His desire was that His people be individuals of their word. It was our Lords desire that anyone who claims to follow Him would be known for their personal verbal integrity.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

The subject of divorce and remarriage is one of the most complicated topics in the Bible. It is virtually impossible to answer all the questions that arise, but it may be helpful to survey and summarize what we believe the Scriptures teach.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

This passage serves as a powerful reminder for all Christians to take proactive steps in guarding their hearts and minds against temptation, especially in the area of sexual sin. By practicing discipline and accountability, believers can overcome the...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

There is no mistaking the severity of the Savior’s words. He teaches that anger contains the seeds of murder, that abusive language contains the spirit of murder, and that cursing language implies the very desire to murder.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

At this point in His Sermon, He knew that a question was beginning to rise in the minds of those listening to Him that He needed to address. This question arose due to His comments concerning righteousness and entering into the “Kingdom of Heaven”.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

There are two pictures of the Christian in closing: salt and the light. Salt speaks of inward character that influences a decaying world; light speaks of the outward testimony of good works that points to God. Our task is to keep our lives pure that...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

These are the attitudes that will lead to happiness and fulfillment: poverty of spirit, mourning over sin, meekness that no longer struts, but submits, hungering and thirsting for righteousness, mercy, purity of heart, peacemaking, persecution—this is...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

The sermon showed how a person who is in right relationship with God should conduct his life. While the passage must be understood in the light of the offer of the messianic kingdom, the sermon applies to Jesus’ followers today for it demonstrates the...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

The God of hope is the God who inspires hope in, and provides hope for, His redeemed ones.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

This hope is not a desperate holding-on to a faded dream, a dead hope, but a living one, founded on reality, for it is grounded in “the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”Von Pastor Eric Bentz

What is Christian Nationalism? Why are Evangelical Christians being labeled or branded Christian Nationalist by the mainstream media? Why do they claim that we are a threat to democracy? These are the question we will seek to answer and more.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

The Big picture perspective helps us wee the world as it is and shows us our purpose and leads us to hope. The return of Jesus will confirm our belief and worldview but today we hold on to it by faith. The only hope we truly have is in Jesus Christ.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

Believers can enjoy the peace with God that has been achieved and the glorious future in God’s presence that awaits them. But how should they react to the experiences of life that are often adverse and difficult? How can we be hopeful in a hopeless world?Von Pastor Eric Bentz

God’s presence was not in wind or earthquake or fire. His voice came in the gentle breeze. Those sweet zephyrs were like windswept, invisible magnets, drawing Elijah out of the cave.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

For several years Elijah had stood firm amidst and against almost insurmountable odds and circumstances. But now, after a great victory, he dropped into the throes of discouragement and total despair.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

No wonder Elijah is the kind of man we admire. Isn’t it exciting to know we serve the same God he served? Isn’t it thrilling to think we can trust the same God he trusted? And what kind of God is that? He’s the God who makes promises and keeps them.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

The contrast is stunning. And the response was immediate: It was a consuming fire . . . and it was convincing.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

It is amazing to me how people will break God’s commandments over and over again. They will resist His loving warnings that He issues to them and then when hardship or calamity hits, usually of their own making, they get mad at God. They bring the...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

Is He able? Get serious! I’m referring to “the God of impossibilities,” the One who has limitless power, who has never—and will never—meet an intimidating obstacle He cannot overcome, an aggressive enemy He cannot overwhelm, a final decision He cannot...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

Anyone who would be used of God as mightily as Elijah would be in the years ahead must first face the advanced training course. For Elijah, this was Zarephath.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

The Lord usually leads His faithful people a step at a time as they tune their hearts to His Word. God didn’t give Elijah a three-year schedule to follow. Instead, He directed his servant at each critical juncture in his journey, and Elijah obeyed by...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

You need to know that God will always raise up someone to speak the truth when things are dark. The Bible says, “When the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against Him.” That man was going to be Elijah.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

They did not understand it; even John himself did not until then. The rest of the disciples had never put that interpretation upon our Lord’s words which was the clear and simple meaning of them, namely, that he would rise from the dead. I should not...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

We must keep in mind that what our Lord accomplished on the cross was an eternal transaction that involved Him and the Father. He did not die as a martyr who had failed in a lost cause. Nor was He only an example for people to follow. Isaiah 53 makes...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

To us the tower may also picture fallen man’s ceaseless effort to reach heaven by his own works instead of receiving salvation as a free gift of grace.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

The idea here is not that God momentarily forgot about Noah, but rather that even though Noah was in the dark, bouncing around in the ark, God remembered him constantly.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

Many today sense a storm is coming. Some dismiss it, others prepare and enter the ark. Which one are you?Von Pastor Eric Bentz

On one occasion the Lord’s disciples came to Him with this question. “What will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus said in Matthew 24, “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

There are a number of striking parallels between Noah’s time and our time. Though his story is years old yet he was living in his last days if you will. He was living in a time right before judgment came in the form of a flood. And we are living in...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

Here, we have the story of two brothers, Adam and Eve's first and second sons. It is apparent that sin is already taking its toll upon mankind. We see clearly that the effects of sin are in full play. However, there is still even more to this...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

In love and mercy God searched after His fallen creatures with the question “Where are you?” This question proved two things—that man was lost and that God had come to seek. It proved man’s sin and God’s grace. God takes the initiative in salvation...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

Here is this paradise setting ruined by the entrance of Satan. Of course, he hates it when our lives are in harmony with God. He despises it when our families are in tact, when our lives are balanced. When we are putting the things of God first and...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

Today in our scientific community the origin of life is still a great mystery. They believe that species were developed by a process of natural selection through evolution but have no answer to the question how life began.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

Many have significant concerns about 2024. Some believe that there is a great storm brewing on the horizon. If so, are you ready for what may come next?Von Pastor Eric Bentz

What was the greatest gift you have ever received? I'll bet you that this one is better.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

No one should think that the promise of rest is no longer valid. It has never had a complete and final fulfillment in the past; therefore, the offer is still in effect.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

In the beginning God. That is where it starts. God created the heavens. He created the earth. He created you.And as we reflect on that today, let’s try to respond appropriately. And like David in contemplating these great things, say, “When I...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

God is always coming in on something which has been messed up by the enemy. Here, the world is a mess, without form and void, wiped-out, wasted. And God begins to move.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

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The crown of God’s work was the creation of man in His image and according to His likeness.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

How can we do it? Our Lord says, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel and make disciples.” It is such a big world. The answer to that is maybe the answer to the question how do you eat an elephant. The answer to that is one bite at a time. How...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

Has the "love of self" created the society that we live in today? That is the question that we will explore today.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things—the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. Samuel JohnsonVon Pastor Eric Bentz

It is almost 50 years to the day the last time Israel was officially at war in what is known as the Yom Kippur War back in 1973 when she was attacked by Egypt. Syria, and others. But this is a different kind of war.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

Due to the temporal nature of the world around us, we need to consider our relationship with it and who we should be.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

Revelation is, above all, a book of hope. It shows that no matter what happens on earth, God is in control. It promises that evil will not last forever. And it depicts the wonderful reward that is waiting for all who believe in Jesus Christ as...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

“The point of the passage is to teach that in the eternal state God’s people will live at the source of the life-giving stream, the very presence of God Himself . . .”Von Pastor Eric Bentz

The truth about the heavenly city is more than is described, but not less and not different from what is described. It is a material creation, yet so unique as to be unimaginable to us. The words of John provide all the details God has given us to...Von Pastor Eric Bentz

This is the culmination of all things. The grand finale. The tour de force. The magnum opus. The masterwork. The pièce de résistance! This is when the new Heaven and the new earth become one glorious reality, and we enter into an eternal timelessness.Von Pastor Eric Bentz

Today, we see a New World Order forming. The expansion of the BRICS nations will usher in a new geopolitical horizon. Is it possible that this was foretold in the Book of Ezekiel chapter 38? It is that question that we will explore in this message.Von Pastor Eric Bentz