Sermons

Leaving Certain Things Behind | 1 Peter 4:1-6 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday January 28th 2024

Sermon Title: "Leaving Certain Things Behind"

(1 Peter 4:1-6)

Sermon Outline:

  1. Is there a way to follow Jesus and also fit in with the world?

  2. Author Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said, "When Christ calls, a man, He bids him come and die." What does that mean?

  3. What does it mean that "Christ suffering was His pathway to glory?"

  4. Why must we suffer as He did?

  5. True or False: There is no resurrection without death, and there is no death without suffering, so that is why we need to suffer well?

  6. What does it mean that once we decide to follow Christ, Jesus will change us from the inside out?

How Should Husbands Be | 1 Peter 3:7-12 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday January 14th, 2024

Sermon Title: "How Should Husbands Be?"

(1 Peter 3:7-12)

Sermon Outline:

  1. Do you believe that the only way for you to obey scriptural commands for how a husband should be, is if your wife agrees to her Biblical role as well?

  2. Do you think it is impossible to love your wife as Jesus loves the church?

  3. What can a husband do if he can't effectively lead his family because his wife challenges, his authority, repeatedly?

  4. What would happen if Jesus knocked on your door to address some concerns about your family? Who would he ask to speak with?

  5. Why has God designed the biblical roles for the husband and wife the way He has?

Starting 2024 Off With 'Don't GoThere' Passages | 1 Peter 3:1-6 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday January 7th, 2024

Sermon Title: "Starting 2024 Off With 'Don't GoThere'

Passages" (1 Peter 3:1-6)

Sermon Outline:

  1. Do you have problem passages of scripture?

  2. True or False: Christians don't get to have problem passages?

  3. Should a wife submit to her husband if he isn't even a follower of Jesus?

  4. What would happen if the roles of headship were reversed in the home and in Church?

  5. What is a wife to do when she serves her husband as the leader in their home, but he does not lead?

"Has Anyone Seen The Baby?" | Luke 2:17-20| Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday December 31st, 2023

Sermon Title: "Has Anyone Seen The Baby?"

(Luke 2:17-20)

Sermon Outline:

1. How much time have you spent reflecting on what you heard at the Christmas services?

2. Are you happy Christmas is over? Why?

3. Have you ever asked yourself "What if Jesus never came"?

4. What things from Christmas have you stored up in your heart?

5. If you had to summarize the essence of ALL your conversations with family, friends, and even strangers over the past 2 weeks, what word would come to mind?

Gifts, money, food, travel, kids? Would it be Jesus?

Walk Like A Christian | 1 Peter 2 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday December 17th, 2023

Sermon Title: "Walk Like A Christian" (1 Peter 2:1-25)

Sermon Outline:

1. Do you consider yourself to be a walking advertisement for Jesus?

2. Or do you think you are closer to a Sunday - only Christian?

3. What does the instruction to "put off your old self" mean to you?

4. Are you tolerating anything in your life today that the Bible says you shouldn't?

5. If becoming a billboard, for Jesus is impossible on your own, how can it be done?

How Are We To Live While Waiting For Jesus To Come | 1 Peter 1:3-16 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday December 3rd, 2023

Sermon Title: "How Are We To Live While Waiting For Jesus To Come" (1Peter 13-16)

Sermon Outline:

1. Why do you think there is such a shortage of Hope in our world today?

2. Why has this hopelessness crept into our churches as well?

3. True or False: Most people react negatively to God's command in 1Peter 1:14-16 to "But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct?

4. Do you take the call to holiness as a burdensome command, or "To be who we truly are"?

5. Does the Bible say whether Christian perfection, or perfect holiness, is possible on the side of eternity?

You Have Privileges Greater Than The The Prophets & The Angel | 1 Peter 1:10-12 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday November 26th, 2023

Sermon Title: "You Have Privileges Greater Than The Prophets & The Angels" (1Peter 10-12)

Sermon Outline:

  1. Do you ever wish you had the inside track to God's doings, like the prophets and the angels?

  2. What advantage does 2000 years after the resurrection, and the written Bible give you in your walk?

  3. True or False: You have more knowledge and the potential for greater faith than the Apostles and all the Prophets?

  4. Is it possible to know more about God's plan then the angels?

  5. Name two huge advantages that being on this side of the Cross two thousand years gives you in your faith walk!

After Baptism, Then What | Galatians 3:27 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday November 19th, 2023

Sermon Title: "After Baptism, Then What?"

(Galatians 3:27)

Sermon Outline:

  1. True or False: Baptism is not the end of your spiritual journey … it's merely a key stop along the way!

  2. After getting baptized, we are not to cut out all our "old friends", the people who may not be warm to your newfound faith. Why do you think that is?

  3. Why does the Bible say there should be "no Lone Ranger Christians"?

  4. Learning from Jesus's Baptism, what disciplines will you need to emulate in your life after getting baptized?

  5. What does it mean that after you are baptized, your spiritual journey is only just the beginning?

How Can We Experience Joy In The Midst Of Pain | 1 Peter 1:1-5 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday November 12th, 2023

Sermon Title: "How Can We Experience Joy In The Midst Of Pain?" (1 Peter 1:1-5)

Sermon Outline:

  1. Someone in a terrible trial says, "How can a loving God allow this to happen?" How would you respond?

  2. Should we express anger toward God? Defend biblically?

  3. Is it sin to be depressed. Defend biblically?

  4. True or False: all who desire to live, Godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted?

  5. True or False: Some say that if we suffer, it's because we lack faith. We're supposed to claim healing by faith and deny all negative thoughts?

Are You In The Will | 1 Peter 1:1-5 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday November 5th, 2023

Sermon Title: "Are You In The Will?" (1 Peter 1:1-5)

Sermon Outline:

1. What do you think of when you think of an inheritance?

2. When you are facing what seems to be a hopeless situation what is it that keeps you going?

3. How often do you think about spending ALL eternity in Heaven? Do you wonder what it will be like?

4. Have you ever thought of your time here on Earth as temporary residency?

5. Do you fit in wherever you go, or do you stand out?

Live God-Honoring Lives In A Hostile World | 1 Peter Overview | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday October 29th, 2023

Sermon Title: "Live God-Honoring Lives In A Hostile World" (Overview Of 1 Peter)

Sermon Outline:

1. Is it possible to live God-Honoring lives in this hostile world?

2. Where can we find encouragement to stand firm in the face of misunderstanding, ridicule, slander, and harsh treatment?

3. Does the Bible warn Christians that they will experience varying degrees of discrimination, marginalization, and social hardship, because of their faith in Jesus?

4. How does the Apostle Peter suggest Christians respond to such mistreatment?

5. We need to keep on rejoicing, even as we share in the sufferings of Christ. How does the Bible suggest we do that?

A Deep Yearning To Know Who God Is, Not Just What He Does | Habakkuk 3:1-3 | Pastor Joe Roach (Copy)

Sunday October 8th, 2023

Sermon Title: "A Deep Yearning To Know Who God Is, Not Just What He Does" (Habakkuk 3:1-3)

Sermon Outline:

1. When you pray gratitude prayers, are you expressing gratitude for what God has done for you, or for who he is?

2. True or False: Once we realign our focus from horizontal pleasures to vertical dependence, God will realign our desires?

3. True or False: Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of Hell?

4. True or False: The Bible says it's not you at your worst that God has a problem with, it's actually you at your best?

5. Do you agree with Martin Luther who said "He who God would use mightily, He wounds deeply"?

Did You Get Jesus By Addition Or By Submission | Philippians3:7-11 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday October 1st, 2023

Sermon Title: "Did You Get Jesus By Addition Or By Submission" (Phil 3:7-11)

Sermon Outline:

1. Have you ever experienced a loss that made your life better?

2. How often does it feel like we know Christ in concept but not through experience?

3. True or False: Jesus changes your "values" by changing your vantage point. That's the only way that gains become losses and losses become gains.

4. Are you willing to treasure Jesus above ALL gains, and live for Jesus at ALL cost that you might "Know" Jesus through ALL experiences?

5. How does Paul suggest you get to know Jesus better by experiencing painful trials in life?

A Vision For Engaging Our Secular World | Colossians 3:14 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday September 24th, 2023

Sermon Title: "A Vision For Engaging Our Secular World" (Colossians 3:14)

Sermon Outline:

1. How can we, as followers of Jesus, participate with what the Holy Spirit is doing to evangelize people who lack any semblance of a Christian worldview?

2. Many Christians believe that it is unbiblical to argue with a non-Christian (or a post- Christian) on the basis of worldly philosophy ... do you agree?

3. Do you think it is better to invite post-Christians to church or to events?

4. There is no quicker way to gain credibility back for the church than to listen to someone who has been hurt and respond: "That is terrible. That's not how the church is supposed to treat others. You deserve better." Do you agree or disagree? Why?

3 Lessons We Can Learn From A Man Who Cried Over A Wall | Summary of Nehemiah | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday September 17th, 2023

Sermon Title: "3 Lessons We Can Learn From A Man

Who Cried Over A Wall"

(Summary Of Nehemiah)

Sermon Outline:

1. True or False: If you understand the demands of God, and you love the Lord, and you have committed yourself to follow His guidance, and you have made a binding promise to Him, you cannot fail in doing His work?

2. Why is it that the Jews in Jerusalem had actually broken every part of the promise that they made to God in the binding covenant?

3. Why is gatekeeping so much more than greeting and handing out bulletins?

4. What is the problem with relying on our own strength to do what God calls us to do?

5. Is it a contradiction that although the Bible calls us to strive, work, and be strong, God's power can only be perfected in our weakness?

This Is The Way Christians Change The World | Nehemiah 13:15-31 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday September 10th, 2023

Sermon Title: "This Is The Way Christians Change The World" (Nehemiah Chapter 13:15-31)

Sermon Outline:

1. True or False: The Sabbath is intended for man, that he may learn to rest?

2. Do you believe that honoring the Sabbath day is important to God? Why?

3. True or False: The point of the Sabbath, being a rest day is not because we will be tired, it is because we are to rest in order to reflect on God's ability to work beyond the labors we have already completed?

4. Do you agree that when Christians begin to adopt the worlds values and the worlds ways, we turn our children away from the things that make for stability and strength?

5. Do you believe that there is a way to mix the ways of the world with God's ways?

God Wants Hearts Undivided And Committed To Him | Nehemiah 13:1-14 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday September 3rd, 2023

Sermon Title: "God Wants Hearts Undivided And Committed To Him"

(Nehemiah Chapter 13:1-14)

Sermon Outline:

1. Do you waiver in your commitment to God from time to time?

2. Do you ever feel like you're cut off from the Light of the Spirit and wonder why?

3. True or False: The flesh is that inner commitment to self-centeredness that afflicts us all?

4. Do you believe that evil is such a subtle foe that it can creep into your life without you realizing it?

5. How can a Christian have a heart undivided and committed to God?

God Still Needs Willing Volunteers | Nehemiah 11 & 12 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday August 27th, 2023

Sermon Title: "God Still Needs Willing Volunteers"

(Nehemiah Chapter 11&12)

Sermon Outline:

1. Are you waiting for the right opportunity to volunteer in Church?

2. Do you think God has a role for everyone to serve in Church, not just the obviously gifted people?

3. Do you believe we are all called into Ministry?

4. True or False: God can cleanse people and use them in mighty and wonderful ways. He chooses, we are told, the obscure, the once tainted, the rejects of life.

He loves to pick up those kinds of people and do wonderful things with them?

5. Does the Bible confirm that?