Read Hebrews 12: 14-17 Pray How has living at peace with everyone worked out in your own life? What makes that difficult? Spend some time sitting with the Lord and asking if there are people that you need to pursue peace with.

Read Hebrews 12: 5-13 Verse 5 tells us that this passage on disciple is spoken from a father to his child. I feel like we will all read this differently, depending on our relationship with our earthly father. How was discipline handled in your growing up? How has God used His loving discipline in your life to shape you? What …

Read Hebrews 12: 1-4 Ask the Spirit to help you understand these verses. What is the goal here? What is given us to help us along the way? Certainly, chapter 11 gives us an incredible cloud of witnesses. Who, in your life right now, are your living clouds of witnesses?

Read Hebrews 11: 39-40 As you, in your own life, are writing verses 41 and beyond, who can you be a witness to this week in the area of faith? Who could you encourage or share how your faith has grown?

Read Hebrews 11: 32-38 On a separate piece of paper, take some time to list out all the actions driven/ prompted by faith Are there ways that you can relate to them in your own life/ hardships? Where do you need to see faith in action in your own life? How do you want to see your faith grow?

Read Hebrews 11: 31, Joshua 2, and James 2: 25-26 Rahab’s faith lands her in the direct lineage of Jesus. I love that she is mentioned by name over and over and given such esteem in times when women had no esteem. When have you acted in faith in a situation where there was some risk in obeying the Lord? …

Read Hebrews 11: 29-30 Remember to ask the Spirit to guide your thoughts. Exodus 14 and Joshua 3-4 tell these two stories longhand. They are well worth the read! The author of Hebrews talks about the ‘faith of the Israelites’ and ‘the faith of the army’. Think about our body- Riverside. How do you see us acting in faith either …