Sermon Discussion Guide: 6/29/25
Sermon Recap
Title: A Response of Thanksgiving
Text: Psalm 56
Main Idea: God's care in hard times should breed thanksgiving.
Outline:
i. Our Hard Times
II. God's Tender Care
III. Responding With Thanksgiving
Discussion Questions
1. Interact with the quote from the opening story by Michael Ramsden, "We are not made happy but by what we appreciate. If you ask me, the trouble isn't that we don't have anything to be grateful for, it's that we have no one to be grateful to."
2. How have you seen/heard others grapple with the problem of suffering/pain?
3. Pastor Luke referenced Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, in which he observed prisoners who wasted away versus prisoners who endured the same suffering and the variable between the two was the presence of meaning in their inner attitude. Share your response to that. How would you expand on that thought? What anecdotal stories corroborate this?
4. How have you experienced "disordered loves" and how to you practice preserving God as your highest love with more than lip service?
5. How does God's "bottling up of every one of your tears" impact the way you think about Him, His character, His disposition toward you?
6. Share a story in which God treated you tenderly in the midst of significant trials.
7. How do you do with suppressing bitterness, cynicism, or anger by fostering and disciplining your heart and mind to rejoice with thanksgiving and gratitude. Be honest.
Title: A Response of Thanksgiving
Text: Psalm 56
Main Idea: God's care in hard times should breed thanksgiving.
Outline:
i. Our Hard Times
II. God's Tender Care
III. Responding With Thanksgiving
Discussion Questions
1. Interact with the quote from the opening story by Michael Ramsden, "We are not made happy but by what we appreciate. If you ask me, the trouble isn't that we don't have anything to be grateful for, it's that we have no one to be grateful to."
2. How have you seen/heard others grapple with the problem of suffering/pain?
3. Pastor Luke referenced Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, in which he observed prisoners who wasted away versus prisoners who endured the same suffering and the variable between the two was the presence of meaning in their inner attitude. Share your response to that. How would you expand on that thought? What anecdotal stories corroborate this?
4. How have you experienced "disordered loves" and how to you practice preserving God as your highest love with more than lip service?
5. How does God's "bottling up of every one of your tears" impact the way you think about Him, His character, His disposition toward you?
6. Share a story in which God treated you tenderly in the midst of significant trials.
7. How do you do with suppressing bitterness, cynicism, or anger by fostering and disciplining your heart and mind to rejoice with thanksgiving and gratitude. Be honest.
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