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Home Study for July 29 through August 3, 2013
Monday – Read Proverbs 19:17 and Psalm 41:1
How does God respond to those who help others?
Why is this important to Him?
How does helping others help us to show the love of Jesus?
How do these passages challenge you? How will you respond?
Tuesday – Read I Corinthians 3:5-9
When God evaluates our lives He looks at how faithful we were to do the things He gifted and called us to do.
How does this give you hope?
How does this challenge you?
What will you do?
Wednesday – Read II Corinthians 9:6-11
With what attitude should we give and serve?
Why should/can we give and serve in that way?
How does this passage challenge your views on giving and service?
How will you respond?
Thursday – Read Galatians 6:7-10
Why does God want us to understand that we will reap what we sow?
What will we reap if we keep doing good and do not give up?
How does this passage challenge you?
How does it encourage you?
Friday – Read Colossians 3:23-24
How are we serving Jesus no matter what we do?
Do you feel that way about all that you do?
How should this truth shape our choices and behavior?
How does this truth challenge you?
How does it encourage you?
How will you respond?
Saturday – Read Matthew 5:5-15
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Home Study for July 22 through 27, 2013
Home Study
Monday – Read Romans 5:8 and Luke 23:33-34
In these verses, how does Jesus show His love to people who didn’t/don’t love Him or were/are hurting Him?
How does His example challenge you?
How will you respond?
Tuesday – Read Romans 12:9-13
Which of these things do you find is the easiest for you to do?
Why?
Which do you find are the hardest to do?
Why?
Ask Jesus to help you to grow in the areas you struggle in.
Wednesday – Read Romans 12:14-16
Which of these things do you find the easiest for you to do?
Which do you find to be the hardest?
Ask Jesus to help you to grow in the areas you struggle in.
Thursday – Read Romans 12:17-21
How does verse 17 challenge you?
Why are we to not take revenge?
Why is leaving our anger and thoughts of revenge in God’s hands a much better choice to make?
What hurts or thoughts of anger or revenge do you need to leave in Jesus’s hands today?
Friday – Read Romans 12:8-10
How does loving fulfill the law?
Who is our example of how to love?
How does this passage challenge you?
How will you respond?
Saturday – Read Matthew 6:1-4
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Home Study for July 15 through 20, 2013
Home Study
Monday – Read Jeremiah 17:9 and Matthew 12:33-37
How does the condition of our heart impact what we say?
What does it mean that the heart is deceitful?
How do our hearts get changed? What is our part?
How do these passages challenge you? How will you respond?
Tuesday – Read Leviticus 19:11-16
All of these laws deal with living a life of honesty and integrity.
How does living this way bring glory to God?
What has God given us to enable us to live like this?
How do these verses challenge you? What will you do?
Wednesday – Read James 3:7-11
Why can the tongue be so destructive?
Would you agree that the way to tame the tongue is to tame the heart?
How do we do that?
How does this passage challenge you? How will you respond?
Thursday – Read Ephesians 4:29-32
How would you define “unwholesome talk?”
How can we tear others down with our words?
How can we build others up with our words?
How can we grieve the Holy Spirit with our words?
What are these verses calling you to do?
Friday – Read Colossians 3:12-17
How does living like this allow us to protect and build up other people?
How do they allow us to live out the truth in love?
Why is that important?
How does this passage challenge you? How will you respond?
Saturday – Read Matthew 5:38-48
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Home Study for July 8 through 13, 2013
Monday – Read Genesis 2:18-25
Who created marriage?
Who alone then has the power to define it?
What does it mean to “become one flesh?”
How did Adam and Eve feel in their married state?
What does this say to you?
Tuesday – Read Matthew 19:1-9
What was God’s original intent for marriage?
Why did Jesus say God permitted divorce through Moses?
What was the only reason Jesus gives here to justify divorce?
How did that challenge the understanding of the Pharisees?
How does it challenge our culture’s attitude on divorce today?
Wednesday – Read I Corinthians 7:12-16
How might a believing spouse have a role in the salvation of an
unbelieving spouse and their children?
What is the believing spouse to do if the unbelieving spouse wants out
of the marriage? Why?
What are some things you can do to encourage the believers in your
life who are married to unbelievers?
Thursday – Read Malachi 2:15-16
Recognizing that marriage was created by God for the good of men and women and it is a demonstration of
the kind of relationship that He desires to have with people, does it surprise you that God hates
divorce?
God has a high view and purpose of marriage, how can we best reflect that to the world around us?
Friday – Read Ephesians 5:22-33
What would be the result if a couple truly lived as we read here?
How does a couple’s relationship with Jesus help them to live as we read here?
If more believing couples lived like this how could it change our culture’s view of marriage?
Saturday – Read Matthew 5:33-37
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