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Blood Drive
Sunday November 13 @ 9:00a-12:00p
The Bridge Church Reno
Your blood donation means everything. To the emergency team working around the clock. To the loved ones anxiously waiting for news. To the patient desperate to recover.  Be a hero a donate blood.  To sign up please go to thebridgereno.com/donateblood
 
Grant and Family Reception
Sunday November 13 After Second Service
The Bridge Church Reno
We will have a chance to say farewell to Grant and his family as they prepare for a new chapter in their lives.  Grant has accepted the position of “Family Life Pastor” at the Rock Church in Sparks.  We will spend some time after second service saying goodbye and celebrating their family.
 
Baptism Sunday
Sunday November 27th
The Bridge Church Reno
On the last Sunday of our “Rooted” series we will celebrate by having baptisms as well as communion.  If you are interested in being baptized please use the connection card to reach out to us.
 
Christmas Choir Performance
Sunday December 11th
The Bridge Church Reno
Our choir has been hard at work practicing for a special Christmas performance.  Come hear their beautiful voices sing and tell the story of the birth of our savior Jesus Christ.  This will be a great Sunday to invite friends, neighbors, and co-workers to this special presentation.  This will be happening at both services so don’t come alone.
 

Message Notes

Rooted: God’s View of Money

Pastor Bill West
November 13, 2022

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. “Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:19–34

Don’t Make Money Your Treasure 
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.  
Matthew 6:19-24

Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
Luke 12:15

Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
1 Timothy 6:9–10

Make Jesus Your Treasure
For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:32–34

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
2 Corinthians 8:9


Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.
1 Timothy 6:17–19
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Rooted: God’s View of Money  Discussion Questions
  1. What’s the best advice you have ever received about money? What is one significant lesson you have learned about money as an adult?

  2. Why do you think money is a tough subject to talk about?  Why do people get upset when the church talks about it?  Does it bother you that Jesus talks so much about money? Why do you think that He did so?

  3. Read and discuss Matthew 6:19-24.  In what ways does our culture make money it’s treasure?  In what ways are you tempted to do so? Bill said that our temptation usually is think money makes us more significant or more secure, which is most true for you?

  4. Read and discuss Luke 12:12-15. What is the normal perspective of money and stuff in our culture?   How do you deal with it?

  5. Read and discuss Luke 12:16-21. What stands out to you the most here?  How does this man's success affect him? Is it wrong to build bigger barns?  Why does God call him a FOOL? What's the real issue of this man's heart?

  6. Read Matthew 6:31-33 & 2 Corinthians 8:9.  What is the perspective God desires for us?   How are you trying to live by that today?  How do we make Jesus our treasure?

  7. What are some practical signs that money is not your treasure and Jesus is?

  8. When it comes to giving which one best describes your pattern: occasional, regular, sacrificial, or radical? What’s your biggest obstacle?  What is any is your next step?

  9. Pray for each other on this topic. 
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