Deo Gloria March 24, 2024 Sermon for Palm Sunday Pastor Martin Bentz Text: Zechariah 9:9+10 Theme: Rejoice! Your King Has Come. His approach is unpretentious. His agenda is salvation. His message is peace. When I hear the word “king,” I tend to think of kings from back in the days of the Middle […]
Deo Gloria Sermon for February 25, 2024 Pastor Martin Bentz Text: Mark 8:31-38 Theme: Follow the Savior to the Cross! The way he must go to save us The way we must go to follow him March is right around the corner and along with it March Madness. Basketball fans across the country […]
Deo Gloria February 14, 2024 Ash Wednesday Introductions to the Lessons Pastor Martin Bentz Joel 2:12-19 Lent is a season of repentance. But what really is repentance? Is it giving something up, like not eating meat on Fridays, for example, or not eating jelly-filled donuts? Is it putting ashes on our foreheads or wearing […]
Pastor Slaughter February 11, 2024 Transfiguration Theme: A Glimpse of Glory Text: Mark 9:2-9 Today is the last day of the Season of Epiphany. As we made the journey from the River to the mountain we saw the amazing work that Christ accomplished of the world and how he calls us and uses us […]
Deo Gloria Sermon for February 4, 2024 Pastor Martin Bentz Text: 1 Peter 5:6-11 Theme: Find Strength in the God of All Grace! To deal with the trials and sufferings of this life To stand firm against your enemy, the devil She really struggles sometimes. She struggles with the demands and the pressures […]
Deo Gloria Sermon for January 28, 2024 Pastor Martin Bentz Text: Mark 1:21-28 Theme: Jesus Speaks With the Voice of Authority! He speaks God’s Word with authority. He speaks to evil spirits with authority. “When E.F. Hutton speaks, people listen.” Do you remember that commercial? Two people would be meeting for dinner at […]
Pastor Slaughter 1-21-2024 Epiphany 3 For the Love of Christ Compels Us 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 Have you ever looked at the Apostle Paul and just ever wondered why? Later on in 2 Corinthians he describes some of the things he suffered, “I’ve done more hard work, been in prisons more often, been whipped far […]
Deo Gloria Sermon for January 14, 2024 Pastor Martin Bentz Text: John 1:43-51 Theme: Come and See! The one who fulfills the writings of Moses and the Prophets The one who knows us inside and out The one who bridges the gap between God and mankind He wanted to say something. It seemed […]
Pastor Slaughter Epiphany Day January 7, 2024 Good News of Great Joy for All People Text: Matthew 2:1-12 What makes you happy? What gets you excited? You know those times where you do something, or receive something, that just leads you to rejoice. I mean you just can’t help but be happy. Is it […]
Deo Gloria Sermon for December 31, 2023 Pastor Martin Bentz Text: Luke 2:25-40 Theme: How Do You Respond to the Birth of the Savior? With Praise With Peace With Proclamation ‘Twas the day after Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The tree was […]