EPIC: Cain and Abel – Friday
We pray and reflect on this week’s teaching. Reminder: We are reading the Bible in sync as one community – so check out today’s reading at https://www.redeemthecommute.com/readingplan Meeting with a Group? Your discussion questions are in this week’s Group Study Guide [permalink append=”#comments”]Discuss the Challenge[/permalink]
EPIC: Cain and Abel – Thursday
We’re looking at the story of Cain and Abel this week, two brothers who offered gifts to God, and violence ensued when God accepted one and not the other. So, where is Jesus in this story? He’s in a few places. The lamb prefigures the Passover (which we’ll study around Easter, so hang tight) and […]
EPIC: Cain and Abel – Wednesday
This week we’re studying the story of Cain & Abel, brothers who both offered gifts to God – one from a field, one from a flock. We’re going to try and explore why Cain’s vegetarian offering did not please God. It’s not that God is against vegetarianism. It seems to be that something about Cain […]
EPIC: Cain and Abel – Tuesday
This week, we’ll learn about a story where two brothers tried to give offerings to God. One went over well, one didn’t, and it had something to do with their motivations behind the gifts. Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help […]
EPIC: Cain and Abel – Monday
We’ve just been through the Christmas season, when people feel all kinds of anxiety about gift-giving. When we buy a gift for someone, we can find our stomach in knots wondering if they’ll like it. With kids, we watch with horror as they take the amazing, cool gift we bought them, and leave it behind […]
Group Study Guide: EPIC: Cain and Abel
Are you meeting regularly with a discussion group? If you meet just once a week, you can find all of this week’s discussion questions in one place right here. Question: What kinds of offerings, or gifts, do you think God wants from us? Have you ever tried giving God something, anything, before? What happened? Now […]