Double Vision

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Double Vision

November 12, 2023 • Pastor John Stone • Luke 24:13–35

Luke 24:13-35 “Double Vision” Catalina Foothills Church 11.12.23

Quotes

Holy Scripture is a library of great literary diversity to which more than 40 writers contributed over more than a thousand years. --Jim Packer

The resurrection was preached as a hard, bare, terribly irritating paradigm-shattering, horribly inconvenient but impossible to dismiss fact. –Tim Keller

Your Words were found, and I ate them. Your Words became a delight to me and the joy of my heart! Jeremiah 15:16

Here was a Savior who had saved them not from political enemies but from themselves. And the one whose death they mourned cancels their guilt. A whole new future is opening up for them. Their life compass is pointed in a new direction. They want to drink and eat more and more of what this stranger has to say. –Cindy Holtrop

The Old is in the New Revealed, the New is in the Old Concealed –Augustine of Hippo

Questions

What have you recently learned/seen of the Biblical Jesus that has caused you to update your opinion of our King and Friend?

Do you find yourself tempted to judge the unbelief (lack of sight) of some of your friends and family? Have you forgotten from whom you received sight? What will repentance look like for you?

What would it look like for you to discover (or rediscover) the riches of the Old Testament? Are there attitudes towards the OT (too “weird” or difficult) from which you need to turn and embrace the realities of Luke 24, John 5, and 2 Corinthians 1:20?

What would it look like for you, this week, to embrace the J curve mentioned in Luke 24:26? (First the cross, then the crown. Suffering now, glory later.) How does Jesus seem to indicate that we get a heart burns?

Other Scripture

Acts 3:22-24 Romans 15:4. Romans 16:25-26

For examples of kind of things Jesus may have said on road to Emmaus:

Acts 2 Peter on Pentecost in Jerusalem

Acts 3 Peter at Solomon’s Porch of Temple Acts 13 Paul at Antioch

The Cross Kills Fear and Restores Hospitality

March 3, 2024 • Pastor John Stone • Leviticus 19:33–34, Titus 1:7–8, Hebrews 13:1–3

Sermon Questions for 3/3/24: The Cross kills fear and brings hospitality How do we see God practicing hospitality in creation? How did Israel experience hospitality from God? How have we experienced hospitality? How do we see it in the new heavens and new earth? If God is hospitable how does that shape our call to follow Jesus? How do we see Jesus do hospitality? How does a church become hospitable? How is hospitality to shape the official leaders in a church? What is a good definition of hospitality? What are the things that promote fear of hospitality in us? How does love drive out fear? How does loving our neighbor reflect our love for God? What does it mean to be normally hospitable? Name a place where you experienced hospitality and how does that help you think about its practice?

How the Cross Kills Exhaustion and Restores Rest

February 25, 2024 • Pastor John Stone • Psalm 62

What are some things that assault you into exhaustion? What is the difference between physical, emotional, and spiritual exhaustion? What is a potential source of spiritual exhaustion? How is the writer of this Psalm experiencing all three? Why does the Psalmist describe the people doing the assaulting as breath and nothing? Why is it so hard to see the truth about assaulters? What is the perspective he is asking us to embrace about the assaults to us? How does rest come to this writer? How can he be certain he is OK when he never speaks a word about himself? What is revealed in the lack of his not speaking of his own works and life? How are verses 11 & 12 bring hope and rest to the writer? Why might some evangelicals misread verse 12?

Wrestling with God

February 11, 2024 • Pastor John Stone • Jonah 4

Questions for Jonah 4 – 2/11/24 Why is Jonah struggling with God? How does Jonah represent both Israel and the church today? What is God teaching both groups? How do we try to make God in our image and not vice versa? How is Jonah frustrated and against God’s call on his life? Where does Jonah’s anger come from? How is Jonah being arrogant in this anger? How is Jonah’s desire for death an avoidance of a harder death? Why is Jonah sad about God’s grace? How is this about justice for Jonah? How was Jonah missing the grace he received? Why do none of us want grace.