Luke: Are You Ready to Face God?

Summary: The fifty-seventh message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. The message highlights Jesus’ call to personal repentance.

Scripture: Luke 13:1-9

What are we to learn?

  • Tragedy can happen to anyone, both Christians and non-Christians alike

  • Tragedy is not a measure of personal sin

  • Tragedy is a call to personal repentance

  • God is merciful and patient, but there is an end to it

Luke: Decision Equals Division

Summary: The fifty-sixth message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. A message from the Book of Luke. The story of Jesus describing how Christ divides people due to the Gospel’s exclusive message.

Scripture: Luke 12:49-59

Summary:

  • When we line ourselves up with the exclusive message of Jesus, we open up ourselves to division with this world

  • Spiritual blindness is a reality for everyone: Dedicate yourself to prayer, and love the light more than the darkness

  • The gospel message should be met with urgency. While you still have time settle your account; don’t wait to go to the judge. Spread the Good News with Urgency

Luke: Be Ready

Summary: The fifty-fifth message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. A sermon from the book of Luke. Jesus shares a parable to be ready for Christ’s return.

Scripture: Luke 12:35-48

Application:

  • How would remembering the return of Jesus affect every decision you make?

  • What’s something in your life you wouldn’t want to be caught doing when Jesus comes back?

  • Are you reading God’s Word, with a purpose, to know God’s will and do it?

  • Who are the people God has put in your life, for you to “give them their rations at the proper time”? Have you been faithful in providing physically, emotionally, and spiritually?

  • What tasks has God given you to complete before Jesus returns?

  • Are you a member of the household, by faith, in Jesus? Will you give your life to serve this good master?

Easter: The Power of the Resurrection

Summary: Easter 2026 Message.

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-5

If Jesus Was Not Raised:

  • He must have been a sinner (died for his own sins)

  • Our sins would not be paid for (still guilty before God)

  • No victory over death (no promise of eternal life)

  • No relationship with God possible (no living hope)

  • 1 Corinthians 15:17, “…your faith is useless …”

Because Jesus Was Raised:

  • Our sins can be forgiven

  • Death is conquered

  • We can be made new

  • Eternal life is possible

Luke: Are We Possessed by our Possessions?

Summary: The fifty-fourth message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. A sermon from the book of Luke. Jesus speaks on possessions and wealth.

Scripture: Luke 12:13-34

Application Questions:

  • What have I learned about God?

  • What have I learned about people?

  • What is Jesus specifically saying to me this morning?

  • What is He asking me to do about it? (change, re-consider, surrender, confess, etc.)

Luke: The Warnings Religion Needs to Hear

Summary: The fifty-second message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. Jesus speaks to the scribes and Pharisees about the contrast of their actions versus His new message.

Scripture: Luke 11:37-54

Lessons:

  • External Ritual vs. Internal Transformation

  • Human Effort vs. God’s Grace

  • Pride vs. Humility

  • Rules vs. Relationship

Luke: A Question of Sight, Not Light

Summary: The fifty-first message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. A passage where Jesus contrasts light and darkness.

Scripture: Luke 11:29-36

Lessons:

  1. The resurrection of Jesus is foundational to the Christian faith

  2. People often believe they possess the truth about God, while they do not in reality

  3. There is a future judgement ahead, and humanity will be accountable for its response to God’s truth

Luke: Different Responses to Jesus, and the Only one that Matters

Summary: The fiftieth message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. “…. blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

Scripture: Luke 11:14-28

What is your Response to Jesus:

  1. Superficial amazement (curious/intrigued)?

  2. Skeptical (delayed)?

  3. Hostile (hard-hearted)?

  4. Undecided (experienced His power)?

  5. Culturally religious (admiration & shallow praise)?

Luke: Praying as a Disciple of Jesus (Part 1)

Summary: The forty-eighth message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. A message of Jesus’ introduction to prayer.

Scripture: Luke 11:1-4

Application Questions:

  • As a disciple of Jesus, would you consider yourself as someone who practices prayer?

  • Is there one category of the Lords prayer that is more difficult for you to pray into?

    — Relational prayer to the Father

    — Spiritual vision of God’s Kingdom coming to this world

    — Self sufficient vs God dependent

    — Confession and forgiveness

    — Being led away from tests and trials

Luke: Getting Our Priorities Straight in a World Full of Distraction

Summary: The forty-seventh message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. The contrast between Mary and Martha.

Scripture: Luke 10:38-42

Lessons:

  1. As followers of Jesus, we should seek to be hospitable people

  2. Jesus is looking for His followers to be people who spend time with Him, listening to the word of God in humility

  3. Many things in life can distract us from prioritizing our time with Jesus, and ministry service can be one of them

  4. It is possible for followers of Jesus to turn their service to Him into self centeredness

  5. It is possible for followers of Jesus to become frustrated with Him

  6. The one thing that Jesus wants us to prioritize in our lives, is spending time with Him listening to and learning from His word

Luke: What Brings Jesus Joy

Summary: The forty-fifth message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. The name of Jesus is powerful, yet we know it’s dangerous to approach the demonic realm without Jesus.

Scripture: Luke 10:17-24

Lessons From Acts 9:

  • Spiritual power isn’t borrowed, it’s rooted in one’s relationship with Christ 

  • The name of Jesus is not a religious tool that can be used for manipulation

  • It is dangerous to confront the demonic realm without a relationship with Jesus Christ

Luke: The Mission Before Us

Summary: The forty-fourth message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. The seventy are sent out by Jesus.

Scripture: Luke 10:1-16

The Nature of the Mission:

  • 3 fold (healing, preaching, casting out demons)

  • Application: A demonstration of word & power


Preparation for Mission: 

  • Sent in the authority of Christ

  • Sent in pairs

  • Sent with the expectation of facing hostility & rejection

  • Sent to learn dependency

  • Sent with a sense of urgency

Advent: God's Joy

Summary: A message during this Advent season on the source of our Joy, which is Christ Jesus.

Scripture: Luke 2:10-11

Application Questions:

1.) As a follower of Jesus, would others around you consider you as someone that expresses joy?

2.) What or who are you relying on to keep you joyful apart from God?

3.) Are you a person that recognizes God’s joy is with you but you don’t often find yourself expressing it?

4.) What is holding you back? (Etiquette, social codes, vulnerability as weakness, lies of judgment, expressions as a child were squashed, standard in our culture to always complain, always tired, always busy, etc.)

Luke: Warning! Proceed Down the Road with Caution

Summary: The forty-third message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. Following Christ and and sharing it everywhere.

Scripture: Luke 9:57-62

Three Hindrances to Following Christ:

1.) Earthly Comfort (v57-58)

2.) Earthly Responsibilities (v59-60)

3.) Earthly Relationships (v61-62)


Joel Greene Quote:

“Luke asserts the level of commitment required to follow Jesus. They must match the depth of His resolution to serve the purpose of God, even when it leads to rejection and execution. Apart from conviction measured in these terms, the lessons of discipleship cannot be fully absorbed.”

Luke: The Superiority Complex - Battling the Pride Inside

Summary: The forty-second message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. The test of greatness.

Scripture: Luke 9:46-56

Response in Prayer and Life:

1.) In what area of your life do you often see yourself as being superior to others, even to the point of exclusion?

2.) Why do you think that is? (past hurts, cultural or family conditioning, etc.)

3.) What step is the Holy Spirit encouraging you to take, so that your heart aligns with Jesus’ heart, rather than the disciples?

Luke: Deliverance in the Midst of Desperation

Summary: The forty-first message from the Book of Luke which highlights our response to Jesus’ Gospel. The Jesus heals a demon-possessed boy.

Scripture: Luke 9:37-43

Why Here and Why Now?

The healing of the demoniac boy was a further picture of Jesus’ purpose in coming - a foreshadowing of His own death and resurrection:

  • His descent from the mountain into brokenness (v.37)

  • Jesus’ authority over Satan and his demonic forces (v.42)

  • Jesus’ rebuke of the faithless generation and their unbelief (v.41)

  • The boy’s violent experience (v.39, 42)

  • Restoration of the boy and the '“giving back to his father (v.42)

  • Amazed at God’s greatness (v.43)