A new year is a great time to review and re-order our priorities. In this series, we explore how we can have a fruitful year by applying biblical wisdom to important areas of our lives.
Don’t just make some arbitrary new year resolutions, however good they may be. First of all, determine what ought to be first of all in your life, because that will set the course for the entire year. In this message, we will look at how the Bible helps us to understand what should be pre-eminent in our life if we want to have the best year ever.
1. How have you compartmentalised your life into things that you yield to God and things that are under your own control? What is one area in which you need to submit to his supremacy?
2. What is a “deal” you have expressly or unconsciously made with God? What does it reveal about your heart and the benefit that you want to receive from God?
3. What do you have now that, if taken away, would rob you of your joy? How has God been teaching you to make him your ultimate satisfaction?
Singaporeans have the reputation of being excellent workers. We pour more hours into our work than anything else, and we take our work very seriously. However, when we bring God into our workplace, that brings our work to a whole new level. Find out how in today’s message entitled First at Work.
1. How committed are you to doing a good job and adding value in your work? How can you continue to grow in competency?
2. How highly do you think your employer and colleagues would rate you in terms of being “trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent”? What is your fundamental motivation for being a person of integrity?
3. What are you tempted to compromise for the sake of your work? How can you be a better testimony for Christ at work in this new year?
Home is where the heart is. It is also where the greatest hurts and heartaches often are. One of the best things about Christianity is that it gives us a new perspective and power to make our homes a better place for ourselves and our loved ones. Let’s find out how in today’s message entitled First at Home.
1.Rather than merely tolerating or co-existing with them, reflect on some ways in which you are failing to honour your family members. Conversely, what are some things you can do to positively honour the people at home?
2. How does the Bible’s perspective of parenting differ from traditional or modern ideas of parenting? If you are a parent, what must you do to align yourself with the Bible’s teaching? If you hire domestic helper(s), how can you be a different kind of employer because you are a Christian? What are some ways you might need to relate to your domestic helper(s) differently from now?
3.How can you help your family members to know Jesus (if they are unbelievers) or to become more like Jesus?