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  1. “There is no obedience that does not have its eyes on either God or neighbor. An obedience that is motivated by what we will get out of it is no obedience at all.”
  2. This week, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Flannery O’Connor’s short story, Good Country People. What does it mean that someone is a good Christian?
  3. Theology is a practical habit—that is, an aptitude cultivated to be applied in the real world in daily life.
  4. We expect God to try us, not for our crimes, but for our better moments.
  5. Peace comes when we give up worrying about self-interest, self-preservation, and self-satisfaction and instead keep our eyes fixed on good God and Savior Jesus.
  6. From political parties to sports teams, we know all too well how quickly we can ruin a good thing, turning a temporal allegiance into a spiritual one
  7. When I was a young boy I was constantly trying to assert my superiority over my siblings. I had to be the best at everything, and it was easy to believe I was the best.
  8. Just as we believe ourselves to be forgiven because God sees us in Christ, so to forgive others is to see them as God sees them in Christ. To forgive, in other words, is to put God’s eyes in our eyes and our eyes in God’s eyes.
  9. Family Style Theology encourages theological conversations with children of all ages. In this series, Daughter, teenage girls from ages 13-22 gather to discuss our greater story found in the Word of God. Today we focus on God’s purposeful creation of man and woman from the Bible, recognizing the good and beautiful relationship that God created for us, as taught in Genesis 1 and 2.
  10. Family Style Theology encourages theological conversations with children of all ages. In this series, Daughter, teenage girls from ages 13-22 gather to discuss our greater story found in the Bible. We reflect on the first man and woman’s fall into sin on account of doubting the true Word of God, as told in Genesis 3.
  11. Family Style Theology encourages theological conversations with children of all ages. In this series, Daughter, teenage girls from ages 13-22 gather to discuss our greater story found in the Bible. Together we identify the terrible consequences of sin, given by God in Genesis 3, in which we still participate today. Yet, we also talk about the story of forgiveness spoken in woman’s new name.
  12. Family Style Theology encourages theological conversations with children of all ages. In this series, Daughter, teenage girls from ages 13-22 gather to discuss our greater story found in the Word of God. Traveling through the poetic book of Proverbs in the Bible, we explore a metaphor of an adulteress and a bride, hearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the middle of the Old Testament.
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