What's on Your Bucket List?

August 14, 2016 Carl Schneider, Senior Pastor

Important truths about the God's Word, the Bible:

God's word is a _________    

Psalm 119:105 (NIV) Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path.

God's Word is able to make you ______for salvation

2 Timothy 3:15 (NIV) and how from infancy you have
known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you
wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

God's Word was given for us to nourish our ______.

1 Peter 2:2 (NIV) Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

God's Word was given that we might

God.

Deuteronomy 4:29 (NIV) But if from there you seek the
LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with
all your heart and with all your soul.

The Upper story is  ______ Story

The lower story is  ______ story

• Takes place ______    

• It ____ to   you

As we live our lives we often wonder...

 Will God ________in our story.

________  Is God?

Where do I______ in God's story?

Genesis 50:18-21 (NIV)¹⁸ His brothers then came and
threw themselves down before him. "We are your slaves,"
they said.¹⁹ But Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid.

Am I in the place of God?²⁰ You intended to harm me,
but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now
being done, the saving of many lives.

²¹ So then, don't be afraid. I will
provide for you and your children."

And he reassured them and spoke
kindly to them.

1 Peter 1:19-21 (NIV) He (Christ) was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for
your sake.²¹ Through him you believe in God, who raised
him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and
hope are in God.

Ephesians 1:4 (NIV) For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

God chose us in him (Christ) the creation of the world.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (ESV)⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.⁶ In all your
ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Our Challenge to you...

C______ to reading all 31 chapters of the Story one week

at a time.

C______ with a study group here at Faith on Sunday morning or in a Connection Group or start a new one and lead it.

P______ Open   your head and heart right now in prayer,

asking, "God show me how are you weaving my lower story
life into Your Upper Story

I ______ a neighbor, a friend,     a family member to discover their place in God's Grand Story