Tag: Luke-The Investigative Gospel

Sermon Audio: Night Shift Shepherds
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 2:8-20
Duration: 21:59
Size: 10.0 MB

Luke-The Investigative Gospel
Night Shift Shepherd
Luke 2:8-20

Who do you identify with in the Christmas story?

Let us examine shepherds and perhaps we can discover the qualities that God saw.

First of all, they were religious outcasts.

Not only that, but shepherds were borderline social outcasts.

It gave them a lot of contact with sheep, but very little exposure to people.

Maybe He chose the shepherds because God compares His relationship with us as that of a shepherd with His sheep.

They remind us of our faithful God. And we also need to be faithful – to God and to those God has entrusted to our care.

If any of that description strikes a chord with you, then I have good news. Great news. The best news possible. God loves you. Just like He loved those shepherds.

They simply obeyed and went.

They shared the good news with others.

After they made known abroad the good news, then they worshipped.

We can learn a lot from a simple Night Shift Shepherd.

Sermon Audio: Pausing in Adoration
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 2:1-7
Duration: 25:08
Size: 11.5 MB

Luke-The Investigative Gospel
Pausing in Adoration
Luke 2:1-7

Adoration is defined as a feeling of profound love and admiration.

The shepherds came in excitement.

The wise men came with obedience.

Mary and Joseph came in prayer.

How amazing is it that God wants to be with us.

God is big, He moves in the big things. There is nothing in your life that is too big for Him to handle.

But God is also in the small things.

If you’re waiting for God to speak in your life, here is a good place to start, read your Bible.

The Gospel message is so simple, God loves you, He died to pay the price for all of your sins, and mine, and if you will just ask Him to forgive you and be a part of your life He will.

Here is what is amazing the God who marked off the oceans, the God who measured the Heavens, wants to know you and me.

Not as some being way up in the sky, but as the God who came down to be with you.

We come to God in different ways. The how is not important but the action is.

Sermon Audio: The Blessedness of God
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 1:67-80
Duration: 20:21
Size: 9.31 MB

Luke-The Investigative Gospel
The Blessedness of God
Luke 1:67-80

God is worthy of our praise.

Because He visited us.

Philippians 2:7-8

The incarnation of Jesus Christ is an event that ought to solicit great praise from the hearts of men and women who love the Lord.

Because He redeemed us.

Galatians 3:13
Job 19:25

We spend our lives in pursuit of every lover that comes along, but in His infinite love God purchased us for Himself.

Because He raised up a Horn of Salvation for us.

There was no part of purchasing our salvation that was beyond His ability to bring to pass.

Because He keeps His promises.

God has been faithful in the past; He is faithful today and I know He’ll still be faithful tomorrow!

Part of the way we praise Him is through holy, righteous, courageous and lifelong service to Him.

We have the privilege of preaching and proclaiming the gospel of Christ so people might be prepared for His second coming.

You want people to listen to what you have to say? Then treat them with grace and mercy.

Sermon Audio: His Name Is John
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 1:57-66
Duration: 21:32
Size: 9.86 MB

Luke-The Investigative Gospel
His Name Is John
Luke 1:57-66

Sermon Audio: When God Turns Your Life Upside Down
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 1:46-56
Duration: 21:22
Size: 9.78 MB

Luke-The Investigative Gospel
When God Turns Your Life Upside Down
Luke 1:46-56

God picks people, regular, ordinary people like you and me, and he asks us to do great things.

What God did to Mary is similar to what God sometimes does to us.

First of all, that Mary responds to God with humble faith.

Mary responded to all of this not just with humble faith, but also with humble obedience.

And finally as she thought about this, Mary also responded with joy.

Instead of condemning you for your sins, God sends his Son, who takes your sins away.

When God does that to you, remember that he will also give you faith, and courage, and joy, as you carry out God’s plan in your life.