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Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Church, North Gower, Ontario.    www.knowgrowshow.ca The One Thing The Christian: Obedient Rebel. To obey Jesus is to rebel. The Passage Mark 15:21-41 growgroup / discussion questions Know What’s worse for you: to be overlooked or insulted? Why? Grow Can you think of any Christians who are Obedient Rebels, in the sense Dan preached about? Dan quoted Hebrews 8:12: For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. However in Matthew 12:36 Jesus says But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. Which is it? Does God stop remembering or not? What, if anything, is the difference between forgetting and not remembering? Mark 15:32 tells us that those crucified with Jesus insulted Him; however Luke 23:39-40 tells us that one insulted Him while the other defended Him. How can we account for this apparent conflict? How does the fact that Jesus was forgotten, insulted and forsaken i

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Church, North Gower, Ontario www.knowgrowshow.ca The One Thing Your life for mine. My life is yours. The Passage Mark 15:1-20 discussion questions Know Have you ever been caught up in a moment of mob mentality? If not, what about negative gossip? Why are these so infectious and why are we often so slow to stop them? Grow If you were at church on Sunday, how was it to have communion served as a part of the sermon, rather than separately? Do you think that there is any significance to the fact that Barabbas name means “A son of the father”. If so, what? What reasons can we give for the crowd being so determined to crucify Jesus in Mark 15? In Mark 14:62-63 Jesus was condemned by the Sanhedrin for admitting to being the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One. Yet in Mark 15:2, the charge brought by the Sanhedrin to Pilate is for being The King of the Jews. Why the change in charge? 15:10 seems to show us that Pilate knew it was a bogus charge being brought against Jesu

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario www.knowgrowshow.ca The One Thing Has regret made lunch meat of you? Make it your launch pad. The Passage Mark 14:27-31; 66-72 Discussion Questions Know What are some of your favourite sounds from childhood? Grow Have you ever known someone who has regret in their life that they cannot seem to move on from? What has been your advice to them? Luke’s account says that when the rooster crowed, Jesus turned and looked straight at Peter (Luke 22:61). Why do you think Mark omits this detail from his account? Was it two rooster crows (Mark 14:72) or one rooster crow (Luke 22:60, John 18:27)? Does this give us cause to doubt the reliability of scripture? Why or why not? Peter fixated on the first statement of Mark 14:27 ([1] You will all fall away) and missed the other statements ([2] After I have risen [3] I will go ahead of you into Galilee). Why was it so vital that Peter listen to all three? How might things have gone differently

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario www.knowgrowshow.ca The One Thing The truth that finished Jesus is the same truth that frees you The Passage Mark 14:43-65 Know “You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!” Have you ever been told an uncomfortable truth about yourself? How did you respond? Grow In Mark’s account Judas is never heard from again after 14:45. What are your thoughts / feelings towards Judas? Who do you think the young man was in 14:51? Why do you think Mark includes him in his account? Peter abandoned Jesus (14:50) but he also attacked the high priests’ servant (14:47) and at great risk entered the High Priests’ courtyard (14:54). Remembering that Mark is based on Peter’s eye-witness account, how do you think Peter felt about how he behaved this night? Do you see any of yourself in Peter? How so? From chapter 14:63, was Jesus condemned because of the truth He told about Himself or the lies that others told about Him? How does this help us u

The One Thing To win the day, watch and pray The passage Mark 14:32-42 Know Can you remember an embarrassing time when you feel asleep? Grow What accounts for all the disciples all falling asleep when Jesus needed them most? Think of ways that we can ‘fall asleep’ when others are in need of our help. What are the signs in Mark 14:32-42 that Jesus was under incredible stress? 14:38 – Why is “watching and praying” the remedy to the danger of falling into temptation? Jesus’ crucifixion was His idea (read John 10:18). So how do we account for his prayer in Mark 14:35-36 that He could somehow avoid it? Imagine finding out that in 24 hours you would die violently and painfully. How would you handle that knowledge? How would you spend those hours? What did Jesus do?* How would you explain to a non-Christian what caused Jesus such agony as He prayed in the garden?* Show During this week pray the I.C.A.N. prayer over a situation that is hanging over you / causing you distress. Start with intimacy: “Ab

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario www.knowgrowshow.ca Passage Mark 14:12-26 The One Thing Good news: God breaks bread with those who break His heart.  Know How would you like people to remember you after you die? Grow How does the way Jesus sent the disciples to find the upper room give evidence that Jesus was in charge of the whole situation? How does Jesus’ control of events surrounding His passion encourage you when you face difficulties? What might the disciples have thought when Jesus said that one of them would betray Him? Do you think you would have suspected your own heart if you had been there? How does this passage express the tension between free will and the sovereignty of God? In what way did all the disciples betray Jesus? Why might the Last Supper also be called the First Supper? What did Jesus inaugurate? Has the Lord’s Supper sometimes become so familiar for you that it is no longer amazing? What did Jesus mean by saying, “This is My body”

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario www.knowgrowshow.ca Passage Mark 14:1-14 The One Thing  Do you recognize the King? Know Have you ever not recognized someone you should have known the identity of? Or have you ever mistaken someone for someone else? Tell us the story. Grow Read Mark 14:1-11: What is the value of celebrating feasts and festivals? What are the most important celebrations for Christians? What was the costliest offering you have ever made to Jesus? Mary didn’t care about social taboos or personal embarrassment when she worshiped Jesus. How can we follow her example today? Mary’s critics said that the value of her gift exceeded the limit of what should be spent on Jesus. How are we today similar to those critics? Did Jesus dismiss His followers from taking care of the poor? What is the biblical evidence for you answer? In Luke 14:27-28 Jesus says a person should “calculate the cost” of becoming a disciple. Here we learn that true love never calcul

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario www.knowgrowshow.ca The Passage Mark 13:14-37  The One Thing Our soul’s greatest threat isn’t suffering. It’s sleeping. Know If you knew that your house was about to explode in 60 seconds, what 2 things (not children) would you grab on your way out? Grow Read 13:29 and then read 13:32. 29 seems to indicate that we can know when the end will come. Verse 32 seems to reject that we can know. Any thoughts about how we can reconcile these two verses? Read 13:32. We believe that God is a Triune God – three persons, one God. But here we read that God the Father can know something which God the Son does not know. Trying figuring that one out! Any thoughts? What does verse 35 tells us about how should be approaching our ambitions and our possessions, even our lives? What is one thing that we can do to narrow the gap between how we are living and the fact that God is the owner and He is returning? Read 13:36. What might it mean for God to

The One Thing Resist fear. Resist complacency. Be prepared. The Passage Mark 13:3-13 Know What’s your response to the well-used phrase “God won’t give you more than you can handle?” Agree? Disagree? Grow In 13:4 the disciples wanted to know when Jesus’ prophecy will come true. Would you rather know ahead of time if something bad is going to happen to you or not? When considering the future, particularly the end times, are you at more risk of being fearful or complacent? Why do you think this is? Read Acts 8:9-11. Simon the Sorcerer was a false messiah. What do false messiahs look like today? How can we identify them and avoid being deceived? Perhaps we won’t be flogged in the synagogues (13:9), but what kinds of sacrifices might we have to make “on account of Jesus”? What parts of the world do you know where Christians are having to pay this kind of physical price? When you hear statistics like 37 million Christians were undergoing significant persecution in 2018, what’s your response? What, if

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario www.knowgrowshow.ca The Passage Mark 12:38-13:2 The One Thing Trusting in God will outlives temples for God. Every time. Forever.  Know Other than rock, paper, scissors, what other games did you play as a child with your siblings or friends? Grow What do you want to have written on your headstone when you die? In other words, how do you define success for yourself? As the widow made her offering that day, what expression do see on her face? Explain your answer. The scribes looked like they had it all. So did the wealthy people. And we’d have probably pitied the widow. Why would we have been wrong? 12:43 Jesus called the disciples over to check out what he was seeing. What was it about the widow that got Him so excited? John Wesley lived on 28 pounds a year, even though his earnings went from 30 pounds a year to 120 pounds a year. The rest he gave away. What do you think about this philosophy of living? How do you see it reflec

  Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario www.knowgrowshow.ca The One Thing We love best as power cords.  The Scripture Mark 12:28-37 growgroup Questions Know Have you ever been faced with an impossible decision or task? What was it and how did you handle it? Grow Which of the Ten Commandments do you consider the most important? Why? Books and movies often tell us that love is the supreme virtue. How does their definition of love often fall short of the Bible’s emphasis? Mark 12:29 - Why is it important that God is “One”? Why did this cause the Jews to resist Jesus’ claims to be divine? In what way is the command to love God completely more difficult than the Ten Commandments? What do “heart, soul, mind, and strength” represent individually and collectively? How would you respond to the person who says, “Jesus is telling us we need to learn how to love ourselves first and then to love others”? If we are part of God’s family, connected to His power station of love

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario www.knowgrowshow.ca The Passage Mark 12.18-27 The One Thing When our Bible is incomplete, so is our view of God.    Know Share one of your favourite verses in the Bible. Why is it so special to you? Grow Share your response to Thomas Jefferson editing the Bible. What did he cut out? What motivated him to do this? What parts of the Bible are you prone to ignore / avoid? Why do you think this is? What do we miss out on when we limit our reading to certain parts of the Bible? Dan said that our passage today indicates that there won’t be marriage or sexual relations in heaven. What are your feelings about this? What does this tell us about heaven? The Sadducees only believed in the first 5 books of the Bible. And they didn’t believe in the after-life (resurrection). From a verse in this part of the Bible (Exodus 3:6) Jesus proved that the after-life was true. Have you ever had a familiar passage surprise you like that and change

The one thing Jesus came to turn image bearers into message sharers. The passage Mark 12:13-17 group questions Know Dan said in Wales to say “She’s / he’s the spit of you” means “She / he looks just like you”. What characteristics (physical or personality) have you inherited from either your parents or others who raised you? Grow Read James 1:19. Instead of responding to the hypocrisy of the Herodians and Pharisees (Dan called them the “Heresies”) with anger, Jesus paused, gave Himself some space and asked a question. How might this advice be helpful for you when dealing with conflict in your life? Read Romans 13:1-2. Jesus says to “give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s”. As Christians, what does being a good citizen of Canada look like? How should we respond when our ethics (based on the Bible) are opposed to the government’s perspective? Can you think of an example where this tension exists today? What does it mean to you that you are an image bearer of God? If you were in Rome-occupied Israel, would y

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario www.knowgrowshow.ca The Passage Mark 12:1-12 The One Thing Our access to God’s amazing grace has an expiration date.     growgroup questions  Know  Have you made any New Year’s resolutions?  Grow  Put yourself in Isaac Jogues’ position. Consider his mind and heart. Consider his thoughts. What drove him to return to a place and people group that he knew 100% were very dangerous? Could you do what he did? Israel killed the prophets God sent. In what way are we guilty of killing the prophets? of crucifying Christ? If your attempts to get people to fulfilltheir contractual obligations had been violently refused, what would you do? What was the logic of the father in the parable in sending his only son? What was the motivation for God to send His only Son?  What did the tenant farmers think they would gain from killing the landlord’s son? What did the Jewish leaders hope to gain by killing Jesus? What did they in fact accomplish?