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The Chosen: Episode 4 Watch Along
Here we go - Week 5 Each Wednesday we will post an episode for you and your family to watch. Pick a time where you can all gather together and see what we've been reading in Luke come alive on the screen. We will have some discussion questions posted to start conversations with your family to help make the memorable. Once you have watched the episode comment on the post some of the things that stood out to you and your family. This is going to be awesome! SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES ‣ Matthew 13:47-52 ‣ Luke 8:10 ‣ Matthew 3:1-7 CHARACTERS Jesus, Matthew, James & John, Andrew & Peter, Nicodemus, John the Baptist, Joseph of Arimethea, Zebedee The Big Question: What captured your imagination most in this episode? What quote from this episode was the most meaningful/impactful to you? Why?
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 “We have to resolutely put away our attachment to natural appearance and our habit of judging according to the outward face of things. I must learn that my fellow man, just as he is, whether he is my friend or my enemy, my brother or a stranger from the other side of the world, whether he be wise of foolish, no matter what my be his limitations, ‘is Christ.’ … “Any prisoner, any starving man, any sick or dying man, any sinner, any man whatever, is to be regarded as Christ–this is the formal command of the Savior Himself. This doctrine is far too simple to satisfy many modern Christians, and undoubtedly many will remain very uneasy with it, tormented by the difficulty that perhaps after all, this particular neighbor is a bad man, and therefore cannot be Christ. “The solution of this difficulty is to unify oneself with the Spirit of Christ, to start thinking and loving as a Christian, and to stop being a hairsplitting pharisee. Our faith is not supposed …to assess the state of our neighbor’s conscience. It is the needle by which we draw the thread of charity through our neighbor’s soul and our own soul and sew ourselves together in one Christ. Our faith is given us not to see whether or not our neighbor is Christ, but to recognize Christ in him and to help our love make both him and ourselves more fully Christ. … “Corrupt forms of love wait for the neighbor to ‘become a worthy object of love’ before actually loving him. This is not the way of Christ. Since Christ Himself loved us when we were by no means worthy of love and still loves us with all our unworthiness, our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. … “What we are asked to do is to love; and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbor worthy if anything can. Indeed, that is one of the most significant things about the power of love. There is no way under the sun to make a man worthy of love except by loving him. As soon as he realizes himself loved–if he is not so weak that he can no longer bear to be loved–he will feel himself instantly becoming worthy of love. He will respond by drawing a mysterious spiritual value out of his own depths, a new identity called into being by the love that is addressed to him.” – Thomas Merton More From Thomas Merton
Every once and a while we drop a book list now and then so folks can see what we (Lindsay & Mic have been reading. Check out what we have on ourselves at the moment:
The Chosen: Episode 3 Watch Along
Here we go - Week 4 Each Wednesday we will post an episode for you and your family to watch. Pick a time where you can all gather together and see what we've been reading in Luke come alive on the screen. We will have some discussion questions posted to start conversations with your family to help make the memorable. Once you have watched the episode comment on the post some of the things that stood out to you and your family. This is going to be awesome! SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES ‣ Mark 10:14, Matt 18:3-5 ‣ Deuteronomy 6:4-5 ‣ Matthew 6:9-15 ‣ Matthew 5-7 ‣ Isaiah 61:1-2, Luke 4:18-19 ‣ John 12:28, 17:1 What captured your imagination most in this episode? What quote from this episode was the most meaningful/impactful to you? Why?
The Chosen: Episode 2 Watch Along
Here we go - Week 3. Each Wednesday we will post an episode for you and your family to watch. Pick a time where you can all gather together and see what we've been reading in Luke come alive on the screen. We will have some discussion questions posted to start conversations with your family to help make the memorable. Once you have watched the episode comment on the post some of the things that stood out to you and your family. This is going to be awesome! SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES ‣ Mark 3:16-18 ‣ Mark 16:9, Luke 8:2 ‣ Proverbs 31:10-31 ‣ Revelation 3:20 ‣ John 1:46 ‣ Genesis 2:1-3 CHARACTERS Quintus, Gaius, Nicodemus, Matthew, Mary Magdalene, Peter and Andrew, James and John What quote from the movie was the most impactful to you? Why? “I don’t understand it myself. I was one way and now I’m completely different. And the thing that happened in between - was Him. So yes, I will know him for the rest of my life!” (Mary Magdalene)
The Chosen: Episode 1 Watch Along
Here we go - Week 2. Each Wednesday we will post an episode for you and your family to watch. Pick a time where you can all gather together and see what we've been reading in Luke come alive on the screen. We will have some discussion questions posted to start conversations with your family to help make the memorable. Once you have watched the episode comment on the post some of the things that stood out to you and your family. This is going to be awesome! SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES ‣ Isaiah 43:1 ‣ John 3:1 ‣ 1 Corinthians 9:5 MAIN CHARACTERS Nicodemus, Matthew, Mary Magdalene, Peter and Andrew Discussion Questions: What captured your imagination most? How does “I have called you by name, you are mine” impact you today? 
The Prequel: The Shepherd
Here we go. Each Wednesday we will post an episode for you and your family to watch. Pick a time where you can all gather together and see what we've been reading in Luke come alive on the screen. We will have some discussion questions posted to start conversations with your family to help make the memorable. Once you have watched the episode comment on the post some of the things that stood out to you and your family. This is going to be awesome! The Big Question: What is your one BIG question from this episode? (What captured your imagination most?) 1. What is the significance of beginning the story of Jesus featuring a lame shepherd? 2. What was the attitude of the people toward shepherds? 3. How did it impact you hearing the prophecies about the Messiah read in the synagogue, before Jesus came?
Delirious? Cutting Edge
Few albums have had a bigger impact on me than this one. "I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever", "Obsession", "Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble?", "The Happy Song"... I could put the whole tracklist here. This album was birthed out of spontaneous worship on a hillside in Littlehampton, West Sussuex England. I was blown away the first time I heard this album. Martin Smith said one time that he wished the church would get back to writing songs for the world. Songs that shared an experience with the Father and stop writing songs for themselves. Listen Here Most of you know that I love to read and this stay at home order has opened up a lot more reading time. So you may be asking yourself, "What is Mic reading during all of this?" Well wonder no more. Here are all the books I have been digging into:
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