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.

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 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!

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. 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?

A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is Luke 23:32-43. 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. In this word from the cross, was Jesus just being a good son, or did he intend something more?
2. Have you ever considered Jesus strange comments on the family?
3. What kinds of things unite the congregation you are part of, whether Immanuel or another? Identify some things that draw our attention away from realizing our unity in Jesus?
4. How can you live into the unity of the church this week? How will you be ‘the Lord’s servant’?
5. Do you believe that by his death on the cross Jesus dethrones the proud? Can your actions be guide by the hope that in the end all people will confess Jesus is Lord (cf. Phil. 2:11)?

A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is Luke 23:32-43. 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. What does Paradise mean to you? How did the sermon invite us to re-imagine it?
2. Consider what ways you have acted like the folks around the cross. How do you see such actions played out in society today?
3. What is indicated by the word ‘Today’ as used in by Jesus on the cross? What happens when Jesus’ touches us?
4. How can the ‘Today’ of the kingdom happen among us?