Questions for Reflection:

1. What is your favorite part about the Christmas season? What is your least favorite? Why?

2. When is a time when you feel like you have really seen God’s glory displayed? Why is that and what was it like?

3. Why do you think the birth, life, and death of Jesus best display God’s glory? What is it that we see about God in the life and death of Jesus we don’t see anywhere else?

4. Read John 12:27-33. Why is Jesus troubled here? What is it specifically that is going to glorify God that Jesus is referring to? What are two things that are going to happen (vs. 31-32) as a result?

5. Read 1 John 4:9-12. How does God show his love for us? What do you think it means that God sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for sin?

6. What is John’s application for our lives of the love of God (v. 11)? What is one way you can practice this and demonstrate it to someone this Christmas season?