A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is John 20:24-29. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection!

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Dive In Questions

1. How is this passage often preached? How was it preached today?
2. In this passage, we learn that God is re-_______ our _____________ as his church.
3. People become part of the body through the ___________ of the ___________ __________.
4. Do you think some people are more important than others? Is this the right way to think about folks in the church? Who has placed people in the church?
5. What is more important than spiritual gifts? How will you live this out in this body?

A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is John 20:24-29. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection!

To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca

A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is John 20:1-23. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection!

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1. What do you want people to be like? Do you want to be the same kind of person?
2. What “influencers” have shaped your mind? What experiences have shaped you?
3. Which “influencers” transform us?
4. How does growing a seed compare to being transformed?

A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is John 20:1-23.

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A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is John 19:28-37.

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A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is Luke 23:44-49. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection!

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1. What does darkness mean to you?
2. What does darkness represent in the Bible? Which ones resonate with you the most? Do any of them frighten you? Spend some time this week imagining what the folks about the cross experienced in that darkness?
3. What does Jesus mean when he says, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit?” How are we encouraged by this?
4. Also, spend time this week mediating on benefits of Christ’s death reflected on in Romans 8. Memorize the songs of Psalm Sunday and sing/speak them regularly.

A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is John 19:28-37. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection!

To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca

1. Why is valuable that Jesus is physically thirsty?
2. How does John introduce Jesus’ thirst? What does this say about Jesus? What does it say about his death on the cross?
3. Jesus was thirsty for water. But he was thirsty for more too. What was it? Do you believe this about God? How does it change the way you live?

A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is Mark 15:33-41. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection!

To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca

DIVE IN QUESTIONS?

1. What do you see when you look at church buildings or cathedrals? What two things are often represented by cathedral architecture?
2. “Why do they focus on the awful way he died?” How would you have answered this question before today’s sermon?
3. What have you done to stop sinning? How do you think about sin? How problematic is it? Have you ever considered yourself cursed?
4. Jesus took our curse upon himself. What does the cross make you think about? It is an awful way to die; yet does it not lead us to rejoice?
5. What does it mean that the curtain in the temple was torn from top to bottom?