Missions Focus: Please be praying for Brian and Christa Isidore, missionaries we support monthly who serve in Spain. Please pray that this Christmas season will be a great opportunity to tell people about Jesus.

Local: Pray for people in your world who are dealing with issues of homelessness. Pray for opportunity to be an answer to prayer.

Church: Pray for our UNITED service next Sunday. Pray that it is a great day of connecting new people to the Corner Church community.

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NEXT SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15 AT 10AM, we will have our Christmas
UNITED Service. Once a season we do a combined service, bringing all
our communities together for one UNITED service. This UNITED Service
will be in a new spot for us, meeting at Inbound BrewCo in the North
Loop: 701 N 5th St, Minneapolis. Some highlights to look forward to are a
potluck brunch, a clothing swap, a missions focus, and everyone being
together! Sign up to help at corner.church or on the physical signup sheet
passed through the service today
Tuesday Morning Communal Prayer is at 9am in the basement at Corner Coffee North Loop.
Corner Church Downtown will launch weekly Sunday services in February.
The Cairo Missions team will be serving breakfast at Corner Church Camden today. Donations will be accepted in order to help with the cost of the trip. Please email scott@cornerchurch.tv with the subject PRAYER and we will get you the prayer requests. THANKS!
Join the UNITED Service Christmas Carol Choir. If you would like to be part, please use the QR code to sign up right now!
Feed My Starving Children Food Packing event will be Tuesday, December 17 at 7:15pm at 401 93rd Ave NW, Coon Rapids. Use the QR code to reserve your spot and to get more details.
Corner Church Youth Event at the Mall of America on Friday, December 20. We will meet at Corner Coffee North Loop at 6:30pm.
Corner Church Christmas Eve Candlelight service will be Tuesday, December 24 at 6pm at Corner Coffee Northeast.

Dialogue Question:

Share a little about your personal birth narrative.

Isaiah 7:14
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

Isaiah 11:1
1 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.Isaiah 7:14

Dialogue Question:

What things from the family / situation you were born into are still reverberating in who you are today?

Dialogue Question:

What are the internal and external fruit of living an endless cycle of not good enough, try to be good enough, still not good enough, try to be good enough and repeat?

John 8:4-5
4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”

John 8:7
7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Dialogue Question:

What does it say about Jesus that He was born into a nobody's household?

Dialogue Question:

What would it tell us about God if Jesus had been born in a king's household and raised in a palace?

Dialogue Questions:

What is your response to grace?
What would you like your response to grace to be?
What do you think should be our response to grace?

Take It Deeper Questions:
Read Luke 2:1-21.
When have you had a bad travel experience or a poorly timed guest?
How has your perspective of those experiences changed as they have moved farther into the past?
What would it have displayed about God if He was born in a palace and visited by the chief priests?
What does it display about God that He was born in a barn and visited by shepherds?
How are you challenged, focused, encouraged, and/or confused by this text?

Bible Reading Plan:
Isaiah 7
Isaiah 11
Luke 1
Luke 2