Harbor Cov Podcast

Who or what are you actually following?If someone followed you around would they be pushed toward or pulled away from Jesus?What is one step you can take this week to follow Jesus?

• What’s the best news you’ve ever received? What did it change? • When did you first experience the love of God in your own life? • Who is someone you care about that you could reach out to this week and express God’s love for them because they could use it?

What is one area in your personal life in which you want to strike the ground boldly?What steps will you take to ensure you actually do!?How can you participate more fully in the mission of Harbor Cov?

Where are you looking for peace and joy and hope this Christmas?What is one area of fear that you can give over to God?What is one thing you can do to bring Jesus’ peace to someone this week?

What are you seeking this Christmas? What’s your general reaction to Jesus: admiration, mild interest, boredom, worship? What is one thing you can do this week to help you experience the peace of Jesus?

Who is Jesus to you: a good life coach, a comforting presence, the founder of a philosophical tradition or God? In what areas of your life do you need the light and life of Christ? To whom can you bring the light and life of Christ this week?

What is one way you can spend time connecting with God during the Advent season? What gets in the way of you experiencing Jesus’ peace? How does it change things for you knowing that God promises peace here and now?

In what area of your life has God said, “go” and you’ve said, “no!”?If you had three days and three nights with no distractions, how do you think God might change you?What does this tell you about what is important to God?

In what area of your life are you tempted to give up hope? What experience do you have of God breathing new life into a situation? What does this story tell you about the character of God?

What would the people you work with say about your character?How does knowing that we have hope in God change your outlook on life?What is one thing you can do to grow in integrity this week?

What is the seemingly insurmountable challenge in your life right now? How does the reality of your life change when you can see that God is present with you? What is one thing you can do this week to encourage someone and help them see God present with them?

What are evidences in your life that you are a committed follower of Jesus? How have you found that other “gods ultimately disappoint”? What story of God’s faithfulness do you have to tell?

Where are you missing the “God Factor” in your life? Which are you, a Christian or a disciple? What gifts do you have that God might be able to use?

Sermon questionsWhat call does God have on your life? What can you change in your life today so that it doesn’t end up being a regret later? What keeps you from feeling like God can use you?

Where do you see God’s mighty hand at work? How does God’s grace and power help you to trust him with your future? What is the connection for you between remembering your baptism and thankfulness?

The very beginnings of harbor covenant took a lot commitment and even more faith. But for the founding members of Harbor covenant it was worth it to build soemthing with eternal impact. Michael white sits down with one of our founding members, Carolyn Holdych, to chat about what it took to start a church and what it takes 40 years later to keep it going.

What is the most striking element about the story of Noah and the flood to you? What is a sign that you have seen that God is present in your life? What is one thing that you can do this week to be more faithful to God?

Where do you need to be strengthened by the Lord? How can Harbor Covenant encourage and help others be strengthened in the Lord? What part of God’s armor does your small group need to focus on this week?

Deep down in your heart, what do you believe about who you are?How does the image of God coming to you in love affect you?In what area do you need to experience the forgiveness of God?

Why do you think it’s so hard for people to willingly give up power?In what ways can mutual submission be a joy in a relationship?How can you more accurately reflect kingdom values in relationships you have?

For over 20 years Jim Skiffington has been a part of our church family and has served in a variety of different ways, mainly as a project guy and handyman. He’s also served on the sound team and the set design team. He’s currently coming out of a successful chemo treatment and he talks about his faith and service through all his seasons of time as part of the Harbor Cov family.

How can you improve your process for making good decisions? What step can you take toward forgiving someone who has hurt you? If Paul was writing to you, what area would he say you need to work on?

For the past 40 years, Joanne Cochrane, Dalen Mason, Cathie Gates, and Sandy Anderson have developed one of the deepest friendships we’ve ever heard of. We call them the prayer ladies, because they have committed to meeting together every week for years to pray for each other, for their families, and for our church. They share some of their memories and thoughts from the years spent at Harbor Cov.

What is an area of your life that you’d like to experience change in?What is one thing from your “old life” that you need to put off?What source of information is most impacting your thinking and attitude?

What is one step you can take to more fully live worthy of the calling you’ve received?What’s your growth area: humility, gentleness, patience, bearing with people or keeping unity?What do you bring to the table to build up the body of the Christ?

Does God’s love for you make sense to you? Why or why not?2. What would it mean for you to let God fully love you?3. How can you love someone else in a way that doesn’t make sense?

What purpose do you think God has for this stage of your life?How do you usually view hardship?How can you see God at work in the challenges of your life?

What was it like when you first came to know Jesus?What walls are up in your life?What is one thing you can do this week to bring peace?

How would you describe your worldview?How does the grace you receive from God affect your life?What does God have for you to do?

How does having hope in Jesus change how you look at the world and the future?In what area of your life do you need the power of God?What do you believe Jesus’ top 3 priorities for our church are?

What story do you believe about yourself?How can knowing you were pre-loved by God effect your life?Are you just gathering biblical insights or are you becoming more like Jesus?

What are some ways you have experienced encouragement from God?Would people say you're generally encouraging, or discouraging?What is one step that you can take to grow into the character of Jesus?

Where do you see God’s abundance at work in your life? When it comes to generosity, what comes easily to you? What is more difficult? What is one thing you or your family can do this month to be a generous giver that’s a step beyond your status quo?

Is Harbor Covenant a place you feel committed to? How can we embody the identity of being chosen, a royal priesthood, and a holy nation? What is one way your small group could serve Gig Harbor together?

Who could be your three’s, people that you intentionally care about?Who could be your two’s, people that you are helping to grow in their relationship with Jesus?Why would it be hard for you to have a one, someone who speaks into your life?

What is something in your life that you could be more thankful for?What gift do you bring with you to work?What is the current mission that Jesus has for you where you work?

How does seeing Jesus’ resurrection as the beginning of God’s restoration plan give you hope for today? What “earthly things” do your mind and heart tend to gravitate toward? What spiritual practices help you to set your affections back on Jesus?

If you could pick a different career, would you? Why? What would it be? What has helped you find rest for your soul? Why?What are some lessons you’d like to or still need to learn?

What would you say your batting average is right now? Steadily improving? Declining? It’s been a long time since you’ve picked up a bat... What is one way of thinking that you need to have transformed? What’s an area of God’s will for you that you need to have more clarity about?

Are you moving forward in discipleship, stagnating, or walking away?What is one thing you can do this week to focus on God’s calling in your life?What do you believe is the main thing for the church as we move forward?

What area do you need to turn from to experience new life in Christ?How can Jesus’ resurrection give you hope this week?How can you be an outpost of the gospel this week?

Listen and follow along with Sanne Beavin and Brenden Smith as they read the story of Good Friday.

What are your expectations of Jesus? Where are you looking for peace? What is God doing that you might be missing?

When has there been a time where you felt loss or in exile? How can Harbor Covenant be a place where patience is sought after? What promise of the Lord has given you hope this season, and who can you share it with?

Who do you listen to most?What stands in the way of you fully trusting God for today and for the future?What legacy of faith are you sharing with the people around you?

What realities have changed in your life over the past two years? Where can you see God at work even in the difficult areas of your life? In our new reality, what does being on mission look like for you?

What do you need to remember? What is the source of your identity? What is the most important thing you need to be doing?

What do you find most disturbing or disorienting about life right now? Where is your heart in your relationship with God this week? What is one thing this week that you can actively do to keep connected or deepen your connection to God?

What area of your life do you need to hear Jesus say, “Take heart, I have overcome the world.” In what area of your life are you feeling the conflict between Christ and Culture? What is one thing you can do this week to help you experience God’s peace?

Where do you have the influence to make someone's life better?What is one thing you can do this week to “find the lowest spot”?How does knowing your identity in Christ help you “find the lowest spot”?