Here is a Day by Day guide to learning and applying:
Read: the daily Scriptures and Answer the Question from the sermon.
Create: Create your own questions/comments from the scriptures
Discuss: Talk about your questions and reactions to the scriptures.
6/15/25
Scripture: Psalm 127
Title: The Lord Builds the House
BIG IDEA: “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. As for me and my house, we will serve The Lord.
REMINDER:
A Disciple...Loves All People, Discovers Identity in Jesus, Deepens Relationship with Jesus.
What have I done this week to feed my soul, feed others, and feed my flesh?
Scripture Study Tip
What does it say, What does it mean, and How do I apply it to my daily life.
Read Psalm 127
What stood out to you in the sermon this week?
What did God reveal to you in the Scriptures this week, maybe for the first time?
Ephesians 5 instructs us how to live and how to love our spouses.
Read Ephesians 5
What does it mean for the LORD to build the house? What do you need to do to surrender your house to the LORD?
The psalm compares children to arrows and Pastor Nate shared 4 elements of shooting an arrow - the warrior, the aim, the tension, and the sending.
How do each of these elements translate to parenting children?
What are some ways all of us can help disciple children in our sphere of
influence?
Read: Deuteronomy 6:4-5
At what target are you aiming your children?
What are you doing to aim them?
If you don’t have children, how can you help aim children you have influence with?
When in your life have you felt the weariness of “anxious toil”?
What does Jesus offer as the cure for anxious toil?
Pastor Nate shared an Irish proverb that said for every mile of road there are two miles of ditch. On either side of our gifts in life is either the tendency to idolize and elevate them above their rightful place or the tendency to neglect them and not use them where you’re called.
Which ditch do you find yourself in most frequently and in what area of your life?
ACTION STEP
A Disciple…Loves All People, Discovers Identity in Jesus, Deepens Relationship with Jesus.
1. Ask the kids in your influence heart questions not just practical questions.
2. Pray out loud over your kids and what they are processing in life.
3. Read scripture with them
4. Make memories with them
6/8/25
Scripture: Psalm 34
Title: Taste and See
BIG IDEA: “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!” Jesus is not a philosophy to be followed, an idea to be understood or a religion to be practiced. He is the one true God meant to be experienced. He is more than enough to conquer our fears, reign over our circumstances and hear our cries.
REMINDER:
A Disciple...Loves All People, Discovers Identity in Jesus, Deepens Relationship with Jesus.
What have I done this week to feed my soul, feed others, and feed my flesh?
What stood out to you in the sermon this week?
What did God reveal to you in the Scriptures this week, maybe for the first time?
Scripture Study Tip
What does it say, What does it mean, and How do I apply it to my daily life.
Read Psalm 34
Where in this psalm do you see Jesus?
DEEPEN: To get context on David writing this psalm, take turns reading, 1 Samuel 21.
Psalm 34:8 says, “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!”
How do you know when you have tasted and seen that the LORD is good, even in difficult times?
How did fear affect David?
How did David’s actions change when he was being led by his faith?
In Psalm 34:1 David writes, “I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.”
How was David able to write that when his circumstances were not good?
In what area(s) of your life do you need to pre-decide to worship God regardless of the
circumstances or outcomes, and how will you take a step toward that this week?
Constant Reminder
Six questions for gospel-centered discernment. Memorize and ask these six questions to discern and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit in your life.
G - God's glory: Will this decision primarily be about my glory or God's glory?
O - Other Christians: What do other gospel-saturated, Christ-centered, wise friends say about this upcoming decision?
S - Scripture: Does the Bible command, permit, or prohibit this decision? What does inerrant, infallible Scripture say?
P - Prayer: Have you abided with, rested in, asked from, listened to and waited on God in this decision over time?
E - Evangelism: Will this decision give me the opportunity to share the gospel and invite people to faith in Jesus?
L - Lifestyle: Will this decision lead me to live a lifestyle of love marked by the Fruit of the Spirit and holiness?