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Click to email us Available for Pick-up Sunday, October 30 at 10:00am Service Halloween has always been a dark holiday, but at CTK, we believe it’s a perfect evening to be redeemed by being the light of Jesus. A great way we do this is by hosting Glow Stations in neighborhoods throughout our community. Do you get a bunch of trick-or-treaters in your neighborhood? You could host a Glow Station in your driveway! North Bay will provide candy (provided from donations) hot chocolate packets/cups, and of course, glow sticks. If you want to join in the fun and are interested in a kit, let us know at our Glow Station display on Sunday or email us to sign up! Sign up for a Glow Station kit today. Let’s light up the darkness together! Click to email us Bring bags of candy donations to Sunday service! CTK North Bay is participating in a few events (Trick or Treat at the Berm, Glow Stations, and UNITED Halloween Party) over Halloween weekend. Help us fill the lobby bin with Halloween candy to provide for those events. Let’s Fill the Bin and support our Halloween community events! Monday, October 24 | 6:00PM | Connection Place You are invited to our Fall Family Gathering. Whether you call CTK North Bay “home” or you’re new and wondering what North Bay is about, this will be a time where we celebrate stories of transformed lives, pray together, encourage each other, and envision what’s next for us. We’ll have a potluck dinner, so please bring food according to the first letter of your last name: A-G: Main Dish | H-O: Salad or Side | P-Z: Dessert Childcare through 5th grade will be available during the meeting time after dinner. We can’t wait to see you tomorrow evening! Sunday, October 30 | 6:30-8:00PM | CTK North Bay Attention all UNITED Students: You are cordially invited to our Student Halloween Party! There will be games, tasty food and a photo challenge to win prizes. Dress-up and bring your friends for a fun time! 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Yes No N/A How did you hear about us? Friend Relative Other Word of mouth Signage Social Media Advertisement Is there anything you would like our church to pray about?Comments (Please share your comments here – they are greatly appreciated!HiddenHidden Email ID Interact CTK North Bay Control Issues Archived – October 23, 2022 View This Week’s Note View All Past Notes View This Note w/o Blanks Main Scripture Reference(s) Genesis 22:1-18 Control Issues October 23, 2022 / Dan McEvoy / Genesis 22:1-18 Question: What area(s) of your life are you desperately grasping for control? Control of our surroundings and circumstances Control of other people Control of ourselves Today’s Truth: A true test of our faith in God is when we relinquish our need to be in control of our lives. Genesis 12:1–3 (NIV) Blessing comes through . Genesis 12:4a (NIV) Obedience not just in believing but in the . Genesis 12:11–13 (NIV) will always be a test of our true obedience. Genesis 15:1, 5-6 (NIV) Genesis 16:1–2a, 2b-4 (NIV) Question: Who are or what are your “Hagars?” Genesis 17:4–5, 17-19 (NIV) The test of control is willing to let go of what God has given us. Genesis 22:2, 11-14a (NIV) Closing Question: Who or what is your greatest concern that you are needing to lay on the altar before God today? Theme: Your One and Only Share Together: Who do you admire in history or personally that made a great sacrifice and why do you look up to them? Reflect Together: What impacted you the most from last week’s reading that you expressed in your Genesis Growth Guide as well as learned from last Sunday’s gathering? Read Together: Genesis 22:1-18 (If you are following the Genesis Growth Guide, you will find this passage for discussion ahead of the reading plan. The purpose is to show the culmination of the faith of Abraham from which God had called him.) Discuss Together: What type of emotions are stirred with this story? What bothers you most about it? Knowing God waited 25 years for Abraham to provide a son, how would you expect Abraham to react to God’s instructions, his feelings, as well as Isaac’s as they walked up the mountain? Do you think Abraham would have killed his son if God didn’t intervene? What do you think God desired for Abraham as a result of this test? What do you think Isaac learned from this experience? How is Isaac a foreshadow of Jesus? How is verse 8 prophetic? How is Jesus, called the “The Lamb of God,” like the ram? When have you sensed God calling you to sacrifice your “one and only?” At what expense to you and others? What was the result? How did it change you based on your obedience? What would be an example in your life, past or present, that is needing you to relinquish control in order to follow Jesus more fully? How could you use prayer to do so? Pray Together: Share updates of what God is doing and needs to pray about. 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