Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Fellowship Night @ the Bartons this Friday March 30th, 7pm

Dear fellow douloi

This Friday we will have great fellowship again.  The Barton family will graciously open their home to host our study and they will provide ice cream and hot fudge.  If some of you could bring some topping that would be great, so we will have a great ice cream party.

Here is the address

[email doulosnorthhollywood@gmail.com for more info]

Just in case you do not find it, here is the phone no.
(818) 515-7958

Blessings and see you there

Pascal

Monday, March 19, 2012

Proverbs 3 Study

This Friday, March 23rd, we will begin our study of Proverbs 3 at 7pm at the Moore's house.  [email doulosnorthhollywood@gmail.com for more info We will focus on verses 1-18.

The following questions should help keep things focused for next time. As always, if you have any questions or comments before the study, please feel free to call or email me.

Proverbs 3

Verse 1 - What is "not forgetting" contrasted with? What does it mean to keep commandments? 

Verse 3 - What might it mean to bind love and faithfulness around your neck? What would this mean if you weren't really loving and faithful?

Verse 5 - What is "Trust in the Lord" contrasted with?

Verse 7 - What is "Fear the Lord" contrasted with?

To summarize, what are three things we are called to do in verses 5 to 7? And two things we are not to do?

One thing we can learn from these verses is that acknowledging God in all our ways can be counter intuitive. In other words, what God knows to be best might not seem that way to us in our own understanding of things.

We're going to look at three examples of this counter intuitive wisdom. 

Example 1, verses 9-10
What is the main subject of these two verses?
What might it mean to "Honor the LORD with your wealth"?
What are "first fruits" and where else do you remember this term being used in the old testament? What is our natural tendency and how is God's wisdom here counter intuitive?

Example 2, verses 11-12 
What connection do you see in these verses between love and discipline/rebuke? Can you think of any other scripture that might speak to this? What is our natural tendency and how is God's wisdom here counter intuitive? 

Example 3, verses 13-18
How would you summarize the basic teaching in verses 13-18 if you had to do it in one sentence? What is our natural tendency and how is God's wisdom here counter intuitive?

I hope these questions help you to think through the first 18 verses.

We look forward to seeing you and please do email or call if you have any questions.

Jacob

Monday, March 12, 2012

Fellowship Night @ the Grosjeans this Friday March 16th

Dear fellow douloi of the Noho-Study

Everybody is welcome @ the Grosjeans-house this coming Friday for another fellowship night beginning at 7pm.  We plan to have a time of prayer, singing and fellowship.  Feel free to bring some snacks... we will provide lots of coffee and some other drinks...

We already missed having some time together with you all and looking forward to meet again!

Many blessings

Pascal

Monday, March 5, 2012

NO No-Ho Study this week!!! ;-)

Dear fellow douloi of the North Hollywood Biblestudy

Due to the Shepherds Conference all events for this week have been canceled, thus our Biblestudy too. (sadly ;-(...

But everbody is encouraged to visit some of the evening sessions on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday at the Shepherds Conference this week.

You will find a schedule here

Blessings and see you all soon on the 16th for another fellowship night...

Pascal