DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Compared with Simeon’s and Anna’s longing for Christ, describe your own sense of anticipation of the returning Christ.
2. How does Mary’s joy and gratitude inform your own as a chosen and redeemed saint?
3. What is Zechariah’s perspective about salvation according to the sermon?
4. What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of worship can be found here
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. How would you have reacted if you were in the shepherds’ shoes? Do you remember the first time you believed in the gospel?
2. Why are the angels rejoicing? How does that help you to also rejoice this Christmas?
3. Can you relate to the shepherds in their wonder and joy? Why/Why not?
4. What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of worship can be found here
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. What troubles and difficulty do you long to be delivered from?
2. How does the “Lordship” of Jesus over all things help you?
3. How can faith connect you to the promises and fulfill your joy?
4. What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. How would you describe your affection for God, especially towards Jesus your Saviour? What words and images do you use to describe your passion for your Saviour?
2. How does the mission of the church “sing chorus” for your personal pursuit of Christ?
3. In what ways is God’s love better than anything you can imagine?
4. What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Would you say you have sober awareness of your own propensity for sin and foolishness? What prescription does the Word of God provide against sin and foolishness?
What practical means help you to find that elusive “balance” in your Christian life? What is the role of the Holy Spirit?
What in your life do you require more moderation and discipline?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Do you ever wish you were rich and powerful? Do you fantasize how you might be happier if you had certain things? How does the Royal-Teacher in Ecclesiastes compare to your daydream?
From the message, why are temporal/earthly things ultimately “vanity” or amount to nothing?
How can you find more security in eternal things?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What timeframe can we expect for learning wisdom? How long does it take, and what does it require?
Do you include tithes and offering in your worship and Christian discipline? What has been your experience and process?
According to the Scriptures, and the message, how does our generous or stingy living yield return both on earth/materially as well as eternally/spiritually?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What good example have you seen in your parents? What wise counsel have you received from your parents?
What is the link between laziness and poverty? Is laziness something you struggle with?
How does prudence and diligence reflect a wise life under Christ?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Why does God portray His wisdom in a “feminine tone”? Doesn’t God “normally” express Himself in masculine pronoun forms (he, him, his)? What have we gathered from the sermon?
2. What are some immediate consequences resulting from infidelity or adultery? What other trouble does infidelity represent or result in?
3. What benefits do we see resulting from the institution of marriage; and when marriage is good and harmonious? What expansive qualities do we observe in a “good wife” [Prov. 31]?
4. What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Why is it important for our sense of justice to be built upon the fear of the Lord and not on what seems right to us?
How does God’s wisdom protect the integrity and path of his people, especially in the context of leadership/authority?
How has God’s wisdom and justice as demonstrated in Jesus shaped you so far? What are some areas of growth being revealed in 2020?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Why is “fearful worship” of God the beginning of knowledge according to the message?
What are the foundational biblical virtues as abundantly presented in the book of Proverbs?How are you doing in those areas in your own life?
Would you say you are proactively growing in Christian character and virtues?
How does knowing Christ both “perfect your virtues” before God, as well as place you on the path of growth in those same virtues?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Where do you turn to for life’s advice and wisdom? Do you consume a regular diet of God’s wisdom? Do you “save up” divine wisdom for those “rainy days” when you might need it?
Do you “connect / resonate” with those wisdom points on a deep level where you know for certain that you must live-out these true words? Do you LOVE God?s word and wisdom?
What sort of divine wisdom do you recall trying out consciously? Please share some of them.
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How do you receive Jesus as your King? Does the “lordship of Jesus” gladden your heart with help, power and guidance, or does it feel like a burden? Please share.
How has your King Jesus taken good care of your soul and even your earthly life? Please relish.
How does your loyalty shift from all things prior to the true King and Lord of your life? What things in your life (material, conceptual, emotional, etc.) are you redeeming unto the Lord?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Why is it important to remember the past faithfulness of God in saving us?
What do you do when you feel vulnerable and helpless? Do you recall a time when you cried out to God in desperation? Would you care to share that occasion and experience?
How has God “risen up” to the difficult occasion, or sent someone/something else to help deliver you? How has Jesus Christ saved you?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How does the power of God strengthen you to endure and overcome your current trials and tests?
How should God’s salvation for you in Christ motivate you to keep fighting the good fight of faith?
What difference should God’s victory (and yours) in Christ make in your present battles?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Where do you turn to in your times of distress? How well do you remain in God’s presence?
Can you recall a time when you had a major faith crisis? How did God deliver you from that place unto trusting Him?
What does it mean to trust in the “covenant faithfulness” of God? How does the notion of “covenant” empower your understanding of His favour towards you?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What is necessary for us to have proper “messianic hope”?
Are you personally familiar with “messianic experience”? Please share.
How does the triumph of Jesus anchor you in Christian life?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What is an area of your life that God is healing/restoring that you’re thankful for?
How does the reminder of God as Father comfort/challenge you in your exercise of faith in repentance?
Which of God’s promises have been particularly sweet/precious during 2020? Why?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What are some characteristics of a “secular/worldly advices”?
What should we avoid within ourselves while seeking advise/wisdom from others?
According to the message, how should we seek God’s wisdom?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
From the message, how do you now understand the role and function of God and Satan? And where does our own sinfulness come in the picture?
If God called us to a costly discipleship in the first place [Matthew 16:24; Luke 14:26; Mark 10:21-22], why are we so often surprised in real life and struggle so much by the losses we experience?
How can we cultivate great hope and faith like Job and other saints? What direction are we given from the sermon?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.