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Welcome

personal intro

Army

Children’s ministry

Mountain Springs Leader Community

Prayer

Read, Reflect, Review, Repeat

Review last weeks ending

Soil problems

Joy (Low Joy)

Relational attachments (Shallow relational attachments)

Stable Identity (Unstable ID)

Strong Community (weak Community)

Mark 4

14 The sower sows the word. 15 And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. 16 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. 17 And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. 18 And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, 19 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 20 But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Mk 4:14–20.

Jesus is the Word

Relationship with God

receiving Jesus

Relationship with others

prepare our soil to receive what is coming

What happens to a plants in the same soil over time?

Nutrients run out

Sabbath year to Sabbath day

This weeks ingredient to the soil is Joy

6 exercises of Joy in NY Times and watching football and worship

Reach

Swaying side to side

Bouncing

Shake

Jump for joy

“celebrate” confetti

When Joy runs out

Team loses

Return to relationships without good soil

Chris is going to come discuss how we can have Joy in our life. While he is coming up, talk at your table for a moment about how you find joy in your life.