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We see it all the time. Young athletes failing to realize their full potential. Emerging entrepreneurial organizations losing their momentum. Aspiring politicians squandering their influence through poor moral decisions. Promising careers starting out so strong only to end up with disappointing results. And in each case, we ask the question, what went wrong? King Solomon was no exception. He had a meteoric rise to leadership blessed with all the wisdom, wealth, power, and influence - the likes of which the world had never seen before. Yet his life took a different trajectory. What went wrong?

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. Do you know any promising professionals that never lived up to their potential? What were the reasons for their disappointing outcomes?
2. As you look at your own life, when have you made a series of little decisions that have resulted in you being in an unfavorable position?
3. Read 1 Kings 11:4. Solomon’s trajectory away from God happened slowly. Is this an accurate reflection of compromise or are there singular decisions that can wreck your life?
4. Read 1 Peter 5:8. Peter encourages his readers to stay alert for there is a prowling enemy. Do you see any evidence of the enemy’s advances in your life?
5. What steps can you take to stay alert? How can you avoid being lulled to sleep like Solomon?
6. If you could address a letter to yourself, what advice would you give?

THINK ABOUT IT

“Oh it’s not a big deal. I can handle it.”
That’s not a successful strategy for staying alert. That’s being incredibly passive and leaving yourself vulnerable. Be proactive. When you consider your friendships, are they inspiring you towards Jesus or away? When you consider your TV/movie/internet viewing patterns, how are you staying alert? How are you practicing selflessness to remind yourself that life isn’t about you? What other areas of your life do you need to stay alert?

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

This week, write a note to yourself that addresses this question: “If you could somehow give yourself advice, what would you say?” Leave it in a place where you can read it in several weeks.

CHANGING YOUR MIND

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
1 Peter 5:8

Speaker for today is Parish Myers

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Scripture: John 4:7,9: Jesus and the woman at the well

• Jesus says to her give me a drink
• He enters into a conversation with her
• She replies how you a Jew ask a Samaritan
• Many of times Christians do not want to deal with Non-Christians
• And many Non-Christians do not want to deal with Christians
• We need to be willing to talk to the people we don’t want to
• if we don’t who will

1. How have negative words that have been used of you shaped your life?
2. When have you used words that were damaging to someone else? What effect did these words have?
3. Read James 3:2-6. Why is it so important that we watch what we say? What do our words say about us?
4. Read James 3:7-12. Why is it so difficult to control the words that we use?
5. How can you begin to take responsibility for the words that you use?
6. What should you do once you find yourself using words that have hurt someone else?

Speaker: Ken Jones

Scripture: Genesis 1:1, Colossians 1:16-17, Ephesians 2: 8-10, Philippians 3:10, Matthew 28, Exodus 20, Mark 12:30, Hebrews 9:26

Notes:

•  Origin of Life- who am I and How did I get here
• Meaning of Life- why am I here
• Morality /live- how do i live…….value of life, who decides
• Destiny - what does the future hold for me
• Theology- it is your way of believing, that affects your philosophy of life, which affects your morality
• Jesus is the hero, he makes the difference in the way you live
• God created you to need a savior
• There is over 100 chapters in the New Testament that proves the first 11 chapters of the old testament are true
• All of this fits together in the love of God
• What you think about God is the most important about and what you think about yourself is second most important.
• Pantheism- means everything is God and he is everything
• Hinduism- has 60,000 Gods
• Theism- there is a God, set things in motion and God is not involved in whats happening now

- Speaker of the Day: Josh Chatham  

•  Titus Chapter 3:3; 3:6-8
• Be heirs to God
• 2 Places you go when you die: Heaven or hell
•   God does not disown us
• There is light at the end of the tunnel
• “these things are good and profitable for men”
• “if everyone has to be somewhere, let it be with a purpose.”
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“For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall be one flesh, And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.” Genesis 2:24,25Seperated- “When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any bussiness; but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.” Deut. 24.5Purity- “…He no longer regards the offering or accepts it….Because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant… For I hate divorce…says the Lord” Malachi 2:13-16 Unity- Sprit, Soul and Body, “The Eagles mating Technique” Job 12:7,8Intimacy- Proverbs 5:18-19