by Jordan Brazinski | Mar 13, 2022 | Citizen, Deep Dive, Series Resources
Deep Dive: Lent Feasting Liturgies This year our theme for Lent is Feasting in the Wilderness, a motif that recurs in the Bible (think manna, or the feeding of the 5000), and the liturgy for Wednesdays in this year’s Lent Guide is a liturgy for Feasting (though...
by Jordan Brazinski | Jun 6, 2021 | Acts, Deep Dive, Series Resources
Deep Dive: Acts 16:11-34 The baptism of Lydia and the jailer’s households I’m not going to be able to answer the real question here, but hopefully some information will help you talk about it if it comes up. Twice in our text this week we see whole...
by Eric Spivey | Mar 17, 2021 | Job: Walking Wounded, Resources, Series Resources
Before we get too far from our series in Job, Walking Wounded, I wanted to take a brief moment to look back and think about what we’ve learned. Coming out of 2020, a year in which many of us experienced deep, prolonged periods of grief and loss, we turned to the...
by Jordan Brazinski | Sep 20, 2020 | Daniel, Deep Dive, Series Resources
Deep Dive: Who was the fourth person in the fiery furnace? As I said in the full discussion guide, there’s some debate as to who or what this fourth being in the fiery furnace was. The answer we’re given in the passage is an angel, at least according to...
by Eric Spivey | Mar 18, 2020 | Resources, Series Resources, The Lord's Prayer
The culture that created fast food and two-day shipping is not emotionally prepared for a quarantine. The American way thrives on immediacy and access – markets capitalize on it, social media runs on it, and our restless selves feed on it. But COVID-19...
by Eric Spivey | Mar 2, 2020 | Deep Dive, Resources, Series Resources, The Lord's Prayer
Deep Dive: What happened to the end of the Lord’s Prayer? As we’ve been going through our series on the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6, you’ve maybe noticed a section of the prayer that seems missing (depending on your Bible’s translation)....