Jun
26
Text: 1 Sam 1:1-20 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. After spending some time discussing the main points and insights from the sermon, spend an extended amount of prayer in your groups.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord.”
1 Samuel 1:15 ESV
http://bible.com/59/1sa.1.15.esv
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Jun
19
Text: Acts 2 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. How are you doing in your personal prayer life? Share.
2. How are you doing in your personal evangelism (defined as sharing/proclaiming/ modeling the gospel to others on your personal time?)
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.”
Acts 2:42 ESV
http://bible.com/59/act.2.42.esv
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Jun
12
Text: John 21 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. Summarize and discuss the meaning and purpose of John 21.
2. How have you been blessed/encouraged by the book of John. Do you have a favorite passage/sermon that stands out. Share.
3. Explain Peters role in the book of John, especially in Peters final encounter with Christ in John 21. Discuss.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation:
“Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”
John 21:25 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.21.25.esv
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Jun
5
“And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.””
1 Samuel 7:3 ESV
http://bible.com/59/1sa.7.3.esv
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May
29
Text: John:20-31 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. According to John, what was the purpose of miracles? How should we approach miracles? Should we pray for miracles? Discuss.
2. How has the book of John helped you in the confirmation of your faith “so that you may have life in his name”? Share.
3. What does it ultimately mean “To have life in his name”? Discuss.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
John 20:31 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.20.31.esv
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May
22
Text: John 20:24-29 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. How does Jesus continue to interact with and sustain His people?
2. How are you currently doing in your “walk” with Christ? Strong, weak, stumbling? Share with your group.
3. In conjunction with the previous question, how are you doing in your practice of the spiritual disciplines (I.e. Prayer, reading, fellowship, etc.)? Is there a correlation? Share.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.””
John 20:27-29 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.20.27-29.esv
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May
8
Text: John 20:17-18 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. What are the spiritual and physical implications of Jesus’ Ascension to the Father post resurrection?
2. Does the life to come bring you comfort and peace? Or anxiety and fear? Share with you group and encourage with scripture.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “…but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’””
John 20:17 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.20.17.esv
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May
1
Text: John 20:11-16 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. How and why does this portion of John bring hope to the believer? Explain.
2. Are you currently and daily living your Christian Faith out in Hope? Does your life shine forth to a hopeless world? Share, explain, reflect.
3. What do you hope in? Share and explain.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher).”
John 20:16 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.20.16.esv
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