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Dave Royes 11/16/25 Dave Royes 11/16/25

As You Come To Him

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: 1 Peter 2:4-9
November 16, 2025

1 Peter 2:4-9: As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture:

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,
a cornerstone chosen and precious,
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,

“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”
and
“A stone of stumbling
and a rock of offense.”

They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Main point: Endurance occurs when we stand together

Sermon Outline

1. Introduction

Who Christians are together
Main point

2. A spiritual house

Christians gather in the presence of God
Christians gather for right worship of God

3. An eternal decree

Jesus is the foundation of the house
Jesus is the architect of the house

4. A treasured people

A people God delights in
So that you may proclaim

Daniel 2: 31-34, 44: You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay and broke them in pieces.

And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed. Nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever.

Exodus 19:5-6a: If you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

Dave Royes 11/3/25 Dave Royes 11/3/25

The Fruit of Love and Longing

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:22-23
November 2, 2025

1 Peter 1:22-23: Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

Sermon Outline

1. An earnest call to the fruit of love

2. A brief reflection on implanted truth

3. A healthy appetite in spiritual longings

Dave Royes 10/13/25 Dave Royes 10/13/25

Hope and Holiness

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: Peter 1:13-21
October 12, 2025

Peter 1:13-21: Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Sermon Outline

1. The call to a fixed hope

2. The display of family holiness

3. The beauty of a foreknown savior

Dave Royes 10/5/25 Dave Royes 10/5/25

Salvation’s Past

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:10-12
October 5, 2025

1 Peter 1:10-12: Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time[a] the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.

Main point: Seeing the transmission of God's grace helps us to treasure God’s grace.

Sermon Outline
1. Introduction

Dinner and a tour
A glimpse to help us savor the gospel
The main point

2. The work of prophets

Who does Peter have in mind?
The prophets' diligent interest

3. The message of preachers

They unfolded the scriptures
They heralded the good news
They were energized by the Holy Spirit

4. The longing of angels

Dave Royes 9/28/25 Dave Royes 9/28/25

Salvation’s Present

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:6-9
September 28, 2025

1 Peter 1:6-9: In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith — more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire — may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Sermon Outline

1. Grief in the hand of God

2. Faith in the furnace of fire

3. Joy in the absence of sight

Dave Royes 9/23/25 Dave Royes 9/23/25

Salvation’s Future

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-5
September 21, 2025

1 Peter 1:3-5: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Sermon Outline

Main idea: What God has caused, God will guard

1. Introduction

Homesickness and anticipation
The foundational main idea

2. What God has caused

A new birth
A living hope

3. What God guards

An inheritance
A salvation

Dave Royes 9/14/25 Dave Royes 9/14/25

Such a Great Salvation

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-12
September 14, 2025

1 Peter 1:3-12: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith — more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire — may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look

Sermon Outline

1. A salvation ahead

2. A salvation being worked out

Our trails are various
Our time is short
Our faith is tested
Our reward is being worked out

3. A salvation long anticipated

Dave Royes 9/7/25 Dave Royes 9/7/25

Multiplied Grace For Elect Exiles

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:1-2
September 7, 2025

1 Peter 1:1-2: Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Main point: When sorrow is added, God's grace multiplies.

Sermon Outline

1. Introduction

"Christianity is like tea"
What it's like this side of Glory

2. An unlikely shepherd

A man who needs no introduction
A man least expected to write these words
A man who experienced firsthand the grace of God

3. A foundational identity

Elect exiles
Status and sorrow

4. A sovereign plan

Known by a loving Father
Claimed by his indwelling Spirit
Cleansed to be like the Son

5. An agenda-setting prayer

1 Peter 5:12: By Sylvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.

“Peter’s brief greeting, ‘Grace and peace be yours in abundance,’ gives in miniature the whole message of his letter. He writes to those who already feel the scorn and malice of an unbelieving world. Writing from Rome under the emperor Nero, Peter knows that they will experience much worse. Can he really pronounce peace in abundance to those who are only beginning to discover the suffering to which Christians are called? Peter writes for that very purpose.

Once he had fought to defend the shalom (peace) of the Messiah. Under the olive trees of Gethsemane, he drew his sword to resist those who came to arrest Jesus. But Jesus had made him sheath his weapon after one misdirected stroke. Peter wanted to fight because he feared that the death of Jesus would end all hope of victory, all hope of the Messiah's peace. But the death of Jesus had done the opposite. It had accomplished the salvation of God's Anointed.

Now Peter, the apostle of the risen Lord, can pronounce peace; the peace that comes, not by the sword, but by the cross.” — Edmund P. Clowney, The Message of 1 Peter (2021)

Richard Goswiller 4/3/22 Richard Goswiller 4/3/22

Rightly Responding to Persecution

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Speaker: Richard Goswiller
Scripture: 1 Peter 3:13-17
April 3, 2022

1 Peter 3:13-17: Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

Sermon Outline

By God’s grace, and with his help: