Sunday Sermons

Community Group Questions What strikes you about God’s grace toward Abraham in the birth of Isaac? Isaac means “laughter”, which has a duel meaning. It speaks to Abraham and Sarah laughing at God's promises and the laughter of grace in God fulfilling his promises. Where has God’s promises reversed a seemingly hopeless situation for you? The "way of Ishmael" was Abraham trusting himself and living...

Community Group Questions Where is fear on repeat in your life? What is the fear underneath your fears? How do those fears leave you feeling trapped? How does God’s love in the gospel set you free from specific fears?

Community Group Questions What doubts do you have, or have had about the resurrection of Jesus? Where in your life are you longing for the new life of the resurrection? The resurrection leads to mission where the power of the gospel is displayed through our weakness. How can you think about sharing Christ with a specific person through sharing your weakness and God’s grace?

Community Group Questions What’s your need you're bringing in tonight? Have you named your need to Jesus? Is your cry in your need more often “help me” or “save me”? Why? How can we help one another behold the king together?

Community Group Questions Is there something you are facing that seems impossible for God? Maybe cognitively you know God is powerful enough to move i this situation, but your prayer life would say otherwise? Where do you need God to show up in your life right now? Three great promises we can take from Genesis 18 is that God is  for  us,  with  us and working  in  and  through  us. Which of these...

Community Group Questions Abraham is almost 99 years old and still waiting for God’s promise to be fulfilled. How are you with waiting for God? Is there something right now you are waiting for him on? In the sign of circumcision, God communicates his grace to Abraham in a place of sin. What place of sin and need to do need to hear God’s grace to you in Jesus? God’s call to Abraham is to respond to...

Community Group Questions Abram and Sarai are impatient, distrustful of God and skeptical of his grace. So they decide to take the shortcut. Where in life may you have a similar heart-posture toward God and his promises? Where you may be tempted to shortcut faith in Jesus? If you had to distill what it means to be a Christian into one word, what would it be? Does it differ at all from how Hagar sh...

Community Group Questions Abraham Lincoln once wrote, “you can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.” What makes you angry? Where is it righteous anger, reflecting the values of God’s kingdom, and where is it unrighteous anger, reflecting the values of our “kingdoms of self”? Are there places of comfort God may be calling you to leave for the good of your neighbor? Read Hebrews 7:23...

Community Group Questions “The heart-difference in [Abraham] depended upon whether he trusted or distrusted God’s word.” How would you complete this sentence: my time recently spent in God’s word has been ____________. Is there a place you are living through the lens of fear right now that you can pray the Holy Spirit will enable you to live through faith? Read Romans 8:31-39. What promise of the...

Community Group Questions Read Genesis 12:10-13:2 1. What stands out to you from the text and/or the sermon? 2. Read the following quote (where Kent Hughes comments on v. 10). Discuss your own tendency to “turn to your own devices” and what has it resulted in? Abram did the natural thing, and herein the problem lies. There is no mention that he sought God’s will in the matter…Abram’s going to Egyp...

Community Group Questions Read Genesis 11:27-12:9 Can you name some ways God was pursuing you before you were converted? And what are some ways God has continued to pursue you throughout your Christian life? Faithfulness meant Abraham loving God even when it cost him. Can you name a time when you were faithful and it cost you? Is there a place in your life right now you feel convicted you haven’t...

Community Group Questions When you hear the term "love God" how have you understood to do that? Read Deuteronomy 6:4-8. What type of love is this passage calling us to? Which of these four key lessons from the life of Abraham do you most hope to grow in during the series? Loving God means being loyal + committed to Him (even if it costs you) Loving God means trusting Him (even when it doesn’t make...