The Yadkin Examen
By Yadkinville United Methodist Church
We will use prompts for self-reflection from various sources like the 22 questions John Wesley and the Holy Club at Oxford would ask themselves daily. In addition to that each week our prayer will begin with an excerpt from Sunday’s sermon and we reflect on some questions from the sermon and worship.
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The Yadkin ExamenJan 30, 2023
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The Habit of Love: 1 John
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
How do I spend my spare time?
Am I proud?
Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What are some ways you can put on the habit of love in your life?
Is there anyone who you hate? What are you doing about it?
Children: 1 John 3:1-7
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?
Am I defeated in any part of my life?
Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
How can you nurture the character of Christ inside you?
What characteristic of Christ dwelling inside you should be your focus this week?
1 John 1:1-2:2
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I pray about the money I spend?
Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
Do I disobey God in anything?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Is there anything in your life that is alienating you from God?
Is there anything in your life that is alienating your rom your neighbor?
Is God done with you?
Easter What-if: Mark 16:1-8
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?
Am I enjoying prayer?
When did I last speak to someone else about my faith?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What if the women at the tomb “told nothing to nobody?”
What if you tell “nothing to nobody” about the resurrection of Jesus Christ?
Confounding our Expectations: Mark 11:1-11
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
Did the Bible live in me today?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What do you expect God to do in your life? In the world?
Where has God confounded your expectations before?
Where do you need God to confound your expectations again?
World Without Sin: Jeremiah 31:31-34
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
Do I pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?
Can I be trusted?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What would a world without Sin look like?
What would your life without Sin be like?
What do you need to do in order to more fully shine forth the light of God in your life?
Snakes Remain: Numbers 21:4-9
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I grumble or complain constantly?
Is Christ real to me?
Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Where are you trying to “do it without God?”
How can you take the dangers of sin more seriously in your life?
10 Commandments: Exodus 20:1-17
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I proud?
Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?
Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Which of the 10 Commandments do you struggle to understand the most?
How can you orient your life around the grace and hope of Christ?
Fear & Doubt: Genesis 17
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I defeated in any part of my life?
Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?
How do I spend my spare time?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Do you carry fear or doubt about your faith?
How can you give your doubt to God?
No Replacements: Genesis 9:8-17
On February 18th, Yadkinville UMC is centering our worship around Genesis 9:8-17. Join us in the practice of lectio divinia as we prepare for worship together.
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Fear & Stewardship: Mark 9:2-9
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I enjoying prayer?
When did I last speak to someone else about my faith?
Do I pray about the money I spend?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Am I carrying any fear that might be holding me back?
In what part of my life do I focus on glorifying Christ the most?
Crowds: Mark 1:29-39
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
Did the Bible live in me today?
Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Why do you think the crowds were drawn to Jesus in Mark 1:29-39?
What does it mean to reframe our service in terms of Christ’s service?
What “If only…” is holding you back from fully living into the kingdom of God?
Amazed: Mark 1:21-28
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?
Can I be trusted?
Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What have you seen that amazes you?
How can you invite others to be amazed at the work of the Holy Spirit?
Fishers of People: Mark 1:14-20
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Is Christ real to me?
Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What is the difference between “fishing for people” as a task or job verses it being an identity?
What identity are you holding onto too tightly?
How would your day to day life look different if your first identity was as a follower of Christ?
Wheelbarrow: John 21:15-19
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?
Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?
Do I grumble or complain constantly?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What is Jesus calling me to do?
What is keeping me from what Christ is calling me to do (or from getting in the wheelbarrow)
Baptism of Our Lord: Mark 1:4-11
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?
How do I spend my spare time?
Am I proud?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What barriers exist between you and God?
How can you work to remove those barriers?
Christmas: Luke 2:1-20
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
When did I last speak to someone else about my faith?
Do I pray about the money I spend?
Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
Perplexed: Luke 1:25-36
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Did the Bible live in me today?
Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?
Am I enjoying prayer?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Is there something you are perplexed about right now?
Is there something in your life that has you questioning “Why me?” or “Am I ready?”
How can you hold on to these questions while taking the next step with God?
Joesph & Little Steps: Matthew 1:18-25
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Can I be trusted?
Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What aspect of faith, discipleship, or a disciplined life has never clicked for you?
What has been the most helpful to you in your faith?
What small step can you take in faith this season?
Unpacking Christmas: Luke 1:5-25
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
Do I pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What are you most worried about? How are you praying about it?
How would your life be different if you lived every money like Jesus was about to be born again?
How can you live your life even more like Christ is real to you?
Stewardship with Zacchaeus: Luke 19:1-10
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?
Do I grumble or complain constantly?
Is Christ real to me?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What is your Zaccheus moment? A moment when it felt like someone recognized you. Called you, loved you?
Is there someone in your life who needs to be called down out of a tree?
How can you orient yourself more towards God?
Stewardship: Luke 12:35-48
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?
How do I spend my spare time?
Am I proud?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Today we are doing this section of our reflection a little differently. Think of the last 2 times you spent money ask yourself these questions about those purchases.
By spending that money was I acting like the person I want to be? Was I acting like a steward of God’s resources or was I acting like I own the place?
Was that purchase supported or prohibited by scripture? Which Scripture?
Can I offer that purchase/ spending to God?
How would I feel if God brought those purchases up at my resurrection?
Deep Time: Micah 3:5-12
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I disobey God in anything?
Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?
Am I defeated in any part of my life?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
How do you locate yourself in your gut?
Who are you following?
What can you do that will set your neighbor free?
All Saints & Souls: Matthew 5:1-12
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
When did I last speak to someone else about my faith?
Do I pray about the money I spend?
Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Which beatitude do you find the most challenging?
Who are the saints that impacted your life?
What does it mean to you that we worship with a great cloud of witnesses?
The Greatest Commandment: Matthew 22:34-46
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Did the Bible live in me today?
Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?
Am I enjoying prayer?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What parts of my heart, soul, mind, or strength do I need to turn over to God?
Where do I struggle to love my neighbor as myself and what can I do about it?
How are you working on your relationship with Christ?
Whose Face: Matthew 22:15-22
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Can I be trusted?
Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Where do you see God’s face?
What keeps you from seeing the image of God in others?
How do we render unto God what is Gods if our (well off, addicticed, smart, powerful, weak, white, black, spanish speaking, gay, straight, trans) neighbor carries the face of God/ is made in the image of God?
Weird Wedding: Matthew 22:1-14
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
Do I pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Where do you see yourself in this parable?
What questions rise up for you while you hear the parable?
Are you keeping yourself from being transformed by the Holy Spirit?
Rejecting God: Matthew 21:33-46
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?
Do I grumble or complain constantly?
Is Christ real to me?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
How do do you reject God?
How does an encounter with God “break us down?”
Where do you need to be broken down?
To Transform: Matthew 21:23-32
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
How do I spend my spare time?
Am I proud?
Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What do you do in your life to put yourself in a place to listen to the Holy Spirit
What anxieties or insecurities do you have that keep you from the transforming power of Jesus Christ?
What do you think being made perfect in love would look like in your life?
God Comes Back: Matthew 20:1-16
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?
Am I defeated in any part of my life?
Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What barriers to participation exist in our society and community?
How can you work around barriers that keep people separated from a full life?
How can you embody God’s magnificent love today?
Forgiveness as Gift: Matthew 18:21-35
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I pray about the money I spend?
Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
Do I disobey God in anything?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
How have you felt God’s forgiveness?
How are you using the gifts you have been given by God?
Forgiveness as Community: Matthew 18 pt 1
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I give the Bible time to speak to me everyday?
Am I enjoying prayer?
When did I last speak to someone else about my faith?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
How have you felt God’s forgiveness?
Have you been forgiven by someone in the community?
What are some ways you can work to bring forgiveness and reconciliation into your life and this church?
Cross & Discipleship: Matthew 16
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
Did the Bible live in me today?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Is there a burden in your life that you need help with right now? How are you praying about it?
Is there someone in the church community you can ask for help?
What do you think would happen if you handed your burden over to Christ?
Healing a Family: Genesis 45
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?
Can I be trusted?
Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard?
If so, what am I doing about it?
What CAN I do about it?
Joseph and Pharoah's Dream
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Is Christ real to me?
Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Where do you need hope in your life?
Who can you have a conversation about your faith with?
Who can you invite to church or to pray the Yadkin Examen with?
Joseph, Potiphar's wife, and blessing
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?
Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?
Do I grumble or complain constantly?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Who is blessing you right now?
Who can you bless in your life?
Joseph pt 1: Genesis 37
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come.
We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?
How do I spend my spare time?
Am I proud?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
Is there somewhere in your life where you have lost focus on God?
How is God working around you right now?
Storms: Mark 4
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives.
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
When did I last speak to someone else about my faith?
Do I pray about the money I spend?
Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
What do you want to ask God for?
Has a storm happened in your life that has emboldened you in your faith?
What storms can you help others through?
Laugh: Genesis 18
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Did the Bible live in me today?
Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?
Am I enjoying prayer?
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
How does the world seem small today?
What do you believe can be different?
Where do you need God to laugh at the boundaries of your imagination?
The Word of God: John 1
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I disobey God in anything?
Did the Bible live in me today?
Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?
Reflection questions from the sermon and scripture text
What have you been taught about the doctrines of scripture inerrancy or infallibility? How is that different from what is suggested in the sermon and that the proclamation that “the Word of God” is Christ?
How can you read scripture in community?
How is your private scripture reading?
Political Divides: Matthew & Romans
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. This week we are going into the archives all the way back to Holy Week of 2023 and centering our time around the Maundy Thursday sermon preached by missionary Deaconess Joy Prim.
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Can I be trusted?
Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
Reflection Questions from the Sermon
How are you acting out your faith?
Has political division allowed hatred to enter into your heart?
Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?
How can we be more welcoming? John 6:1-14
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
Do I pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?
Reflection Questions from the Sermon
Who helped you to know the welcome of God’s Kingdom?
How can you extend the love and welcome of God?
Whose “picture” do you need to hang on your wall?
Solvitar Ambulando: Romans 6:1-11
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text.
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I grumble or complain constantly?
Is Christ real to me?
Reflection Questions from the Sermon
Is there anywhere in your faith where you have been standing still?
What steps in faith can you take today to walk more closely with God?
What does it mean to you that Christ has given you freedom to walk with him?
God at Work: Ezekiel
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. This week we are going into the arcives and centering our time around a sermon from March 2023 that was preached by the Rev. Donald Jenkins on Ezekiel and the valley of dry bones.
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I defeated in any part of my life?
Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?
How do I spend my spare time?
Reflection Questions from the Sermon
Where do you need God’s help today?
What are you waiting on right now?
How are you praying about what you are waiting on?
Listening & Revisiting The Last Supper
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. This week we are going into the archives all the way back to Holy Week of 2023 and centering our time around the Maundy Thursday sermon preached by missionary Deaconess Joy Prim.
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I proud?
Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?
Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?
Reflection Questions from the Sermon
What voices do you need to listen to more carefully?
How can we make sure we are listening to a diversity of voices?
Where can you work for justice and spread God’s love in our community?
Part of God's Story: Genesis 1
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. On June 4th Pastor Jonathan preached from Genesis 1-2:4
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
Do I disobey God in anything?
Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?
Reflection Questions from the Sermon
What is a time that you experienced “Awe & Wonder?”
Pentecost, Unity, Identity: Acts 2
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. On May 28th the Rev. Jonathan Gaylord preached from Acts chapter 2.
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I enjoying prayer?
When did I last speak to someone else about my faith?
Do I pray about the money I spend?
Reflection Questions from the Sermon
How is your identity tied up in the Holy Spirit?
How are you living into a life of discipleship?
What little pentecost do you need today?
Glory: John 17:1-11
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. On May 21st, Rev. Jonathan Gaylord preached from John 17:1-11.
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
Did the Bible live in me today?
Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?
Reflection Questions from the Sermon
Where can you point to God in the world?
What mess in your life or our world is distracting you from our call as the Church?
How are you praying about the storms of life?
Demonstrated Love: John 14
Welcome to the Yadkin Examen. The Examen is a weekly prayer podcast. Every Monday we take a moment to reflect on our week past, give thanks to God, and seek strength for the day and week to come. We use reflection questions from different sources to help us seriously pray and review our own spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical lives. Each episode begins with an excerpt from Sunday's sermon and ends with the scripture text. On May 14th we centered our worship on John 14:15-21.
Reflection Questions selected from John Wesley and the Holy Club
Do I pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?
Can I be trusted?
Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
Reflection Questions from the Sermon
Where have you seen Jesus?
Where can you follow Jesus more closely?