Sunday Sermons

Read 1 Peter 2:4-10 1. As you read v. 9-10, discuss how your life might look different if you really embraced these words in 2023. What do you think would look different? What keeps you from believing these words? 1. As you think about being part of God’s multiethnic family, what might be some of the challenges? How does the gospel help address these challenges? 1. If you are a living stone being...

Community Group Questions What are some of the things you have thought is the point of life? What are ways you may be tempted to take what God’s given you and use it for making your own empire? How does Jesus becoming a human, sharing in our smallness, encourage you? The cross was Jesus caring for you, being mindful of you, acting for your good. How can you model his redemptive heart in a place Go...

Community Group Questions Can you share a time you tried out for something and made it? How did it make you feel? What would have been in difference if you were “chosen not choice?” If you were picked not because of your skills and accomplishments but the desire of the person deciding?   As chosen people God calls us to be holy, to be both set apart from the world, and for the world. What is the d...

Community Group Questions Describe some things that bring you life? What comes to mind when you hear “eternal life?”   Which narrative do you feel more pulled toward: the modern narrative of thinking life is just the here and now; or the religious narrative that life is just beyond the here and now? Where is a place you want Jesus to bring more of his resurrection life into? How does it free you t...

Community Group Questions What is the good news of the gospel in Psalm 32? How would you define “sin”? Can you give a recent example of that in your life? How do you normally respond to your sin? Repression (I did nothing wrong); Remorse (I can’t believe I did that); Resolution (I promise to do better next time)?   If a forgiven life is a thriving life, how this week can you begin to experience mo...

Community Group Discussion Questions: We are all worshipers, what are some of the things that, without prompting, you praise? We become what we behold, what are the things your heart daydreams about? (e.g. career, comfort, influence, ext…). Can you name any ways these things have failed you, have made you empty and lifeless? Describe as many ways you can the beauty of Jesus. How has Jesus given yo...

Community Group Questions Fill in the blank, "If someone knew every part of me, even more than I knew about myself, they would __________ me."    Where is a place in your life where you are tempted to think God's love is conditional? How does the bright future you have in the gospel give you hope for something you are facing today?

Community Group Questions Who are some people or things you desire? What feelings do they invoke in you? Have you ever been desired by someone? What does that feel like? Is there a place in your life you would be willing to share where you don’t think you’re worthy of love?   How does the knowledge that someone as significant as God the Father desires you in the places you may feel unloveable help...

Community Group Questions What are some ways our culture views our bodies? Have you seen that change before and after the pandemic? Have you ever seen your physical body being connected to your spiritual life? If so, how? Our bodies have disordered desires, good things we long for above God. Is there a place in your life where you feel a real struggle toward a disordered desire?   “My Master looks...

Community Group Discussion Questions 1. When you hear the word "soul" what comes to mind? 2. Where in your life right now does your soul feel like it's in a drought? 3. Psalm 42 describes three parts of a process of restoration where we feel spiritually dry: Be brutally honest Come to Jesus for restoration Help each other sit under the waterfall of God's grace How can you take a step this process...