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GodSpeak Readings: Week 20/January 25-30

Week 20:  January 25-30
Joshua 20-Judges 2

GodSpeak readings for each day are listed below. Click the link to read the section and/or listen online. A discussion question is listed below for you to use in your GodSpeak group session or for discussion with others who are reading along.

Monday, Jan 25 Joshua 20-21  Read & Listen Online   (Click “Audio” link to listen)
1. Joshua 21:44 describes how, in providing His people with their inheritance, God gave them rest on every side. Hebrews 4:8–10 refers to the salvation that is ours through faith in Christ Jesus as our rest. What does it mean for God’s people to rest in the completed work of Christ? See also Matthew 11:28.

Tuesday, Jan 26 Joshua 22  Read & Listen Online   (Click “Audio” link to listen)
2. Review Joshua 22. Explain the appropriateness of “A Witness Between Us that the LORD is God” as a name for the altar build by the Reubenites and Gadites. What symbols of unity in Christ does this altar remind you of?

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Sermon: “Strong and Courageous”

Sunday, January 17, 2010 Readings: Joshua 1:1-11, Acts 4:5-13, John 17:6-19 God has a way of using weak, spineless people to accomplish great things in His name.  That was the case for the Israelite people as they prepared to enter the land promised to them.  We also see it numerous places throughout the Bible.  God simply … Read more

GodSpeak Readings: Week 19/January 18-23

Week 19:  January 18-23
Joshua 7-19

GodSpeak readings for each day are listed below. Click the link to read the section and/or listen online. A discussion question is listed below for you to use in your GodSpeak group session or for discussion with others who are reading along.

Monday, Jan 18 Joshua 8-9  Read & Listen Online   (Click “Audio” link to listen)
1. Joshua 8:34 records that Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses just as they are written in the Book of the Law. All of God’s Word points us to Jesus our Savior. Relate the saving work of Jesus to the blessings and curses written in the Book of the Law. See 2 Corinthians 5:21 and Galatians 4:4.

Tuesday, Jan 19 Joshua 10  Read & Listen Online   (Click “Audio” link to listen)
2. God’s willingness to act effectively to help and save His people is evidenced vividly in Joshua 10:11–14. In what two ways did God use the forces of nature to fight for His people? What does Jesus’ command over the wind & the waves reveal to us about Him (Luke 8:22–25)?

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Sermon: “Choose Life”

Sanctity of Life Sunday, January 10, 2010 Readings: Deuteronomy 30:11-20, Romans 10:5-17, John 10:7-16 Choices are everywhere.  We feel rather empowered by the myriad of choices that surround us.  God had his chosen people prepared to enter the land he chose for them when he gave them a choice between life and death.  If they worshipped … Read more

GodSpeak Readings: Week 18/January 11-16

Week 18:  January 11-16
Deuteronomy 33-Joshua 7

GodSpeak readings for each day are listed below. Click the link to read the section and/or listen online. A discussion question is listed below for you to use in your GodSpeak group session or for discussion with others who are reading along.

Monday, Jan 11 Deuteronomy 33  Read & Listen Online   (Click “Audio” link to listen)
1. According to Deuteronomy 33:29, what is distinctive about the people of God?

Tuesday, Jan 12 Deuteronomy 34  Read & Listen Online   (Click “Audio” link to listen)
2. In a sense all of us are like Moses standing at the top of the mountain gazing out over the land that God has promised to give to His people (Deuteronomy 34). See Hebrews 11:13-16 and explain.

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Sermon: “Listen to Him”

Sunday, January 3, 2010 Readings: Deuteronomy 18:15-22, Acts 3:12-26, Luke 9:28-36 Who do you listen to?  What influences your life and your decisions?  Are they truthful or wholesome?  Many of us don’t even realize the number of people trying to get us to listen to them for this reason or that.  God knows, because His … Read more

GodSpeak Readings: Week 17/January 4-9

Week 17:  January 4-9
Deuteronomy 27-32

GodSpeak readings for each day are listed below. Click the link to read the section and/or listen online. A discussion question is listed below for you to use in your GodSpeak group session or for discussion with others who are reading along.

Monday, Jan 4 Deuteronomy 27  Read & Listen Online   (Click “Audio” link to listen)
1. The final curse shouted by the people from Mount Ebal summarizes our condition under God’s Law, because we are unable to obey it. “Cursed is the man who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out” (Deut 27:26). But for those of us with faith in Christ Jesus, the curse of the Law is only half of the story. See Romans 6:23. Explain.

Tuesday, Jan 5 Deuteronomy 28  Read & Listen Online   (Click “Audio” link to listen)
2. Deut 28:13 describes God’s blessings to His people: “The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day & carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.” Tell how these words are fulfilled in the life of a believer through the obedience of Christ. See John 3:36.

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Sermon: “Cut to the Heart”

Sunday, December 27, 2009 Readings: Deuteronomy 10:12-22, Romans 4:7-16, Luke 2:21-40 Circumcision was the way God chose to mark His chosen people.  But in our lesson from Deuteronomy, God tells His people to have “circumcised hearts.”  On a day when we remember the circumcision of Jesus, how are we to have circumcised hearts?  And what … Read more

Christmas Day Sermon: “What’s the Fuss?”

Christmas Day, December 25, 2009 Readings: Isaiah 52:7-10, Hebrews 1:1-6, John 1:1-14 We make a big deal of Christmas in our culture.  But why?  Especially if you don’t believe that Christ is the reason for Christmas!  Listen to Pastor Seabaugh deliver his Christmas Day sermon on why Christmas is such a big deal and we … Read more

GodSpeak Readings: Week 16/December 28-January 2

Week 16:  December 28-January 2
Deuteronomy 16-26

GodSpeak readings for each day are listed below. Click the link to read the section and/or listen online. A discussion question is listed below for you to use in your GodSpeak group session or for discussion with others who are reading along.

Monday, Dec 28 Deuteronomy 16-17  Read & Listen Online   (Click “Audio” link to listen)
1. Review Deuteronomy 17:18-20. Consider yourself in the leadership roles God has given you. Through what means will God empower and direct you as you serve Him in your leadership roles?

Tuesday, Dec 29 Deuteronomy 18-19  Read & Listen Online   (Click “Audio” link to listen)
2. In Deuteronomy 18:17-18 Moses records, “the LORD said to me: “What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in His mouth, and He will tell them everything I command Him.” In Jesus this prophecy found its fulfillment. In what ways is Jesus similar to Moses?

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