Missions Focus: Please be praying for Sam & Laura Witwicke, missionaries we support monthly who serve in Paraguay. Please pray for their three girls, Elaina, Lizzie, and Joanna.

Local: Pray for people in your world who are struggling with addiction.

Church: Pray for our February 2nd public launch of Corner Church Downtown and a healthy Body of Christ in every community!

Communal Prayer is Tuesday at 9am in the Corner Coffee North Loop mixed use basement space.

Join the Cairo Missions missions trip prayer team by using the QR code on the announcement card Another way you can help is by donating things that we will be giving to missionary families--things that are hard to get or are expensive there, plus some larger things for missionary kids. Lactaid, beef jerky, cheddar jack Cheez-Its, sound machine for sleeping, Lawry’s seasoned salt, real bacon bits, corn syrup, Nyquil capsules, pepperoni, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cinnamon Life, 9” balloons, shower filters, nut thins, gluten-free pretzel sticks, fruit snacks, marshmallows, granola bars, Cliff bars, Goldfish, Gatorade powder, chocolate chips, Cheez-Its, bluetooth speaker, digital camera, analog camera, 35mm film. Please bring any of these things to your Corner Church by Sunday, January 26.

Corner Church Downtown Preview Services are today, January 19, and next week, January 26, at 10am at Corner Coffee Downtown, 905 Nicollet Mall MPLS.

Sunday, February 2 will be Corner Church Downtown’s official launch of weekly Sunday services, 10am at Corner Coffee Downtown, 905 Nicollet Mall MPLS.

Spring Connection Groups start February 16. Start dreaming up what you want do and share it at corner.church/groups.

Dialogue Questions:

What makes it difficult for someone like you to ask for help?

What obstacles arise in you in answering the question, “How can I help?”

Dialogue Questions:

Write the first word that comes to mind as you hear each of these things:

Starting a new project ______________
Failing at something ______________
Making plans for the weekend ______________
Receiving constructive criticism ______________
Hearing bad news ______________
You can no longer avoid a difficult conversation ______________
A friend cancels plans last minute ______________
An unexpected opportunity ______________
An unexpected challenge ______________
The state of the world ______________


What prompted your responses?

Dialogue Question:

How do our initial responses impact our help-ability?

Dialogue Question:

What do these moments in Luke 5 show us about how Jesus helps?

The leper - pleading for help
The paralyzed man - lowered before Jesus
Levi the “sinner” - called to follow Jesus

Haggai 1:15
15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month

Haggai 2:1
1 on the twenty-first day of the seventh month

Dialogue Question:

What does it show us that God is calling the people (us) to help build where His glory resides, and that He is helping and will help?

Writing moment / Internal processing moment

How does God want to help you?
What is your part in being helped?


What surfaces as you pause and hear from God?

How does God want to help you?
What is your part in being helped?

Take It Deeper Questions
Read Haggai 2:1-9.
Would you rather build a birdhouse, compose a poem, or write computer software? Why?
What are some attributes of a person who is helpful to you?
What are some personal attributes that make you easy to help? Difficult to help?
How does God want to help you?
What is your part in being helped?
How are you challenged, encouraged, focused, and/or confused by this text?

Bible Reading Plan
Haggai 1
Haggai 2
Luke 5
1 Kings 8
Exodus 40
1 Corinthians 6