5/11/25 Worship Service & Sermon: Jesus & the Children - Mark 10:13-16

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5/11/25 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Mark 10:13-16
Title: Jesus & the Children
Worship Leader: Dave Stoltzfus
Speaker: Steve Estes

NIV: People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them.

ESV: And they were bringing little children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the little children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it." And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

Notes:

1. The story
A. The setting is unclear
B. What age were these children?
C. Why were the disciples rebuked?

2. Jesus rebuked disciples who kept children from Him
A. Parents become angry when they think their child has been wronged
B. How might adults today hinder children from coming to Jesus?
C. Jesus praises parents who do the opposite

3. Jesus blessed the children who were brought to Him
A. Consider what it means to bless someone
B. What sort of blessing were the parents seeking?
C. Consider the manner in which Jesus blessed them
D. What exactly was the result?

4. Accepting the kingdom of God like a little child
A. What Jesus doesn't mean
B. What Jesus does mean

#Jesus #children

5/4/25 Worship Service and Sermon: Eliphat “Comforts” Job - Job 4-5

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5/4/25 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Job 4-5
Title: Eliphaz "Comforts" Job
Speaker: Steve Estes

Notes:

1. How to think about hard Bible passages
A. Every Christian should work to understand the Bible as best they can
B. There's a reason God gave the church pastors and teachers
C. What to do when you feel lost

2. Review of past three chapters
A. The blameless man
B. The adversarial wager
C. The terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad days
D. The three friends

3. Eliphaz's speech
A. The Temanite
B. The tone
C. The doctrine
D. The vision
E. The advice

4. What Eliphaz got right

5. What Eliphaz got wrong
A. His manner
B. His content

Benediction

To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood...to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. (Revelation 1:5b-6)

#eliphaz #job #suffering #bricklanecommunitychurch #bricklanechurch #elverson #pennsylvania #worship #sermon

4/27/25 Worship Service & Sermon: Eye-Opening Light: Seeing Through Shame - John 9

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4/27/25 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: John 9
Title: Eye-Opening Light: Seeing Through Shame
Worship Leader: Matt Griffith
Speaker: Dave Royes

Notes:

1. Intro: "What's your story?"

2. Main point

3. The reasons for shame
A. Our own sin
B. The sins of others
C. God's work

4. The redemption displayed
A. Jesus cleanses him
B. Jesus exhibits him
C. Jesus shepherds him

5. The reversal of sight

#blind #shame #Jesus

4/20/25 Easter Service: When Weeping Gives Way to Witness - John 20:1-18

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4/20/25 Easter Service from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: John 20:1-18
Title: When Weeping Gives Way to Witness
Worship Leader: Randy Hepler
Speaker: David Royes

Notes:

1. Main Idea

2. Wondering about Truth
A. The tomb provokes questions
B. The Scripture speaks

3. Weeping that Turns
A. Jesus is The Resurrection
B. Jesus is The Good Shepherd
C. Jesus is The Way to The Father

4. Witnessing to Triumph

#Jesus #resurrection #marymagdalene

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4/13/25 Worship Service & Sermon: Eye-Opening Light: Seeing at Night - John 3:1-21

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4/13/25 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: John 3:1-21
Title: Eye-Opening Light: Seeing at Night
Speaker: David Royes

Notes:

1. Main point

2. A Religious Man (with a hidden problem)
A. A man with wealth and influence
B. A man with spiritual curiosity, but cultural hindrance

3. The Triune God (with an unbelievable plan)
A. The Spirit gives life
B. The Son is lifted
C. The Father loved

4. All people (with ultimate beliefs)
A. Whoever
B. Response to the Light
C. Empty living vs. eternal living

#bornagain #eternalliving #Jesus #nicodemus

4/6/25 Worship Service & Sermon: The Test of Prosperity - Luke 12:13-21

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4/6/25 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Luke 12:13-21
Title: The Test of Prosperity
Speaker: David Royes

Someone in the crowd said to [Jesus], "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbiter over you?" And he said to them, "Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." And he told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?' And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat drink, and be merry."' But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."

Notes:

1. The main point

2. The shocking exhortation
A. A particularly blinding sin
B. A particularly captivating sin

3. The exposing parable
A. Our delight is in God
B. Our security comes from God
C. Our eternity is with God

4. The truth about treasure

#prosperity #greed #proactiveposture

3/30/25 Worship Service & Sermon: Job’s Lament - Job 2:11-13, Job 3

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3/30/25 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Job 2:11-13, Job 3
Title: Job's Lament
Speaker: Steve Estes

When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.

Notes:

1. Introduction
A. Review
B. Job's friends arrive

2. Job begins his lament

3. Job utters a series of curses
A. A curse
B. "May God not care about that day"
C. "May that day be shrouded in darkness

4. "Why?"
A. The universally spoken three-letter word
B. How Job imagines the grave
C. The final "why"
D. Summary

5. Applications
A. God sometimes lets the righteous suffer terribly
B. It is important for believers to acknowledge another's suffering before explaining it
C. It is appropriate for a Christian to groan, sometimes long and loudly

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 He said:

3 “May the day of my birth perish, and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’

4 That day—may it turn to darkness; may God above not care about it; may no light shine on it.

5 May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more; may a cloud settle over it; may blackness overwhelm it.

6 That night—may thick darkness seize it; may it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months.

7 May that night be barren; may no shout of joy be heard in it.

8 May those who curse days[a] curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.

9 May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn,

10 for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.

11 “Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?

12 Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?

13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

14 with kings and rulers of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,

15 with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

16 Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?

17 There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

18 Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout.

19 The small and the great are there, and the slaves are freed from their owners.

20 “Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,

21 to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure,

22 who are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave?

23 Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

24 For sighing has become my daily food; my groans pour out like water.

25 What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me.

26 I have no peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only turmoil.” #job #lament #curse

Additional Notes:

Job utters a series of curses

1. A curse

2. “God may not care about the day of his birth”

3. “May that day be shrouded in Darkness”

“Why” questions

1. The universally spoken 3-letter word

2. How He imagines the grave

3. Final "“Why”

4. summary

Principle: God sometimes Lets the RIGHTEOUS suffer terribly

1. Yet God himself affirmed Job as righteous

Principle: It is important for believers to acknowledge another’s suffering before explaining it

It is appropriate for a Christian to groan, sometimes long and loudly

CONCLUSION

3/9/25 Worship Service & Sermon: Eye-Opening Light: Seeing His Glory, John 1:1-18

Title: Eye-Opening Light: Seeing His Glory

Scripture: John 1:1-18

Speaker: David Royes

2 Chronicles 26: 15-16: "The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place. But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy."

Notes:

1. His Climatic Coming
A. God called out to His own

2. His Sober Diagnosis
A. We naturally hide
B. We easily misunderstand
C. We quickly reject

3. His Unbelievable Message
A. God adopts all who receive Him

4. Applications

"When we approach Him in the intensity of worship, we gather up all the sweetness involved in Fatherhood and all the tenderness wrapped up in sonship; when calamities overcome us and troubles come in like a flood, we lift up our cry and stretch out our arms to God as a compassionate Father; when the angel of death climbs in at the window of our homes and bears away the object of our love, we find our dearest solace in reflecting upon the fatherly heart of God; when we look across the swelling flood, it is our Father's House on the light-covered hills beyond the stars which cheers us amid the crumbling of the earthly tabernacle." — Robert Webb

3/2/25 Worship Service & Sermon: How Did We Get Here? - Exodus 13:17-22

3/2/25 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

* With installation of new Senior Pastor David Royes

Scripture: Exodus 13:17-22
Title: "How Did We Get Here?"
Speaker: David Royes

When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, "Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt." But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle. Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here." And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness. And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.

Notes:

1. A Winding Road
A. The path is not humanly efficient
B. Why God leads them on this winding path

2. A Word Remembered
A. God's plan is unfolding
B. God's promise is prevailing
C. God's people need reminding

3. A Wonderful Revelation
A. In Exodus, God came down in pillars of cloud and fire
B. In the Gospels, God came down as a human

4. Applications

#God #exodus