WEEKLY MESSAGES

SPIRITUAL WARFARE SERMONS

Biblical teaching on resisting spiritual evil, prayer, deliverance, and the armor of God.

September 20, 2026Pastor Dean Odle

The Runaway Train to the Tribulation

Pastor Dean Odle warns that artificial intelligence, surveillance, economic instability, war, and spiritual deception are accelerating the world toward the tribulation described in Scripture. Moving from Matthew 24 and Revelation to the prophets and epistles, he argues that Christians should expect to endure tribulation rather than escape through a pre-tribulation rapture. He calls believers to reject lukewarmness, bring every thought into obedience to Christ, resist the mark of the beast, prepare wisely for disruption, and strengthen themselves through God’s Word. The sermon closes by urging repentance, perseverance, and an unwavering commitment to spend eternity with Jesus.

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June 28, 2026Pastor Dean Odle

The Resistance

In “The Resistance,” Pastor Dean Odle presents Ephesians 6:10-18 as a direct call for Christians to recognize and actively oppose spiritual powers rather than drift into passivity. He argues that the conflict is intimate—touching thoughts, homes, relationships, churches, and public life—and that believers must answer it through submission to God, persistent prayer, Scripture, corporate fellowship, discernment, and the authority of Jesus Christ. James 4:7, Luke 10:19, Hebrews 10:25, John 10:10, and related passages reinforce the message’s central appeal.

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June 21, 2026Pastor Dean Odle

Love of the Father

In “Love of the Father,” Pastor Dean Odle uses 1 John 2:15-17 to ask a searching question: not merely whether God loves us, but whether we love the Father enough to surrender our own will. Beginning with worship and reflections on fatherhood, he contrasts the Father’s faithfulness with the world’s lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life. He argues that Christian identity must be expressed through an ongoing life of obedience, not a profession of faith detached from following Christ.

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May 17, 2026Pastor Dean Odle

The Book of Enoch

In “The Book of Enoch,” Pastor Dean Odle begins a series examining whether 1 Enoch should be received as genuine prophecy. He does not argue that it must be added to the biblical canon. Instead, he proposes that its claims should be judged by the written Word and the witness of the Holy Spirit, appealing especially to Genesis 5:21-24, Hebrews 11:5-6, and Jude 14-15. Jude’s attribution of a judgment prophecy to “Enoch the seventh from Adam” is the sermon’s central biblical basis.

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May 3, 2026Pastor Dean Odle

The New Alien Religion

Pastor Dean Odle presents the modern UFO and extraterrestrial narrative as an emerging global religion rather than a neutral scientific disclosure. Surveying public claims about government disclosure, Steven Greer's contact movement, altered-state meditation, occult figures, and alleged recovered objects, he argues that the phenomenon is real but misidentified: in his interpretation, the beings are fallen angels and demons, not visitors from other planets. He places the warning under Jesus' commands concerning end-time deception and Paul's teaching about strong delusion.

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April 26, 2026Pastor Dean Odle

Loving Jesus

In “Loving Jesus,” Pastor Dean Odle uses Peter’s failure, restoration, and final testimony to ask what genuine love for Christ looks like in practice. Beginning with submission to God and resistance to the devil, he follows Peter from confident promises before the crucifixion to Jesus’ repeated question, “Lovest thou me?” and the command to feed Christ’s sheep. The sermon argues that love for Jesus cannot be reduced to emotion or religious language; it is shown through obedience, repentance, service, endurance, and a refusal to let the world displace devotion to Christ.

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March 8, 2026Pastor Dean Odle

Rekindle the Fire

In “Rekindle the Fire,” Pastor Dean Odle calls weary believers to receive fresh strength from the Holy Spirit rather than allow trials, fear, or restrictive teaching to quench spiritual life. Beginning with 1 Peter 4’s “fiery trial,” he acknowledges suffering and end-time pressure but insists that hardship should drive Christians first toward God. Prayer, worship, Scripture, and dependence on the Spirit are presented as the means by which faith is built up and love for Christ is renewed.

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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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