Digging Deeper

“Digging Deeper”, is a podcast where Matt Korte and the previous week’s preacher dig into Sunday’s sermon text beyond what made it into the message for further study and discussion. Episodes drop on Wednesday mornings on YouTube, wherever you get your podcasts (Spotify or Apple Podcasts), or right here on this webpage! Check out the video below for an explation of what to expect on the episodes.

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Digging Deeper Questions

Questions for those seeking a way to dig even deeper into the sermon! Whether you’re a community group looking for discussion topics, or seeking something for your personal devotions, feel free to use these questions as a way to think about how the sermon applies to you.

2.8 Rediscover Community

When you think of the word community what comes to mind for you?

When/where was the last time you most felt part of a community?

What are some of the tensions found in being a community built first and foremost on grace?

Do you ever find yourself falling into the trap of the pharisee? How does that manifest itself for you?

Pastor Gabe really sat on this verse, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. How does this verse hit you?

2.1 Chapel.

God did not just deliver Israel from Egypt but to Himself. Where do you see God’s deliverance in your own story, and how might He be inviting you closer to Himself right now?

Exodus says the people gave because their hearts were stirred, not pressured. What does joyful, willing response to God look like in your life at this season, with your time, gifts, or presence?

The glory that once filled the tabernacle now dwells among us in Jesus. How does knowing that Christ is truly with you shape the way you face uncertainty, loss, or daily decisions?

Israel moved when the cloud moved and rested when it rested. Where might you be tempted to stay comfortable when Jesus is calling you to trust Him and take a step into the unknown?

Who might God be calling you to love, serve, or walk alongside so that they experience Christ through you?

1.25 Lutheran.

1.18 University.

1.11 Why Church?

When you think of the word “church” what comes to mind for you?

Why church? Why are you part of the church? Or not?

How does the identity of being a saint in christ, shape your daily life? does it? could it?

Have you ever had someone speak the truth in love towards you? How did that go? You
ever speak it to someone else?

What role do you see yourself playing as Christ builds his church?

1.4 Alpha & Omega

Where in your life is God inviting you to find contentment in the simple call to “listen & obey”?

Are there areas of life that feel difficult or chaotic for you? How does the hope of Jesus give you peace in the midst of those things?

What voices claiming, “If you have me, you have everything you need,” seem the loudest right now? How does Jesus address these desires in a fuller and lasting way?

12.28 The Word Made Flesh

The sermon says that “existence requires experience.” Where do you notice the difference between simply knowing about God and experiencing the life and light of Christ in your own story?

John says, “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” What does it mean for you to trust that God has truly entered human life – not from a distance, but from the inside— and how does that shape the way you bring your
struggles to Him?

The sermon claims that “the Word made flesh makes a way for you.” Where in your life right now do you most need to hear that God has made a way – into light, connection, or love?

From Christ’s fullness we receive “grace upon grace.” How might living from that abundance (rather than scarcity or fear) change the way you relate to others this week-especially those who feel distant, difficult, or overlooked?

12.21 The Perfect Servant

Where do you most need to hear this truth right now: that Jesus truly understands your weakness, fear, exhaustion, or pain? How does Christmas look different when you remember that God did not save you from a distance?

How does seeing Christmas through the lens of the cross deepen or challenge the way you normally think about Jesus’ love and obedience? What does it tell you about the seriousness of your salvation?

Where do you sense tension in your own life between clinging to status, control, or comfort and trusting God through humility and obedience? What might it look like to take a small step of faith this season?

Where is Jesus inviting you to serve in a hidden, costly, or unnoticed way? How could your group pray for and support one another in living out the mind of Christ?

12.14 The Image of God

When you think of the phrase “image of God,” what comes to mind for you?

There is a lot one can know about God simply through reason and our senses, what does Jesus uniquely reveal about God?

As Pastor Gabe went through the lists of what it means to be in Adam vs. in Christ, what parts of being “in Adam” do you still wrestle with? What parts of being “in Christ” do you most resonate with?

Jesus cross reconciles us to God and each other, where have you seen that play out in your life?

12.7 Eternal Wisdom

What forms of worldly wisdom do you find most enticing? How have you experienced these wisdoms as incomplete?

What difference does it make knowing that God’s wisdom is not simply an idea or an impersonal force but an actual person who has taken on flesh in Jesus?

What does it look like to pursue wisdom the way Proverbs 8 calls us to? Can you think of people who embody this kind of divine wisdom?

11.30 Lord & Priest

At the beginning of this sermon Pastor Gabe talked about the “scandal of particularity” why do you think God’s revelation in the particular person of Jesus is so scandalous to the modern mind? Do you wrestle with it?

Jesus is Lord and you are not. What is challenging about this and what is comforting about this?

How does viewing Jesus as Priestly King encourage you in your daily life?

11.23 Blessing

Have you ever resorted to a Band-Aid solution to a problem? Big or small, how did that go?

Haggai has the people face the reality of God’s Word and their failure to live in line with it. What are some ways we avoid facing the reality of God’s Word?

As the people consider living in line with the curse or the blessing, it seems so obvious that we want to live in line with the blessing, why do we end up falling for the curse again and again?

Jesus is the king who reverses the curse and brings us into his blessed kingdom. What are some ways you have been blessed as part of Christ’s kingdom?

11.16 Greater Glory

11.9 Obedience

11.2 Rebuilding

10.26 Has No One Condemned You?

Are there particular behaviors that you notice you are quick to condemn when you see them in others? How might Jesus’ response to the woman caught in adultery help you be more gracious toward those behaviors?

Where do you most see a “high anthropology” at work in our culture? In the church? In your heart? How might recognition of our weaknesses lead us to more graciousness toward others?

How does Jesus’ response to this woman shape how you approach God in your own sins and failures?

10.19 What Good Is It To Gain The World But Lose Your Soul?

10.12 Why Did You Doubt?

10.5 Why Are You Anxious?

What does Paul mean when he says to “take every thought captive to Christ”? What are the effects of allowing thoughts to run wild?

How does worry play out like functional atheism in our lives?

Why do you think Jesus ended His discussion on worry with these words, “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble”? How is it meant to bring you comfort?

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