Sermon Questions

Philippians 4:11-12

1. Where do I find contentment?
2. What areas of my life do I struggle with being content?
3. What can I do to practice being content?

Matt 11:28-30, Proverbs 28:26, 3:5-6, Micah 7:5-8, Genesis 20

1. Do I really trust God? How do I know?
2. What do I feel responsible to fix in my own life or someone else’s?
3. Is my goal to totally depend on God? What is the evidence of this?
4. What do I need to collapse/submit, so that I can totally depend on Him and He can be exalted?

Matthew 6:5-13

1. What do I need to surrender? Am I willing to do this?
2. How do I need God to provide?
3. What do I need to confess? (James 5:16)
4. In what areas of my life do I need God’s Protection?

Ps 34:22

1.  What if I talked less about politics, corona virus, and division…and more about Jesus? 

2.  What if I humbled myself and prayed for healing for our nation?  What am I praying for? 

3.  What if my family and I invited people that need Jesus to church, and we invested in real relationships?

4.  What if I looked for needs that I could meet in people’s lives and lived a generous life?

5. What is God saying to me? What does God want me to say?

Nehemiah 6-13

1. Do I know who I am? Do I know where I come from? How do I know?
2. Do I feed on and follow the Word?
3. Am I willing to go anywhere for God?
4. How do I celebrate the work of God?

Nehemiah 1, 2 Kings 25

1. When is the last time that I have cried out to God? Does my grief align with Gods grief?
2. How do I kneel and pray? Do I pray for “seconds” or “seasons”? Am I willing to pray for a season? If so, for what?
3. How am I standing and doing work for the Kingdom?
4. How am I leveraging the King to heal the brokenness in my family?

1. When does life begin?
2. Why did God create me? Eph 2:10
3. What good works am I accomplishing? Ex 4:10-12
4. How do I know what God wants me to do? Rom 12:1-2

2 Kings 6:24-7:17

Sunday, August 16

1. Do I find it tough to be a child of God when it feels like our nation is under siege? What am I going to do with these feeling? John 15:18-19
2. When have I experienced suffering for God to get my attention?
3. How has God revealed Himself to me in the power of His details?
4. When have I “Gone for It” with God?
5. Who do I identify with in the story?

Psalms 139:23-24

Sunday, August 2

1. How does my brokenness reveal how my heart responds? What kind of response do I typically have (anger, pride, or patience and kindness)?
2. Do I focus more on my sin, or the brokenness of others? What sin do I need to focus on in my life?
3. Do I deal with my sin by confessing to God and others (James 5:16)? How have I done this?
4. What do I need to confess to someone this week?

Eph 2:8-10

Grace is Greater than ____________

Sunday, July 19

1. What does it mean for me to be healed by God’s Grace?
2. Where do I give credit for my success? Give an example
3. Who do I need to give grace to this week?

Luke 12:42-48

Sunday, July 5

1. How am I stewarding what God has given me (time, talent, intellect, freedoms)?
2. Do I use my freedoms God has given me for my own selfish desires?
3. Why has God choose us to be the receivers of so many freedoms? What do I do with that freedom?
4. Why does it seem that God sometimes takes our freedoms away? (Job 12:23, Isiah 41:2) What is my response when this happens?

Ep 6:4 Pr 13:22

Sunday, June 21

1. What kind of relationship do you have with you Dad? What kind of relationship do you want with your Dad?
2. What do I provoke my children to?
3. What inheritance am I leaving for my children?
4. What legacy are my kid’s valuing to leave behind in school? Does this line up with what you and God want for them?
5. When did I decide to make God, the Father, of my life?

Ps 139:23-24, Rom 12:9-21

Sunday, May 31

1. Do I look inward first when I am faced with a crisis(a time of intense difficulty)?
2. Where do I look for answers when there is a crisis around me?
3. When do I ask God what I can do? (listen, love, stand beside…)
4. How will I lead a changed life?

2 Kings 6:11-17

Sunday, May 24

1. If I was going to paint a picture of my future what would it look like? 
2. Do I factor in God, as the X factor, to the equation when I am faced with challenges?
3. How do I have victory over the enemy?

James 4:13-16, Romans 13:11-12

Sunday, May 10

1. What season of life am I currently living in?
2. How can I better seize the season for my Savior during this time in my life?
3. Is being comfortable causing me to be selfish with my Christianity? What am I willing to sacrifice?
4. How can I share the truth of God’s word today?

Sunday, April 26

1. What was the message that Jesus was constantly communicating? Is this a message that I communicate?
2. Describe a time when Jesus has shown up in your life.
3. Like Zacchaeus, what am I willing to give up to follow Him?

HE IS ALIVE!

Matthew 28:1-10

Sunday, April 12

1. What if today was a new day for me?
2. Do I believe the resurrection of Jesus changes the quality of life here and now?
3. How does the resurrection prove that Jesus brings freedom? (Lk 4:18)
4. What purpose do I have because of Jesus? Am I fulfilling my mission/purpose?
5. Do I believe in Jesus and the resurrection?

We often want relief, when God wants to wrestle. Whatever you are wrestling with your real wrestling match is with God.

Genesis 32

Sunday, March 29

1. Wrestling with God moves us closer to Him. There is intimacy in a relationship when we wrestle. Do I desire to wrestle with God? Do I desire a closeness with God when I wrestle with Him?
2. When I have wrestled with God, what has He changed about me (what did He break)?
3. What idols am I wrestling with God about? What am I willing to do about my idols?
4. What am I wrestling with God about currently?

To be a worshiper you must have a relationship with Jesus. There are times that we should praise and there are times to also lament.

Psalms 145, 61

Sunday, March 15

1. Worship will go on for eternity. How am I preparing now, to worship God for eternity?
2. Does my call to worship God start when I wake up each day or does it just happen when I feel like it? What is my call to worship?
3. Worship involves warfare. Worship is a weapon. How do I use worship in a time of battle?

The world will know US and God by how we love!

Romans 12

Sunday, March 1

1. How am I connected to God’s People (the church)?
2. What are the “gifts” God has given me? Am I using my God given gifts for God’s People?
3. Have I received real love? From where? How do I know it was real love?
4. Often times, we are not good givers of genuine love because we have not received it. Giving genuine love takes action. How do I show genuine love to friends, coworkers, family, etc.?
5. Who do I need to show self sacrificing love? How will I do it?

Gen. 2:18, Gen. 3:8, Acts 2:42, Prov. 27:17, James 5:16, Gal. 6:2, Eph. 4:15

Sunday, February 16

These next few weeks we will be diving into why God designed us to be in Community. We define Community as real relationships that move you closer to Jesus. When we are in biblical Community we will interact with God’s Word, His Spirit, and His People.

Big Idea: You were meant to be connected!

We find at least 3 things that Adam and Eve encountered with relationships in the book of Genesis. Let’s dive into these in our questions.

1. Man and woman began to believe lies about God and each other. One lie was that God could not be trusted. Another lie was that God was holding out on them and a better life could be found outside of God’s instructions. Do I believe there are things I can not trust God with? Do I live in a way that shows a better life can be found outside of God’s instructions?
2. Man and woman stopped listening to the voice of God. They began to listen to the voice of Satan, the voice of selfish desires, and later the voice of society. What voice am I listening to? Is there a voice that I am listening to more than God’s? How can I hear the voice of God clearly?
3. Man and woman isolated themselves. They hid from God and each other. Before they were naked and felt no shame; now they felt shame and clothed themselves. The close connection to God and each other was all gone. What areas in my life do I keep hidden (isolated)? What is it that I need to share with God and His People?

Hebrews 11

Sunday, February 2

1. What is it in my life that seems impossible?
2. What in my life do I feel trapped by? Do I see this trap as being part of God’s rescue plan?
3. What impossible “title” am I carrying? What “title” does God want me to carry?

Hebrews 11

Sunday, January 19

This week we read about a few hero’s of faith, specifically Abraham. Abraham’s family did not have perfect faith but they sought after and trusted in the author and perfector of faith (Heb 12:2). Our prayer should be for His kingdom to be on earth as it is in heaven because His name is hallowed.

1. Am I seeking the promises of this world or God’s promises? What does my heart long for?
2. What is God asking me to say YES to?
3. Is there something that is keeping me from saying YES to God?
4. How will I begin to sacrifice so I can follow Gods plans?

Hebrews 11

Sunday, January 5

1. What are things that I put my faith in? (For example, a spouse will make me happy, the work that I do defines me).
2. Where do I need to exercise faith? (finances, career, marriage, future spouse, enough money to pay bills, salvation of a family member)
3. A Christians faith is the same as a building’s foundation. How strong/stable is my foundation/faith? If my foundation/faith has a weak spot what will I do to build up faith in that area?
4. Where do I find evidence in my life of God’s faithfulness?

My Problem With God Is…

Sunday, October 20

Christianity claims that Jesus Christ alone connects humankind back to God, and that no other religion or worldview can provide the things we are looking for. Clark acknowledges how many people hedge their bets by supporting “any” possible path to God. Our culture today assumes if someone’s beliefs are different or critical of someone else’s, that they cannot not tolerate one another. But the reality is we can coexist with whom we disagree, while still defending their rights to that belief and work toward common goals in the world. The concept of exclusivity exists in many religions, not just Christianity. And it is illogical to accept that multiple religions are true, when they directly contradict one another. Clark asks for people to weigh facts and ideas against one another in order to find the view of life that is consistently true, makes sense of the world, and produces measurable improvement in the lives of those who believe and practice it, as well as those of society as a whole.

Getting Started:

1. Why is the exclusivity of Christianity such a difficult and polarizing topic?
2. In what ways is Christianity inclusive, while holding to an exclusive means of salvation?
3. Is it ok to disagree with someone’s beliefs, but still work alongside them to achieve a common goal? Do you have examples from your own life you can share?
4. Many believe that there is more than one way to heaven. What are the dangers of this? What are the dangers of communicating acceptance and support to someone who believes this?

Going Deeper:

1. How would you describe the difference in cultural pluralism and metaphysical pluralism?
2. Clark writes, “While we can fight for people’s rights to say what they believe, we do not have to conclude that what they believe is true.” Do you agree with this statement? Does it cause you to think differently when you hear someone voicing a belief different than your own?