Doctrine and Discernment Sermons

April 7, 2024Dean Odle

Transformers

Dean Odle warns that false teachers can transform their outward appearance while bringing another Jesus, another spirit, and another gospel into a church. His central test case is denial of eternal conscious punishment: he compares Jesus’ parallel language for eternal life and eternal punishment, cites Matthew 25, Luke 16, Jude, and Peter, and argues that discomfort with judgment cannot authorize changing Scripture.

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April 6, 2024Pastor Dean Odle

Spiritual Warfare #6 - Demons & Deliverance

In Spiritual Warfare class six, Dean Odle argues that casting out demons was a normal and prominent part of Jesus’ ministry and was meant to continue through believers. He distinguishes different degrees of demonic influence, traces the origin of demons through his reading of Genesis 6, Jude, 2 Peter, and 1 Enoch, and uses Gospel deliverance accounts to explain how spirits gain and exercise control.

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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 31, 2024Pastor Dean Odle

The Shadow Huggers

Dean Odle calls Old Covenant feasts, Sabbaths, food laws, sacrifices, and priesthood a prophetic shadow fulfilled in Jesus Christ. He argues that Christians who make those observances requirements for righteousness are “hugging the shadow” instead of receiving the substance of Passover, Firstfruits, Pentecost, atonement, rest, and tabernacling in Christ.

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March 17, 2024Dean Odle

Hatching Snake Eggs

Dean Odle uses Isaiah 59’s imagery of cockatrice or viper eggs to warn that lies, slander, concealed sin, and false teaching eventually hatch destructive consequences. He applies the metaphor to doctrinal controversies, personal integrity, and church relationships, repeatedly urging believers to become valiant for truth rather than sheltering deception. Examples involving unsupported biblical claims and compromised leaders illustrate his contention that impressive language cannot compensate for a lack of Scripture or honest fruit. King Saul becomes a picture of someone who begins with a genuine calling but allows disobedience and deception to corrupt his course.

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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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March 3, 2024Dean Odle

Debunking Preterism & the Short Season

Pastor Dean Odle challenges preterism and the related “little season” or short-season theory, arguing that they relocate the Second Coming, resurrection, judgment, and millennial reign into the past without satisfying the plain sequence of Scripture. After an opening gospel appeal, he explains why eschatology is not a minor issue and responds to claims built from old architecture, Tartaria, hidden-history narratives, and selective readings of Revelation.

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March 2, 2024Dean Odle

Knowing the Servants of God

Dean Odle asks how believers can recognize genuine servants of God amid false prophets and teachers. Using Matthew 7, the pastoral epistles, and other New Testament passages, he argues that a true minister must be evaluated by doctrine, character, manner of life, faithfulness to Christ, and the fruit produced over time—not by charisma, predictions, crowds, or spiritual vocabulary.

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February 29, 2024Dean Odle

Knowing the - Prophets -

Dean Odle examines how Christians can distinguish true prophetic ministry from manipulation, immorality, failed predictions, political fortune-telling, and sensational claims. He affirms that New Testament prophecy continues, but argues that gifting never removes the biblical requirements of repentance, holiness, doctrinal fidelity, and accountable fruit. Brief clips and public forecasts concerning elections, immediate events, wealth transfer, revival, sporting events, and national destiny are tested by their specificity and fulfillment rather than reinterpreted after they fail.

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