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DOCTRINE AND DISCERNMENT SERMONS

Biblical doctrine, theological testing, apologetics, and spiritual discernment.

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February 10, 2023Pastor Dean Odle

Communion

In “Communion,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about baptism, salvation, faith. Working through the biblical themes raised in the sermon, the teaching emphasizes that baptism is examined as an act of obedience and identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that salvation is presented as God’s work in Christ that produces a changed life and continuing faith.

Doctrine and DiscernmentSalvation and the GospelChristian LivingSpiritual Warfare
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February 9, 2023Pastor Dean Odle

Antarctica in the Bible

In “Antarctica in the Bible,” Pastor Dean Odle argues from his biblical-cosmology perspective that Antarctica is not a continent beneath a globe but the outer boundary of an enclosed, circular earth. He begins with the gospel and the deity of Christ, insisting that creation study must lead to the Creator. Acts 17, Job 26 and 38, Psalms 65 and 74, and the temple’s molten sea form the sermon’s principal biblical framework for bounds, ends, waters, mountains, winds, snow, and hail.

Biblical CreationScripture AloneDoctrine and DiscernmentChrist Alone
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February 7, 2023Pastor Dean Odle

The Racing Luminaries & the Stationary Earth

In “The Racing Luminaries & the Stationary Earth,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, faith, biblical creation. Drawing especially from Zechariah 1, Matthew 4, 1 Chronicles 16, Psalm 93, the teaching emphasizes that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.

Doctrine and DiscernmentBiblical CreationSpiritual Warfare
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February 6, 2023Pastor Dean Odle

The Aether & "Space"

In “The Aether & Space,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about biblical creation, faith, eternal life and hope. Drawing especially from Proverbs 25, Jeremiah 31, Romans 11, Romans 1, the teaching emphasizes that the creation account is defended as foundational to biblical authority and the meaning of the created order. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.

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February 4, 2023Pastor Dean Odle

The Firmament & Clueless Pastors

In this biblical-creation teaching, Dean Odle argues that Genesis describes a solid firmament separating waters above from waters below and that many pastors reinterpret the text through modern cosmology. He contrasts the Bible’s creation account with statements by prominent scientists, using their acknowledgment of unresolved cosmological problems to challenge the authority often granted to scientific models over Scripture.

Biblical CreationScripture AloneDoctrine and Discernment
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February 4, 2023Pastor Dean Odle

The Globe Killers

In “The Globe Killers,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about faith, the authority of Scripture, biblical creation. Drawing especially from John 20, Acts 13, Genesis 1, Mark 16, the teaching emphasizes that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience.

Doctrine and DiscernmentScripture AloneBiblical CreationChristian Living
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November 29, 2022Dean Odle

The Spirit of Lawlessness

Dean Odle reads Matthew 24 and 2 Thessalonians 2 as warnings that escalating lawlessness, ethnic conflict, political disorder, and persecution will accompany the approach of the Antichrist and Christ’s return. He applies those passages to 2016 unrest, terrorism, the presidential election, and a dream he understood as warning of disaster along the northeastern United States; these political and prophetic assertions are the speaker’s claims, not independently verified conclusions.

Bible ProphecyApostasy and DeceptionDoctrine and DiscernmentChristian Living
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November 29, 2022Pastor Dean Odle

Straining at Gnats

In “Straining at Gnats,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about bitterness and forgiveness, the condition of the church, grace and mercy. Drawing especially from Matthew 23, Timothy 3, Matthew 18, the teaching emphasizes that unresolved offense can become bitterness, while forgiveness releases judgment to God and protects the heart. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise.

Doctrine and DiscernmentSalvation and the GospelSpiritual Warfare
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November 29, 2022Pastor Dean Odle

Pea Patch

In “Pea Patch,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the condition of the church, David’s example, spiritual leadership. Drawing especially from Psalm 103, Psalm 68, John 3, Psalm 51, the teaching emphasizes that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that David’s choices are used to examine leadership, testing, repentance, and renewed dependence on God.

Doctrine and DiscernmentSpiritual Warfare
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