CrossWay Community Church | Bristol, WI

Discussion Questions: Sermon Overview: The main idea of this week’s sermon was that because of our spiritual powerlessness, we needed to be saved by grace.     Digging Deeper:     Read Ephesians 2:1-3    It can be humbling to think of ourselves as having been spiritually dead before God made us alive in Christ. How did the sermon help you see the significance of the truth that you were spiritually...

Discussion Questions: Scripture Memory Our church-wide scripture memory this year will be selected passages from Ephesians. This is a great opportunity to dive deep into the goodness God has for us from Paul’s letter. Sermon Overview The main idea of this week’s sermon was: knowing God is a work of God, so growing in knowing God requires praying to God. Ice Breaker ·       When you pray for Christ...

Discussion Questions: Scripture Memory Our church-wide scripture memory this year will be selected passages from Ephesians. This is a great opportunity to dive deep into the goodness God has for us from Paul’s letter. Sermon Overview The main idea of this week’s sermon is to praise the God who sovereignly works and seals. God has worked in a way that secures our future perfect union with him by wo...

Discussion Questions: Scripture Memory Our church-wide scripture memory this year will be selected passages from Ephesians. This is a great opportunity to dive deep into the goodness God has for us from Paul’s letter. Sermon Overview The main idea of this week’s sermon was to praise God for the finished redemption of His people and the future reunion of all things. Digging Deeper      1.    Accord...

Discussion Questions: Scripture Memory: Our church-wide scripture memory this year will be selected passages from Ephesians. This is a great opportunity to dive deep into the goodness God has for us from Paul’s letter. Sermon Overview: The main idea of this week’s sermon was to praise God because of His complete blessing and unconditional choice of His people. Digging Deeper:    Brett highlighted...

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Brief history by Mike Bullmore, message by Mark Rogers, testimony by Vince and Brittany Lang, CrossWay Kids participation in Psalm 23 worship song

Discussion Questions: A light bulb: What shines out in the passage and draws attention?  A question mark: Is there anything that is hard to understand, or you would like to ask the author? An arrow: What about this passage can you apply to your own life?   _____________________________ Music and Lyrics Used by Permission CCLI# 1595532

Discussion Questions: A light bulb: What shines out in the passage and draws attention?  A question mark: Is there anything that is hard to understand, or you would like to ask the author? An arrow: What about this passage can you apply to your own life?   _____________________________ Music and Lyrics Used by Permission CCLI# 1595532

Discussion Questions: Sermon Overview:  This past week’s sermon was highlighted three reasons why we can be filled with wonder:  (1) God’s miraculous power  (2) God’s Coming Justice and   (3) God’s Committed love for his people  Digging Deeper:     God miraculously used Mary, an ordinary person, to be a part of his grand plan to send his son into the world. How does God’s work, often through ordin...

Discussion Questions: Sermon Overview: This past week’s sermon was highlighted three reasons why we can be filled with wonder   God’s miraculous power  God’s Coming Justice and   God’s Committed love for his people  Digging Deeper:     God miraculously used Mary, an ordinary person, to be a part of his grand plan to send his son into the world. How does God’s work, often through ordinary people, h...

Discussion Questions: Sermon Overview: This past week’s sermon was focused on three encouragements to pursue a life pleasing to God in dependence on God:   (1)  God makes perfect peace (v. 20a) (2)  We have a living, almighty shepherd (v. 20b) (3)  God works in us to do his will. (b. 21) Digging Deeper:    ·      In your own words, what does a life of pleasing God look like?   ·      What aspects...

Discussion Questions: Sermon Overview: This past week’s sermon was focused on how we respond to Jesus’ sacrificial death for us by pleasing God with sacrificial lives. We please God in at least three ways: With our love for one another (vv. 1-6) With our loyalty to what we’ve received (vv. 7-17) When we look to him to keep us faithful (vv. 18-21) Digging Deeper:   Read Hebrews 13:1-19. Put a star...

Discussion Questions: Sermon Overview:  This past week’s sermon was focused on enduring in faith through laying aside sin and looking to Jesus.   Digging Deeper:     1. Hebrews 12:1 calls us to “run with endurance the race that is set before us.”  How is what we saw in Hebrews chapter 11 meant to motivate us to do this?  (Note how Heb. 12:1 begins.)      2. In what ways are you tempted to stop “ru...

Discussion Questions: Sermon Overview: This past week’s sermon was focused on the idea that followers of Jesus should endure because of their confidence by faith in a promise-keeping God. • What faith is: certainty of unseen realities (vv. 1-3) • What faith receives: God's commendation (vv. 4-7) • What faith sees: the fulfillment of God's promises (vv. 8-22) • What faith enables: costly obedience...

Sermon Application Questions: Sermon Overview: This past week’s sermon was focused on the idea that followers of Jesus endure in the confidence Christ has provided, knowing your reward is sure.     The author has established that because of Christ’s priesthood (ch. 5-7) and sacrifice (ch. 8-10), we have confidence to enter God’s presence, both now in prayer and ultimately in eternal life. Chapter...

Sermon Application Questions: Sermon Overview: The main point of this week’s sermon was: Jesus alone is the perfect sacrifice to take our sins away, so stay loyal to him. The passage progresses through four reasons why Jesus alone is the perfect sacrifice:  Jesus alone is the perfect sacrifice because every other way fails  Jesus alone is the perfect sacrifice because he’s the long-awaited, once-f...

Sermon Application Questions: Sermon Overview: This past Sunday we looked at Hebrews 8:1-9:28 with the main idea being: Hold fast to Jesus, who has secured our eternal relationship with God through his sacrifice of himself. There were two parts to the passage:     Jesus has secured our relationship with God built on beautiful promises (8:1-13)  Jesus has secured this relationship through his self-...

Sermon Application Questions: Sermon Overview: This past Sunday we looked at Hebrews 5:11-6:12, a famous warning passage that progresses through three sections:  1. Admonition to a set of Christians (5:11-6:3) 2. Warning to all who claim to be Christians – true and false believers (6:4-6:8) 3. Reassurance for those who are faithful and patient (6:9-12) Digging Deeper: ⦁ In 5:11-14 the author makes...

Sermon Application Questions: Sermon Overview:  This past Sunday we looked at Hebrews 5:11-6:12, a famous warning passage that progresses through three sections:     Admonition to a set of Christians (5:11-6:3)  Warning to all who claim to be Christians – true and false believers  (6:4-6:8)  Reassurance for those who are faithful and patient (6:9-12)  Digging Deeper:  In 5:11-14 the author makes a...

Sermon Application Questions: Sermon Overview: This past Sunday we looked at Hebrews 4:14-5:10 with the main idea being: hold fast to Jesus, who saves eternally and helps sympathetically.   Digging Deeper : Read Hebrews 4:14-5:10  Why do we need Jesus as a high priest?   Jesus is a high priest that was: (1) appointed by God, (2) chosen among men and (3) able to offer sacrifices for sin. Why are ea...

Sermon Application Questions: Sermon Overview:  This past Sunday we looked at Hebrews 3:7-4:13 with the main idea being: those who enter God’s rest are those who respond to his voice from the heart.  Digging Deeper:  The passage begins with a quote from Psalm 95. Can you identify the three time periods represented between vv. 7-14?    What is “God’s rest” that this passage keeps talking about? How...

Sermon Overview:  The main idea from this past week’s sermon was to stay focused on Jesus, because those who hold their trust in him are his people forever. We were called to consider Jesus’ faithful work (vv. 1-2), Jesus’ greater worth (vv. 3-6a) and the promise of being his people forever if we hold fast to him (v. 6b).   Ice Breaker:  If you could build your dream home, what feature would be no...

Main Point: Last week we saw that Jesus is the divine Son of God, full in power, majesty, and authority. This week’s passage helps us see that Jesus covers our sins and identifies with us. He is our savior and brother. He both fully rescues us from our sin (savior) and identifies with us in our weakness (brother).   Ice Breaker:  Who is one of your heroes? Why do you admire them?    In vs 10, it m...