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This year for advent will do a short series by pastor Peter Churness, who serves in Gig Harbor, Washington. Peter is actually the founder of Life Together Churches (LTC). For the first couple years, Peter served as the primary leader of LTC, and I offered him support and encouragement, along with various resources that I had created. Then our roles reversed. Peter is a very dear friend, and a gifted teacher, and I’m looking forward to hearing his advent messages.

Peter doesn’t usually write out his sermons, so we do not have a text version to share, but he will be giving us some optional discussion questions. I’ll post those here, and you can consider those as you reflect on his message.

By the way, I do realize that we’re already in the second week of advent, but there is no law that requires us to adhere to the church season. It just worked out best to do it this way. Enjoy the message!

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

Warm up Question:
Growing up (or even more recently) what was something that you had a hard 􀆟me wai􀆟ng for?
Discussion Questions

1. Going into this series, what has been your view of heaven? How do you picture it?
2. What ques􀆟ons do you have about heaven?
3. What do you think about the idea that the New Earth is not a totally different place, but our present Earth made new again?
4. Paul in 1 Corinthians 13 speaks of the centrality of faith, hope and love. It’s maybe easy to see what Paul means by faith and love. What does he mean by hope?
5. How is your hope these days?
6. How can we pray for you?