Discussion Guide for Hot Apple Cider: Stories to Stir the Heart and Warm the Soul
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Get more out of the best-selling anthology Hot Apple Cider!
This Discussion Guide, with questions related to each story in 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 Hot Apple Cider can provide wonderful material for a talk, sermon, devotional, or group discussion.
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Discussion Guide for Hot Apple Cider - N J Lindquist
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Discussion Guide for
Hot Apple Cider
Stories to Stir the Heart
and Warm the Soul
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N. J. Lindquist and Marguerite Cummings
That’s Life! Communications
Markham, Ontario, Canada
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Discussion Guide for Hot Apple Cider
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About This Discussion Guide
Purpose
This guide is intended as a companion to the book Hot Apple Cider, an award-winning collection of 44 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 44 stories, we’ve 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 Hot Apple Cider, you can use the questions in this guide to meditate on the issues raised by each article, then write down your responses.
Book Clubs: Hot Apple Cider is a great choice for book clubs. With 44 pieces by 30 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 of 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.