1. What are you committed to do/change/improve in 2020?

1. What is your greatest Thanksgiving memory?

2. What kinds of things are hard for you to be thankful for?

3. What positive role has music played in your life?

4. How has flexibility helped you in your life?

1. How could Job make such strong statements of faith?

2. What happened the last time your faith was seriously tested?

3. What would you have said or done to help Job?

4. What favorite saying in your family (e.g., “Time heals all wounds”) is quoted to those who hit bottom and need a pick-me-up?

5. When have you been helped by the counsel of friends? What about their friendship meant the most?

1. Do you struggle with “throwing stones at times”?

2. Have you ever found yourself ranking sin?

3. Do you consider yourself an encouraging person? Explain. If you are not encouraging, have you thought about making a new friend who is encouraging?

4. Jesus did not come to condemn but to save. What does that mean to you? Has the way Jesus looks at you changed how you look at others? Explain.

1. What is causing you to “groan” during this season of your life?

2. How will you remember the glory you are heading towards? How can it transform your outlook on your life?

3. Have you experienced feeling too weak to pray with words? How does it encourage you that the Spirit intercedes for you?

4. Is there a way in which you are seeking to change your circumstances, where you need to instead seek to change your heart’s attitude towards them?

1. Is there something that you have given up on, and later regretted?

2. Is there a situation that you have been through that made you feel like quitting or giving up, but you stuck it out?

3. Why do you think we avoid pain in our culture? Where do you tend to avoid pain and difficulty?

4. What situations have deepened your character the most in life? Was pain or difficulty a part of that situation?

1. What trait of Hannah reminds you most of your mom?

2. What do you appreciate most about your mom?

3. Who has filled a mothering role in your life besides your mom?

4. Who is the most inspiring mom you know, outside of your own family?

1. What is your favorite comeback story from your life? How does it remind you of Jesus?

2. When did you feel most alive? How does that remind you of Jesus?

3. In what areas are you trusting Jesus now?

1. For the people who were cheering Jesus on Palm Sunday, how do you think they felt a few days later when Jesus was arrested?

2. Who do you get mad at that Jesus would weep over?

3. How would you think Jesus feels about the huge “Christian” corporate world including massive ministries, Christian entertainment and publishing empires?

4. What crosses are you currently bearing?

1. What were family meals like when you were a kid?

2. What are your family meals usually like?

3. What are some things you are thankful for, but you haven’t said “thank you” for them in awhile?

4. How do Communion and Thanksgiving relate to you personally?