Regardless whether you use these questions for group or personal reflection, there's a LOT here, so don't feel any need to cover everything!  Just use the questions below as a guideline for a way to stay present to the Lord through the week.

1. On Sunday, Phil said he wanted us to be inspired.  To inspire literally means "to breathe life into."  How does Easter inspire you?  How does it "breathe life" into you?

2. 2 Timothy 2:8 says, "Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead."  What value is there for us in simply remembering the Jesus who has risen from the dead?

3. Read Romans 6:4-11. In what way do you think the Resurrection provides for us "a new way to be human"?

4. Have you ever given up on changing a bad habit or persistent sin, thinking, "That's just the way I am?"  In what way does Jesus' resurrection offer hope to people like you?  

5. On Sunday, Phil referenced his recent tour of the "Shawshank Prison." If you don't mind making yourself vulnerable, have you ever been trapped in a sort of "Shawshank Prison" of your own?  How did you find freedom?  (Have you found freedom?)

6. C.S. Lewis said in The Great Divorce that those who go to Hell actually choose it because there is something in this life, in their own souls, that they prefer even over Heaven.  Going back to Phil's Shawshank experience, can you imagine someone staying in their cell even though the door had been unlocked?  Why would anyone do such a thing?

7. In the Romans passage, Paul is essentially saying that when we believe in Jesus' life, death, and resurrection we are "no longer enslaved to sin" and that "death no longer has dominion over us."  What does it look like for us to "consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus"?  How does that change the way we live our lives, day in and day out?

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