Prior Lake Baptist Church

Text: Psalm 123 Big Idea: The Lord is the Master, and thus we must look to Him alone and wait on His mercies to be dispensed. Outline: 1. Look upward. (1) 2. Fix your eyes on our Master. (2) 3. Wait on the Lord for His mercies. (3-4)

Text: Psalm 122 Big Idea: We are all seeking a city whose Builder and Maker is God, and our God through Christ will bring us all safely home. Outline: 1. The journey to Jerusalem ends. (1-2) 2. The city shines in all its glory. (3-5) 3. The city longs for the Lord’s return. (6-9)

Text: Psalm 121 Big Idea: Continually look beyond your everyday troubles to our faithful God, Who is our Help. Outline: I. God alone is our Help. (1-2) II. God personally and collectively cares for His own. (3-6) III. God will bring us all the way home. (7-8)

Text: Hebrews 13:18-25 Big Idea: We must labor together through God’s grace in Christ, prayerfully pointing one another to look continually to Christ. Outline: 1. Utilize prayer to spur each other to Christ. (18-21) (Spiritual means) 2. Utilize godly relationships to spur each other to heed God’s Word. (20-25) (Spiritual relationships)

Text: Hebrews 13:18-25 Big Idea: We must labor together through God’s grace in Christ, prayerfully pointing one another to look continually to Christ. Outline: 1. Utilize prayer to spur each other to Christ. (18-21) (Spiritual means) 2. Utilize godly relationships to spur each other to heed God’s Word. (20-25) (Spiritual relationships)

Text: Hebrews 13:1-17 Big Idea: Fearing God alone is put on display as we steward each relationship and circumstance to the praise of God alone. Outline: 1. Relationships within the church reflect who you are resting in. (1-6) 2. Follow those God has put before you as they reflect Jesus. (7-17)

Text: Hebrews 13:1-17 Big Idea: Fearing God alone is put on display as we steward each relationship and circumstance to the praise of God alone. Outline: 1. Relationships within the church reflect who you are resting in. (1-6) 2. Follow those God has put before you as they reflect Jesus. (7-17)

Big Idea: The advent of Christ's ministry confirms the prophets, confronts the self-righteous, and cheers the Father. Outline 1. The prophets are confirmed by John the Baptist. (1-6) 2. The self-righteous are confronted by the judgment to come. (7-12) 3. The Father's cheer is announced through the humility of Christ. (13-17)

Text: Matthew 2:1-23 Big Idea: God’s sovereign plan for the Messiah could not be thwarted which leads us to trust and worship Him. Outline: 1. God guides true worshippers to the true king. (1-12) 2. God’s plan prevails over human opposition. (13-18) 3. God arranges every circumstance to fulfill His promise. (19-23)

Text: Luke 1:46-55 Big Idea: Come and adore the mighty Lord for His faithful and everlasting provision of mercy in Jesus. Outline: I. The mighty Lord mercifully saves the humble. (46-50) II. The mighty Lord faithfully keeps His promises. (51-55)

Text: Matthew 2:1-23 Big Idea: God’s sovereign plan for the Messiah could not be thwarted which leads us to trust and worship Him. Outline: 1. God guides true worshippers to the true king. (1-12) 2. God’s plan prevails over human opposition. (13-18) 3. God arranges every circumstance to fulfill His promise. (19-23)

Text: Matthew 1:18-25 Big Idea: God’s faithfulness to His Word displayed in the supernatural birth of Jesus Christ reveals that Jesus is our Savior. Outline: 1. Circumstances bear witness to Jesus’ divine identity (18-19) 2. Angelic revelation bears witness to Jesus’ divine identity (20-21) 3. The fulfillment of prophecy bears witness to Jesus divine identity (22-25)

Big Idea: In Christ, we live as citizens of God’s unshakable kingdom, drawing near to God by Christ’s completed work. Outline: 1. Joy over Fear (12:18-24) 2. Worship over Rejection (12:25-29)

Text: Hebrews 12:12-17. Big Idea: God utilizes all things to grow our dependence on Him and our Christ-ward care for each other. Outline: 1. We need to strengthen each other in this wearying race. (12-13) 2. We have God’s grace to live with eternal eyes. (14-17)

Text: Hebrews 12:1-11 Big Idea: Our endurance to run the race will be strengthened as we look to Christ who uses everything for God’s purposes. Outline: 1. Fix your eyes on Christ. (1-3) 2. Allow the Lord to give you His perspective. (4-10) 3. The Lord’s peaceable fruit will be produced in you. (11)

Text: I Peter 1:1-12 Big Idea: Praise God who by His Sovereign plan granted us a living hope that enables our joyful endurance in trials until the return of Jesus Christ. I. The hope of our salvation was preordained (1-2) II. The hope of our salvation was provided for (3-5) III. The hope of our salvation provides power to endure trials (6-9) IV. The hope of our salvation was prophesied and fulfill...

Text: Hebrews 12:1-11 Big Idea: Our endurance to run the race will be strengthened as we look to Christ who uses everything for God’s purposes. Outline: 1. Fix your eyes on Christ. (1-3) 2. Allow the Lord to give you His perspective. (4-10) 3. The Lord’s peaceable fruit will be produced in you. (11)

Text: Hebrews 10:36-11:40 Big Idea: Difficulty may drive us to live short-sighted, but God’s faithfulness demands we live by faith, entrusting ourselves to God in the same way as those who have confidently gone before us. Outline: 1. Endure by faith not by sight. (Hebrews 10:36-39) 2. Faith was displayed from the very beginning. (Hebrews 11:1-22) 3. Faith was displayed even when in bondage. (Hebre...

Text: Hebrews 10:36-11:40 Big Idea: Difficulty may drive us to live short-sighted, but God’s faithfulness demands we live by faith, entrusting ourselves to God in the same way as those who have confidently gone before us. Outline: 1. Endure by faith not by sight. (Hebrews 10:36-39) 2. Faith was displayed from the very beginning. (Hebrews 11:1-22) 3. Faith was displayed even when in bondage. (Hebre...

Text: Hebrews 10:36-11:40 Big Idea: Difficulty may drive us to live short-sighted, but God’s faithfulness demands we live by faith, entrusting ourselves to God in the same way as those who have confidently gone before us. Outline: 1. Endure by faith not by sight. (Hebrews 10:36-39) 2. Faith was displayed from the very beginning. (Hebrews 11:1-22) 3. Faith was displayed even when in bondage. (Hebre...

Text: Romans 13:1-7 Big Idea: All who would submit to the greatest authority must willingly submit to all lesser authority and faithfully execute any lesser authority granted to them. Outline: 1. All sovereignty comes from the Sovereign One (1) 2. All rebellion is to the Sovereign One (2-4) 3. All submission is to the Sovereign One (5-6)

Text: James 2:14-26 Big Idea: Living faith must be displayed in action. Outline: 1. Our faith must produce action. (14-19) 2. Faith has always produced action. (20-26)