CrossWay Community Church | Bristol, WI

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What places can you be tempted to go to find security or comfort for your inner self? 2. Do you feel like you know God well enough to trust him? What steps might you need to take to grow here? 3. It is really hard to begin to trust God in the midst of a crisis. How might you prepare now for challenging times that will no doubt come? What can you do now to ensure th...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What facet of the rest God will provide when Jesus comes (rest in God’s presence from human hostility, death, sorrow, and shame) do you find yourself most looking forward to? Why? 2. Is there any area of life in which you encounter either opposition or ridicule for what you believe and how you live? How does the assurance from this chapter that all our mistreatment...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Do you find yourself in any way resistant to the fact that God intends to judge those, both people and nations, who have lifted themselves up against him? If so, what specifically troubles you about that?   2. Do you find yourself in any way resistant to the fact that God intends to save people from all “nations” of the earth? If so, what’s behind that? Do your bes...

Sermon Application Questions: 1.  Are you “optimistic about the future”? In other words, does your confidence regarding your future help you live with a kind of joyful optimism now? If not, do your best to locate where the problem is.   2. When you stop to think about it what do you find the actual longings of your heart to be? Where is the most likely place you’ll find satisfaction for those long...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Think of your life apart from God. What particular forms of “darkness” characterized your life?   2. Consider the line in Isaiah 8:19: “Should not a people inquire of their God?” Where, other than God, are you inclined to look for guidance and provision in your life?   3. Read John 12:46. Think of that image of Jesus as light. How does the reality that image speaks...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. In what areas of your life do you find yourself regularly tempted to fear? Are you fearing anything right now? 2. Are there promises from God’s Word that speak to your particular fears? (The sermon mentioned 1 John 1:9, Hebrews 13:5, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:32, and Romans 8:38-39.) What difference would believing that promise make for you? 3. Where, other than God, a...

Sermon Application Questions:   1. It’s hard for all of us to acknowledge our sin. What tendencies to avoid acknowledging your sin do you see in yourself? What are the affects you experience as a result of not acknowledging your sin?   2. What part of God’s solution to your sin problem is most meaningful to you? What is the most meaningful way you have expressed your gratitude to God for his provi...

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Sermon Application Questions: 1. What are the ways you are “prone to wander”? Do you find any connections between the “wanderings” of the people outlined in Nehemiah 13 and those of your own life? How would God call you to respond to the awareness of your wanderings? 2. Stop and consider that simple phrase in v. 22: “The greatness of your steadfast love.” Do you sense that you feel the weight of t...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Read Jeremiah 32:36-44, a prophecy about the return of God’s people from exile in Babylon. What do you see fulfilled in this prophecy in Nehemiah 11-12? 2. Why did the people gather to rejoice in Jerusalem? 3. We saw four pictures of devoted and joyful community. Which of them was most encouraging or inspiring to you and why?  4. How might your small group grow to...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Did God "highlight" anything in the passage--did anything jump off the page as a message for you? 2. What are some ways your gospel community can commit to holiness--to be distinctly good in ways that represent God's grace to outsiders? 3. Is your commitment to God empowered by the gospel? Why or why not? 4. Is there anything in your life that is keeping you from a...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. If you were asked to describe what God is like in a word or two what would you say? Why did you choose the words you chose? 2. How does reading through the history of Nehemiah 9:9-31 affect you? Are there any similarities there to your own history? 3. Think about how you have experienced the mercy of God. What stands out? _____________________________ Music and Lyr...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. How do you come to the gathering on Sunday mornings? Take a moment to actually think about the state of mind and heart you are typically in on Sunday. How would you describe that in a word or two? Does it match with what Nehemiah 8 pictures for us? 2. Stop and imagine for a moment what your life would really be like without God’s word. In the absence of God’s word...

Sermon Application Questions: Do you feel like you live with an awareness of God’s personal knowledge of you and his care for you? What convinces you that God is, in fact, personally attentive to you? 2. How aware are you that while God cares about your here and now, he is also moving you (and others) toward some great future time and place? How real is that to you day to day and what difference d...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. When was the last time you faced opposition for being committed to Christ and his kingdom? What form did that opposition take? How did you respond? How do you wish you would have responded? 2. What about God most strengthens your desire to stay with the work? Think carefully about this recognizing that particular truth about God should have particular effects in ou...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What makes it challenging for you to be generous? Is there a particular desire, for example for security or comfort, that makes it challenging for you to give to others? How does the gospel motivate us to be generous? 2. Do you find that you’re in close enough relationships with others that you see opportunities to be generous? If not, what can you do to grow in yo...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Where do you see opposition to Christianity and Christians in our culture today? In what form do you experience opposition? 2. Do you find yourself tempted to discouragement or fear when you see or experience opposition? What form does that take? If not one of those, how does it affect you? 3. How does directing your thoughts to truth about God help you avoid disco...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. When was the last time you experienced the effect of a fellow Christian’s sin? When do you think was the last time someone experienced the effect of your sin? When you felt the effect of another’s sin, were you tempted at all to disengage from serving God? 2. How have you experienced “multiplied” and enriched relationships in the course of your engagement with God’...