Speaker: Shel Boese

Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11

Speaker: Pastor Andrew Haak

Scripture: Matthew 3:1-17

Speaker: Pastor Andrew Haak

Scripture: Matthew 1:1-17

Reflection Questions:

How do you read the Bible differently if you understand that it is through Jesus that the Scriptures make sense, that Jesus is the climax to the story God is telling?

How do the unlikely inclusions in Jesus’ genealogy shape your understanding of God’s family and how you fit in it?

Speaker: Pastor Andrew Haak

Scripture: Luke 2:1-20

Reflection Questions:

How are you letting God's love write your story? Can you think of a time when God's love interrupted or broke into your life in an unlikely way?

In what ways this Christmas is God inviting you like the shepherds to not only receive his love but share it with others as well?

Speaker: Keith St. Jean

Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25

Reflection Questions:

What uncertainties are you facing in your life that are robbing you of peace? What questions do you need to ask? Who or what could you listen to when you ask your questions? Is there an action that you could take that might help to restore a sense of purpose to your life?

In the passage today, Joseph displays his righteousness not through obedience to the law but through compassion and care for Mary. How can you show compassion and care for yourself or others in the middle of difficult circumstances and uncertain futures?

Speaker: Pastor Andrew Haak

Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-7

Reflection Questions:

Speaker: Pastor Andrew Haak

Scripture: Luke 1:5-25

Reflection Questions:

Speaker: Pastor Andrew Haak

Scripture: Proverbs 3:9

Speaker: Pastor Andrew Haak

Reflection Questions:

1. Who are those who have spiritual influence in your life? How has their life and fruit inspired you? Who are those who know your fruit the best? Do you listen to and agree with their assessment of what they see?

2. How are you being drawn into a prayerful relationship with Jesus to respond to a conflict that weighs on you?

Speaker: Jesse Nickel

Reflection Questions

1. Have any of Jesus’s words in the Sermon been particularly

life-giving for you? How has Jesus’s teaching provided you

with a vision of what it looks like to walk the road that leads to life?

2. How do Jesus’s words about the two gates and two ways

strike you? Do you experience them as challenging or

encouraging? Why?

3. Have you experienced being “pressed upon” as you walk

the road that leads to life? Have you experienced Jesus

with you through that?