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

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

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