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March 6, 2026Pastor Dean Odle

The Secret to the Favor of God

Pastor Dean Odle's “secret” to God's favor is deliberately simple: humility expressed through courageous obedience. Using Israel's refusal to enter Canaan in Numbers 13-14, he contrasts Joshua and Caleb's confidence in God's promise with the majority's fear, unbelief, and rebellion. God does not remove every giant or stronghold beforehand; He calls His people to become co-laborers who pray, obey, fight, and grow in faith while depending on His grace.

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March 3, 2026Pastor Dean Odle

The Anointing of the Holy Spirit (2026)

In The Anointing of the Holy Spirit (2026), Pastor Dean Odle calls believers to seek more than routine church activity: the presence, power, guidance, and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Beginning with Jesus in Luke 4, Odle argues that Christ ministered as the anointed Son and model for believers, and that the Spirit’s power exposes darkness, breaks bondage, gives authority for witness, and may provoke resistance as well as revival.

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December 28, 2025Pastor Dean Odle

The Heart of Mankind - Part 7 - The Broken and Wounded Heart

In “The Heart of Mankind - Part 7 - The Broken and Wounded Heart,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about prayer, worship, healing and faith. Drawing especially from Psalm 143, Psalm 35, the teaching emphasizes that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that true worship centers on God and is expressed through reverence, surrender, and obedience.

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December 21, 2025Pastor Dean Odle

The Heart of Mankind - Part 6: Pride

Pastor Dean Odle presents pride as a foundational corruption of the human heart: self-exaltation that resists truth, correction, dependence, and humble obedience to God. Jeremiah 17 again supplies the series’ controlling diagnosis, while Proverbs, Obadiah, Isaiah 14, and Ezekiel 28 trace pride’s deception and its association with Satan’s fall. Spiritual gifts, knowledge, success, and ministry activity can themselves become occasions for boasting if love and humility are absent.

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December 14, 2025Pastor Dean Odle

The Heart of Mankind - Part 5: The Depraved Heart

Pastor Dean Odle examines the depraved heart through the love of money, covetousness, pleasure, and self-preservation. First Timothy 6 anchors the teaching: the desire to be rich exposes people to temptation, snares, and destructive lusts, while the love of money causes many to err from the faith. Second Timothy 3 broadens the warning to a culture of self-love, covetousness, pride, brutality, and pleasure without true godliness.

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December 7, 2025Pastor Dean Odle

The Heart of Mankind - Part 4: The Pure Heart

In this fourth message, Pastor Dean Odle defines a pure heart as one unmixed with cherished falsehood, hypocrisy, deceit, or divided allegiance. Hebrews 12 and Matthew 5 frame the urgency: holiness is necessary to see the Lord, and the pure in heart are blessed because they shall see God. The sermon repeatedly connects purity with truthful speech, sincere love, a good conscience, genuine faith, and diligent guardianship of the inner life.

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November 30, 2025Pastor Dean Odle

The Heart of Mankind - Part 3: The Hardened Heart

Pastor Dean Odle warns that Christians can gradually harden their hearts through hidden sin, unbelief, rationalization, and refusal to hear God’s voice. Beginning with Jeremiah 17 and Ezekiel 8, he emphasizes that God sees what is concealed within the heart. Hebrews 3 then supplies the central warning: people addressed as holy brethren must take heed lest sin’s deceitfulness harden them and lead them away from the living God.

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November 23, 2025Pastor Dean Odle

The Heart of Mankind - Part 2: The Idol of Self

The sermon identifies the “idol of self” as a hidden allegiance that seeks recognition, position, comfort, and control even within Christian service. Pastor Dean Odle begins with Jeremiah’s warning that the heart is deceitful, then traces how envy, vainglory, ambition, resentment, and resistance to spiritual authority reveal self-seeking motives. Biblical examples—from Israel’s dissatisfaction to the envy behind Joseph’s betrayal and Christ’s condemnation—show that giftedness and religious activity do not automatically produce a humble heart.

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November 16, 2025Pastor Dean Odle

The Heart of Mankind

In The Heart of Mankind, Pastor Dean Odle challenges the cultural command to “follow your heart.” From Jeremiah 17:9, he argues that the fallen human heart is deceitful and cannot safely serve as its own moral guide. The sermon traces the biblical meanings of heart, soul, mind, and spirit, stressing that sanctification involves bringing thoughts, desires, memory, and will under the Word and Spirit of God.

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