Sunday Morning Messages

Small Group Discussion Questions 1. Does anyone have an “innocent/not too bad” story to tell from your teenager years that leads you to be thankful for no social media back in the day? 2. How do you feel when you read about in individual today being “tarred and feathered” in today’s news for something they did years (decades) ago? Is it right? Is it fair? When would it be OK? 3. The internet never forgets. Does God? Is it even possible? Can you think of passages that speak to his omniscience (all-knowing-ness)? 4. Read Isaiah 43:25 and Psalm 51. Both speak of God “blotting out our transgressions.” What image comes to mind? What does it mean for God to do this? 5. In Is 43:18-19, God says he is going to do a “new thing.” It seems he reveals this “new thing” in the prophet Jeremiah’s introduction of God’s new covenant in Jer 31:31-34. What is “new” about this new covenant? 6. Do these grand promises extend to us or just Israel? 1 Peter 2 (alience/exiles); Gal 3:29; Rom 11; Luke 22 (cup is new covenant in J