February 23, 2025
Tomorrow is the first Baptism Sunday of 2025! Join us tomorrow as we celebrate those who have given their lives to Christ. In each service, we will hear their testimonies and witness this defining moment in their spiritual walks.
Join us at 8:00, 9:30, or 11:00 am as we unpack it!
This Week’s Set List
Worship is an outward expression coming from the overflow of the heart. At Providence, our services are times of intentional celebration and remembrance of what Jesus has done for us. Through the songs we sing, we express what we believe about God and confess our need for him.
Here’s our set list for the weekend:
Christ Be Magnified
How Deep The Father’s Love For Us
Consider Him
Abide
This Week’s Prayer Focus
As part of our worship and fellowship together, we pray over specific local churches, schools, missionary partners, and unreached people groups. This week, you can join us in praying for:
Local Church: Grace Church
Local School: Centennial High School
Missions Partner: Matt
Unreached People Group: The Sudanese Arabs
Study Guide for Luke 20:45-21:4
How To Use This Guide
This guide is designed to take you deeper into the points of the Sunday morning message and the passage we’re studying each week. The guide is divided into two parts.
Read, Reflect, and Respond guides you through your own personal study of the message text, preferably before you arrive for the service on Sunday morning. This section uses the HEAR journaling method, which is an acronym for highlight, explain, apply, and respond.
Discuss With Others is designed to help you take the things you’ve learned in your personal study and the message and discuss them within the context of your small group.
Read, Reflect, & Respond
Highlight: Begin your Bible reading time with prayer then highlight verses that stand out to you as you read the passage. Note any words or ideas you want to dive deeper into and pay attention to repeated or emphasized words and phrases. This is the “observation” process – looking at the who, what, when, where of the passage.
Explain: What is the context of the passage and the author’s intended meaning within that context? This is where you can consult a study Bible or commentary. What did the passage mean to the original listeners? Was there something in their context that was being addressed? This step is to understand what the meaning of the passage was then before you seek to understand what the applied principle is today.
Apply: What is the principle to live by today? This is when you turn the focus to your own life, setting, and culture. What is the principle that applies to your own context?
Respond: How will you respond to the application in your relationships and/or situations this week? This recognizes that the Bible is not just a set of truths to know, but is actually a guide to live by.
Discuss With Others
Use your community group time to have some conversation around the message. Start your discussion by inviting someone to read the passage aloud in its entirety.
How does Jesus warn against spiritual pride?
How does the widow’s gift demonstrate proportional, sacrificial, and faith-filled giving?
What might it look like for you to give generously out of all that the Lord has given you?
Though the New Testament doesn’t command tithing, Romans 12:1-2 says that we who have received God’s mercy in Christ should give our whole lives as living sacrifices to God, which is spiritual worship. Is there an area of your life that you’re withholding from the Lord (your relationships, finances, sexuality, etc.)? Why are you withholding it? In view of God’s mercy toward you, how can you give it all to him?
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