Sermon: John 17:6-19 Steve Krier DOWNLOAD THESE QUESTIONS (PDF) What sticks out to you most in this passage and why? How is Christ Glorified in believers? (v.10) What does it mean that the Lord keeps and guards those who are His? How does this truth affect your life and faith? (vv. 11-12) Who is the "son of destruction", and what does it mean that he was lost? (v...
Keep Reading Sermon: John 17:1-5 Pastor Mike Johnson DOWNLOAD THESE QUESTIONS (PDF) What sticks out to you most in this passage and why? How should the way Jesus prays to the Father inform our own prayer lives? (v. 1) Who has the Father "given" the Son? (v. 2) Jesus speaks of the Father as the only true God and then refers to himself as being sent from the Father (v. 3). Does...
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Sermon: John 16:25-33 Pastor Mike Johnson DOWNLOAD THESE QUESTIONS (PDF) What sticks out to you most in this passage and why? What is Jesus referring to when He says, "The hour is coming when I will... tell you plainly about the Father"? Why is it that "in that day" Jesus will not ask the Father on the disciples' behalf? (vv. 26-28) What do verses 29-32 reveal ab...
Keep Reading Sermon: John 16:16-24 Pastor Mike Johnson Why was it so difficult for the disciples to understand what Jesus was saying to them? (vv. 16-18) "Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him..." (v. 19) What does this teach us about Christ's divinity? Jesus turns their sorrow to joy (v. 20). How have you experienced Jesus meeting you in your sorrow? Jesus' resurrectio...
Keep Reading Sermon: John 16:4b-15 Pastor Mike Johnson Jesus says it's to their advantage that He goes away, for then the Helper will come. Why would it be better to have the Holy Spirit with us? What does it mean that the Spirit will "guide you into all the truth"? With the Spirit, will we know all things? If the Spirit does not speak on His own authority, is He lesser than ...
Keep Reading Sermon: John 16:1-4a Pastor Mike Johnson What stands out to you in this passage and why? How do you think knowing what Jesus shared in the prior chapter is helpful in keeping the disciples (and us) from "falling away"? (Read John 15:18-27 for context) This passage speaks of a time when Jesus' followers would be rejected and hated by the worldeven in their own com...
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Sermon: Revelation 5:9-14 Pastor Mike Johnson What comfort does it bring to us to know the Jesus is worthy to open the scroll? (v. 5) Why is He worthy? What gives Him the right and power to open it? How should it affect the way we live today, knowing that we have been purchased by the blood of Christ, and that we are made to be "priests to serve our God"? Verse...
Keep Reading Sermon: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Pastor Mike Johnson What stands out to you most in this passage, and why? Verse 32 says that the New Covenant is "not like the [Old] Covenant." What are some of the major differences? and how is that helpful for ou Christian walk? What does it mean to have the law written on our hearts? Does God's written Word still have relevance? God...
Keep Reading Sermon: Isaiah 53 Pastor Mike Johnson What stands out to you most in this passage, and why? Verse 3 calls Jesus a "man of sorrows, aquianted with grief." In what ways can the fact that Jesus suffered as a human (both life and death) meet us in our human suffering?) What kind of peace if verse 5 talking about? Verse 10 says it was "the will of the Lord to crush ...
Keep Reading Sermon:Isaiah 9:6-7 Pastor Mark Hecht What stands out to you most in this passage, and why? In what ways do you see Jesus as a Wonderful Counselor? How have you experienced this in your own life? In what ways do you see Jesus as a Mighty God? How have you experienced this in your own life? In what ways do you see Jesus as an Everlasting God? How have you experi...
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