Grab a coffee & use these questions to explore Sunday's message with a friend or with your connection group.
November 30, 2025 // Different: Hope-Full
1. What’s something you remember being absolutely convinced was going to go wrong, or turn out badly, but in the end, everything turned out fine? (family dinner, camping trip, a final exam, etc.)
2. Garry compared hope to a ladder in that just as we lean a ladder against something we trust will hold us up, we do the same with hope. In your day-to-day life, what are some things you tend to “lean your hope (ladder) against” – work, relationships, finances, abilities -- and how do you know when you’re placing your hope in the wrong things?
3. Share a time when something you were hoping for didn’t work out. In what ways did that experience shape the way you think about hope today?
4. “I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. (John 21:3) Peter went back to fishing when life felt confusing and hopeless. Where do you tend to go (activities, habits, routines) when things in life get overwhelming?
5. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” (1 Peter 1:3) What’s the difference between “hoping something turns out okay” and the kind of living hope we have because of Jesus’ resurrection?
6. If followers of Jesus are meant to live with a different kind of hope, what might that look like practically in your schedule, responses, words, relationships, or decisions this week?
For an easy way to read it wherever you go, check out the Bible under the Helpful Stuff tab on the TMP app.
1. What’s something you remember being absolutely convinced was going to go wrong, or turn out badly, but in the end, everything turned out fine? (family dinner, camping trip, a final exam, etc.)
2. Garry compared hope to a ladder in that just as we lean a ladder against something we trust will hold us up, we do the same with hope. In your day-to-day life, what are some things you tend to “lean your hope (ladder) against” – work, relationships, finances, abilities -- and how do you know when you’re placing your hope in the wrong things?
3. Share a time when something you were hoping for didn’t work out. In what ways did that experience shape the way you think about hope today?
4. “I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. (John 21:3) Peter went back to fishing when life felt confusing and hopeless. Where do you tend to go (activities, habits, routines) when things in life get overwhelming?
5. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” (1 Peter 1:3) What’s the difference between “hoping something turns out okay” and the kind of living hope we have because of Jesus’ resurrection?
6. If followers of Jesus are meant to live with a different kind of hope, what might that look like practically in your schedule, responses, words, relationships, or decisions this week?
For an easy way to read it wherever you go, check out the Bible under the Helpful Stuff tab on the TMP app.