Step Into the Story

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In this series, we want to help people regardless of their spiritual condition to know and experience more of Jesus as they read and reflect on the stories of Jesus found in the four biographies of Jesus. Accompanying this series will be a 36 day Bible reading program where  Monday through Saturday, you can read and reflect on the stories of Jesus and its meaning for your life.

 

Week 1

• Theme: Jesus’ miraculous birth and early years teach us that God births the miraculous in God’s time and in the midst of brokenness.

• Text: Matthew 1:18-25; 2:13-23; Galatians 4:4-7

 

Week 2

• Theme: Like Jesus as a teenager, regardless of our age, we can be about “my Father’s business.”

• Text: Luke 2:41-52; 1 Timothy 4:6-16

 

Week 3

• Theme: Before Jesus’ public ministry, he had an identity-shaping baptism, mission-clarifying temptations and multiplying ministry of calling first disciples. Like with Jesus, what happens in the private arenas of our spiritual lives shape us for life and ministry.

• Text: Mark 1:9-15

 

Week 4

• Theme: The preaching and teaching ministry of Jesus then and now challenges and comforts, afflicts and assists.

• Text: Matthew 5, 6, 7 (Sermon on the Mount); 2 Timothy 3:14-17

 

Week 5

• Theme: Jesus ministry then and now brings deliverance and healing.

• Text: Mark 5; Isaiah 53

 

Week 6

• Theme: The full humanity of Jesus was on glorious display as he endured suffering in the final 24 hours of his life. It gives followers of Jesus hope as they suffer too.

• Text: John 19; Philippians 3:10-11; Hebrews 4:15-16