Welcome to Sunday Fuel! This series of questions is designed to assist your personal reflection and fellowship with others about the sermon from this past Sunday.
Go to This Sunday’s Sermon (starts at 22:06)
- What problems, struggles, or challenges weigh you down in this “most wonderful time of the year”? What do you desire or want to happen? What do you think will make your life better?
- Even in the midst of this hardship, God invites you to come to Him, to put your faith and trust in Him. Where are you tempted to place your trust instead? How have you turned away from looking at Jesus because you don’t believe God will rescue you?
- Misplaced faith is dangerous: “Whatever trial we are facing, it is not as dangerous as turning away from Jesus.” How does taking your eyes off Him endanger your soul? How can this misplaced faith be worse than the problem you’re facing itself?
- Faith, on the other hand, is trusting in the Lord and refusing to trust in other saviors. We can have trust that God is faithful, even when we are not. How can His faithfulness bring new hope to your hardship? What are some tangible steps of faith I can take to act in trust?
- The goal of this year’s Christmas series is to believe He will be faithful to you, whatever you are facing this season. Take some time in prayer to come to Him. Affirm your faith in His trustworthiness, despite what you see and experience. Confess the ways you have misplaced your faith and ask the Spirit to help you to resist the temptation to rely on them. Pray that He will guide you to walk in trust instead.
Extended Reflections:
- Read through the narratives of Christ’s early years in Matthew 1-2, Luke 1-2, and John 1. Or try to compile a list of all the prophecies in the Old Testament that point to his first coming.
- Listen to and consider the invitation, “O Come, All You Unfaithful” (Sovereign Grace, opens in Spotify)
- “Don’t Waste Your Cancer“–John Piper and David Powlison (referenced in the message)
