Sermons

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 24, 2024Pastor Dean Odle

The Simple Gospel

Dean Odle presents the Christian gospel to wedding guests as the claim that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh, lived without sin, died as the atonement for human sin, and rose bodily from the dead. He appeals to changed lives, fulfilled Old Testament prophecy, eyewitness testimony, and his own conversion as evidence that salvation is found in Christ alone rather than religion, karma, reincarnation, or human merit.

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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 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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