Sunday Sermons

Sermon Outline Hope is enduring in our everyday lives... ...when we obey and pray with hope. (17-19) ...because God is our source and our goal. (20-21) ...when we preach and greet with hope. (22-25)   Discussion/Application 1. Why is it so important to obey our leaders who keep watch over our soul? 2. Goals are talked about a lot in our lives. What are some of the goals that you've set in your own life before? How can you tell if God is your source and your goal in your own life? 3. What message does your life preach in your everyday life? How do you know?

Sermon Outline Live a life that is pleasing to God by looking to Jesus. 1. Love others without fear: Jesus never leaves us. (1-6) 2. Devote yourselves to truth: Jesus never changes. (7-9) 3. Sacrifice on repeat: Jesus always endures. (10-16)   Discussion/Application 1. Why might it be a fearful thing to love someone? How does our "never-leaving-Jesus" give us the confidence to love well? 2. Based on your own expereinces, how can we work together to help keep one-another from walking away from the truth? 3. We look like who we look too. What's one new way that you can look to Jesus more this week?

Sermon Outline Because of Jesus, we don't have to hide from God. 1. What You Are Not (18-21) 2. What You Are (22-24) 3. Listen Up! (25-27) 4. Gratefully receive the unshakable Kingdom. (28-29) 7 Things We’re Surrounded By Witnesses City of [the Living] God Angels The Church Spirits of Perfected People God: Judge of all Jesus: The Mediator Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.   Discussion/Application 1. What do we mean when we say, "because of Jesus, we don't have to hide from God."  2. What are some of the ways you've tried to hide from God in your own life? 3. How can you biblically "fear" the Lord this week?

Sermon Outline If we endure in holiness, it will be God's holiness… ...so consider the Son’s enduring redemption. (3-4) …so endure in the Father’s loving discipline. (5-11) …so strive for peace together. (12-17) 4 Discipline Dismissals The Fate Card “Meh, it is what it is. That’s life.” The Entitled Card “Meh, God has to forgive me anyway.” The Demon Card “Ugh, it’s Satan again!” The Victim Card “Ugh, God is picking on me!”   Discussion/Application 1. Holiness, as Scripture uses it is not self-interested or a word for the "self-sufficient". How have you heard the word or concept of holiness abused? What does holiness mean in Scripture? 2. Heart Diagnostic: which "discipline dismissal" card do you tend to "play"? The Fate Card “Meh, it is what it is. That’s life.”? The Entitled Card “Meh, God has to forgive me anyway.”? The Demon Card “Ugh, it’s Satan again!”? The Victim Card “Ugh, God is picking on me!”? 3. What is standing in the way of your striving for peace with a brother or sister in Christ? Who do you need to make peace with this week?

Sermon Outline Because God is faithful, we can live by faith. 7. We can fight and win unwinnable battles. (11:32-34) 8. We can endure unthinkable suffering with honor. (11:35-38) 9. We can look forward to the fulfillment of God's promises. (11:39-12:2)   Discussion/Application 1. Because God is faithful, we can live by faith, enduring unthinkable suffering with honor. What is it that makes suffering honorable in the Christian faith? 2. What is a battle in your life right now that, apart from Christ, would be completely unwinnable (be sure to keep yourself from gossip as you share)? 3. What is a promise of God from Scripture that you're looking forward to Him fulfilling? How can you remind yourself of your anticipation this week?

Sermon Outline Because God is faithful, we can live by faith. 4. We can trust God’s promises that outlive us. (17-22) 5. We can refuse to fear the world’s power. (23-28) 6. We can trust God to fight for us. (29-31)   Discussion/Application 1. God's promises outlive us. What makes this good news for God's people? 2. What fear of the world do you tend to experience? Political? Health? Economy? Fear-of-man/people-pleasing? 3. What's one area of your life where you need to stop fighting and trust God to fight for you?

Sermon Outline Because God is faithful, we can live by faith. (1-2) 1. We can trust in what is unseen. (3-7) 2. We can obey commands that seem crazy. (8-12) 3. We can want what God promises more than what we have. (13-16)   Discussion/Application 1. Why is it important, in the Christian faith, to trust in what is unseen? 2. Share a command from Scripture that seemed crazy to you the first time you heard it. What (if anything) about your your view of that passage has changed? 3. Take a moment right now to ask the Lord, "Give me a right view of your promises so that they outshine my prossesions."

Sermon Outline Living as Gospel people is hard, but it's worth persevering! 1. An Ominous Warning (26-31) 2. A Reassuring Affirmation (32-39)   Discussion/Application 1. What does it mean to be saved/justified? How are we saved/justified? 2. Describe a time in your life when you ignored the signs of a problem. What made wisdom/discernment imoprtant in that circumstance? What makes wisdom/discernment important in understanding our own salvation? 3. How are you tempted to throw away your confidence in Christ? To replace it with confidence in something of this world? Make a plan to remind yourself every morning to endure with Jesus.

Sermon Outline Our assurance in Christ challenges us to grow in our faith, hope, and love. 1. Let us draw near in faith. (19-22) 2. Let us hold fast to our hope. (23) 3. Let us consider one another in love. (24-25)   Discussion/Application 1. "The responsibilities and privaleges that we have in Christ should never be separated." How does this truth deepen our understanding of the faith, hope, and love that we have in Christ? 2. Describe a time in your life when someone was faithful to you even through you were not faithful to them. 3. How can you "consider" a fellow Christian in love this week?

Sermon Outline God has completely forgiven our sins because of Jesus' death on the cross for us. 1. The Problem with the Old Sacrifices (1-4) 2. The Victory of the New, Once-For-All Sacrifice of Jesus Christ (5-18)   Discussion/Application 1. Why is it so hard to beleive that God forgets our forgiven sin? How should this truth affect our view of who God is? 2. Describe a time in your life when you worked hard to try to make yourself acceptable to someone you love. What did it reveal about your view of love? What stands in your way of seeing love as truly unconditional? 3. How can you put the unconditional sacrifice of Jesus in front of yourself every single day this week?

Sermon Outline Christ is the true mediator of God's new covenant... ...passing His inheritance on to His people. (15-17) ...similar to the old-copy mediators. (18-22) ...better than the old-copy mediators. (23-26a) ...needing no substitute to die in His place. (26b-28)   Discussion/Application 1. What is the inheritance of Jesus? Why is it good news that He passes His inhertance to us? 2. Have you ever had someone break a contract with you? What is the difference between a contract and a covenant? What makes it good news that God's love is covenental rather than contractual? 3. Take some time right now to give thanks for Christ's sacrifice for you.

Sermon Outline The blood of Christ brings the pieces of our divided worship together. 1. The tabernacle's dividers made sacrifice safe. (1-10) 2. Christ's sacrifice makes our redemption secure. (11-12) 3. Our redemption will bring our actions and convictions together. (13-14)   Discussion/Application 1. What made sacrifice unsafe in the old covenant system? 2. What was a time in your life when you felt secure/safe? Insecure/unsafe? How can you rest assured that the Lord receives our worship? 3. How has your worship been divided? How does looking to Christ bring the divided pieces of your worship back together?

Sermon Outline The covenant of Christ is superior to the old covenant. 1. Jesus is seated at the right hand of God. (1-5) 2. The new covenant is superior to the old covenant. (6-13)   Discussion/Application 1. Why do you think there were early-church Hebrews who wanted to go back to the old ways in old covenant? 2. Describe a time in your life when you didnt want to move into the "next stage"? Did you do it anyway? What helped/hindered you? 3. How are you clinging to your "old ways" today? How can you seek Jesus tomorrow instead of those things tomorrow?

Sermon Outline Jesus Christ is the final, perfect Priest, forever. 1. The Problem with the Levitical Priesthood (11-14) 2. Jesus, the Perfect High Priest (15-19) 3. Jesus, the Superior High Priest (20-28)   Discussion/Application 1. What was the problem of the Levitical priesthood? 2. Share about a time that you had to be/use a mediator. What made it necessary? Why to we need mediators between us and God? What makes Jesus the perfect mediator? 3. What/who are you tempted to run to as a mediator between you and God other than Jesus? How can you turn away from a false mediator in your life this week?

Sermon Outline Melchizedek's priesthood pointed forward to the eternal priesthood of Jesus Christ. 1. Melchizedek's priesthood was like Jesus. (1-3) 2. Melchizedek's priesthood was superior to the Levitical priesthood. (4-10)   Discussion/Application 1. What makes Melchizedek so significant in the story with Abraham? What part of their story stood out for you? 2. Describe a time when someone planned ahead for you (surprise party, vacation, a special meal, etc.). How did it make you feel knowing that they planned ahead for you? How does it feel knowing that God was giving previews of Jesus as early as Melchizedek? 3. How can you follow Jesus' superior priesthood in sacrifice this week?

Sermon Outline God's integrity and faithfulness guarantee our faith.   Discussion/Application 1. Why is it actually good news that the guarantee of our faith is God's integrity?  2. Who do you trust most in the world? What makes them trustworthy? What are some examples of God's faithfulness in your own life? 3. What's one step you can take this week to truly enjoy your security in Christ?

Sermon Outline Warning: Abandoned faith looks exactly like stunted growth... ...as needy as a breast-feeding teenager. (5:11-14) ...as immature as a foundation-only builder. (6:1-3) ...as fire-bound as well watered weeds. (6:4-8) ...and yet, hope endures. (6:9-12)   Discussion/Application 1. Warning: abandoned faith looks exactly like stunted growth. What exactly makes this warning so serious? Why would the author of Hebrews write something so challenging? 2. Have you ever had to help someone grow up and move from one stage of maturity to the next. What made it difficult? What are the challenges we face in moving to the next stage of maturity in our own lives? 3. Read Hebrews 6:9-12. What is one step of maturity in your own life or in somebody else's that you can focus on as a testament to God's ability to grow you? Write it down and review it every day this week.

Sermon Outline Jesus "became" the perfect minister to us... ...with sympathy for our weakness. (4:14-16) ...as appointed by the Father. (5:1-6) ...through suffering on our behalf. (5:7-10)   Discussion/Application 1. Even before He was born, the Eternal Son of God was perfect. What do we mean when, then, we say Jesus "became" the perfect minister to us? What do we not mean? How did He demonstrate His sympathy for our weakness? 2. Have you ever had to appoint someone else to to something that was important to you? What made them trustworthy? Untrustworthy? 3. Jesus "became" the perfect minister to us by suffering on our behalf. What is an area of your life where you are trusting in your own faithfulness rather than trusting in Christ's faithfulness? Take a moment to pray right now and ask God to increase your sense of dependence on Him.

Sermon Outline God reserves His enduring comfort for the tender-hearted... (3:7-11) ...who address unbelief as a caring community. (3:12-15) ...who identify unbelief as careful historians. (3:16-19) ...who receive His good news by faith. (4:1-10) ...who embrace His judgment as fitting. (4:11-13)   Discussion/Application 1. Read Hebrews 4:1-10 out loud. What is the good news from God not received by faith in these verses? What does it mean to be united in faith? 2. Describe a time when you saw someone use extremely sound judgement. How did it make you feel about them? How would in increase your faith in Jesus if you could see all of His judgments as they are: perfect? 3. Read Romans 10:9. Have you received the good news of the Gospel? If not, take a moment to confess Jesus Christ as Lord.

Sermon Outline God reserves His enduring comfort for the tender-hearted... (7-11) ...who address unbelief as a caring community. (12-15) ...who can identify unbelief as careful historians. (16-19)   Discussion/Application 1. What are some of the ways we see God reserving his comfort for the tender-hearted in Scripture? Why would God withhold His rest/comfort from His people when they're hard hearted? 2. How can you tell the difference between a hard-hearted person and a tender-hearted person? 3. Are you hard-hearted? How about someone you know? What is some history that you can review in Scripture or in your own life to soften your heart and the hearts of those around you to the Lord?

Sermon Outline When we see Jesus outshine our heroes, our hope increases... ...by considering His heroic faithfulness. (1-2) ...by counting Him more worthy than any other. (3-4) ...with more confidence in the Son than in the servants. (5-6)   Discussion/Application 1. What does it mean to "consider Jesus"? How is it different than just knowing things about Him? 2. Who is a hero in your life? Why might it be easy to look to your hero for your hope rather than Jesus? How might your idolatry of that person actually be hurtful to them? To you? To Jesus? 3. What is standing in the way of your seeing Jesus outshine your heroes? How can the people who love you help you look to Jesus alone for your hope?

Sermon Outline God set us apart by making Jesus one of us. 1. God "qualified" Jesus through human suffering. (10-11a) 2. Jesus killed death by dying in human flesh. (11b-16) 3. Jesus can help us because He became like us. (17-18)   Discussion/Application 1. God set us apart by making Jesus one of us. What do we mean when we say God "qualified" Jesus through human suffering? What do we not mean? 2. Describe the time in your life when you first understood Christ's sacrifice for you? What was happening in your life? How does it make you feel thinking about it now? 3. In what ways do you need to ask Jesus to help you now? Ask Him.

Sermon Outline God has written the great salvation story... ...in which Jesus has the lead role. (1:5-14) ...in which our role is to pay close attention. (2:1-3a) ...which God, Himself, declares to and through us. (3b-4)   Discussion/Application 1. God has written the great salvation story, in which Jesus has the lead role. What do we mean when we say that Jesus has the lead role in salvation? 2. God has written the great salvation story, in which our role is to pay close attention. Can you find some passages of Scripture that reinforce that salvation isn't from ourselves but from the Lord? Read them aloud. 3. God has written the great salvation story, which God, Himself, declares to and through us. Scripture is the clearest way that God declares the "great salvation story." Take a moment right now to increase your time in God's Word. How can he use your time in His word to declare the good news to the people around you?

Sermon Outline Jesus is the centerpiece of God's glory. 1. He is the purpose of God’s prophets. (1-2a) 2. He is the source of God’s creation. (2b-3a) 3. He is the heir of God’s majesty. (3b-4)   Discussion/Application 1. Jesus is the centerpiece of God's glory. What do we mean when we say that Jesus is the source and purpose of all things? 2. Describe a time in your life when you came to realize that you were not living with Jesus at the center. 3. What's an area of your life where you have forgotten that Jesus is your source and your purpose. Time? Finances? Relationships? What's a step that you can take this week to align yourself with this truth?

Welcome to our "Sunday Sermons" podcast. Every week we'll hear one of our Sunday morning sermons from years past. In the description, you'll also find some application questions for your community group, family, or personal devotions. If you ever find yourself in Caldwell, Idaho on a Sunday morning, we would love to have you worship with us in person. We hope that this podcast is a blessing to you. Enjoy!