Nehemiah 9 Sermon Discussion Questions
How have you recently forgotten God’s goodness in your life? How has this caused you to sin against God? How have you recently rejected God’s goodness in your life by rejecting His word? What specific sin has this led to in your life? How have you exchanged God’s goodness for the slavery of sin? How have you allowed God’s good gifts in your life to be stolen by sin? Which of the following describes you when you are found guilty of sin; I tend to be apathetic about confessing your sin and pursuing forgiveness I tend to withdraw from God, [...]
Nehemiah 7-8 Sermon Discussion Questions
Do you tend to think of the sermon as a private spiritual discipline performed in public? How will you seek to consider yourself in the context of a community when you hear the word of God? What are ways you minimize the importance of gathering to hear the word in your life and the life of your family? How can you make gathering to hear the word with the church more important in your life and the life of your family? We make a theological statement about the Bible by the way we gather to hear it. We declare [...]
Nehemiah 6 Sermon Discussion Questions
Describe how your life fits within God’s promise to be faithful to His people. How is God using you to fulfill this promise in the world? What is the enemy’s most effective tool to distract you from what God has called you to do? What are the normal patterns of this distraction in your life? How might you fight to stay focused on God’s mission despite this distraction? (Include practical suggestions) How do the things you are most worried about distract you from God’s mission in your life? How would prayer and work guard your heart from anxiety? What [...]
Nehemiah 5 Sermon Discussion Questions
How do we tend to use the disadvantages of others for our advantage in the church? How are you tempted to keep score when you serve others? How does God’s unconditional faithfulness change this? Are there ways in which you distracting others from Jesus’ mission by enslaving them with your demands? How can you be a tangible reminder of God’s faithfulness in the life of someone who may be struggling this week? (Be specific) In what ways do you seek to give just enough (according to the rules) instead of beyond what is expected? How can does God’s faithfulness [...]
Nehemiah 3-4 Sermon Discussion Questions
What kind of conflict or disagreements do you tend to take the most personally? What type of responses do these conflicts invoke from you? Why is this? How does seeing your life in light of God’s plan to show his faithfulness to his people (Ephesians 1:21, Revelation 5:9, Matthew 28:19) keep us from making every conflict personal? What conflict or opposition in your life do you need to simply trust God with in prayer? Are there areas in your life in which you are tempted to be unfaithful? How would remembering God’s faithfulness in light of the gospel change [...]
Nehemiah 2 Sermon Discussion Questions
As you have considered God’s faithfulness, what are some specific ways God has displayed his faithfulness in your life? How have you seen God’s faithful this week? Has God's faithfulness ever led you to a specific courageous next step of faithfulness? How did God prove faithful in light of this decision? What opportunities or doors has God opened for you to act courageously? What provision has God blessed you with that need to be stewarded for His glory? In what ways has God displayed His faithfulness to you through the church? How does His faithfulness in the church give [...]