Focus: on grasping, embracing, and reflecting the Father's generous love.

Resources:

Here is an insightful article on the prodigal son by Barbara Brown Taylor.

Focus: This passage challenges us to acknowledge everyone's great need for God's mercy by being born again.

Here are two helpful articles on John 3...

Focus: to exalt God as merciful to the "Lasts" and needed by the "Firsts," and to challenge us to offer that place as humble sinners in great need of grace to everyone, rich and poor alike.

Resources:

Focus: This message called us to embrace and offer Jesus' work on the cross as the only solution for our sins and for the sins of the unlikeliest of people.

Resources:

Here is a helpful series of short articles on John 4:

Focus: Challenging us to embrace God's grace and to extend it to leaders, to the nations, and to those we deem most undeserving.

Resources: Here is a helpful article on the book of Jonah.

Focus: on urging us to practice hospitality towards our neighbors.

Here are some encouraging short articles on hospitality to share with your group:

This one is an audio interview with Rosaria Champagne Butterfield:

And here is a good article by Tim Chester on the significance of shared meals in Luke:

Here is a short but helpful article by Tony Merida:

Focus: calling us to overcome evil with good by loving our enemies.

Helpful Resources:

Here are two powerful videos related to ISIS: 

(this is the one we showed in the services)

(this one is a series of interviews of those who fled ISIS)

John Piper has a number of helpful sermons on this passage. Here is one of them: