart People of God
Ephesians 1:15–23
Discussion Questions
Deuteronomy 6 puts discipleship in the home, sitting, walking, lying down, rising, not first in the sanctuary. The church equips; the home disciples. If you have children or grandchildren under your influence, where have you been tempted to outsource their spiritual formation to Sunday or Wednesday? If you live alone, how is your own soul being discipled in the quiet of your house?A sacred home is not a perfect home. It is a home where God’s presence is welcomed in ordinary moments and where we speak and act the same way we do at church. Where is the widest gap right now between your public faith and your private tone, words, screens, stress, or how you talk to yourself? What is one small rhythm (a prayer at the door, a verse at the table, a bedtime check-in) you can begin this week?The household is your first ministry: emotionally, spiritually, relationally, and morally safe. Hospitality without holiness becomes a social club; holiness without hospitality becomes a fortress. What would it look like for your door and your atmosphere to say both “Jesus is Lord here” and “you belong here”—whether you have a full house or a table for one?
Sacred Series Part 8 – September 20, 2026
Sacred Sacraments: How the Ordinances Shape Everyday Holiness
Acts 2:41-47
Discussion Questions
The message presents water baptism not as a formula or a reset button after every failure, but as initiation into the priesthood, your body as a temple in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit. If you have been baptized, how has that identity shaped the way you live Monday through Saturday? If you have not, what is holding you back from that public identification with Christ?Jesus’ baptism was not repentance for His own sin; it was consecration into priestly ministry and identification with the people He came to save. Communion is then described as an inner-court meal, bread and wine at the table reserved for priests. How does seeing yourself as part of a royal priesthood change the way you approach the waters and the table?The closing charge is simple: we come to the ordinances with examined hearts, we leave living differently than we arrived, and we carry the memory of Christ’s body and blood into Monday morning. After baptism or Communion, what one concrete change in speech, holiness, hospitality, or obedience would show that the ordinance actually shaped your everyday life not just the service?