Sermons

Dependence Day | Psalm 33:12 | Pastor Joe Roach

July 6th, 2025

Sermon Title: "Dependence Day" (July 4, 2025)

(Psalm

1 33:72)

Sermon Outline

1. Do you agree or disagree that our greatest need as a nation is not more independence, but more dependence?

2. True or False: The foundation of this nation was unmistakably Biblical.

3. What were the consequences for our nation of declaring independence from God, who we were founded upon?

4. Billy Graham once said that if God's wrath doesn't pour down on America, then He owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah. Do you agree? Why or why not?

5. Do you think it is too late for our country to reestablish our dependence on God?

God Is With Us In The Storm, But What Is Required Of Us | Psalms 61:2 | Pastor Joe Roach

June 29th, 2025

Sermon Title: "God Is With Us In The Storm:

But What Is Required Of Us?" (Psalm 61:2)

Sermon Outline

  1. Have you ever been through something so painful that it made you ask, "God, where are You in this?"

  2. If you ask yourself that question, does it mean your aithless? Or does it mean you are just human?

3. True or False: When we are in a severe storm, we should be asking, "What does God want from me in this storm?"

4. True or False: Sometimes the rescue isn't out of the storm, but through it.

5. True or False: God's presence in the storm is promised. But it's accessed by response.

God Never Leaves Us: Trusting His Presence Through The Storm | Hebrews 13:5 | Pastor Joe Roach

June 22nd, 2025

Sermon Title: "God Never Leaves Us: Trusting His Presence Through The Storm" (Hebrews 13:5)

Sermon Outline

1. God is always there. And sometimes, it's only when the storm has passed that you realize He never left.

Why is that?

2. True or False: His nearness is not based on our performance, but on His character?

3. True or False: Sometimes the gap between what we know, the Bible says, and what we feel in our hearts can be immense.

4. Have you ever looked back and realized God's fingerprints were all over your life?

5. Some of you are praying for rescue, but God is souring out grace. And grace is always enough. Woul you agree that this is one of the hardest biblica principles to live out?

Getting Ready For Pentecost: The Power Of Waiting Well | Acts 4:1-8 | Pastor Joe Roach

May 25th, 2025

Sermon Title: "Getting Ready For Pentecost: The Power Of Waiting Well"

(Acts 4:1-8)

Sermon Outline

1. Why is Pentecost considered to be the birthday of the church.

2. Why were the disciples told to wait if they already had the message, the commission, and the memories and words of Jesus? What does waiting produce?

3. True or False: Ministry without the Spirit is motion without direction.

4. True or False: Biblical waiting is active dependence.

5. Will you ask yourself "How can I create space for God's Spirit to come alive in my life?

The Missing Power | Acts 19:1-7 | Pastor Joe Roach

May 18th, 2025

Sermon Title: "The Missing Power" (Acts 19:1-7)

Sermon Outline

1. Have you ever had something that looked fully functional - but it had no power? Everything's in place, but it's missing what makes it work?

2. Paul came upon some disciples. These disciples believed in Jesus. They were sincere, but they had no power. Does this make any sense? Is it possible?

3. True or False: Church programs aren't enough.

Leadership charisma isn't enough. Strategy and effort aren't enough. God's Mission requires God's Spirit.

4. Jesus said it was better that He leave, so the Spirit could come. Why?

5. Why do we avoid the Spirit?

Restored By Love | John 21:1-19 | Pastor Joe Roach

May 11th, 2025

Sermon Title: "Restored By Love"

(John 21:1-19)

Sermon Outline

1. Peter was a man who had walked on water. He had declared Jesus as the Christ. He had promised, "Even if all fall away, I will not." What happened that caused him to deny Him 3 times?

2. When John 21 opens up, Peter went back to fishing.

Do you think he felt he disqualified himself for ministry?

3. When Jesus shows up on the shore, was He angry at them?

4. True or False: Jesus doesn't lecture. He feeds them.

He meets them with fellowship before correction. He was teaching them, and us.

5. He asks three times- matching Peter's three denials.

Each time Peter says, "Yes Lord, You know I love you," and Jesus replies: "Feed My lambs." "Tend My sheep."

"Feed My sheep." What does this show us is the key to be recommissioned after falling short?

The Pursuing Shepherd: Love That Wouldn't Let Go | Luke 15:1-7 | Pastor Joe Roach

May 4th, 2025

Sermon Title: "The Pursuing Shepherd: Love That Wouldn't Let Go" (Luke 15:1-7)

Sermon Outline

1. Did you ever wonder whether Jesus did what He did because the Father made Him do it?

2. Did He do what He did because it was His calling to do the will of the Father, and He was just being obedient? Or was it something else?

3. What exactly is it that causes a shepherd to leave the

99 just to rescue one lost sheep?

4. Did we go looking for God, or did He come looking for us?

5. Luke 15:7- "There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance." Why is that?

"If It Wasn't For Easter, There Wouldn't Be A Christmas" | Matthew 28:20 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday April 20th, 2025

Sermon Title: "If It Wasn't For Easter, There Wouldn't Be A Christmas"

(Matthew 28:20)

Sermon Outline

1. Which do you think is a more celebratory holiday, Christmas or Easter?

2. True or False: It is the great miracle of Easter that gives Christmas its true meaning.

3. What is the one fundamental difference between

Christianity and all other religions?

4. If Jesus is still in the tomb, then we are still in our sins.

What exactly does it mean to you, if He had already died on the cross?

5. A pastor once said "A faith that doesn't help you when you are dying won't do much good when you are living."

Do you agree or disagree?

Two Weeks Before Easter - Do You Have Any Doubts | Luke 18:31-34 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday April 6th, 2025

Sermon Title: "Two Weeks Before Easter - Do You Have Any Doubts?" (Luke 18:31-34)

Sermon Outline

1. Do you think that Jesus' fulfillment of so many prophecies carried more weight towards belief than all He did in teaching, healing, and calling during His Short ministry?

2. Is there a small part of you that thinks that many prophecies that Jesus fulfilled are exaggerated?

3. True or False: The statistical probability of one man fulfilling every Messianic prophecy - except for the prophecy of the Virgin Birth - would be 1 followed by thousands of zeros. Jesus did that!

4. Why is it that there is a greater chance of finding a quarter hidden somewhere in the universe that one man fulfilling just 48 prophecies, and we doubt Jesus sometimes, and Jesus fulfilled many more than that?

How Do You Know You Are a Real Christian | John 6:37 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday March 23, 2025

Sermon Title: "How Do You Know If You Are A Real Christian?" (John 6:37)

Sermon Outline

1. Have you ever had the following thought ... Am I real?

I seemed to love Jesus. I seemed to trust Him. I seemed to bear the marks of a changed life. But, the thought crept in, so too did Judas.

2. True or False: The topic of assurance is complex, to put it mildly. Genuine Christian doubt their salvation for many reasons.

3. True or False: Your faith may feel small, and you hold on Christ shaky. Even still, it is possible for you to feel down deep that He will never cast you out.

4. Do you think that the doubt that arises about a Christian's assurance is because the devil knows that the well-assured Christians threaten the domain of the darkness more than any other?

What Can Nicodemus Teach Us About Lent | John 3:1-21 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday March 16th, 2025

Sermon Title: "What Can Nicodemus Teach Us About Lent" (John 3:1-21)

Sermon Outline

1. Do you think it is possible that we can learn anything from a Pharisee?

2. Do you think that Nicodemus is just a prop in our story which encompasses Jesus proclamation of John 3:16?

3. True or False: We interpret Nicodemus to be the one, deliberately not understanding; Nicodemus to be the one causing problems... even though it was Jesus being confusing.

4. What do you make of Nicodemus disappearing from the gospels, until he shows up at the crucifixion to give Jesus a proper burial?

5. What is our lesson from the Love Nicodemus showed to Jesus when he risked everything to give him a proper burial?

Why Don't We Give Up Lent For Lent | 2 Corinthians 13:5-6 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday March 9th, 2025

Sermon Title: "Why Don't We Give Up Lent For Lent"

(2 Cor 13:5-6)

Sermon Outline

1. How often do you give up something for Lent that extends past the 40 days?

2. Do you think the Lord is interested in what I give up for just 40 days and then return to it? Or is He interested in me giving up the sins in my life which will make Easter more joyous?

3. How can we use the 40 days of Lent to prepare our hearts for Christendom's most sacred Holy-Day?

4. Year after year, as you give up the same things like chocolate, social media, no meat, no tv, no restaurants, do you feel that it has ever drawn you closer to God?

5. If you were to ask God what He would like you to do for Lent to prepare your heart for Easter, what do you think He would say?

How Is Our New Life In Christ Built? | Matthew 5:1-9 | Pastor Joe Roach

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Sunday March 2nd, 2025

Sermon Title: "How Is Our New Life In Christ Built?"

(Matthew 5:1-9)

Sermon Outline

1. Blessing is God's favor extended to an individual, resulting in positive emotion or reward. When was the last time you experienced this?

2. Would you consider yourself poor in spirit, meek, merciful, pure in heart, and one who thirsts for righteousness?

3. True or False: The concepts declare in the Beatitudes still stand in sharp contrast to the dominating world philosophy.

4. When Christ issued the call, " Follow me," He referred to a reconstructed life that was radically different from a life without Christ. Did you realize that when you accepted His call?

Who Does The Kingdom Of Heaven Belong To? | Matthew 5:3-12 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday February 23rd, 2025

Sermon Title: "Who Does The Kingdom Of Heaven

Belong To?" (Matthew 5:3-12)

Sermon Outline

1. Why is it that, as important as the Beatitudes are, as principles of Kingdom Life, we don't memorize them, teach them, or focus on them like we do the commandments?

2. Would you consider yourself a merciful person?

3. Can you think of situations in the past where God has given you mercy?

4. Jesus tells us in the Beatitudes who the "Kingdom of Heaven" belongs to ….. how significant is the truth to you?

5. True or False: Some like the miracle worker who heals their diseases, but the radical intruder into their personal lifestyles, they are not so interested in Him?

Don't Give Up, Look Up And Live Up | Galatians 6:9 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday February 16th, 2025

Sermon Title: "Don't Give Up, Look Up And Live Up"

(Galatians 6:9)

Sermon Outline

1. In Galatians 6:9, what is the doing good that Paul speaks of?

2. Why would one grow weary in doing good?

3. What is the promise for those who don't lose heart?

4. True or False: We may grow impatient doing good because the fruit of our labors is usually not immediate?

5. Have you ever grown weary working for the Lord, and asked yourself "what difference am I making"?

Two Ways You Can Serve The Lord | Galatians 6:1-5 | Pastor Joe Roach

Sunday February 9th, 2025

Sermon Title: "Two Ways You Can Serve The Lord"

(Galatians 6:1-5)

Sermon Outline

1. What does it mean to be a "burden bearer" to those in need?

2. What does Paul mean in Galatians 6 by "restore the fallen"? Who are the fallen?

3. What is meant by the words of General William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army "If you are looking for Jesus, don't start by going to church on Sunday morning"?

4. What does Paul mean in Galatians 6:3-4 that sometimes we think are too good to help others?

5. When you see someone suffering, are you often too busy to stop?