Check here each week for information to prepare your heart for the upcoming sermon and follow-up questions you can use after the sermon to dig deeper and disciple your family!
Christ Died for Our Sins According to the Scriptures
March 14, 2019
Christ Died for our Sins According to the Scriptures
1 Corinthians 15:3
Preparing your heart for the sermon:
- What does Paul mean we he says Christ death and resurrection is “according to the Scriptures”?
- Why is it important for Christians to know the Old Testament?
- How does the NT shed more light on the OT? What role does the death/resurrection of Christ play?
Other passages to consider: Ex 12; Lev 16:1-22; Num 21:4-9; Psalm 22; Isa 53; Luke 24:25-27; John 3:14-18; 5:39,46; Acts 2:23; 4:23-28; 7:51-52; 13:23-29; 1 Cor 5:7; Heb 9:24-10:25; 13:10-15
Digging Deeper:
- How does the OT help us to understand more fully what Christ accomplished on the cross?
- Why is it helpful to see how the Apostles use the OT?
- What is encouraging about the fact that Christ death was according to the definite plan of God?
- In what ways could you become more familiar with the OT?
Keeping the Gospel Central
March 08, 2019
Keeping the Gospel Central – 1 Corinthians 15:1-5
Preparing your heart for the sermon:
- What is the Gospel? Who is focus of the Gospel? Where do we find the Gospel?
- Why is it important for Paul to remind the Corinthians about the Gospel?
- How did the Gospel come to the Corinthians? Where did Paul get it from? How does the Gospel spread today?
Other passages to consider: Matt 10:22; John 3:16-18; 10:26-29; Rom 1:16; 1 Cor 1:17-25; 11:23; Phil 1:6; 1 Thess 2:13; 2 Pet 1:12-15
Digging Deeper:
- What should our response/relationship to the Gospel look like?
- In what ways can a church get distracted from the Gospel?
- Why do Christians never outgrow the Gospel? How can I keep the Gospel central in my life?
- How is our salvation completed and also still in process?
By His Wounds You Have Been Healed
March 01, 2019
By His Wounds You Have Been Healed
1 Peter 2:21-25
Preparing your heart for the sermon:
- How does Peter describe our condition before Christ?
- What did Jesus do for us? How would you describe his sacrifice?
- What is the result of Christ’s sacrifice for us?
Other passages to consider: Ps 23; Isa 40:11-12; 53; Luke 15:1-7; Jn 10; Eph 2:1-10
Digging Deeper:
- From what have we been healed? Is there more healing to come? What will that entail?
- Knowing the Lord is our Shepherd, what does this tell us about our relationship with him?
- How does Christ provide shepherding and oversight? (Hint: where else does Peter talk about these things in his letter?)
- In what area can you be living to righteousness?
God's Design for Women Participating in the Church
February 22, 2019
God’s Design for Women Participating in the Church
1 Corinthians 14:33-40
Preparing your heart for the sermon:
- Why is it important that the church gathering is conducted in an orderly way?
- In what areas of life has God designed an ordering of roles? What does this look like?
- What does Paul give as support for his commands to women? Where in the Law is he probably referring?
Other passages to consider: Gen 1:26-27; 2:18-23; Eccl 3:7; Isa 53:4-7; 1 Cor 11:2-16; 14:26-40; 1 Tim 2:11-14; 1 Pet 2:21-3:2
Digging Deeper:
- How does being silent through submission point us to Christ in the Gospel?
- Does Paul ever expect a woman to speak when the church gathers? How does her silence give her a platform to speak later?
- Are Paul’s commands to women still applicable today or were they simply based on culture? Why or why not?
- Who else is this context is commanded to submit and be silent? When might we be called to respond that way?