Peter talks about Submission. Is that ok to talk about today? What would it look like? for all of us, for husbands and for wives?

Where do you get your identity from? What's your purpose?

Questions

What areas of your life do you need to build on Jesus? Why not commit these to God in prayer

How can you praise God during this coming week outside of Church?

How can you encourage non-believers you know, so they don’t stumble over the Word?

Who we are affects what we do. Peter shows us how to live as God's people.

Discussion Questions:

Which of the following would you like to implement in your life?

Fix your hope, not on the things of this world, but on heaven

Pursue holiness, asking others and praying for help

Seek to get to know others at church in order to deeply love them

Begin regularly reading God’s Word.

How will you make that happen this week?

How can we sing when life hurts?

Peter tells us to embrace our new identity, set out hope on our inheritance and rest in our privileged position.

Sermon Questions:

Which joy killer should you put off and replace with a reason to rejoice from this passage?

Where could you pin a bible verse to remind you of the above?

When you notice a put off thought, how can you consciously call to mind a countering put on thought/ bible verse?

Sermon Reflection Qs?

Who do you most associate with Jesus or Barabbas?

How would Barabbas feel that day? How would he treat others? How should that shape us?

Jesus stayed on the cross to save you? What would you like to say to him in response?

What good is faith when life sucks? Daniel 10-12 is a gift to God's people to help them persevere when life is hard.

Response Questions:

Daniel reads Jeremiah and knows the exile should end after 70 years - but getting God's people home to him is much harder.

Questions:

What expectations should we have for living with Jesus? Should we be optimists, pessimists or something else.

Daniel 8 helps us find balance and strength to endure when life is hard 

Reflection Questions:

- How does it make you feel that God is in charge of history including your suffering?

- Does following Jesus lead to a better earthly life? Why, why not?

When the world is going crazy, when life is painful knowing how our story ends can help us keep going. Daniel 7 does this for us.

Response Questions 

·     How do you feel when you look out at the world?

·     What kingdom from Dan 7 do you want to live in?

·     The end is not yet, the end will come – how does that make you feel?

The writing's on the wall for Belshazzar today, what about us?