Week of March 16

Here's some of the discussion points for this week:

First off, ironic event this week. We started with Matthew 21 in keeping with our two chapters a week thing. Matthew 21 starts with Jesus riding into town on a Donkey. Ironic that that story comes up on Palm Sunday. Part of Matthew 21 even came up in today's scripture reading in church.

We talked about Jesus flipping tables and whatnot when he saw people selling and buying in the temple. This lead to a small discussion about being nice and ignoring sin and letting it go.

We also talked about how the scripture talks about how children praise God. Do you think there's some sort of connection between this and when God said that we enter heaven with the faith of a child?

We then discussed about Jesus talking about prayer and how we can make mountains move. Yet we don't see people express this kind of power. Why do you think that is?

Finally we talked shortly about the religious leaders asking Jesus where his authority came from and he didn't really answer them. Why do you think that is? What can we pull from this?