Each Sunday morning during this fun series, we will explore how a scene from Harry Potter can illustrate a crucial scriptural principle, and so help us to learn more about God, faith, and living life well. Our goal is that you will leave both encouraged and challenged!
| DATE | PODCAST | TOPICS | SCRIPTURES |
| May 12 Mother’s Day | Lily Potter, Aunt Petunia, and Mrs Weasley | Raising our kids, Encountering Courage, loyal Friendship, and Self-Sacrificial Love. | John 15:12-13, 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Proverbs 21:21, Proverbs 31:25-30 SMALL GROUP NOTES |
| May 19 | Mud bloods, Muggles, and Me | Why is the world the way it is ? If God is real, why do the wicked prosper while the righteous suffer ? Why is it full of Bigotry and Racism ? | Jeremiah 12:1-2, Galatians 3:26-29, Mark 8:36, Proverbs 19:1,22, James 2:2-9 SMALL GROUP NOTES |
| May 26 | How to deal with Dementors, and a woman named Dolores Umbridge | Dealing with difficult people. Dealing with depression and difficult emotions. How the horrors of history can begin with Self-righteous, judgmental rule following and a corrupt press. | Matthew 7:15-20, Ephesians 6:11-18, Philippians 4:8-9, Ecclesiastes 2:17-25, Galatians 5:14 SMALL GROUP NOTES |
| June 2 | Facing Albus Dumbledore and the Sorting Hat | Do our choices matter? Do you believe in fate ? Do we really have free will, or is everything already determined? What is God really like and why does he seem so arbitrary? | Ephesians 1:11, Joshua 24:15, Philippians 2:12-13, Genesis 2:16-17, Deuteronomy 30:19-20 SMALL GROUP NOTES |
| June 9 | Platform 9 3/4 | How do Reason, Faith, and the unseen world go together? The adventure of the existential leap and the experience of Baptism | Matt 13:15, John 14:1-6, Hebrews11:1, Mark 16:16 SMALL GROUP NOTES |
| June 16 | The gospel according to Severus Snape | Jesus without makeup How much do I actually know about who he really was, is, and will be? | Matthew 15:21-28, Isaiah 53:2-3, Matthew 9:33-36, Matthew 26:66-68 SMALL GROUP NOTES |
| June 23 | Hagrid’s Remorse and Percy Weasley’s Return | How temptations work. The world of difference between Penitence vs Repentance. How to become the Prodigal Son | James 1:13-21, Luke 15:11-24, 2 Corinthians 7:10, Ephesians 2:8-9 SMALL GROUP NOTES |
| June 30 | Do you want Horcruxes or King’s Cross Station? | Immortality vs Resurrection, What happens when we die ? What did Jesus accomplish? | Mark 8:36, Psalm 103:15-16, Hebrews 9:27-28, 1 Corinthians 15:1 3-14 SMALL GROUP NOTES |
| Easter Morning – I think this letter is for you… | Does it ever feel like the universe is trying to get a message through to you ? What if God is trying to get your attention ? |