WEEKLY MESSAGES

CHRISTIAN LIVING SERMONS

Practical discipleship, obedience, holiness, perseverance, and daily life in Christ.

April 2, 2024Pastor Nancy Odle

Battle Ready

In “Battle Ready,” Pastor Nancy Odle teaches married couples to recognize that their spouse is not the enemy. Because husband and wife are one flesh, insults, suspicion, contempt, and scorekeeping wound the same union God joined together. Drawing from Matthew 19, 2 Corinthians 2, David and Michal, and practical marriage examples, she traces how spiritual suggestions can become resentment, hardness of heart, and destructive speech when they are not recognized and rejected.

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March 29, 2024Pastor Dean Odle

Spiritual Warfare #4 - Nephilim - Satan's Genetic Seed

In “Spiritual Warfare #4 - Nephilim - Satan's Genetic Seed,” Pastor Dean Odle develops a Scripture-centered message moving through sons of god, women, and giants, enoch, jude, and ancient witnesses, mount hermon and the watchers, accounts of extraordinary size. The sermon follows the speaker’s argument chronologically, grounding its principal appeals in biblical passages and practical ministry examples.

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March 26, 2024Pastor Dean Odle

Spiritual Warfare #3 - The Serpent in Eden

In “Spiritual Warfare #3 - The Serpent in Eden,” Pastor Dean Odle develops a Scripture-centered message moving through the choice at the two trees, the lie that god is withholding good, death and the limits of human understanding, contradicting the word of god. The sermon follows the speaker’s argument chronologically, grounding its principal appeals in biblical passages and practical ministry examples.

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March 22, 2024Pastor Dean Odle

Spiritual Warfare #2 - The Fall of Satan & His Angels

In “Spiritual Warfare #2 - The Fall of Satan & His Angels,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Satanic opposition, angelic messengers, eternal life and hope. Drawing especially from Isaiah 6, Genesis 6, Ezekiel 28, Isaiah 14, the teaching emphasizes that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that angelic activity is examined within the biblical passage and its prophetic sequence.

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March 19, 2024Pastor Dean Odle

Spiritual Warfare #1 - Know Your Enemy

In “Spiritual Warfare #1 - Know Your Enemy,” Pastor Dean Odle develops a Scripture-centered message moving through the name and nature of satan, the accuser before god, jesus rebukes the adversary, watchfulness, not passivity. The sermon follows the speaker’s argument chronologically, grounding its principal appeals in biblical passages and practical ministry examples.

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March 10, 2024Pastor Dean Odle

Beware of Offense

In “Beware of Offense,” Pastor Dean Odle warns that wounded feelings can become a spiritual trap when they harden into division, unforgiveness, and bitterness. Beginning with Jesus’ own sharp rebukes of religious leaders, Odle argues that biblical love does not avoid difficult truth and that Christians must remain humble enough to receive correction without abandoning fellowship. He contrasts direct biblical preaching with a church culture that can prize emotional comfort over repentance.

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January 21, 2024Dean Odle

Knowing the Voice of the Lord

Dean Odle teaches that hearing the Lord is a normal part of Spirit-led Christianity, but every impression must be tested by Scripture. He places the lesson after teachings on knowing Jesus and the Holy Spirit because spiritual guidance must grow from relationship with Christ rather than from technique. Through John, Acts, and 1 Samuel, he distinguishes the Spirit’s inward witness from rare audible speech, ordinary human thoughts, emotional pressure, and manipulative claims made by other people. Samuel’s initial failure to recognize God’s voice shows that discernment can develop through repetition and mature help.

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January 17, 2024Pastor Dean Odle

Breaking Free #3: Doorways for Demons

The third “Breaking Free” session catalogs what Pastor Dean Odle calls doorways—sins, wounds, vows, occult practices, and inherited patterns that can give demons a foothold. He begins with Ephesians 4:27 and carefully adds that deliverance does not remove the flesh or personal responsibility. Even after prayer, Christians must discipline their bodies, resist temptation, confess sin, and grow in obedience.

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January 16, 2024Pastor Dean Odle

Breaking Free #2: Can a Christian Have Demons in Them?

In the second “Breaking Free” session, Pastor Dean Odle addresses the disputed question of whether a Christian can have demons. He answers yes, while distinguishing a demonic stronghold from total ownership or control of a person. Personal ministry experiences introduce his case, but he turns to Scripture to argue that believers can give the devil “place” through sin, disobedience, trauma, or ignorance and therefore may need deliverance after conversion.

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