TAKE HEART: transitions

Mark begins our new series TAKE HEART with a story from Joshua 1. This message explores how transitions are sacred moments where we can learn to take heart. Joshua 1:1-9 www.thevineaustin.org DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “take heart?” What does that phrase call one to do? 2. Before we read Joshua 1, consider the context. Replay what people have experienced to get to that point and what might be going through their hearts and minds? 3. Read Joshua 1:1-9. What do you notice in these verses? 4. Mark shared how transitions are places where God does some of God’s best work. Respond to that notion. What uniquely happens in moments of transition? 5. What has stayed with you from the sermon- either as encouraging, confusing or curious? 6. Joshua 3:9-17 shares a profound moment. For a generation born in the wilderness, who heard how God parted the sea for their parents’ generation, what would this moment mean? 7. Who is experiencing transition in their life- either on the edge of the river of transition or walking through one now? What does it mean to take heart?