Message Engagement

July 19, 2026
This week’s Scripture Reading:

•  Matthew 1-7

Read large sections at a time instead of breaking it down daily.  While you read consider the question What does this tell me about God, humans, and what does it instruct me to do?
Sermon Text:

• Philippians 4:4-7, Matthew 6:5-14 and Daniel 6.

 
Weekly Questions: 

• “You may as soon find a living man that does not breathe, as a living Christian that does not pray." Matthew Henry.  What did he mean?
• Consider your prayer life for a moment.  Would you describe it as a relationship or a religious act?
• Consider God for a moment.  How does the fact that you are praying to him affect how you pray?
• How we see God affects how we pray.  Do you pray with the idea of him as a Santa Claus?  As Creator of all?  As a father?  Other?
• How does Jesus in Matthew see our relationship with God?  What does he imply the effect is?