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Dave Royes 4/6/25 Dave Royes 4/6/25

The Test of Prosperity

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: Luke 12:13-21
April 4, 2025

Luke 12:13-21: Someone in the crowd said to [Jesus], “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbiter over you?” And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat drink, and be merry.”’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

Sermon Outline

1. The main point

2. The shocking exhortation

A particularly blinding sin
A particularly captivating sin

3. The exposing parable

Our delight is in God
Our security comes from God
Our eternity is with God

4. The truth about treasure

Steve Estes 12/22/24 Steve Estes 12/22/24

An Angel, a Virgin

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Luke 1:26-38
December 22, 2024

Luke 1:26-38: In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called[a] the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. For no word from God will ever fail.”

“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.

Sermon Outline

1. The angel

2. The place

Far from Jerusalem
Of “inferior Jewishness”
The town of Nazareth

3. The time

4. The virgin

Her need for a Savior
Her modest role
Her godliness

5. The conversation

Gabriel’s graciousness and Mary’s fear
Gabriel’s reassuring message
Mary requests an explanation
Gabriel’s astounding, mysterious answer
Gabriel’s help to Mary’s faith
Mary’s courageous, submissive reply

6. The applications

Steve Estes 11/17/24 Steve Estes 11/17/24

A Pleasant Company: Jesus, the Twelve, and the Women

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Luke 8:1-3
November 17, 2024

Luke 8:1-3: After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Cuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means.

Sermon Outline

1. Three familiar scenes of 21st-century people

Major TV networks watched by older folks
Hollywood scenes of the supernatural
The situation in the Middle East

2. A scene of some first-century people

The twelve
“Some women”
- The women in general
- Mary Magdalene
- Joanna
- Susanna

3. The man who drew them out of darkness

Richard Goswiller 3/3/24 Richard Goswiller 3/3/24

Learning to Distrust Ourselves

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Speaker: Rich Goswiller
Scripture: Luke 22:28-34
March 3, 2024

Luke 22:28-34: “You are those who have stayed with me in my trials, and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” Peter said to him, “Lord, I am willing to go with you both to prison and to death.” Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until you deny three times that you know me.”

Sermon Outline

1. The setting for the evening

2. The first declaration of Jesus

“Satan has demanded”
“To have you”
“To sift you like wheat”

3. The second declaration of Jesus

“I have prayed for you”
“When you have turned again...”

4. Peter’s declaration and Jesus’ prediction

Peter’s misplaced confidence
Our misplaced confidence

5. What shall we say to these things?

There is potential for serious lapse and/or declension
We have an all-sufficient savior
Always be wary of deadly self-deception

Benediction

Jude 24: Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time, and now and forever. Amen.

Steve Estes 2/25/24 Steve Estes 2/25/24

Baptized in Fire and Spirit

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Luke 3:16-18
February 25, 2024

Luke 3:16-18: The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Christ. John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” And with many other words John exhorted the people and preached the good news to them.

Sermon Outline

1. The voice in the desert

2. Why people came

Many felt spiritual need
Fear of death
Others came for lesser reasons

3. “I baptize you with water”

A Ritual cleansing
An illustration of a greater person than John

4. “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit”

What John means by “baptize”
Holy Spirit at creation
Holy Spirit helps people over what threatens them
Holy Spirit purifies people’s very souls
John proclaims people will gain the Holy Spirit through the Messiah

5. “He will baptize you with fire”

Terrible judgment/consequences for sins
John exhorts, “Repent!”
To those who repent, the fire of judgment was endured by Jesus Christ
Thus, Messiah’s offer of baptism is good news

6. Final applications

Wendell Stoltzfus 8/13/23 Wendell Stoltzfus 8/13/23

Finding Bread for Your Friends

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Speaker: Wendell Stoltzfus
Scripture: Luke 11:1-13
August 13, 2023

Sermon Outline

1. The prayer and the parable

The theme in Luke 11 is prayer
And yet, we struggle to pray

2. The three friends

An unexpected guest
An inconvenient hour
Who the three friends represent

3. The Bread of Assurance

We who have the Bread of Life, rub shoulders with those who don't
In the terms of the parable, each of the three friends is, ultimately, starving

4. Real bread, real impudence

No doubt many of us struggle with assurance at times
Obnoxious persistence in prayer
How do we begin?

5. God's answer to prayer

Jesus says you and I are the link between his bread and our hungry friends
What will happen if you pray for your hungry friends every day?
What if we don't see any change?

6. Conclusion

An inconvenienced friend
An unfailing God

Dave Royes 11/27/22 Dave Royes 11/27/22

Spiritual Blindness and the Glory of Jesus

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: Luke 4:14-30
November 27, 2022

Sermon Outline

1. The significance of Jesus' coming

2. The seriousness of the human condition

Their minds are too familiar
Their hearts are pre-committed
Their lives are inconsistent

3. The shadow of a coming cross

Andrew Hageman 10/9/22 Andrew Hageman 10/9/22

A Life Transformed by Repentance

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Speaker: Andrew Hageman
Scripture: Luke 7:36-50
October 9, 2022

Tyler Estes 12/19/21 Tyler Estes 12/19/21

Dayspring From on High

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Speaker: Tyler Estes
Scripture: Luke 1:76-79
December 19, 2021

Sermon Outline

1. Introduction: The winter solstice helps us to enter into Zechariah’s prophecy.
2. To whom is the light given?

To those who sit in darkness (v. 79).

Darkness of delusion.
Darkness of depravity.
Darkness of despondency.

To those who sit in the shadow of death (v. 79).

3. What is this light that is given?

Not just light generally but a sunrise (v. 78)
Jesus shines as light to us:
- By revealing.
- By reviving.
- By directing.

4. For what reason is this light given?

Because of his tender mercy (v. 78).
Because he is faithful to keep his promises.

5. For what purpose is this light given?

That we might serve God (v. 74).
- “Without fear.”
- “In holiness and righteousness.”
- “Before him.”
- “All our days.”

To guide our feet into the way of peace (v. 79).

6. Application

Gratitude: We have clearer and brighter knowledge of this sunrise than the Old Testament saints did.
Focus on God’s promises.
Imitate God by showing tender mercy to others.
The light of the gospel is all-encompassing: Live all of life in fullness of life and fullness of joy.
Are you still sitting in the darkness of your sin? Repent, believe in Christ, and be saved.