Text: Eph 5:22-33  (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. How are you doing in your marriage? (If unmarried discuss how you are doing in your contentness and or struggle with temptation)
2. Define and describe the marriage roles of “Love” and “Submit” as described in the passage.
3. Discuss one major concept or teaching that stood out most to you during our short series on marriage. 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: “However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5:33‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/eph.5.33.esv

Text: Gen 1:26-31; 2:20-25  (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. How should we, as Christians, approach and respond to our cultures more godless view of marriage? Discuss.
2. According to scripture, what is the purpose and design of marriage?
3. If you are married, how is your marriage going according to the pages of scripture? Share with your group.
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: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭2:24‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/gen.2.24.esv

Text: Philippians 4:4-7  (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. Openly assess your current state in the following 3 areas: Reading of Gods Word, Prayer, and Biblical Fellowship.
2. Discuss the following questions in regard to prayer. When, where, why, what, and how should we pray? (The accidentals of Prayer)
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: “do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:6‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/php.4.6.esv

Text: Matt 6:5-13  (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. How are you doing in disciplining yourself to pray on a regular basis? Share with your group.
2. How should the Lords Prayer be used in our regular prayers? Discuss.
3. What are the main categories and teachings of the Lords Prayer? (Be sure to use the Lords Prayer in your group prayer 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: “Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:9-13‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/mat.6.9-13.esv

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

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

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

“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