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  • Advent 2025: LOVE

    Advent 2025: LOVE
    2025/12/07
    Questions for SG and Reflection:

    Main Passage: 1 John 4:7-10

    Read together 1 John 4:7-10
    - Aren’t there people who love their family/friends but do not have any kind of faith or relationship with God? If that’s the case how is it that “Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.” (v.7)
    - What are some notable instances in the Gospels of God showing us His love in/through the life of Jesus? (v.9)

    Read Zephaniah 3:17
    - What word or phrase stands out to you?
    - What would you say you delight in? How might that shape your understanding of how God feels about you?

    For someone who is not a Christian, how would you define what it means to “follow” Jesus?

    It was said in the sermon “God is the initiator.” What does that mean in terms of our salvation and life with God?
    Why is that statement so important?
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  • Advent 2025: HOPE

    Advent 2025: HOPE
    2025/11/30
    Questions for SG and Reflection:
    Main Text: Jeremiah 29:11-14

    Pastor PJ shared some of his hopes for Trinity in 2026 including: better prioritizing prayer, sending out mission teams to Florida (Hoops on Mission) and Uganda (Dayspring School), and growing our small group ministry.
    - Discuss these as a group. What are some ways we can start to put these hopes into action? (Please share your ideas with Pastor PJ)
    - What hopes do YOU have for our church going forward?

    It was said in the sermon “The Advent season points us to our greatest, most significant hope” What does that mean?

    Has there been a time where you had to lean on your hope in Jesus to get you through a difficulty/challenge? If so, share with the group.

    Given the difficulties of the days prior to Jesus’ return (see Luke 21) Jesus tells us to “Stand firm” (Luke 21:19). What do you think that practically looks like?

    Read out loud Jeremiah 29:11-14. What words or phrases stand out? What emotions do you feel as this passage is read?
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  • Ponds & Streams

    Ponds & Streams
    2025/11/23
    What is the difference between ponds and streams and what does it have to do with our spiritual walk?

    Questions for Small Group or Reflection:
    What setting is your “happy place”, where you could sit for a while and be at peace?

    It was said in the sermon: “From the spring of Jesus’ living water he is creating us into his spring-fed ponds and streams.”
    - What characteristics of a pond might we connect with our spiritual formation?
    - What characteristics of a stream might we connect with our spiritual formation?

    In your Christian walk, do you view yourself as more of a pond or a stream? In what ways?

    Why is it essential to allow Jesus to form us into both a pond and a steam?

    Read Luke 10:29-37
    Why was it significant that the helper was a samaritan? (feel free to do a little group research)
    Who, in our context, might be the people we would rather avoid than love?

    If we have a season of feeling more like a stagnant pond or dried up river bed, how do we reconnect with our source, Jesus’ spring of living water (John 4:14)?
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  • Renovating Strength

    Renovating Strength
    2025/11/16
    Questions for Reflection or SG:

    Strength was defined in the sermon as our passions and abilities
    - Do you agree with that definition? What other ways can/should we think of strength?

    Who is the most passionate person you know? How have they used their passion as an act of love for God?

    How have you been blessed by the abilities of others? (Consider: physical, spiritual, mental, emptional…)

    Read these 3 passages: Nehemiah 8:10, Psalm 59:9, and Philippians 4:13-14
    - What are the similarities and differences in these strength experiences?

    Read 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
    - What does “For when I am weak, then I am strong” mean?
    - Have you experienced that? How?


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  • Renovating the Soul

    Renovating the Soul
    2025/11/09
    Questions for Reflection or Small Groups
    Main Text: Matt 11:28-30

    Prior to listening to the sermon, if someone were to ask you “What is the Soul?” what would you have said? Is your answer any different now?

    Dallas Willard writes: “someone’s soul is…the ultimate depths of his or her being”
    - What do you think that means?

    Read Matt 16:24-26
    - What does Jesus mean by “lose your own soul”?

    Read Genesis 1:27
    - How might being made in the image of God inform our understanding of the Soul?
    - Do you think animals have souls? Why/Why not?

    Read Matt 11:28-30
    - Share a time when you felt your soul was at rest.
    - What are some factors that get in the way of your soul being at rest? How might you avoid them?

    What does it look like for Jesus to give us rest (v.28)?
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  • Renovating the Mind

    Renovating the Mind
    2025/11/02
    What does it mean to love the Lord with all our MIND?
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  • Renovating the Heart

    Renovating the Heart
    2025/10/26
    What does it mean to love the Lord with all your HEART?
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  • Intro to Spiritual Formation

    Intro to Spiritual Formation
    2025/10/19
    Questions for Reflection or Small Group:

    Prior to listening to the sermon, if someone were to ask you “What is Spiritual Formation?” what would you have said? Is your answer any different now?

    What are some things that have formed you that you are thankful for? What are some things that have formed you that you wish never did?

    Author Dallas Willard defines Christian Spiritual Formation as: “The Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.”

    What does it specifically look like for this to be a “Spirit-driven process”?

    How will we know if/when that process is effective?

    Compare/Contrast Jeremiah 2:13 and John 4:14.

    How do you respond to what John Mark Comer writes about Spiritual Formation: “Formation into the image of Jesus isn’t something we do as much as it’s something that is done to us, by God himself, as we yield to his work of transforming grace. Our job is to make ourselves available.”

    Is this view of our spiritual formation too passive? Why/Why Not?

    Read Psalm 139:23-24

    Is this passage consistent with Comer’s quote above?

    How does someone practically welcome God to search, test, and lead them?
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