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“The Holy Spirit: Seven-Fold Helper”

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“The Holy Spirit: Seven-Fold Helper”

“The Holy Spirit: Seven-Fold Helper”
Daniel Gaul

July 26, 2026 || “The Holy Spirit: Seven-Fold Helper”

Discussion Questions:

  1. Which member of the Trinity do you focus on the most?

  2. How can you know the Holy Spirit better in your life?

  3. In what way(s) do you look to the Holy Spirit for help?

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"My Light and My Salvation"

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"My Light and My Salvation"

My Light and My Salvation
Kefing Aperto-Berry

December 28, 2025 || Psalm 27:1-4 "My Light and My Salvation"

Discussion Questions:

  1. Today how are you experiencing God as your light, salvation, and strength?

  2. When was the last time your confidence was strengthened in God while you stood against fear?

  3. Can you say that your number one desire in life is to draw closer to God, to be in wonder of Him?

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"The Greatest Gift Ever Given"

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"The Greatest Gift Ever Given"

"The Greatest Gift Ever Given"
Kefing Aperto-Berry

December 21, 2025 || Isaiah 9:6-7 "The Greatest Gift Ever Given"

Discussion Questions:

  1. How has Jesus Christ changed your life for the better since you gave your life to Him?

  2. What are practical ways you can share your faith with family and friends this Christmas season?

  3. What is one area of your walk with God you would like to grow in this upcoming year?

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“The Glorious Future Of Judah”

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“The Glorious Future Of Judah”

“The Glorious Future Of Judah”
Kefing Aperto-Berry

August 17, 2025 || Joel 3:9-16 "The Glorious Future of Judah"

Discussion Questions:

  1. Today what are you doing to ensure you are fighting the good fight of faith in Jesus Christ?

  2. What happened in your life that made you realize true prosperity only comes from having a relationship with God?

  3. Can you identify three ways you are opposing this current world system and instead living by the teachings of Jesus Christ?

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"The Lord Will Judge The Nations" Part 2

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"The Lord Will Judge The Nations" Part 2

"The Lord Will Judge The Nations" Part 2
Kefing Aperto-Berry

August 10, 2025 || Joel 3:9-16 "The Lord Will Judge The Nations" Part 2

Discussion Questions:

  1. Have you learned in your own life that opposing God will never end well for you?

  2. What are you doing daily to ensure the people you know who are not saved are being exposed to Jesus Christ’s love for them?

  3. Lately how have you been encouraged knowing that Jesus Christ is your refuge and your stronghold?

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"The Lord Will Judge The Nations"

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"The Lord Will Judge The Nations"

"The Lord Will Judge The Nations"
Kefing Aperto-Berry

August 3, 2025 || Joel 3:1-8 "The Lord Will Judge The Nations"

Discussion Questions:

  1. Are you living in a way that would be pleasing to God if He were to return today?

  2. Yahweh will either bless or curse for how you treat the Jewish people. Do you know what you will receive from Him?

  3. Even when others have done wrong by you how have you witnessed all things working together because you love Jesus Christ and are called according to His purposes?

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"The Lord Will Pour Out His Spirit"

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"The Lord Will Pour Out His Spirit"

"The Lord Will Pour Out His Spirit"
Kefing Aperto-Berry

July 27, 2025 || Joel 2:28-32 "The Lord Will Pour Out His Spirit"

Discussion Questions:

  1. Today if you are not saved what is holding you back from giving your life to Jesus Christ?

  2. Do you realize if you die without receiving Jesus Christ as your Savior, there will be no pardon for you before Almighty God?

  3. How have you been encouraged knowing that, everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved?

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"The Lord had pity"

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"The Lord had pity"

"The Lord had pity"
Kefing Aperto-Berry

July 20, 2025 || Joel 2:18-27 "The LORD had pity"

Discussion Questions:

  1. How are you responding to being a good steward of all that God has entrusted you with?

  2. Today how are you trusting that the Lord will restore the years the locusts have eaten?

  3. How has your life been restored, and shame lifted from your life because of Jesus Christ?

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"Return to the Lord"

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"Return to the Lord"

"Return to the Lord"
Kefing Aperto-Berry

July 13, 2025 || Joel 2:12-17 "Return to the Lord"

Discussion Questions:

  1. When you repent of your sins, is it genuine or simply just a show?

  2. Can you recall a time when you repented and mercy was extended to you?

  3. How has God’s gracious mercy and steadfast love affected your life?

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"The Day of the Lord"

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"The Day of the Lord"

"The Day of the Lord"
Kefing Aperto-Berry

July 6, 2025 || Joel 2:1-11 "The Day of the Lord"

Discussion Questions:

  1. Today would you say you’re walking close with the Lord, why or why not?

  2. When hard times strike what is your response?

  3. Has difficulty in your life caused you to grow in your faith?

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"A Call To Repentance"

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"A Call To Repentance"

"A Call To Repentance"
Kefing Aperto-Berry

June 29, 2025 || Joel 1:13-20 "A Call To Repentance"

Discussion Questions:

  1. Have you ever fasted in repentance to draw closer to God?

  2. Is there any evidence that the leadership you sit under live a lifestyle of repentance?

  3. Can you recall a time God allowed circumstances in your life to be so bad all you could do was cry out to Him?

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"Mourning Over Sin"

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"Mourning Over Sin"

"Mourning Over Sin"
Kefing Aperto-Berry

June 22, 2025 || Joel 1:8-12 "Mourning Over Sin”

Discussion Questions:

  1. How have you witnessed your own sin affect the lives of others around you?

  2. Unconfessed sin only breeds guilt, destruction and death. What are you doing to ensure you don’t live that way?

  3. Today is your gladness evident in your life or has it dried up?

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"An Invasion of Locusts"

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"An Invasion of Locusts"

"An Invasion of Locusts"
Kefing Aperto-Berry

June 15, 2025 || Joel 1:1-7 "An Invasion of Locusts”

Discussion Questions:

  1. This past week who have you told about the redemption and forgiveness of Jesus Christ to?

  2. Do you recognize the key to receiving the healing our hearts and our land needs is found only in repentance?

  3. Have the consequences of your sin caused you to wake up, and come out of the darkness?

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"Introduction To The Book Of Joel"

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"Introduction To The Book Of Joel"

Introduction To The Book Of Joel
Kefing Aperto-Berry

June 8, 2025 || Joel "Introduction To The Book Of Joel”

Discussion Questions:

  1. God longs to show you mercy. Have you responded to His call and repented of your sins, resting in the finished work of His Son Jesus Christ?

  2. Can you name the locusts in your life that look to eat away at the fabric of your faith?

  3. How are you able to resist the temptation of giving up and instead pressing deeper to your relationship with God?

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"The LORD is my Shepherd"

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"The LORD is my Shepherd"

"The LORD is my Shepherd"
Kefing Aperto-Berry

March 23, 2025 || Psalm 23:1-6 "The LORD is my Shepherd"

Discussion Questions:

  1. How do you respond to the Good Shepherd leading you? Do you follow Him or do you go astray?

  2. Today what is your, “valley of the shadow of death,” you are walking through? Do you sense the Lord is with you?

  3. When you look back upon your life do you see the evidence that goodness and mercy has followed you?

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"Immanuel"

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"Immanuel"

December 22, 2024 || Isaiah 7:14 "Immanuel"

Discussion Questions:

  1. How has the free gift of Salvation that Jesus Christ Has Given you changed your life?

  2. Do you truly understand that without Jesus Christ you have no right standing before Father God?

  3. Now that you are a child of God what are you doing to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with others around you?

"Immanuel"
Kefing Aperto-Berry

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"Fear God and Keep His Commandments"

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"Fear God and Keep His Commandments"

Fear God and Keep His Commandments
Kefing Aperto-Berry

April 21, 2024 || Ecclesiastes 12:9-14 “Fear God and Keep His Commandments”

Discussion Questions:

  1. Today are you being a faithful witness for Jesus by sharing the truth in love without compromise?

  2. Has the penetrating truth of the gospel moved you from a place of comfort and ease to a place of being stretched to grow?

  3. Are you resolved in your heart to fear God and to live for Him the rest of your life?

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“Remember Your Creator In Your Youth”

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“Remember Your Creator In Your Youth”

“Remember Your Creator In Your Youth”
Kefing Aperto-Berry

April 14, 2024 || Ecclesiastes 12:1-8 “Remember Your Creator In Your Youth”

Discussion Questions:

  1. How are you remembering your Creator daily? What does it look like?

  2. Are you sure of where you are going when you die? What is the evidence of your life being lived out as a follower of Jesus Christ?

  3. Do you realize that living a lifestyle apart from honoring God is all but vanity? We are you doing to ensure you’re not wasting your life?

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"The Limitations of Knowledge"

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"The Limitations of Knowledge"

"The Limitations of Knowledge"
Kefing Aperto-Berry

April 7, 2024 || Ecclesiastes 11:5-10 “The Limitations of Knowledge”

Discussion Questions:

  1. Can you recall a time when you trusted in God rather than your limited knowledge? What was the outcome?

  2. Have you come to the point in your life where you have realized that your time is in the hands of the Lord? If so, has that changed how you spend your time?

  3. Are you able to enjoy the gifts God gives you without worshipping the gift itself?

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"Cast Your Bread Upon The Waters"

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"Cast Your Bread Upon The Waters"

Cast Your Bread Upon The Waters
Kefing Aperto-Berry

March 24, 2024 || Ecclesiastes 11:1-4 “Cast Your Bread Upon The Waters”

Discussion Questions:

  1. How do you respond when your work is not immediately recognized? Do you get discouraged and give up, or do you persist and continue to work?

  2. When it comes to the giving of your time, talents, gifts, and money, do you give big or are you more reserved believing you’ll give big another day?

  3. Today when you look at your walk with Jesus Christ are you in the game, or are you on the sideline?

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