CrossWay Community Church | Bristol, WI

Sermon Application Questions 1. Have you ever felt like becoming a Christian was leaving something familiar and heading into the wilderness? How so? 2. Do you feel like you actually know God better now than you did five years ago? One year ago? How did that happen? 3. Think of a recent example of God providing for you, whether for your physical needs, your spiritual stamina, or some sound guidance...

Music and Lyrics Used by Permission CCLI# 1595532 Sermon Application Questions: 1. God says that his aim in the exodus is that (14:4) 'I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and that the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.' Does that seem selfish to you? What are some reasons it’s good for us that God is committed to displaying his glory and revealing who he is? 2. This passage revea...

Music and Lyrics Used by Permission CCLI# 1595532 Sermon Application Questions - March 28, 2021: 1. God liberates his people through sacrifice. Imagine being a slave under one of the most powerful kings of the day. Your parents were slaves, your grandparents, and on and on as far back as you can remember. Then, in a flurry of time, the God you've worshipped sets you free. How would you feel person...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Have you had an experience of God preserving you through a spiritually dangerous or challenging time? 2. Have you ever wondered if God is really able to preserve you through everything all the way to the end? What kinds of things make you wonder that? 3. It is clear that God’s working through the plagues and though the exodus is so that people will know, without do...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Have you ever found yourself resisting God with a stubborn, even defiant, heart? What did that look like? Trying to ignore God? Pleading with God in a crisis but then reverting to refusing him when the crisis passed? Simply defying him? What brought you to your senses? 2. How aware are you on a daily basis of God’s purpose to bring you 'out of slavery and into a pr...

Music and Lyrics Used by Permission CCLI# 1595532 Sermon Application Questions: Have you ever been, like Moses, in a posture of resisting God out of fear and doubt? What kinds of things did you find yourself saying to God in that situation? Has you fear-based and doubt-based resistance ever turned into outright disobedience? What kinds of things were you saying to God then? What part of God’s resp...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What do you think of when you think of the book of Exodus? Have you, in the past, made connections between things you read in Exodus and Jesus? 2. With whom do you most identify in these early chapters of Exodus? How does what God is doing, i.e. 'forming a people and bring them out of slavery and into a promised place of freedom and goodness', relate to your own li...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What do you worship or are you drawn to worship? You can identify what you worship by considering what you daydream about over and over again. Or what is easy to spend (and overspend) on consistently. Or what in your life, if you lost it, would devastate you to the core, where you’d question if you should even live? (Counterfeit Gods, 165-170). 2. Is what you’re wo...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Before hearing the sermon, what would have come into your mind when you thought of the book of Numbers? 2. In Numbers 14:11 God says that the reason the people refused to enter the land was that they did 'not believe in me.' How does disobedience show unbelief? How is complaining (11:1, 4) also a fruit of unbelief? Do you see any habits of complaining or disobedien...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What has been your experience with reading the book of Leviticus? What are your feelings about the book? 2. Both Colossians 2:17 and Hebrews 10:1 refer to the stuff of Leviticus as “a shadow”. What do you take that to mean? How does that help you in your reading of Leviticus? 3. As you read of the great Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16 and consider its great truths...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Is there a deep-seated confidence in Christ that produces a deep and genuine hope that characterizes your life? 2. Do you genuinely believe that there are others to whom God intends to give that same hope? 3. Are you ready to share with anyone who shows interest? Note: I recognize that on the face of it these are all “yes or no” questions. Don’t be content with a s...

1. How does the definition of encouragement offered in the message square with what you see in the Bible? How does it square with your own experience? 2. What puts you most in need of encouragement in your day-to day life? 3. Do you feel like heaven is actually functioning as an encouraging thing in your life? How might you be able to help it function as an encouragement in other people’s lives? 4...

Sermon Application Questions 1. What might purposing to “train yourself for godliness” look like for you at this stage of your life? What steps of intentionality or consistency or organization need to be taken in your life? 2. What specific means of grace are proving most fruitful in your pursuit of godliness right now? What means of grace do you need to avail yourself of more? Be very specific he...

Sermon Application Questions 1. When you read Psalm 1 what phrase or line most stands out for you? And what phrase or line is most meaningful to you? Why is it so meaningful? 2. In the message Pastor Mike made the point that the phrase the 'law of the Lord' (v. 2) represented the 'ways of the Lord' which are presented in all of Scripture. He also spoke of 'the goodness of the ways of the Lord'. Ho...

Sermon Application Questions: Review the four 'Shepherd Truths' below and pick the one that seems to be most relevant to you in your current situation. What do you think God would have you do in response to that particular truth? Where might there be some resistance to what God would have you do? Make it a point to pray about this and perhaps talk to a Christian friend about it. The 'Shepherd Trut...

Sermon Application Questions: Let’s focus in on the three things that God delights to see in us—humility, faith, and awe-filled praise. In which of these do you feel there is strength in your life? Where do you feel like there may be some room for growth? 1. How might a prideful resistance show up in your relationship to God and what he has said? Think about what genuine humility might look like i...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Waiting on God is hard. At one point in the message the following statement was made: 'You cannot judge God by your calendar. God’s plan does not follow our schedules. His timing might seem completely wrong to us, until it becomes clear that it isn’t.' Does that apply to anything in your life right now? 2. Joy shows up a lot in the first two chapters of Luke: 1:14,...

Sermon Application Questions - 11/29/2020: 1. Verses 18-21 and 22-24 depict two different ways to encounter God. What does each emphasize about what God is like? What effect do you think God wants vv. 22-24 to have on us after first reading vv. 18-21? 2. There is a tension in this passage; on the one hand, God wants his people to have assurance of his acceptance; v. 22 says that his people have al...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Has there been a time or season in life where you've joyfully welcomed discipline in a particular area? [e.g., sports, career, diet, exercise, personal growth, etc]. If so, why were you happy to have discipline? 2. Why is God's discipline a good thing? How can it help a follower of Jesus kill sin and grow in holiness? 3. When hard things come into your life, what d...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Are you aware of any weariness (12:3) in your life, whether weariness of body or soul? How is your weariness affecting your spiritual life? 2. We can be hindered in the 'race' of faith by both 'weight' and 'sin' (12:1). Are there any 'weights' in your life, things that are not inherently sinful but are consuming time and energy you could otherwise devote to knowing...

Sermon Application Questions - 11/8/2020 1. Sunday's message focused on four specific promises. Which one of them most encouraged you? Which one do you need to more actively lay hold of? * God is with me. Hebrews 13:5 * God is for me. Psalm 56:9 * God will provide everything I need. Romans 8:32 * God will sustain me to the end and all will be well. 1 Corinthians 1:8-9 2. Are there specific areas o...

Sermon Application Questions - 11/1/20 1. The account of the Tower of Babel is a very carefully written and constructed account. What parts stand out to you most in communicating the point of the story? 2 What are ways you are tempted to 'make a name for yourself'? Are there ways you are seeking to do that currently? 3. How do you distinguish the good and godly effort to do good work and accomplis...

Sermon Application Questions 1. Do you think personal righteousness is a 'foundational issue' like the other key issues that we’ve been considering? How is it like the others? How is it different? 2. How do each of the forces opposing your righteousness—the world, the flesh, and the devil—show up in your life? Which of them are you most aware of in your current circumstances? 3. Think of the thing...