Wherever the stern demands of true discipleship are taught, there are false prophets who advocate the wide gate and easy way. They water down the truth until, as C. H.Spurgeon said, “There is not enough left to make soup for a sick grasshopper.”These...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Jesus says that following Him would require faith, discipline, and endurance. But this difficult life is the only life worth living. If you choose the easy way, you will have plenty of company but miss God’s best for you.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

“Therefore” is the most crucial word in the Golden Rule. It relates the Golden Rule to that which precedes it. That is, it postulates it on prayer. It all comes together in one package.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

If we think that we can live out the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount by our own strength, we have failed to realize the supernatural character of the life to which the Savior calls us. The wisdom or power for such a life must be given to us from...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

How often have we all heard these words to deflect one who would come to correct another or to disregard a correction towards ourselves? Or frankly, whenever sin is brought up in one’s life. This verse is often used.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Worrying about tomorrow does not help either tomorrow or today. If anything, it robs us of our effectiveness today—which means we will be even less effective tomorrow.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

What does it mean to lay up treasures in heaven? It means to use all that we have for the glory of God. It means to “hang loose” when it comes to the material things of life. It also means measuring life by the true riches of the kingdom and not by...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

There’s real power in fasting. If you need direction, if you hunger for liberation, skip lunch, and seek the Lord.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

The prayer begins by invoking God: “Our Father in heaven.” The term for “Father” is “Abba,” a name used by children for their earthly fathers that denotes warmth and intimacy in the security of a loving father’s care.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Next Jesus warns His disciples against hypocrisy when they pray. They should not purposely position themselves in public areas so that others will see them praying and be impressed by their piety. If the love for prominence is the only motive in...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

the Lord said that in giving one should not even let his left hand know what his right hand is doing, that is, it should be so secret that the giver readily forgets what he gave. In this way he demonstrates true righteousness before God and not before...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

It is not my goal to tell you who to vote for but to ask you to consider what you are voting for? Are you voting biblically?Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Since Christian love is an act of the will, and not simply an emotion, He has the right to command us to love our enemies. After all, He loved us when we were His enemies.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Jesus’s disciples are not to think first about retribution. Even when they are being abused, they must think of ways to advance the kingdom of heaven and its influence on this earth. Jesus himself lived out this radical principle and became a vivid...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

His desire was that His people be individuals of their word. It was our Lords desire that anyone who claims to follow Him would be known for their personal verbal integrity.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

The subject of divorce and remarriage is one of the most complicated topics in the Bible. It is virtually impossible to answer all the questions that arise, but it may be helpful to survey and summarize what we believe the Scriptures teach.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

This passage serves as a powerful reminder for all Christians to take proactive steps in guarding their hearts and minds against temptation, especially in the area of sexual sin. By practicing discipline and accountability, believers can overcome the...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

There is no mistaking the severity of the Savior’s words. He teaches that anger contains the seeds of murder, that abusive language contains the spirit of murder, and that cursing language implies the very desire to murder.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

At this point in His Sermon, He knew that a question was beginning to rise in the minds of those listening to Him that He needed to address. This question arose due to His comments concerning righteousness and entering into the “Kingdom of Heaven”.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

There are two pictures of the Christian in closing: salt and the light. Salt speaks of inward character that influences a decaying world; light speaks of the outward testimony of good works that points to God. Our task is to keep our lives pure that...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

These are the attitudes that will lead to happiness and fulfillment: poverty of spirit, mourning over sin, meekness that no longer struts, but submits, hungering and thirsting for righteousness, mercy, purity of heart, peacemaking, persecution—this is...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

The sermon showed how a person who is in right relationship with God should conduct his life. While the passage must be understood in the light of the offer of the messianic kingdom, the sermon applies to Jesus’ followers today for it demonstrates the...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

The God of hope is the God who inspires hope in, and provides hope for, His redeemed ones.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

This hope is not a desperate holding-on to a faded dream, a dead hope, but a living one, founded on reality, for it is grounded in “the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

What is Christian Nationalism? Why are Evangelical Christians being labeled or branded Christian Nationalist by the mainstream media? Why do they claim that we are a threat to democracy? These are the question we will seek to answer and more.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

The Big picture perspective helps us wee the world as it is and shows us our purpose and leads us to hope. The return of Jesus will confirm our belief and worldview but today we hold on to it by faith. The only hope we truly have is in Jesus Christ.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Believers can enjoy the peace with God that has been achieved and the glorious future in God’s presence that awaits them. But how should they react to the experiences of life that are often adverse and difficult? How can we be hopeful in a hopeless world?Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

God’s presence was not in wind or earthquake or fire. His voice came in the gentle breeze. Those sweet zephyrs were like windswept, invisible magnets, drawing Elijah out of the cave.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

For several years Elijah had stood firm amidst and against almost insurmountable odds and circumstances. But now, after a great victory, he dropped into the throes of discouragement and total despair.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

No wonder Elijah is the kind of man we admire. Isn’t it exciting to know we serve the same God he served? Isn’t it thrilling to think we can trust the same God he trusted? And what kind of God is that? He’s the God who makes promises and keeps them.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

The contrast is stunning. And the response was immediate: It was a consuming fire . . . and it was convincing.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

It is amazing to me how people will break God’s commandments over and over again. They will resist His loving warnings that He issues to them and then when hardship or calamity hits, usually of their own making, they get mad at God. They bring the...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Is He able? Get serious! I’m referring to “the God of impossibilities,” the One who has limitless power, who has never—and will never—meet an intimidating obstacle He cannot overcome, an aggressive enemy He cannot overwhelm, a final decision He cannot...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Anyone who would be used of God as mightily as Elijah would be in the years ahead must first face the advanced training course. For Elijah, this was Zarephath.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

The Lord usually leads His faithful people a step at a time as they tune their hearts to His Word. God didn’t give Elijah a three-year schedule to follow. Instead, He directed his servant at each critical juncture in his journey, and Elijah obeyed by...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

You need to know that God will always raise up someone to speak the truth when things are dark. The Bible says, “When the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against Him.” That man was going to be Elijah.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

They did not understand it; even John himself did not until then. The rest of the disciples had never put that interpretation upon our Lord’s words which was the clear and simple meaning of them, namely, that he would rise from the dead. I should not...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

We must keep in mind that what our Lord accomplished on the cross was an eternal transaction that involved Him and the Father. He did not die as a martyr who had failed in a lost cause. Nor was He only an example for people to follow. Isaiah 53 makes...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

To us the tower may also picture fallen man’s ceaseless effort to reach heaven by his own works instead of receiving salvation as a free gift of grace.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

The idea here is not that God momentarily forgot about Noah, but rather that even though Noah was in the dark, bouncing around in the ark, God remembered him constantly.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Many today sense a storm is coming. Some dismiss it, others prepare and enter the ark. Which one are you?Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

On one occasion the Lord’s disciples came to Him with this question. “What will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus said in Matthew 24, “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

There are a number of striking parallels between Noah’s time and our time. Though his story is years old yet he was living in his last days if you will. He was living in a time right before judgment came in the form of a flood. And we are living in...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Here, we have the story of two brothers, Adam and Eve's first and second sons. It is apparent that sin is already taking its toll upon mankind. We see clearly that the effects of sin are in full play. However, there is still even more to this...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

In love and mercy God searched after His fallen creatures with the question “Where are you?” This question proved two things—that man was lost and that God had come to seek. It proved man’s sin and God’s grace. God takes the initiative in salvation...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Here is this paradise setting ruined by the entrance of Satan. Of course, he hates it when our lives are in harmony with God. He despises it when our families are in tact, when our lives are balanced. When we are putting the things of God first and...Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Today in our scientific community the origin of life is still a great mystery. They believe that species were developed by a process of natural selection through evolution but have no answer to the question how life began.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

Many have significant concerns about 2024. Some believe that there is a great storm brewing on the horizon. If so, are you ready for what may come next?Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

What was the greatest gift you have ever received? I'll bet you that this one is better.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz

No one should think that the promise of rest is no longer valid. It has never had a complete and final fulfillment in the past; therefore, the offer is still in effect.Kirjoittanut Pastor Eric Bentz