Scripture: Luke 23:13-25 Reverend Doug Bunnell First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham Sunday, April 10, 2022 Questions for this week: How do we answer this choice of a political messiah vs. God’s Son? Where do you see Jesus being political? In what ways do you think faith should impact politics? How do you think Christians are […]
Scripture: Luke 22:63-71 Reverend Doug Bunnell First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham Sunday, April 3, 2022 Questions for this week: What teachings of Jesus do you think “stirred up the people”? How might we read the words of Jesus as revolutionaries? How do followers of Jesus live as revolutionaries? Do you ever feel Pilate’s dilemma? How […]
Scripture: Luke 22:63-71 Fred Hartsook First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham Sunday, March 27, 2022 Questions- How does it make you feel to picture Jesus being put through this mockery? What specific questions are asked, and what specific answers are given? What do you wonder about Jesus’ indirect answers to their questions? Who in the passage […]
Scripture: Luke 22:54-62 Reverend Doug Bunnell First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham Sunday, March 20, 2022 Questions: Go back and read this text again pretending that you were part of the crowd watching. Use your imagination – what do smell, hear, feel? What do you notice about how Jesus interacts with the soldiers? What made Peter […]
Scripture: Luke 22:54-62 Reverend Doug Bunnell First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham Sunday, March 13, 2022 Questions: What is your perspective on weapons? How do we balance a Jesus who lives non-violently with a Jesus who encourages the disciples to buy a sword? What was the anguish Jesus faced in the garden? What strikes you about […]
Scripture: Luke 22:24-36 Reverend Doug Bunnell First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham Sunday, March 6, 2022 Questions: How do we measure greatness in our culture? Who are some people you would ascribe greatness to? How does Jesus measure greatness? Who are people you know who might be great by Jesus’s standards? Why might Satan want to […]
Scripture: Philippians 4:10-23 Reverend Doug Bunnell First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham Sunday, February 27, 2022 Questions: Where are you able to live content? When do you most struggle to be content? How does Jesus strengthen you to live a content life? Where do you share your treasures? Are there ways you feel called to share […]
Scripture: Philippians 4:1-9 Reverend Doug Bunnell First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham Sunday, February 20, 2022 Questions: Who have you struggled to get along with? What would it mean to practice forbearance in your life right now? Where do you need to start? Where does anxiety creep into your life? How might might you pray […]
Scripture: Philippians 3:12-21 Reverend Doug Bunnell First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham Sunday, February 13, 2022 Questions: Paul is all about “ forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead.” What does that look like in your life? Paul presses on “toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of […]