Steve Stratos | Proverbs 17:17, 18:24

1. How have you experienced friendship in the past?

2. What have you been intentional about in your friendship?

3. What building blocks of friendship have you done well and not so well?

4. Who has been a cheerleader for you that you need to call and thank?

5. What has Jesus and the gospel done in you, as a friend, that has changed your approach to friendship?

Ryan Moffat | 1 Samuel

1. Think about a few friendships that have significantly impacted you. Take the time and either write a note thanking that person or better yet, book a time for some face to face connection and speak to them directly and clearly about how their friendship has ministered and served you.

2. Block off 11 AM - 1 PM on Sunday May 24 for our family lunch gathering, ‘Sunday Funday’. Intentionally invite or sit with someone you don’t know well. Get to know more about their life and their journey. Some prompts for meaningful conversation (just some ideas to get you rolling):

-If you had an ideal day what would that look like?

-What situation in 2025 felt overwhelming to you? What did you do?

-What’s one childhood memory that you makes you smile?

-Where did God do something deep in your life this last year?

-When did you last feel content? What was happening, who were you with?

-Who did you laugh with the most in 2025? What did you laugh about?

3.Find someone at SCC that you don’t know well (or at all) and invite them to coffee. Ask them curious questions about their life.

4. If your lifegroup normally does the sermon discussion questions, then use these homework assignments as a spring board for conversation. What did people experience? What worked, what didn’t?

Ryan Moffat | Malachi 4

1. The “Waiting Room” Experience: When you see “wicked” people or systems seemingly prospering while you struggle to do the right thing, what is your knee-jerk reaction toward God? (frustration, doubt, apathy?)

2. Patience vs. Permission: Looking back at your own life, can you identify a time when you mistook God’s patience with you for His approval of your choices? How does that change how you look at the “Joseph Konys” of the world today?

3. Live for “That Day” on “This Day”: If we truly believed that a “Righteous Judge” is coming to settle every account, what is one specific worry or grudge you could finally afford to let go of today? How motivated are you to let go of it? What do you need to do to really release the outcome to God?

Steve Stratos | Malachi 3:8-10

1. How has someone’s generosity or lack thereof impacted your life? Tell the story.

2. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” This a quote by Anne Frank. What story are you telling from this quote?

3. We often spend money as a defense mechanism. Approval, security, and significance are important to us. How does our spending reflect this?

4. How does our materialistic culture play into our stinginess?

5. How is giving an indicator of your understanding of the gospel and your identity in Christ? (Ephesians 1:3)

Ryan Moffat | Malachi 2:10-17

1. What did the Spirit say to you in the teaching this week?

2. In what ways has divorce affected your life or those around you?

3. Regardless of your past, what do you feel resolved to do about God’s view regarding marriage?

4. How can our community at SCC better uphold the covenant?

Mark Seekins - Luke 10:25-37; Matthew 22:34-40

1. If you weren’t able to “go” to church on Sunday for some reason or another, how would you “be” the church on Monday through Saturday?

2. How does our response to those around us change when we ask the question “how can I neighbor” versus “who is my neighbor?”

3. Do you agree that your “neighbor” is the person in need? What can you do to “neighbor” that person? Maybe in your life? Maybe in our community?

4. How can you actually “neighbor” your actual neighbors - not just the outcast, or the person in need?

5. Does this view of our “neighbors” change things for you? Does it make you want to be better at being a good neighbor?

6. How well do you know your neighbors: enough to know their names, to know their needs and to do something about it? What walls might be built between you and your “neighbors” that need to be torn down?

7. Do you agree that a good neighbor is an example of our good Savior? How so?

8. In response to this sermon, what is a strategic step you will take this week to be a good neighbor? How can your small group pray for you?

Mark Seekins - Genesis 1; Genesis 2:4-9

1. If asked, how would you answer the question: “What are you worth?” What are some of the ways that we often determine our worth?

2. How does the creation account in Genesis 1 and 2 strike you? In it, do you see the dignity and value of all people? How would you describe what happens, especially concerning the order in which God creates?

3. Have you ever considered God as an artist? What implications does that have in the way that you were created and your worth to God?

4. Discuss this statement: “When we choose to do life our way instead of God’s wayit changes everything and changes nothing; It changes everything because you can’t save yourself, and it changes nothing because you can’t save yourself! New life has to be “breathed” into us so-to-speak by the indwelling Holy Spirit.” What does it mean to you that you are “worth” God’s son?

5. What does it mean to you to represent the “image of God?" How do we as believers represent his image well? How do we do this as the church? How does this affect the way we see and value our “neighbors?"

6. In response to this sermon, what is a strategic step you will take this week to understand and live in the worth of God?

7. How can your small group pray for you?

Steve Stratos - 1 Corinthians 15:1-5; 2 Corinthians 5:19

1. How have you experienced the Resurrection in your life?

2. What verse or verses around the new life and the resurrection have been a powerful influence for you?

3. Look for three pieces of evidence in 1 Corinthians 15:1-5 of the resurrection that you can develop, cultivate, then share with a friend.

4. How would you share 2 Corinthians 5:19, if your friend wasn’t a believer, using the story line of Jesus; His Incarnation, His Mission of living it out day to day, the role of the Cross/Death, and the necessity of the Resurrection?

5. Take 2 Corinthians 5:19 and create a devotional around Presence, Pardon, and Power as it relates to the Resurrection.

Ryan Moffat - John 12:12-19

1. What did God say to you this week through the teaching?

2. What does a more attentive life of worship and adoration look like? How can you cultivate that this week?

3. There are many different characters included as witnesses in the triumphal entry narrative. Which character did you most identify with? Why?

4. When was the last time you bowed down low (literally or figuratively) to just be with Jesus. What was that like? How motivated are you to get back to that place?

Mark Seekins - Malachi 1:6-2:9

1. What do you think of the description for, “You really should know better,” where it means “failing to use common sense or experience to avoid a predictable negative outcome?” Does this sum it up for you? What would you add?

2. Can you share an example of this from your own life/experience? What was the predictable negative outcome? How could you have avoided it?

3. Let’s talk about “giving less than our best.” What is your posture as you approach worship? Are you giving God your best or putting on a show? What is at the heart of your service to God? Are you trying to earn his love?

4. Let’s talk about “making the sacred common.” How is your heart? Has your relationship with Jesus become “transactional?” Have you taken all of this for granted? What if it was all taken away; what would be left of your relationship with Jesus or your ministry in this world?

5. Mark said, “It’s our responsibility to not only know better, but to live better, because we know the one who is better.” Do you agree with this statement? If so, what does it mean to live this out? If not, why not?

6. In response to this sermon, what is a strategic step you will take this week to live like you know better?

7. How can your small group pray for you?