Deep Dive Bible Study 2020

Introduction to Exodus (Audio)

Exodus Chapters 1 and 2 (2-24-2020)

Exodus Chapter 3 Audio

Exodus Chapter 3 Handout (3-3-2020)

Exodus Chapter 3 – Handout

March 17 – Deep Dive Handout and Video

https://youtu.be/dN3jlqwFBKo

March 24 – Deep Dive Handout and Video

https://youtu.be/axTb80_tdLM
Whatever he is saying he’s pretty stoked about it!

March 31 – Deep Dive Handout, Questions, and Recording

Questions for Discussion

  • Can we find purpose in the structure with which the plagues on Egypt are presented?
  • What can we learn and model from Moses’ relationship with God through chapter 9?
  • Why do you think Pharaoh hardens his heart to the Lord? What can we learn from this?
  • Does God cause the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart? Or does God simply understand the human condition?
  • What role does geography play in today’s readings?
  • Does the plague on livestock echo any other passages we have studied?
  • What do we make of the “Lord fearers” among Pharaoh’s people?
https://youtu.be/yh82m2OK7qk
Blurry thumbs up!

April 7 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions

Questions for Discussion

  • Does the plague on livestock echo any other passages we have studied?
  • What do we make of the “Lord fearers” among Pharaoh’s people?
  • Is there a reason that we are just now beginning to see God “toughening” Pharaoh’s heart?
  • How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
  • Is there a pattern in Pharaoh’s negotiations that we can recognize in our own lives? How does one successfully negotiate with God?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBmJCDzkm_Y
Heeeeyy You Guyyys!

April 14 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions

Questions for Discussion

  • How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
  • Is there a pattern in Pharaoh’s negotiations that we can recognize in our own lives? How does one successfully negotiate with God?
  • What do we do with the horror of the death of the firstborns?
  • What connections can we make from the role of “blood” in the early Exodus narratives?
  • In the context of the exiles among whom this story was first written down, what does this story say about God? Can a story with so much death also be a story about hope?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfxZC0dlucc
Come on, let’s shake on it. PSYCH!!! We don’t shake hands right now. Six feet apart is what we stay!

April 21 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions

Questions for Discussion

  • Ongoing question – How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
  • In the context of the exiles among whom this story was first written down, what does this story say about God? Can a story with so much death also be a story about hope?
  • What is the importance of the specifics in the preparation of the Passover meal? Do we have any such traditions in our own lives?
  • What do we do with the character of the “Destroyer”?
  • What is the “motley throng” in 12:38? What implications does this have for us?
https://youtu.be/cjG3ANUL6hQ
Either playing the world’s smallest violin or showing something about the nature of the relationship between God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit!

April 28 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions

Questions for Discussion

  • Ongoing question – How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
  • What do we learn about “belonging” from the story of the Passover?
  • What ways do we help people belong to our “tribe”?
  • What things make us want to “go back” to that from which we’ve been freed?
  • What do the two means of God’s presence tell us in this story about God? (pillar and column)
https://youtu.be/g959N6JqLIk

May 5 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions

Questions for Discussion

  • Ongoing question – How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
  • How would this story be told differently from an Egyptian perspective?
  • Has the nature of the Israelites (the gathered people) changed in this story thus far? If so, how?
  • How do we see echoes of God’s goodness in our life today? (Like the “echo” of the waters being divided in the escape story and in the creation story).
  • How do we keep marching, when sometimes God seems “behind” us instead of “in front” of us?

https://vimeo.com/415254827

May 12 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions

Questions for Discussion

  • Ongoing question – How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
  • How do we know that a large transition is taking place in this story of the Exodus?
  • What can we learn from the idea that early Israelite writers were willing to concede that there were other gods, even if they paled in comparison to YHWH?
  • Can we learn any “leadership” lessons from the “song of Moses” and what follows after?
  • What are some ways that we are asked to show our trust of God in these days?
https://youtu.be/QxtFJq4Ezm0

May 19 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions

Questions for Discussion

  • Ongoing question – How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
  • What are some ways that we are asked to show our trust of God in these days?
  • What does today’s story teach us about God’s provision?
  • What does today’s story teach us about sabbath?
  • What are ways do we show our obedience and teach others to do the same?
https://youtu.be/RMhUgHQnEjA

May 26 – Deep Dive Guiding Questions

Questions for Discussion

  • What kind of faith would one need to have these days for others, like Paul, to have “heard of your faith”?
  • Is there a difference between the fruit that is grown that faces the world and the fruit that grows among believers?
  • What does it mean for “all things” to have been created through Christ?
  • How can we remain steadfast in a healthy way?
  • Are we call called to be servants of the gospel? In what ways?
https://youtu.be/2GGhAFj-wwg

June 2 – Deep Dive Guiding Questions

Questions for Discussion

  • What does it look like for our hearts to be “encouraged and united in love”?
  • How can we be aware of those ideas and people that try to take us “captive”? How can we be open and wary at the same time?
  • What does being condemned “in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths” mean?
  • What are the elemental spirits of the universe?
  • What does authenticity look like? How can we know when someone is being authentic? How can we know when we are being authentic?

June 16 – Deep Dive

https://youtu.be/mlDPDQfbDC4

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