Let Me Go!
Wilderness Wanderings
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 . Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC:
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Game Over
Wilderness Wanderings
A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is John 19:28-37. To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it . Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC:
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Let there Be Darkness
Wilderness Wanderings
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 . Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: What does darkness mean to you? 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? What does Jesus mean when he...
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Can God Thirst?
Wilderness Wanderings
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 . Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: Why is valuable that Jesus is physically thirsty? How does John introduce Jesus’ thirst? What does this say about Jesus? What does it say about his death on the cross? Jesus was thirsty for water. But he was thirsty for more too. What was it? Do you believe...
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Hide-N-Seek
Wilderness Wanderings
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 . Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: DIVE IN QUESTIONS? What do you see when you look at church buildings or cathedrals? What two things are often represented by cathedral architecture? “Why do they focus on the awful way he died?” How would you have answered this question before today’s...
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Blood Ties
Wilderness Wanderings
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 . Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: In this word from the cross, was Jesus just being a good son, or did he intend something more? Have you ever considered Jesus strange comments on the family? What kinds of things unite the congregation you are part of, whether Immanuel or another? Identify some...
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Will Jesus Remember?
Wilderness Wanderings
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 . Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: What does Paradise mean to you? How did the sermon invite us to re-imagine it? Consider what ways you have acted like the folks around the cross. How do you see such actions played out in society today? What is indicated by the word ‘Today’ as used in by...
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Eavesdropping on the Trinity
Wilderness Wanderings
A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is Luke 23:26-34. 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 . Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: Where do we pick of the story of Jesus on the cross? What might it mean that those at the cross ‘did not know what they were doing’? Why is it so astonishing that Jesus comes to us with forgiveness? How do we usually approach people who have wronged us?...
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Doxology
Wilderness Wanderings
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21) Doxology is a fitting place to end this season of Wilderness Wanderings. This will be the last of the devotions for a while—and certainly the last of mine (Pastor Anthony). Perhaps Wilderness Wanderings will continue in time, but before turning to the season of Lent tomorrow, we simply give thanks to God for this good...
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Knowing Love
Wilderness Wanderings
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:17b-19). What roots and establishes us in love? As was said yesterday, it is Christ dwelling in our hearts through faith by the gift and power of the Spirit. This is our rooting and establishing in love. It is Christ’s love that grounds us, embeds us firmly in the soil of...
info_outlineA 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?
- What do you see when you look at church buildings or cathedrals? What two things are often represented by cathedral architecture?
- “Why do they focus on the awful way he died?” How would you have answered this question before today’s sermon?
- What have you done to stop sinning? How do you think about sin? How problematic is it? Have you ever considered yourself cursed?
- 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?
- What does it mean that the curtain in the temple was torn from top to bottom?