Pastor Tim Richards will continue the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on Kadesh Barnea.

Sermon Notes:

1. Have you made any big geographical moves? How did you prepare for the move? What excited or intimidated you about the move?

2. Read Deuteronomy 1:22 & 28. What was the difference between what the spies were supposed to do vs what they actually did?

3. Read Deuteronomy 1:26, 34-35 & 41-44. Why wasn’t God pleased when the people went to battle like he had told them to?

4. Has there been or is there a place in your life you could identify as a Kadesh Barnea – a place where God has asked you to do something that was beyond your ability without his help? How did you respond? What did you learn?

This Sunday, Pastor Lance Lewis will continue the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on the Golden Calf.

SERMON QUESTIONS:

1. In your opinion, what makes an idol?

2. What do you think about Calvin's quote that “the human heart is a perpetual idol factory?”

3. Which of the surface idols do you/have you struggled with? What about the deeper idols in our hearts?

4. What do you think of the remedies to idolatry? Which stand out to you and why?

Pastor Tim Richards continues the series "Long Journey Home: Navigating the Wilderness", focusing this week on Water From a Rock.

SERMON QUESTIONS:

1. Read Exodus 17:1-7. Massah & Merebah mean Test & Argue in Hebrew. Why do you think Moses named the place in recognition of the people’s arguing rather than the Lord’s miracle? Where are the places in your life where you tend to argue or complain?

2. Read 1 Corinthians 10:1-4. Why do you think Paul chose the rock in the wilderness as a figure representing Jesus?

3. Israel’s physical thirst can be a good parallel for spiritual thirst. In what sorts of things do people try to find soul satisfaction? How can those things leave us still thirsty? What is it about Jesus that is better?

4. What are things you have found helpful in keeping your soul satisfied in Jesus? What gets you distracted, fearful or angry?

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