Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | November 23, 2025

Referenced Scripture:
Acts 1:3-8, 1 Peter 2:12, John 4:39-42

Reflection Questions:
1. Was there something from the sermon that stood out to you? Explain.

2. When you hear that you are God’s plan A to TELL the world that Jesus is King and to SHOW what the world what the Kingdom of Jesus looks like, how do you respond to that? Thoughts, emotions, desires??? Why?

3. How have you seen God use you as a witness for Jesus and His Kingdom? How would you desire to see God use you? Explain.

4. What challenges or barriers have you faced in being a witness for Jesus? What would it take for you to overcome those challenges?

5. Being a ‘witness’ means we SHOW and TELL. We SHOW the world what the Kingdom of Jesus looks like and we TELL the world how to make Jesus their King. Why is both SHOWING and TELLING essential to help people come to faith in Jesus and to follow Him?

6. In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) he outlines what His Kingdom looks like. Read through that and make observations of what the world looks like when Jesus is King.Is that a compelling vision of the world to you? Do you imagine it would be compelling to others? Explain.

7. When telling the story of your life of faith, why would it be important to share authentically (joys, challenges, questions, failures, hope)? What is the cost of not being authentic about our faith?

8. Read John 4 about the Samaritan women. What made her an unlikely candidate for being a witness for Jesus? How did God use her INVITE to change the world?

9. Read John 4:39-42 How could God use you to INVEST and INVITE someone in your world to “come and see” the King and the Kingdom? Who are at least 5 people you could pray for and invite to join you at Journey between now and Christmas?

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Logan Holloman  |  Next Gen Pastor  |  November 16, 2025

Referenced Scripture: Romans 8:26–27, 2 Corinthians 12:8–10,  John 6:38–40, Matthew 6:10, Romans 8:34

Reflection Questions:

1. What does it mean that “the Spirit helps us in our weakness”? What kinds of weakness might Paul be referring to here?

2. Why do you think Paul includes himself when he says “helps us” instead of “helps you”? What does that reveal about humility and dependence?

3. In what areas of life do you feel your weakness most — physically, emotionally, spiritually, relationally?

4. How do you usually respond when you feel weak — do you hide it, push through, or bring it before God?

5. Have you ever had a time when you didn’t know what to pray for? How did God meet you in that moment?

6. What comfort does it bring to know that both Jesus and the Holy Spirit are interceding for you?

7. Who might God be prompting you to intercede for right now — to pray for, reach out to, or stand beside?

8. “Prayer isn’t performance — it’s participation.” How can you practice that kind of prayer this week?

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Bob Schwahn  |  Lead Pastor  |  November 9, 2025

Referenced Scripture: 

Romans 5:3-5, Romans 8:15-35, Psalm 34:18, Hebrews 5:7-8, Hebrews 4:15-16  

Reflection Questions: 

1. How have you experienced pain and suffering in this life?  How have you seen suffering in the lives of people that you love?  Share some specific examples from your life.  

2. What questions come to your heart and mind when you walk through pain and suffering?  What questions do you have about God when you are suffering?  

3. How does suffering affect your view of God?  Do you experience Him as closer or further away?  Do you tend to move closer to Him or do you tend to move away?  Explain.  

4. Read Romans 8:2828 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.   In what ways have you seen pain and suffering either challenge or grow your faith?   How has suffering produced good things in your life?  How has it changed you for the better?  Share some specific examples.  

5. How would you describe the biblical practice of lament?  Why do you think lament is so prominent in the psalms?  What does this tell us about the reality and normalcy of experiencing suffering?  

6. What benefits can you see in praying laments to God?  How have you found praying lament helpful in your life?  What has been your experience?  

7. Recall the illustration from the sermon of the hand in front of your face (circumstances/suffering):Why is it important to focus on the hand (name and acknowledge the reality of your suffering) and focus on the distance (God’s character/promises/faithfulness and future redemption of all things)?  

8. Read Psalm 22 (a psalm of lament)What parts focus on the pain/suffering of life (hand) and what parts focus on the faithfulness of God (distance)?  Why do you think it is important to identify and name both of those clearly when we are praying lament?   

9. What is a situation of pain and suffering in your life right now?  Write a short psalm (prayer) of lament focusing both on the challenge and complaint as well as the character of God and your trust in Him.  

10. Read Romans 8…What promises are contained in this chapter that are helpful to understand when we are going through suffering?   What’s your next step? 

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | November 2, 2025

Referenced Scripture:
Romans 8:1, Romans 8:38-39, Romans 8:22-25, John 1:14,
1 Corinthians 6:19, Matthew 6:9-10, John 14:12, Romans 8:29,
1 Corinthians 3:16-17, Acts 1:8, Matthew 13:31-33, John 14:4-5,
John 18:36

Reflection Questions:
1. Read Romans 8:22-25 Paul describes that we along with the whole creation groan inwardly for the redemption of all things. How specifically have you experienced the groaning of this life? How have you experienced the longing for heaven and redemption of all things? How have you experienced times of the Kingdom of heaven breaking into your life?

2. 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? In this current age we are the temples of the Holy Spirit and God’s plan to bring heaven to earth.How do you see God using you to bring heaven to earth? What makes that challenging for you? What would you need to change in order to see God use you more?

3. John 14:12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. What did Jesus mean that we would do greater things than he had been doing?

4. Take some time to read briefly over the Sermon on the Mount. (Matthew 5-7) This is Jesus teaching on what the Kingdom of Heaven looks like. What are some things you observe as values of God’s Kingdom? Where do you see places that God needs to change you to reflect these values? What is the role of the Holy Spirit in bringing about this change in the life of a follower of Jesus?

5. What is one tangible way you can bring the Kingdom of heaven to earth in every area of your life? (Friends, Family, Work, Church, School, Neighborhood, etc.)

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Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | October 26th, 2025

Referenced Scripture:
Mark 1:1, Mark 14b-15, Genesis 1:1, John 1:14, 1 Corinthians 6:19, John 6:10, Revelation 21:3

Reflection Questions:
1. What there something from the sermon that grabbed your attention or stuck out to you? What did you like? Not like? Not understand? What questions do you have? Was there anything you disagreed with?

2. “The goal of our faith is not to get to heaven when we die but to bring heaven to earth while we live.” Agree or disagree? Why? How would you explain this statement in your own words?

3. What comes to your mind when you think of heaven? What has shaped your perspective on what heaven is and what it is not?

4. What does the Bible mean when it says that the Kingdom of heaven has come near? (Matthew 4:17) How do we experience the kingdom of heaven while we are still alive? How will we experience it fully when God restores all things?

5. Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew 6:10… “your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”

6. How can we be an answer to this prayer? How can we be part of God’s mission to bring heaven to earth? How do we see the kingdom of heaven breaking into earth today?

7. How might this mental map of heaven change the way we live our life and live out our faith?

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Jim Keena | Guest Speaker | October 19, 2025

Referenced Scripture:
Romans 8:17-21, John 6:66-69, 2 Corinthians 4:17

Reflection Questions:
1. When have you faced a difficult situation that ultimately proved to be “worth it”?

2. Read Romans 8:17-21 aloud together. According to verse 17, what does it mean to be an “heir of God and co-heir with Christ”? Why does Paul connect being a child of God with sharing in Christ’s sufferings as well as His glory?

3. In verse 18, Paul states that our current sufferings “are not worth comparing” with future glory. What could make it difficult for us to believe this in your life today?

4. Romans 8:18 speaks of the Christian’s future glorification, when we will become a “perfected people”. Read and respond to the following definition: “In glorification, believers attain complete conformity to the image and likeness of the glorified Christ and are freed from both physical and spiritual defect. Glorification ensures that believers will never again experience bodily decay, death, or illness, and will never again struggle with sin.

5. Jim used the illustration of holding a 3x5 card marked “suffering” close to his eyes before moving it away to gain perspective. What helps you keep the proper perspective on suffering? How can others assist you in this?

6. Romans 8:19–21 depict creation yearning for renewal. What does this reveal about the extent of God’s redemption? Romans 8 shows that both believers and creation are longing for freedom. How can we live today as people who hold onto hope in a world still affected by decay?

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Brian Priebe | Executive Pastor | October 12, 2025

Referenced Scripture:
Romans 8:14-17a, John 1:12-13, Galatians 3:26, 1 John 3:1a, 1 Peter 2:9a, Ephesians 1:4-5a

Reflection Questions:

1) Read Romans 8:14-17a, John 1:12-13 and Galatians 3:26. All give us clarity as to our identity as Jesus followers. What insights stand out to you about these passages? Would you add any passages to this list? What does it mean to be a child of God?

2) Our culture teaches us to find our identity or to create our identity by achievement. Where do you see in your life or in the lives around you evidence of achievement creating or supporting identity?

3) Read 1st John 3:1, 1st Peter 2:9 and Eph 1:4-5. Each describes God's love for his children. Describe what stands out to you about God's love. Would you add other scriptures that emphasize God's love for his children?

4) As God's children what does it look like to receive his love for us? Is that something that is or was challenging for you? In what ways do you actively receive God's love?

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Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | October 5, 2025

Referenced Scripture:
John 17:20-23, Ephesians:4:1-6, Galatians 3:26-28, Ephesians 6:12,
John 13:34-35

Reflection Questions:
1) The primary metaphor the Bible uses to describe the church is a family. Does the church feel like a spiritual family to you? Why or why not?

2) What challenges keep churches from experiencing a sense of family? How can we overcome these challenges?

3) What are common things that create divisions in the American church? Do you think it is possible to build bridges over these divides? Why or why not? When could it be warranted to choose to divide?

READ John 17:20-23“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

5) Is it even realistic to think that believers could be “one” just as the Father and the Son are “one” and “brought to complete unity”? What makes you skeptical about this? What makes you hopeful that this could happen? According to verse 23, why is unity central to the mission of the church (helping people come to know and follow Jesus).

6) What would you need to do differently in order to move toward the unity that Jesus prayed for in the church? What is your NEXT STEP to move toward Jesus’ vision for the church?

7) Do you think it is possible for people to be united in Christ when they think differently about God, the Bible, the Church, Culture, Social Issues, Politics, etc? Why or why not? How could that kind of unity be possible? What would it require of Christ followers?

8) How did the life and death of Jesus model a love for our enemies? How can this kind of love supersede the divisions we see in our culture? Who is our real enemy?

Ephesians 6:12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

9) How can we practically battle him and not people we disagree with?

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Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | September 28, 2025

Referenced Scripture:

John 10:3-5, 1 Kings 19:11-13, Ephesians 2:1-3, Romans 8:9-11, Ephesians 4:14-17, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Galatians 5:19-23

Reflection Questions:

1. Share a story from your life where you experienced hearing the Holy Spirit whisper to you?  What gave you confidence that you were hearing from the Holy Spirit?

2. In your experience, what makes hearing the whispers of the Holy Spirit difficult or confusing?  How confident are you that you are actually hearing the whispers of the Holy Spirit in your day to day life?  What questions do you have about how to hear His whispers?

3. What things in your life create “noise” that make hearing the Holy Spirit more difficult?  What could you do to lower the “noise” in your life?

READ: Galatians 5:19-2319 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

4. What fruit do you observe in your life from the flesh and/or from the Spirit?  What evidence do you see in the culture, in the church, and in your life that we may be living in the flesh?

5. How would the church be different if it was characterized by the fruit of the Spirit? How might the church be viewed differently by those outside the church that don’t follow Jesus?

6. How does our engagement in the voice of the world (marketing, news media, social media, podcasts, entertainment, etc.) affect the formation of our souls?  How much time do you spend each day listening to these voices vs. time in the Word, prayer, and with the Body of Christ?  What are the implications to your soul?

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Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | September 21, 2025

Referenced Scripture: Romans 7:21-25, Romans 8:5-8, John 16:8, Romans 8:13, 1 Thessalonians 5:19, Ephesians 4:30, 2 Corinthians 10:5, James 5:16, Galatians 6:7-9

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, pg. 112
Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him…. Sin wants to remain unknown. It shuns the light. In the darkness of the unexpressed it poisons the whole being of a person.

Reflection Questions:
Romans 7:21-25 21
So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!...

1. In Romans 7, Paul describes his internal battle with sin. How would you describe your own battle to overcome sin in your life?

2. Paul uses the term “flesh” to describe what we are battling against. How would you define “flesh” as Paul uses it in the Bible?

3. The battle is between our flesh and the Spirit. Paul says the battleground is the MIND. Why is the mind so important? How does sin often start in our mind(thoughts)? Explain.

Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

4. How can we put to death sin in our life by the power of the Holy Spirit?

John 16:8
When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong (conviction) about sin and righteousness and judgment…

Romans 8:1
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

5. What is the difference between Conviction and Condemnation? Why is conviction a good thing and condemnation a bad thing? How can we experience conviction while at the same time not experience condemnation?

6. What does it mean to have our mind set on the “flesh”? Describe. Give examples.

7. What does it mean to have our mind set on the “Spirit”? What are things that the Spirit draws our attention to?

8. What is your mind set on? How can we know what our mind is set on?

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