Week Eighteen
- What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
- What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
- To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
- What can you commit to practicing as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Seventeen
What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
What can you commit to practicing as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Sixteen
- What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
What can you commit to practicing as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Fifteen
What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
What can you commit to practicing as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Fourteen
What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
- To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
- What can you commit to practicing as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Thirteen
What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
- To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
- What can you commit to practicing as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Twelve
What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
What can you commit to practicing as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Eleven
What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
What can you commit to practicing as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Ten
What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
Week Nine
What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
What can you commit to practicing as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Eight
What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
- What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
- To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
- What can you commit to practicing as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Seven
What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
What can you commit to practicing as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Six
What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
What can you commit to practice as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Five
- What part of this week’s reading made you feel convicted?
- What part of this week’s reading made you feel comforted or encouraged?
- To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to the daily questions.
- What can you commit to practice as a result of this week’s reading?
Week Four
- What is most challenging about this week’s reading?
- What is most encouraging or inspiring about this week’s reading?
- To the degree you feel comfortable with your group, spend time sharing your personal responses to each day's questions about how to practice these teachings in your own lives.
- How have you experienced the destructive power of anger in your life? How can you make moves toward reconciliation today?
- How does lust (or a desire to be desired) affect you? Is there a drastic intervention you need to take in order to renovate your heart? (i.e. stop a text thread, cut off communication, block websites, share passwords, confess to a friend, etc.)
- What would it be like to live in a community in which every marriage was healthy and lasting? Why is marriage worth protecting and nurturing, even when it’s hard?
- What would it look like in your context to repay insult, injury, and injustice with over-the-top kindness and generosity? Spend a few moments asking God to show you how to practice this in your own life.
- Who are your “enemies?” You may not have literal enemies the way you think of them in movies, but who are the people who bring out the worst in you? What would it look like to love them—not as a feeling, but as a verb?
Week Three
- Who do you know who embodies the conditions or characteristics Jesus lists in the Beatitudes?
- “Knowing that they are included in God’s kingdom, that He sees them and can satisfy their deep longings, how can you show up for them today in a way that does the same?
- If this describes you, how have you tasted and seen the blessing of God’s kingdom in the midst of your condition?
- How does this week’s reading of the Beatitudes compare to your previous understanding of this passage?
- Who do you know who adds flavor and radiates light to the world? How do you see Jesus in them?
- How do you add flavor and radiate light to the world? How is Jesus coming alive in you and shining through you?
- If you don’t feel particularly salty or radiant, spend a few moments imagining what it could look like to stand out in your environment because of your relationship with Jesus. How could your being distinct actually bless those around you?
Week Two
- What captivating thought did you have as you read this week?
- How has this week’s reading added color to what you think about Jesus?
- If John directed his gaze at you, and said, “Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight,” how would you prepare for his arrival?
- How do you prepare to be tested in your moments of strength so that you are ready for temptation in your moments of weakness?
- Consider how many of our mistakes are because we opted for shortcuts. Where have you been tempted to take a shortcut? How did that work out?
- What voices do you hear that need to be silenced by the voice of Jesus? As a group, pray that you would hear and believe that you are God’s beloved sons and daughters, in whom He is well pleased.
Week One
- What surprised you about the genealogy?
- What was different about reading the birth story of Jesus outside of the Christmas season?
- After reading Chapter 2, Listen to “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” Here’s a version for you traditional folk, and here’s a version for those of you who come to church with coffee, in jeans. What do the lyrics speak to you?
- The three responses to Jesus’ birth that we see are rejection, indifference, and worship. How do you see these three responses persist today? Which response do you most often have in response to Jesus?
- What questions are you asking at the end of this week’s reading?