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Are You My Mother?. What analogy does James give that describes the wishes of someone who doubts? –James 1:6 (837). GOD1. What analogy does James give that describes the wishes of someone who doubts? –James 1:6 (837).
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What analogy does James give that describes the wishes of someone who doubts? • –James 1:6 (837) GOD1
What analogy does James give that describes the wishes of someone who doubts? • –James 1:6 (837) GOD1But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
What does the Bible say is likely to happen to those who leave God out of the equation? • –Romans 1:28-31 (781) GOD2
What does the Bible say is likely to happen to those who leave God out of the equation? • –Romans 1:28-31 (781) GOD2Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. …
What does the Bible say is likely to happen to those who leave God out of the equation? • –Romans 1:28-31 (781) GOD2They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, …
What does the Bible say is likely to happen to those who leave God out of the equation? • –Romans 1:28-31 (781) GOD2slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; …
What does the Bible say is likely to happen to those who leave God out of the equation? • –Romans 1:28-31 (781) GOD2they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
“Imagine” • Imagine there’s no heaven • It’s easy if you try • No hell below us • Above us only sky • Imagine all the people • Living for today...
“Imagine” • Imagine there’s no countries • It isn’t hard to do • Nothing to kill or die for • And no religion too • Imagine all the people • Living life in peace...
“Imagine” • You may say I’m a dreamer • But I’m not the only one • I hope someday you’ll join us • And the world will be as one
Jesus uses the analogy of paths and gates. What happens if we take the wrong path? • –Matthew 7:13,14 (673) GOD3
Jesus uses the analogy of paths and gates. What happens if we take the wrong path? • –Matthew 7:13,14 (673) GOD3Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Seeker of truth • Follow no path • All paths lead where • Truth is here
Who does the Bible say created the heavens and the earth? • –Genesis 1:1 (1) GOD4
Who does the Bible say created the heavens and the earth? • –Genesis 1:1 (1) GOD4In the beginning God created the heavensand the earth.
Where did mankind come from? • –Genesis 2:7 (2) GOD5
Where did mankind come from? • –Genesis 2:7 (2) GOD5The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
What is God’s chief attribute? • –I John 4:8 (846) GOD6
What is God’s chief attribute? • –I John 4:8 (846) GOD6Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
What is one of God’s chief passions? • –2 Corinthians 5:19 (803) GOD7
What is one of God’s chief passions? • –2 Corinthians 5:19 (803) GOD7God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them.And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
What is one of God’s greatest hopes for mankind? • –John 6:40 (741) GOD8
What is one of God’s greatest hopes for mankind? • –John 6:40 (741) GOD8For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
What question did they ask Paul? • –Acts 17:18 (770) GOD9
What question did they ask Paul? • –Acts 17:18 (770) GOD9A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to dispute with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” …
What question did they ask Paul? • –Acts 17:18 (770) GOD9Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
How did Paul describe his God? • –Acts 17:24-27 (771) GOD10
How did Paul describe his God? • –Acts 17:24-27 (771) GOD10The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. …
How did Paul describe his God? • –Acts 17:24-27 (771) GOD10And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. …
How did Paul describe his God? • –Acts 17:24-27 (771) GOD10From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. …
How did Paul describe his God? • –Acts 17:24-27 (771) GOD10God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
How does God refer to Himself in Genesis 1:26? (1) GOD11Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Even though the plural form is used what does the Bible have to say about the concept of polytheism? • –Deuteronomy 6:4 (128) GOD12
Even though the plural form is used what does the Bible have to say about the concept of polytheism? • –Deuteronomy 6:4 (128) GOD12Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God,the LORD is one.
Who are the three members of the Godhead? • –Matthew 28:19 (694) GOD13
Who are the three members of the Godhead? • –Matthew 28:19 (694) GOD13Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Can you find the three members of the Trinity and how God is reaching out to us today? • –John 15:26 (750) GOD14
Can you find the three members of the Trinity and how God is reaching out to us today? • –John 15:26 (750) GOD14When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.
Jesus tells a story about a guy who finds a treasure. How badly did the seeker want that treasure? • –Matthew 13:44 (679) GOD15
Jesus tells a story about a guy who finds a treasure. How badly did the seeker want that treasure? • –Matthew 13:44 (679) GOD15The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.