The Last Plague and Passover

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The Last Plague and Passover

March 28, 2021 • Josh Mathews

Music and Lyrics Used by Permission CCLI# 1595532

Sermon Application Questions - March 28, 2021:

1. God liberates his people through sacrifice. Imagine being a slave under one of the most powerful kings of the day. Your parents were slaves, your grandparents, and on and on as far back as you can remember. Then, in a flurry of time, the God you've worshipped sets you free. How would you feel personally? Towards God? How would being freed impact the way you see relationships? work? Challenges?

2. Jesus liberates his people from sin through his death and resurrection. What do you think about having a substitute take your place for a punishment you've earned? What emotions come to mind? How could/should Jesus' death and resurrection impact the way you see relationships? work? challenges?

3. Share a formative tradition, celebration, or rhythm from your life. It can be big things or seemingly normal habits. What significance has it had on you?

4. Are there any traditions you'd like to start? If so, what are they? And why do you want to start them?

5. Would you characterize your heart as hard or soft towards God? Using the list below, which items resonate with your life right now?

Hard-heart...	Soft-heart...
Resists God	Receives God
Seeks to work around God’s ways	Seeks to pursue God’s ways
Endlessly searches for an identity, often within themselves	Joyfully Finds their identity in God
Bends everything in life, career, friends, family, decisions, and lifestyles around itself	Bends everything in life, career, friends, family, decisions, and lifestyles around God
Needs the approval of others, therefore constantly compromising to fill a void.	Has the approval of God, therefore consistently resting in fulfillment
Walks through the struggles of life, often dependent on themselves	Walks through the struggles of life, dependent on God
Thinks the best life is now	Thinks the best life is later
Says it’s better to be aligned with their feelings, impulses, the ruling powers and/or social classes of the day, even if it means being opposed to God.	Says it’s better to be aligned with God, even if it means opposing some of their feelings, impulses, ruling powers and/or social classes of the day.
Ultimately takes on God’s judgment and wrath	Ultimately Passes God’s judgment and wrath to Jesus

Exodus Revisited

May 16, 2021 • Mike Bullmore

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Why does God have the writer of Psalm 105 rewrite the events he’s already had Moses record in the book of Exodus? What does the fact that this psalm was written 400 years after Exodus say about its usefulness for us living so many years after the Exodus? 2. How does that saying, “The way to build trust in a relationship is to make promises and keep them” strike you? Do you think it is true? Does it help you in your appreciation of God or does it seem like it doesn’t really apply? 3. What promises that God has made are most precious to you and would be most devastating to you if God did not “remember”? What accounts of God’s remembering in the past do you need to “remember” (v. 5) that will help you trust him now?

The Bible's Best Word

May 9, 2021 • Mike Bullmore

Music and Lyrics Used by Permission CCLI# 1595532 Sermon Application Questions: Think of the two main points from today’s message: 1. God means his presence with his people to be uninterrupted. 2. God means his presence to be known by his people. Reflect on each of these truths as they relate to your life, and then ask: What is the level of my confidence in and my experience of God’s presence? How do I think about it? How does it affect my day-to-day life? How might I grow in experiencing what God desires for me?

A Dreadful Step Back, A Huge Step Forward

May 2, 2021 • Mike Bullmore

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Have you allowed any impatience to turn to unbelief and lead you into idolatry? What might that look like? 2. Are you currently perhaps experiencing some correction from God that you need to pay attention to? How would you know that it is God’s correction? 3. If there has been sin, have you responded to God in true repentance? What would true repentance look like? 4. Are you enjoying all that God has for you in Christ today?