1. What was a big success in your childhood you wish you could revisit? 2. Who was a person in your childhood who believed in you? How did they show it? 3. Share with your group a time when you felt rejected as a child. Where  or how did you find consolation for that? […]

1. What food tempts you the most!? How are you handling that temptation? cf. I Cor. 6:12-13. 2. C. S. Lewis had this to say about temptation in Mere Christianity:  “A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation […]

1. If you were serving special guest for dinner, what would you serve? 2. Who is the person in your life for whom you want to put ‘your best foot forward’ … make the best impression? How might that be different from how God sees you? 3. Share with your group your best understanding […]

1. Share with your group one of your favorite Christmas memories. 2. If you were somebody in the original Advent story, who do you think would you be? Why them? 3. Has God made a promise to you that you are still waiting on? What holds your hope in place? 4. Is there a “little […]

What do you want for Christmas this year? (“Peace on earth” is not an acceptable answer! ;-)!! ) What was the best gift you remember receiving as a child? What is one practical thing you do each year at Christmas or something you intend to do this Christmas to keep the focus on Jesus? Share […]

Share with your group an important answer to prayer that you have experienced. Share with your group a prayer that so far has gone unanswered in your life. What have you thought about that? How are you reconciling that? As a kid growing up, did you ever have an unfair label hung on you? How […]

What did you want to be when you were growing up? Share with your group about a time when you wondered if God knew what He was doing with your life. What would your first choice world be? How do you feel about your journey with God if life as you have experienced hasn’t […]

1. Share with your group an anniversary (other than a wedding anniversary!) that has significance for you. A graduation? A great success? A great loss? A big decision? 2. For Dr. Irvin, G. Campbell Morgan was an important writer for him. What writer has been a big influence on your spiritual journey and why them? […]

1. What is one big lesson you learned from your parent(s) that has stuck with you through life? 2. What is one lesson, one piece of advice you would like to pass on to someone who is watching and learning from your life? 3. What is a cause you are interested in/ supportive of that […]