Luke

Luke 9:57-62 calls for wholehearted discipleship that keeps serving Christ without turning back. The charge honors faithful service in the local church while pressing every believer to keep a steady hand to the plow for kingdom work.

Wholehearted DiscipleshipNo Turning BackKingdom Service

Jesus welcomed children who were being kept from Him, and churches likewise must guard against a casual or overly rigid spirit that quietly blocks children from coming to Christ. Vacation Bible School exists because loving children well

Children's MinistryJesus and ChildrenVBS

Examining Jesus's prophesied entry into Jerusalem on a donkey, the sermon contrasts the crowd's misplaced hope in a militaristic messiah with the humble, suffering Messiah who actually came, and calls hearers to worship like Mary rather

Triumphal EntryMessianic ProphecyUndivided Devotion

Mary of Bethany shows the beauty of pouring out what is precious on Christ rather than spending life on lesser kingdoms. Her costly devotion points believers to waste their lives well in service to Christ and His body, the local church.

Costly DevotionMary of BethanyWasted for Christ

Using Matthew 26 and 1 Corinthians 11 alongside Luke's account, this message describes the Lord's Supper as a continual memorial of Christ's death, given only to those who have trusted Him for salvation, and calls the congregation to come

Continual MemorialWorthy ParticipationReconciled Relationships

Working through Jesus's response to news of the Galileans killed by Pilate and those crushed by the tower of Siloam, the message calls hearers to see present tragedies, including the COVID-19 pandemic, as a summons to repentance rather than

RepentanceTragedy and SovereigntyPandemic Response

Zechariah's doubting question and Mary's humble submission to the angel Gabriel's announcement are set side by side as a call to examine whether our own questions to God arise from faith or from unbelief, with a closing appeal to be a

Zechariah's UnbeliefMary's HumilityPersistent Prayer

Working through Jesus's teaching on the friend at midnight and the father who gives good gifts, the sermon urges believers to come to God boldly and persistently as beggars pleading for the Spirit's work, especially the illumination needed

Persistent PrayerFatherly GenerosityIllumination of Scripture

Concluding a study through Luke 11 and Luke 18 on prayer, this message uses the friend seeking bread and the persistent widow to explain why sinful, created beings have the right to bring bold, persistent requests to a sovereign God whose

Persistent PrayerGod's SovereigntyPrayer for the Lost

Continuing through Luke 11:5-13, the message unpacks the progression of asking, seeking, and knocking as persistent, ongoing prayer, illustrated by the fervent prayer life of missionary David Brainerd.

Persistent PrayerDavid BrainerdSchool of Prayer