• Read Matthew 5: 21-48 

From this section, who are some of the people being protected behind these prohibitions? 

Jesus is challenging us beyond external conformity in each of these sections. How have you seen Him raise the bar in your own life?  

This week we are going to review the Sermon on the Mount as we will finish the preaching series this coming Sunday. 

We won’t have many questions but will spend more time on reflection and remembering ways that the Spirit has convicted each of us personally during these sermons. 

• Read Matthew 5: 1-20 

If these characteristics in the Beatitudes are a “redefinition of who the people of God are”, how are you seeing them redefine you? 

We heard in the sermons that “faithfully following Jesus normally costs us something.” Where have you seen this cost in your own life? 

Spend some time in worship and prayer this morning, that the message of Jesus would shine like a light in your own life and the life of our church.

Look back through the chapters in John. Run through its story in your mind. 

What are the stories, words, thoughts, and challenges that you will remember from this devotional? 

• Read John 21 

What are some of the things you love about the characters in this chapter? 

What are they doing? How do they respond? 

What is significant in Jesus’ conversation with Peter? 

Try to condense this chapter into one sentence on a separate piece of paper

• Read John 20: 19-31 

How do you see the compassion and kindness of Jesus shine in these verses? 

Twice Jesus offers them “peace” as He surprises them with His presence. Where do you need Jesus to say “peace” to you today? 

Try to condense this chapter into one sentence on a separate piece of paper

• Read John 20: 11-18 

So Mary had gone back with the two men, they leave, but she remains in tears. 

What can we glean about the faith of Mary from these verses? 

What can we surmise about Jesus when He first reveals Himself to a lone woman?