CrossWay Community Church | Bristol, WI

"The Manifestation of the Spirit for the Common Good"

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"The Spirit Helps Us"

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview The Spirit helps God's children as we await our glorious future. Digging Deeper Read Romans 8:14-27 1. Practically speaking, what does it (or should it) look like for us to be “led by the Spirit of God” (verse 14) in the common, ordinary tasks of life? 2. Romans 8:13-17 expresses three massive changes that happen for people who are “led by the Spirit of God” (v.s 14): a. From slaves to adopted sons b. From being afraid of God to being able to call God “Abba” ...

"Live According to the Spirit"

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Live out your freedom from condemnation and sin by the power of the Spirit. Digging Deeper Read Romans 8:1-13 1. There are many precious and encouraging truths in this passage. Which one do you find most encouraging? Why? 2. What point of application that Pastor Brett made from this text did you find most relevant to your life? Why? 3. If you are a follower of Jesus, you have the Holy Spirit. What is a situation you are facing/anticipate facing where it would...

"Born of the Spirit'

Discussion Questions: Sermon Overview Everyone who believes in Jesus has been born of the Spirit and has eternal life. Digging Deeper Read John 3:1-15 1. Ezekiel 36:25-27 reads as follows: “I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spi...

The Surprising Power, Priority, and People of Jesus

Discussion Questions: Sermon Overview Align your life with the real Jesus. #1: Align your trust with the astonishing power of Jesus (vv. 37-43a) #2: Align your priorities with the perplexing priority of Jesus (vv. 43b-45) #3: Align your relationships with the unconventional people of Jesus. (vv. 46-50) Digging Deeper Read Luke 9:37-50 1. What circumstances make it challenging for you to trust in Jesus? (e.g., work, family, parenting, health, future, money, etc). 2. What would it look like to dee...

“This Is My Son...Listen to Him!”

Discussion Questions: Week of: May 11, 2025 // Sermon Text: Luke 9:28-36 Sermon Overview Because Jesus is God's saving Son, believe and obey his words above all. Digging Deeper Read Luke 9:28-36 Exploring the Passage 1. Throughout the book of Luke, the question “Who is this (Jesus)?” has been asked repeatedly. In the passage today, we read an answer. Who answers, and how does he answer? 2. What happens in v. 29? Why is it important? 3. What do Moses and Elijah (v.30) represent? Why is this signi...

“Who Do You Say That I Am?”

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Follow Jesus the suffering King into the greater gain of his kingdom. Digging Deeper Read Luke 9:18-27. 1. Imagine Jesus standing before you today and asking, “Who do you say that I am?” How would you answer that question? 2. Jesus describes himself as the “Son of Man” in verse 26. It was a title used in the Old Testament to mean human. With that, read Daniel 7:13-14, which expands the term. Using that background, what did Jesus mean when he said he was the “...

The Lord Who Abundantly Provides

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Jesus is able to abundantly provide for his sent and opposed followers. Digging Deeper Read Luke 9:1-17 1. For Jesus’ disciples in this passage, what was the job he gave them to do? 2. As Jesus’ followers, we are called not only to receive the Kingdom of God, but also to proclaim it (9:2). In other words, God wants, not only to extend his grace to us, but also use us, as instruments in his hand, to extend that grace to others. How often do you think about God...

The Lord of Life

Sermon Overview Jesus alone has the authority to give life, so trust him. Digging Deeper Read Luke 8:40-56 1. The situation with Jairus’s daughter went from desperate to (seemingly) hopeless. And yet, because of who Jesus is, the one who has the authority to give life, things were not actually hopeless after all. Has there been a situation(s) in your life where you were tempted to feel that things are hopeless? How did God use that situation in your life? Please share. 2. How would you counsel a...

Good Friday 2025

The Son Who Subdues and Saves

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Jesus is God's Son who subdues and saves. Digging Deeper Read Luke 8:22-39 1. The big idea from this passage is that “Jesus is God's Son who subdues and saves.” Where do we see this in the text? 2. Jesus both falls asleep in vs 23 and then commands the winds and waves in verse 24. What can we conclude about Jesus from these two verses? 3. What do these passages show us about caring for others who are facing storms in their lives? 4. Are there particular circu...

Be Still and Wait: Meditating on God's Word

Spring Women's Ministry gathering.

"He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear"

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview True "hearing" produces real fruit. Digging Deeper Read Luke 8:4-21 1. Verse 10 seems odd at first, but it was meant to shock the crowds into truly hearing. How does verse 9 help us understand how to truly hear? 2. What are four different soils? How are they similar? How are they different? 3. What might it look like when “the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved” (verse 12)? 4. What is the problem w...

The Holy Spirit & The Christian Life

Extravagant Forgiveness Produces Extravagant Love

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Those who are extravagantly forgiven by Jesus extravagantly love him. Digging Deeper Read Luke 7:36-8:3 1. From Simon the Pharisees' perspective, what’s the most important thing about the woman (see vs. 39)? From Jesus’ perspective, what’s the most important thing about the woman (see vv. 44-47)? 2. When faced with ‘sinners’, how might you be tempted to think of them in the same way that Simon thought of the woman? 3. Sadly, at times, our hearts are more alig...

"Are You the One Who is to Come?"

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Respond to Jesus' authority and compassion with humble faith. Digging Deeper Read Luke 7:1-35 1. Why did Jesus marvel at the centurion? 2. When the centurion sent the elders of the Jews to Jesus, they touted the centurion’s worthiness, but the centurion himself recognized that he was truly unworthy. Consider your own heart. Do you feel the need to defend your worthiness before God or do you see your unworthiness and trust in Christ like the centurion? 3. The ...

Two Trees, Two Builders, and True Disciples

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview True disciples are known by their words and their response to Jesus' words. Digging Deeper Read Luke 6:43-49 1. Based on the words you speak, how do you think those around you would describe your heart? 2. Are you tempted to blame your circumstances for your speech? What would the last part of verse 45 say to that assessment? 3. To have an abundance of something means to have a plentiful supply of it. What is abundant or plentiful in your heart—joy, worry, pe...

The Surprising Love of Jesus' Followers

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Love others not according to their sins, but according to your Father's mercy. Digging Deeper Read Luke 6:27-42 How does the world around us view revenge? Where do you see that? The call of Jesus to love our enemies (those who mistreat us) is no small thing. What makes obedience to Jesus’ commands in these verses hard? Verse 31 is often called “the golden rule.” What are some practical day-to-day situations of your life where being more mindful of this comman...

His Blessed Followers

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Follow Jesus, for the hope he gives outweighs all hardship. Digging Deeper Read Luke 6:12-26 1. Jesus pulls an all-nighter of prayer on the heels of facing increased opposition (Luke 5:33-6:11) and right before choosing his 12 disciples. Yet, even after all that prayer, one of Jesus’ disciples betrayed him (Lk. 6:16). What can we learn about God and prayer that sometimes earnest prayer doesn’t mean everything works out perfectly? 2. Luke 6:12 is another examp...

Women's Retreat 2025: Faithfulness in Suffering

Hear from God's word through Glenna Marshall, author of The Promise is His Presence, Memorizing Scripture, and Everyday Faithfulness from the one-day Restore retreat. Glenna spoke over 3 sessions on growing in faithfulness, remaining faithful in the mundane of life, and faithfulness in suffering.

Women's Retreat 2025: Growing in Faithfulness

Hear from God's word through Glenna Marshall, author of The Promise is His Presence, Memorizing Scripture, and Everyday Faithfulness from the one-day Restore retreat. Glenna spoke over 3 sessions on growing in faithfulness, remaining faithful in the mundane of life, and faithfulness in suffering.

Women's Retreat 2025: Remaining Faithful in the Mundane of Life

Hear from God's word through Glenna Marshall, author of The Promise is His Presence, Memorizing Scripture, and Everyday Faithfulness from the one-day Restore retreat. Glenna spoke over 3 sessions on growing in faithfulness, remaining faithful in the mundane of life, and faithfulness in suffering.

“The Newness of Following Jesus”

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview There’s no one like Jesus, so follow him in the newness of what he brings. Digging Deeper Read Luke 5:33-6:11 1. What does each encounter reveal about who Jesus is, and how is this especially significant to you? 2. What was the problem with the Pharisees’ love of the law and view of spiritual practices? 3. How did Jesus apply God’s law and what did it reveal about God’s heart? 4. Why does it matter that Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath? 5. What is the significanc...

Willing and Able to Forgive

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Trust in Jesus, who is willing and able to forgive all who respond to his call. Digging Deeper Read Luke 5:12-32 1. The man with leprosy believed that Jesus had the power and authority to make him clean, but wasn’t sure if Jesus would be willing to cleanse him. How does Jesus respond to the man in verse 13? What do Jesus’ words and actions communicate to the man and to us? 2. The paralyzed man’s friends bring him to be physically healed and Jesus instead firs...

“They Left Everything and Followed Him”

Sermon Overview Because of his greatness and grace, follow Jesus fully. Digging Deeper Read Luke 5:1-11 1. When Simon Peter saw Christ’s greatness, he recognized his own sinfulness and begged Jesus to depart from him because he felt like his sin disqualified him from being in relationship with Jesus. Have you ever felt this way? Read Psalm 130:3-4 and Ephesians 2:11-22. What truths can you cling to when you feel like you can’t stand before God because of your sin? 2. Sometimes God grows us spiri...

“His Word Possessed Authority”

Discussion Questions Week of: February 2, 2025 // Sermon Text: Luke 4:31-44 Sermon Overview Trust in Jesus, who uses his authority to restore us to God. Digging Deeper Read Luke 4:31-44 1. In what ways is the Bible’s view on authority counter-cultural? 2. Jesus spoke and acted with authority. Where do we see that in this passage? 3. Jesus’ teaching has the authority of absolutely trustworthy truth. How do those in this passage respond to Jesus’ authority? 4. Submitting to the authority of anothe...

"Good News to the Poor"

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Jesus came to announce God's rescue for all who know they need him. Digging Deeper Read Luke 4:13-30 1. So far in this book, Luke has shown us that Jesus is God’s divine son (chapter 2) and the perfect human (3:1-4:13). Now Luke introduces us to Jesus’ mission. What is Jesus’ mission? (see vv. 18-19, 43). 2. How does Jesus’ claim to be the Servant of the LORD spoken of by Isaiah deepen our understanding of the person and work of Jesus? 3. By his words and dee...

The Faithful Son

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Trust in Jesus, who was faithful to the Father for us. Digging Deeper Read Luke 3:21-4:13 1. Reading the Father’s verdict on Jesus in verse 22, why is this brilliant news for us? 2. If you are united to Christ through faith, the love and pleasure that God has for his Son is extended to you as well. How does this fact make you feel? When in life and circumstances do you particularly need to call this to mind? 3. The genealogy of 3:23-37 highlights Jesus’ desce...

“Repentance for the Forgiveness of Sins”

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Jesus has brought God's salvation for all who evidently repent. Digging Deeper Read Luke 3:1-20 1. Luke begins this chapter (vv. 1-2) with a long introduction of many important people at the time and then transitions to talking about John the Baptist. What do you think Luke is trying to say about the perceived and real importance of these different people and their message? 2. Based on this passage and sermon, what does it mean for a person to repent? (see ve...

The Devoted Son

Discussion Questions Sermon Overview Trust in God's Son, who is devoted to seeking and sharing God's presence and wisdom. Digging Deeper Read Luke 2:41-52 1. Jesus is devoted to seeking God’s presence and wisdom. Where do we see evidence for this in this passage (2:41-52)? Why should we be thankful for this? 2. In this passage, we see that, even at a young age, Jesus has a deep self-understanding that he is the Son of God. How did Jesus’ self-understanding dictate his priorities? What might it l...