Discussion Guide for A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider: Words to Stimulate the Mind and Delight the Spirit

By N J Lindquist and Wendy Elaine Nelles

Get more out of the best-selling anthology A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider!
This Discussion Guide, with questions related to each story in A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider, will enhance the experience for you, your book club, or your study group. Each contributor has supplied questions about his or her piece to help you think further about the issues raised, enjoy stimulating discussions, and share ideas and meaningful experiences.

Individual Readers: After reading each story, you have the option of using the Discussion Guide as part of a personal study: read and meditate on the questions, then journal your responses.

Book Clubs: If you’re the leader, you can use the "Reader’s Guide" to choose the stories that will be particularly appropriate for your group, and then turn to the Discussion Guide for in-depth questions. Each piece has a number of questions, so you can choose the ones you prefer to use.

Small Groups: Whichever kind of small group you lead—a discussion group, adult class, men’s or women’s group, or a support group for people facing issues such as illness or bereavement—you’ll find material that will interest and benefit the members of your group. Many stories and questions include Scripture references.
Speakers: If you’re a speaker, pastor, or teacher, the stories in A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider can provide wonderful material for a talk, sermon, devotional, or group discussion.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: That's Life
• Release date: Aug 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9780978496388

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Discussion Guide for

A Second Cup of

Hot Apple Cider

Stories to Stimulate the Mind

and Delight the Spirit

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Edited by

N. J. Lindquist and Wendy Elaine Nelles

with Marguerite Cummings

That’s Life! Communications

Markham, Ontario, Canada

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Discussion Guide for A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider

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About This Discussion Guide

Purpose

This guide is intended as a companion to the book A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider, an award-winning collection of 51 stories of hope and encouragement.

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Structure

This Discussion Guide follows essentially the same structure as the original book. For each of the 51 stories, the author of each piece has provided a set of in-depth discussion questions, to help you:

Think further about the issues raised

Enjoy stimulating discussions

Share ideas and meaningful experiences

Who should use this guide?

This guide is a perfect tool either for private study or for study within a group:

Individual Readers: If you are reading or have read A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider, you can use the questions in this guide to meditate on the issues raised by each article, then journal your responses.

Book Clubs: A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider is a great choice for book clubs. With 51 pieces by 37 authors from across Canada, the anthology is so diverse that everyone in your book club is bound to find something enjoyable. Also, the pieces are short, so you can easily talk about a number of them in one evening. Book club leaders can use some or all the questions in this guide to drive the discussion about each piece.

Small Groups: Whichever kind of small group you are in—a discussion group, adult class, men’s or women’s group, or a support group for people facing issues such as illness or bereavement—you’ll find material that will interest and benefit the members of your group. Many stories and questions include Scripture references.

Speakers, Pastors, Teachers: The stories in A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider provide wonderful material for a talk, sermon, devotional, or group discussion. The questions in this guide are designed to give you additional insights and often additional Scriptures that you can use in your talk.

How to use this guide

This guide assumes that you have A Second Cup of