Revolution Church Annapolis

6.5.21 - Nomadic Suffering (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 3.13-4.19

5.30.21 - Nomadic Freedom (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 2:13-3:13 REFLECTION QUESTIONS: This week’s verses are among the most famously troubling (and most often abused) in all of Scripture. Why do you think this might be? Are there aspects of verses like these that worry you? Why? Kenny said about Peter’s message here that “the plan isn’t maintaining the status quo–which is how these verses are so often abused!–the plan is counter-cultural kindness.” What do you think this means? What is potentially “counter-cultural” about ...

5.23.21 - Nomadic Priests (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 2:4-2:12 REFLECTION QUESTIONS: What does the word “priest” mean to you? How would you define the role? What do we see in the example of the Aaronic priesthood about what it means to be a priest? What “priestly” jobs has Jesus already done for us? What job(s) does that leave us to do? Kenny said on Sunday that “there is nothing revolutionary about setting yourself up as a revolutionary. What is revolutionary is taking all of your talents and gifts and putting them out...

5.16.21 - Nomadic Holiness (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 1:10-2:3 REFLECTION QUESTIONS: Why is it so important to Peter to make sure his (Gentile) readers know that they aren’t at the margins of God’s story? That they are connected to the story of Israel? How might these reassurances matter to people facing the situations his readers are facing? Do you think of yourself as being free? Why or why not? What kind of freedom is Peter promising you in these verses, if you are a follower of Jesus?  “Free to do what?” This is the q...

5.9.21 - Nomadic Hope (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 1:1-7 REFLECTION QUESTIONS: What are “Fern’s Rules for Living Nomadically”? What is the big opportunity feeling like a nomad can create for you? Have you ever felt like the Gentile Christians Peter is addressing in his letter? Like aliens in your own community? When did this happen? What got you through it? What were you able to learn? Peter’s encouragement to these Christians has 3 main parts: he tells them God sees them, he tells them God is connecting them to His st...

5.2.21 - Psalm 23: The Good Shepherd (Paul McGrew)

4.24.21 - On Fear and Anxiety (Kenny Camacho)

Good morning, everybody. Thanks for watching with us today. This week, we are talking about our final “valleys” in the current series, which are fear and anxiety. Just like the previous weeks, we are going to be exploring how God recognizes and addresses our feelings in the stories and words which are preserved and passed on to us in Scripture. But before we get there, I want to start by talking a bit more about the feelings our verses today are addressing. What is fear? Why is the experienc...

4.17.21 - On Anger (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 4:1-15 REFLECT: The big idea this week is that anger isn’t the problem; arrogance is. What are your thoughts on this statement? Do you feel that anger is either good or bad? How do you experience anger in your own life? Kenny said that Cain’s anger (the first anger in the Bible!) caused his “face to fall.” What do you think the significance of this is? Fall from where? Cain’s anger also leads to his famous retort, “am I my brother’s keeper?” What does this reveal ab...

4.10.21 - On Grief (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Job 14, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 REFLECT: When you hear the word grief, what do you think of? What experiences have you had, or are you now having, with grief? How would you define it? Kenny said that “grief is the very place we fear no real god can follow us...but it is also the very place our God does.” What do you think of this statement? What does it mean? What is “at stake” in it? One effect of Jesus’s death on the cross is that it means when we grieve, “we have Divine company...

4.17.21 - On Anger (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 4:1-15 REFLECT: The big idea this week is that anger isn’t the problem; arrogance is. What are your thoughts on this statement? Do you feel that anger is either good or bad? How do you experience anger in your own life? Kenny said that Cain’s anger (the first anger in the Bible!) caused his “face to fall.” What do you think the significance of this is? Fall from where? Cain’s anger also leads to his famous retort, “am I my brother’s keeper?” What does this reveal ab...

4.3.21 - On Giving Up / Easter Sunday (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: John 20:11-23 REFLECT: Kenny argues that saying “He is risen!” is the single most important claim in Christian faith. What do you think he means by that? Do you agree? Why or why not? Why is it significant that the Roman authorities, the chief priests, and the disciples all blame each other for the disappearance of Jesus’s body on the morning of the third day? What does it suggest to us, as we consider the events from a historical perspective? When Mary goes to the tomb and fi...

3.28.21 - On Numbness and Powerlessness (Kenny Camacho)

Good morning, everybody. It’s good to be able to speak with you today. Today, we are starting a new series called In the Valley, and the big idea is that the Bible doesn’t run from hard emotions or low times. We see suffering, sadness, depression, and grief throughout this book; in nearly every chapter, as a matter of fact! And this is no accident, because as it turns out, the Bible isn’t just a book about how we are supposed to live: it has also long served as a resource for helping people ...

3.21.21 - Psalm 8: What Are We, That You Are Mindful Of Us? (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Psalm 8 REFLECTION QUESTIONS: When have you encountered or experienced the “majesty” of God? How would you describe it? How does it shape or affect you? What can we learn about God when we consider the psalmist’s question, “what is man, that you are mindful of him”? How does God exercise “dominion” over us? Over his creation? What do the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus teach us about how God intends for “dominion” to work? The challenges from this Psalm could be to 1)...

3.21.21 - What Are We, That You Are Mindful Of Us? (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Psalm 8 REFLECTION QUESTIONS: When have you encountered or experienced the “majesty” of God? How would you describe it? How does it shape or affect you? What can we learn about God when we consider the psalmist’s question, “what is man, that you are mindful of him”? How does God exercise “dominion” over us? Over his creation? What do the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus teach us about how God intends for “dominion” to work? The challenges from this Psalm could be to 1)...

3.14.21 - The Place Over the Picture (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 9-10:18, Jeremiah 31:31-34, & Matthew 27:50-51

3.7.21 - A Superior Covenant (Paul McGrew)

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 8

2.28.21 - A Superior High Priest (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 4:14-5:11; 6:19-7:29

2.21.21 - A Superior Moses (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 3-4:13 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: In what way(s) is Jesus similar to Moses? In what way(s) is Jesus greater than Moses? Why do you think the Israelites turn away from Moses/God when they are wandering in the Wilderness? How are we like the Israelites in the Wilderness? What warning is the author of Hebrews trying to share with us? What do you believe about God’s forgiveness? What do you believe about salvation?  Why do you think Christian salvation depends on ...

2.14.21 - A Superior Message (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 1-2

2.7.21 - An Introduction to the Psalms & Psalm 1 (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Psalm 1 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: [on the sermon] The Psalms are a collection of earnest songs expressing most every emotion: joy, fear, sadness, anger, envy, bitterness, excitement, hope, and more. Why would the Israelites preserve this collection and even use it in worship? What might this teach us about what worship should be? One of the most remarkable things about the psalms is that they often express pretty “un-Christlike” desires, including the punishment and dest...

1.31.21 - How To Be People of Hope & Why We Can't Afford Not To Be (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Ruth 1-4 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Where do we notice people really seeing one another in this story? Who do you, personally, struggle to see? Throughout Ruth’s story, various characters go a step beyond seeing others and actually become curious about them. This leads to real questions about people’s stories and what their needs might be. Is there anyone in your life right now who deserves your curiosity? What would it look like to seek out their story or learn about the...

1.24.21 - Disciplines We Can Keep & Why We Don't Keep Them (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Daniel 1, Daniel 6, & Luke 2:25-38 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: When was a time in your life that you have found it easy to wait in hope for something? What was that? Or something that was hard to hope for? What specific structures/practices do you have in your life to intentionally connect with God and get to know him better? Do you agree that when we participate in spiritual disciplines, we can persevere in hope more readily? Why do you think this is true (or not)? Can y...

1.17.21 - Who We Need to Trust & Why We Don't Trust Him (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Mark 10:35-45 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Where are you placing your trust? What makes you feel afraid right now? What might God be trying to show you or teach you about where you tend to place your trust? How might Jesus make the “leap to faith” Kenny talked about in this message easier? Do you ever wonder how Christian faith benefits you? What do you make of Kenny’s claim that “Serving others is living the fullest life”? Do you think that’s true? Do you find it diffi...

1.10.21 - What We Want to Believe & Why We Don't Believe It (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Exodus 2-3, Deuteronomy 33:26-27 SUMMARY: We all want to believe a world of beauty, truth, and purpose. We struggle to believe in this when “God doesn’t fit in the houses we build for him.” The Moses story teaches us that the “houses” are the problem--not God! We can shift our trust from those houses (re: our logic, ourselves) to a relationship with God himself. Trust in the Person of Hope. REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: What do we all “want to believe” is true about the worl...

1.3.21 - People of Hope (whole service)

12.24.20 - Christmas Eve (Kenny Camacho)

12.20.20 - On LOVE (Kenny Camacho)

12.13.20 - On JOY (Kenny Camacho)

12.6.20 - On PEACE (Kenny Camacho)

11.29.20 - On HOPE (Kenny Camacho)

11.22.20 - What Happens We Share the Gospel? (Kenny Camacho)

11.22.20 - What Happens When We Share the Gospel? (Kenny Camacho)

11.15.20 - How Can We Live the Gospel? (Clare Bubniak)

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 29

11.8.20 - Why is the Gospel Good News? (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Colossians 1, 1 Corinthians 1 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: When did you first hear the Gospel? How would you define the Gospel? On Sunday, Kenny said that we need to ‘put the news back in the Good News.’ What do you think he meant by this? In what way is the Gospel “news”? About what/whom? How is the Story of Jesus built on the Story of the Bible/Israel? In your own words, how does Jesus accomplish God’s Plan of Salvation? What do you think Kenny meant when he said tha...

11.1.20 - Does the Gospel Make a Difference? (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 28:18-20, 2 Thessalonians 3:13 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: The central question this week was “is following Jesus making an obvious difference in your life”? Take some time to reflect on that question and talk it through together. What would an “obvious difference” be? What kinds of things about the kind of life Jesus lived would stand out in our world today? Kenny said on Sunday that there are at least 3 reasons why it might be hard to answer this question:  We’...

11.2.20 - Can You See A Difference? (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 28:18-20, 2 Thessalonians 3:13 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: The central question this week was “is following Jesus making an obvious difference in your life”? Take some time to reflect on that question and talk it through together. What would an “obvious difference” be? What kinds of things about the kind of life Jesus lived would stand out in our world today? Kenny said on Sunday that there are at least 3 reasons why it might be hard to answer this question:  We’...

10.25.20 - Matthew 26-28: An Unexpected Hope (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 26-28 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: What have you learned in our study of the gospel of Matthew this year? How would you sum the book up? What is one thing that has stood out to you, or that you didn’t know before? What do you think it means to “know the territory, not just the itinerary”? How can this apply to your own life? How can you better “know the territory” when it comes to your expectations about God? When the two Marys encounter the angel in the empty tomb...

10.18.20 - Matthew 24-25: Kingdom Come (Matt Murphy)

10.11.20 - Matthew 19-23: Kingdom Versus Kingdom (Kenny Camacho)

9.27.20 - Matthew 14-17: A Messiah Both God and Man (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 14-17 In these chapters, we could be forgiven for feeling deja vu: many of the sayings and miracles of Jesus appear to be repeated, often in the very next chapter! So, what’s going on here? The answer lies in the text’s geography: Jesus is moving here between Jewish and Gentile cultural centers…and performing identical miracles for both. This is a compelling part of Jesus’s claim to be the messiah: in Jesus’s Kingdom, God has come to deliver everyone…even Israel’s enemies...

9.20.20 - Mathew 13: On Parables and Patience (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 13 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: This week, we talked about Jesus’s use of parables. The big idea was that God wants to be understood. Can you recall a time when you learned something in this way? What do you think about this as a strategy for learning? There were 3 takeaways from the parables in chapter 13 on Sunday. The first was that God speaks in the language of our experiences. Is there anything you have been learning in this season? What might your day-to-day ...

9.13.20 - Matthew 11 & 12: On Purity and Prodigality (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 11-12 As Jesus resumes his ministry following the Sermon on the Mount, he begins to encounter doubt from all sides: certainly, the Pharisees and religious leaders continue to question whether he is “of God” or “of Beelzebub,” and even the people of his hometown express uncertainty about whether or not Jesus is the Messiah. But the real challenge, it seems, comes from Jesus’s own cousin and the man who baptized him: John the Baptist. As the author of Matthew explores thes...

9.6.20 - The Church We Can Be Is ON MISSION (Kenny Camacho)

8.30.20 - The Church We Can Be Is SACRIFICIAL (Joel Pazmino, Encounter Church-D.C.)

8.23.20 - The Church We Can Be Is DIVERSE (Michael Bartlett, Collective Church-Frederick)

8.16.20 - The Church We Can Be Is CONNECTED (Scott Ancarrow, The Foundry-Baltimore)

8.9.20 - The Church Awaiting Rescue (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 6:9-13, 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, & 2 Thessalonians 3:11-13 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: How would you summarize the theme this week of a “Church Awaiting Rescue”? What do you think this phrase means? When, if ever, have you experienced it in a church context? How would you define “premillenial dispensationalism”? Is this a term you have any experience with?  At its root, Kenny’s argument this week is about what it means for God’s Kingdom to be coming here, to this ...

8.2.20 - The Church of Emotional Manipulation (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: 2 Samuel 6, Psalm 1, & Colossians 3 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: What have your experiences been with “emotionalism” in church? What is good about having a “high emotion” environment? What might be bad or dangerous about it? What do you think the emotional environment at Revolution ought to be like? Why? What changes in our environment have you seen over time, if you have been at Revolution for awhile? What is our emotional environment like now? Kenny said that we should b...

7.26.20 - The Church of Individualized Faith (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Romans 8 & 9 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Do you tend to think of your relationship with God as individual or communal? Do you feel this distinction is important? Why or why not? Have you ever encountered “fire and brimstone” teaching in a church before? Why do you think that the pastor/church would frame the Gospel in this way? In Romans 8, Paul says that Christian identity isn’t rooted in either Judaism or the Church but instead in the person of Jesus. What do you think ...

7.19.20 - The Church Without Mission (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 29:4-14 REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: What is the missio Dei (mission of God) the Bible’s overarching story testifies to? When have you allowed a desire to come across as “pure” (or at least, “okay”!) get in the way of authentic relationships and community? Read through Jeremiah 29:4-14 again. How is God commanding the Israelites to behave in Exile? Have you ever considered your neighborhood/office/family as a “mission field”?  What would it mean for you to liste...