Challenge
Why should we seek challenges?
Challenges build spiritual maturity. We grow the most when we face challenges.
Everyone spared in the destruction of Jericho.
Rahab and everyone who belonged to her. Her entire family.
The king who tried to kill baby Jesus.
King Herod
This Disciple was a Tax Collector
Matthew
True or False - Cantaloupe is one of my favorite foods.
Cantaloupe is THE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL I HATE IT
Do we learn from a test itself?
Nah, we learn from preparing for a test. A test is just a measurement of your current progress.
The number of righteous people needed in Sodom and Gomorrah in order for God to spare the cities.
Ten
The place where Joseph, Mary, and baby Jesus escaped to when King Herod went to Bethlehem.
Egypt
The father of James and John
Zebedee
My favorite meat
Chicken
Riley said there were two types of challenges we face in life - what are they?
Challenges that we should seek for ourselves.
Challenges that come to us whether we like it or not.
Fill in the blank (something Riley said during the teaching - exact word).
"No one has ever been __________ by God's judgment."
Blindsided
Meaning of "Immanuel."
God with us
Which of the Disciples were brothers?
Peter and Andrew
What year did I graduate college? (with my Bachelor's degree)
2018
Explain how Riley talked about the importance of physical age and spiritual age together.
The graph. If we stay spiritually twelve years old, and challenge ourselves so little that we're still spiritually twelve at physically sixty years old, we got a problem!
Why would God create hell?
Because if God is everything good, he literally cannot allow sin (what is evil) to go unpunished. Then, he would be unjust.
The name of the angel who told Mary the news that she would bear the Son of God.
Gabriel
The name of the disciple that replaced Judas (after Jesus' death and resurrection).
Matthias
My Brother's Name
Jacob
How do you define the statement, "Going deeper with your faith"?
Faith is not simply reading the Bible more and thinking, "Interesting" more. It's challenging ourselves with the teachings of the Word in ways that stretches us and brings us to practice these things more in our day to day lives.
In Noah's Ark, the destruction of Jericho, and Sodom & Gomorrah, people might argue that God is evil since he didn't even spare the children. What response does Riley give to this argument? (Hint: he used an image/short story to explain it).
If a parent and their kid are drowning in a lake, and a boat comes to save them, but the parent refuses to get on or allow their kid to get on, whose fault is that? The person with the boat, or the parent in the water?
The Caesar who ordered the census that sent Joseph and his family back to Bethlehem.
Caesar Augustus
The name of the island where the Apostle John, the last surviving disciple, was exiled to.
Patmos
My Favorite Animal
The Wolf