1.From what you know, how did your parents respond to your birth?

2.If you have children, how did having them affect you? Grandchildren?

3.What would you say to a woman who desires a child but hasn’t been able to conceive?

4.How is Hannah not a horrible person for turning her young son over to Eli and his evil boys?

5.How does the idea of “loaning to the Lord” resonate with you?

1.What lasting impact do you hope you leave on people?

2.Who showed you God’s love the most?

3.Have you ever thought someone was a criminal, then decided they were a god? How about vice versa? Which is more common today?

4.What are your greatest memories going through Acts?

1.What was the last crisis you had to face?

2.Who is the best crisis manager you know?

3.Why do you think God allowed them to get into this emergency, or do you think things like this just randomly happen?

4.What is the most important thing for you to remember from this story for your next crisis?

1.Whose stories of change do you like to tell?

2.What have you done in your life to make you more educated?

3.How has your thinking changed because of your faith in Christ?

4.In what ways do you try to make connections with people who don’t know the Lord?

5.What do you think Paul was thinking as he shared with Agrippa?

1.How have you seen God’s plan unfolding in your life?

2.Are there still mysteries to you as to why God has allowed certain things to happen in your life?

3.Does Paul’s approach to dealing with political power offer insights into our approaches today?

4.How does safety affect your life choices?

5.When have you acted contrary to popular opinion?

1.What impressed you most about Paul in this chapter?

2.What was motivating the high priest to keep pushing this attack on Paul?

3.Why do you think Felix rejected salvation?

4.Have you ever known someone like Felix, who was interested in the things of God but non-committed?

5.What would a discussion with a non-Christian concerning righteousness, self-control and judgement look like for you? Which of the three would be most challenging?

1.In what ways do you like to express creativity?

2.How can creativity bring life to different areas of your life?

3.What are some of the things that you use your creativity on negatively?

4.What is one creative thing you are going to do this week?

5.What is one big thing can you pray for, that if it happened, is beyond what you typically imagine?

1.Have you ever felt like things were going from bad to worse and ultimately realized it was all for the better?

2.Why do you think the Roman commander in Jerusalem had the desire to protect Paul?

3.Is “Let go and let God” or “Just wait on the Lord” ever an excuse for inactivity? What are the positive sides to these sayings?

4.What good things do you think God might do with the craziness of 2020?

1.What will you not miss from 2020?

2.What blessings did you experience in 2020?

3.What will you try to do this year that will make it a better year?

4.What are your five highest personal priorities for 2021?

5.What will you minimize in 2021 to help your life better reflect your values?

1.What do you think of first when you think of your parents?

2.If you have children, what are the earliest thoughts you have of them?

3.How do your thoughts concerning your parents and children remind you of how God the Father looked at Jesus?

4.What do you think Christmas looked like to God the Father? What do you suppose He was feeling?

5.What values should we be focusing on at Christmas?