Summer is here, and we’re kicking off a 10-week journey through the Psalms; the heart of the Bible. For centuries, God’s people have turned to these songs and prayers to seek Him, experience His love, and find healing. In this episode, Pastor Neal Benson begins with Psalm 1 and shows us what it means to live a truly blessed life — one rooted in seeking God and delighting in His Word.
Life would be boring if we never took a step of faith. As we wrap up our series of the Seven Letters to the seven churches in Revelation we come to the church in Laodicea. Jesus pulls no punches on their spiritual condition. He clearly states their faith is lukewarm just like the water in their city. The truth of Jesus would have been tough to hear but hopefully produced spiritual growth in this church. Listen in as Pastor Neal Benson teaches on Revelation 3:14-22. In this sermon we’ll see that lukewarm faith isn’t really faith at all and learn how to come to Jesus to meet all our needs.
The news only reports on planes that don’t land properly. Think about that. The news doesn’t report on the approximate 100,000 commercial flights that take off and land safely around the world each day. We don’t make the news for the thousands of things that go right; we only hear about the one that goes wrong. Faithfulness often works the same way—quiet, steady, and largely unnoticed, but incredibly significant. Listen in as Pastor Neal Benson teaches from Revelation 3:7-13 about the Faithful church in Philadelphia. This was a church who held fast to the gospel and honored Christ in all they did! They are the kind of church we can long to be like!
No church is perfect… but some are more on mission than others. The church in Sardis had become a complacent church. Of all the words Jesus speaks in Revelation 2–3, they might receive the harshest rebuke. It comes in three painful words: “You are dead.” The church had lost its mission and missed living out the Great Commission of Jesus. In this sermon on Revelation 3:1-6, Pastor Neal Benson teaches us about the need to wake up, repent, and pray for revival. The words of Jesus require us to evaluate our own lives for the greater good of God’s Kingdom.
The church in Thyatira had love, service, and endurance, but they were slowly drifting. By tolerating false teaching, they were allowing something corrosive to form them from the inside out. This message explores how unchecked compromise slowly shapes us and how the gospel invites us to resilient discipleship, Spirit-empowered formation, and faithful allegiance to Christ. Listen in as Bert Alcorn walks through Jesus’ piercing words in Revelation 2:18–29 to a church on the edge of spiritual compromise and the invitation to faithful, resilient discipleship. What we tolerate will eventually shape us, but so will what we hold fast to.
We live in a world where compromise happens all around us; every day. We work with people who are willing to compromise their character to earn more on a deal. We know people who are willing to compromise their marriage by looking at images online. We interact with friends who compromise their witness for Christ by drinking too much. Compromise is all around us. In the ancient city of Pergamum there was a church struggling with compromise and Jesus came to encourage them in where they stood in their faith but to call them to a higher standard. Listen in as Pastor Neal Benson teaches on Revelation 2:12-17 about holding on to our faith.
Suffering and persecution are not words used to describe the church in America. The church in America has experienced a time of growth, encouragement, and cultural acceptance for hundreds of years. That is not the case around the globe or in the early church. The early church faced much suffering. In Revelation 2:8-11 we learn that the church in Smyrna was a suffering church. Listen in as Pastor Neal Benson teaches on the suffering church and how we can stand strong in our faith
This Sunday we begin a brand-new, seven week, sermon series through the seven letters to the seven churches in Revelation. Most people think of the book of Revelation as beasts, dragons, and the anti-Christ. But before we read any of that, Jesus has a word for His church. Listen in as Pastor Neal Benson teaches on Revelation 2:1-7. We’ll see an encouragement for this church, a rebuke, and a promise for the church who lost their first love.
Easter is typically a day filled with candy, Easter baskets, church, and a good family meal. This Easter, we look at the Easter message from a different starting point. Pastor Neal Benson teaches from 2 Corinthians 5:21 and Luke 24 to explore the power of what Jesus did to secure our salvation. We can’t earn our salvation, but through the atonement of Jesus, it has been earned for us. Listen in as we learn how Jesus became sin so that we could become the righteousness of God.
