Taming the Tongue

March 12th, 2023 || James | Taming the Tongue

Discussion Questions:

1. Are you submitting to the Lord’s will daily to keep His anointing flowing into your life?

2. When you stumble are you quick to repent and come into agreement with God’s forgiveness or do you wallow in your sin?

3. Since you have been saved have you spoken more words of life or death into the lives of others?

FAITH without works is DEAD

March 5th, 2023 || James | FAITH without works is DEAD

Discussion Questions:

1. What are three things that point to your faith being alive and not dead?

2. How do you live out your faith beyond just a verbal proclamation of it?

3. What happened to you this week that displays your faith is alive accompanied by good works?

God's Law and Mercy

February 26th, 2023 || James | God’s Law and Mercy

Discussion Questions:

1. In what way(s) can we show love to our neighbor(s)?

2. What area(s) of life do you find most difficult to follow God in?

3. How can our actions towards others change to better reflect God’s love for them?

The Sin Of Partiality

February 19th, 2023 || James | The Sin Of Partiality

Discussion Questions:

1. Do you recognize when you are tempted to show partiality to someone? What do you do to stop it?

2. Do you understand what it means to be rich in faith?

3. The riches of this life will soon fade away. What are you investing your time, energy, and talent in today?

DOERS-Not Hearers Only

February 12th, 2023 || James | Doers-Not Hearers Only

Discussion Questions:

1. Today are you a doer of the Word of God? If not what is stopping you?

2. How has living out the principles of the Bible affected your life and the lives of others around you?

3. What are you doing to serve the less fortunate and keeping yourself from being stained by the world?

DOERS-Not Hearers Only

February 5th, 2023 || James | Does-Not Hearers Onlhy

Discussion Questions:

1. Are you gradually getting better at being quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger? If not what is stopping you?

2. The wrath of man will never produce the righteousness of God because it is self seeking. Are you stopping to ask the Lord to help you refrain from lashing out in anger?

3. Are you putting off all filthiness daily so you can humbly receive the Word of God?

The Word of Truth

January 29, 2023 || James || Kefing Aperto-Berry || The Word of Truth

Discussion Questions:

1. The Lord is sovereign. He never tempts yet sometimes He allows bad things to happen to us to grow our dependence on Him alone. How have you responded to this Biblical truth?

2. Can you recognize when you are being tempted by either your flesh or Satan? What then do you do about it?

3. Part of being redeemed in Jesus Christ is becoming the first fruits of His creation. Today are you walking in that identity?

Encouragement in the Face of Trials

January 22, 2023 || James || Kefing Aperto-Berry || Encouragement in the Face of Trials

Discussion Questions:

1. How are you allowing the wisdom of God to shape your perception of reality?

2. Earthly wealth no matter how much only lasts for a season. Today what are you feeding more the temporal, or the eternal?

3. Have you made up your mind to remain faithful to Jesus Christ despite your trials?

Faith Fear and Wisdom

January 15, 2023 || James || Kefing Aperto-Berry || Faith, Fear and Wisdom

Discussion Questions:

1. Do you fear the Lord? Without a reverent fear of God you can not begin to obtain wisdom.

2. What are indications in your life that your faith in Jesus Christ is real, genuine and alive?

3. Are you single minded in your thinking or are you double minded? Do you recognize the difference between the two?

Faith Tested

January 8, 2023 || James || Kefing Aperto-Berry || Faith Tested

Discussion Questions:

1. When you share your faith how do you keep it about what Jesus Christ has done for you and not about yourself? Do people walk away knowing more about the Lord or you?

2. In your most recent trial have you counted it all joy? If so, how? If not, why?

3. It’s not easy but we grow more spiritually when we walk through trials. Today can you say you're growing spiritually?

Introduction To The Book Of James

January 1, 2023 || James || Kefing Aperto-Berry || Introduction To The Book Of James

Discussion Questions:

1. How has the Lord God Almighty revealed Himself to you as the unchanging ruler of all? How has this changed your life?

2. Tests and trials are from God, temptations are from Satan. Can you recognize the difference between tests, trials, and temptations?

3. What a person says has power both to destroy and to bring peace. Are you aware of your words and the power they possess?

The Eternal King Is Born

December 25, 2022 || Micah || Kefing Aperto-Berry || The Eternal King Is Born

Discussion Questions:

1. When did you first recognize that Jesus Christ came to earth to be the perfect sacrifice for you? How has that changed your life?

2. How do you celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ? What traditions do you hold to that remind you about the greatest gift you could ever receive?

3. Have you shared the true message of Christmas with someone this season? If so how did they respond?

Blessings For A Defiled People

December 18, 2022 || Haggai || Kefing Aperto-Berry || Blessings For A Defiled People

Discussion Questions:

1. Have you experienced the Lord’s long suffering love and patience towards you? How have you responded?

2. Today are you seeking the Kingdom of Jesus Christ first in your life? If not then why, and if yes are you seeking it with a pure heart?

3. God’s blessing upon your life is the most important thing you could desire. Is there evidence of His favor over your life?

Old Glory, New Glory, God's Glory

December 11, 2022 || Haggai || Daniel Gaul || Old Glory, New Glory, God’s Glory

Discussion Questions:

1. Are you ever worried when only a limited number of people are involved in a task?

2. What makes us worry about the future?

3. How do God’s promises for the future give us hope?

The Command to Rebuild the Temple (Part 2)

December 4, 2022 || Haggai || Kefing Aperto-Berry || The Command to Rebuild the Temple (Part 2)

Discussion Questions:

1. Are you aware of when the Lord is giving you clear instructions? How are you responding to what He is telling you to do?

2. When Jesus Christ corrects you how do you react? Do you humble yourself and accept His correction, or do you stiffen up and rebel against it?

3. Are you encouraged by God’s love for you? Has His love led you to fully surrender your life over to Him?

The Command to Rebuild the Temple

November 27, 2022 || Haggai || Kefing Aperto-Berry || The Command to Rebuild the Temple

Discussion Questions:

1. Have you come to terms with God’s timing for things in your life? If so How have you experienced more peace?

2. As you walk with Jesus Christ are you considering your ways in all you do? Do you recognize the benefits of walking circumspectly before the Lord?

3. If we put God first He promises to provide all of our needs. How have you witnessed God work in your life either by blessings or withholding’s?

Introduction to the Book of Haggai

November 20, 2022 || Haggai || Kefing Aperto-Berry || Introduction to the Book of Haggai

Discussion Questions:

1. Is there restoration of any kind that is needed in your life today? If so can you identify it?

2. When you pursue the work the Lord has for you with the right motives you always end up better for it. Have you experienced the blessings of serving the Lord?

3. Pursuing selfish desires always ends in ruins. Have you experienced the dark side of selfish ambitions? If so have you learned from it?

Jesus Is Coming Soon (Part 2)

November 13, 2022 || Revelation 22 || Kefing Aperto-Berry || “Jesus Is Coming Soon” (Part 2)

Discussion Questions:

1. Can you recognize the difference between coming to Jesus Christ on your own terms and coming to Him on His terms? How has the latter benefited your life?

2. We need the Old Testament as much as the New. Have you enjoyed seeing how all the Old Testament prophecies point to Jesus Christ as the Messiah?

3. Today do you hear the voice of Jesus Christ calling you? His desire is that you drink from His endless supply of Living Water. Have you taken Him up on His offer?

Jesus Is Coming Soon (Part 1)

November 6, 2022 || Revelation 22 || Kefing Aperto-Berry || “Jesus Is Coming Soon”

Discussion Questions:

1. Belief and obedience go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other. How are you experiencing this in your walk with Jesus Christ?

2. Our daily decisions make up the sum of our lives. Have you been living a life that honors and glorifies God?

3. Have you come to realize that Jesus Christ is the Alpha and the Omega? If so how has that truth effected your life?

The Rive Of Life

October 30, 2022 || Revelation 22 || Kefing Aperto-Berry || “The River Of Life”

Discussion Questions:

1. Have you come to the understanding that the fullness of life comes from Jesus Christ? If so how has that effected you?

2. Jesus Christ is the Living Water who provides you with everything you will ever need in this life and the next. Have you been refreshed in Him? Are you being used to refresh others?

3. In Jesus Christ you will lack no good thing. What is it that you think you're lacking that you can’t find in Him?