Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 29 – The Great Necessity for Every Believer

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 29 – The Great Necessity for Every Believer

Every demographic in our culture today faces significant challenges in living out their life as an authentic disciple of Jesus Christ. Truth is relative. If you take a stand for truth against any of these systems or beliefs, you are marginalized, you may lose opportunities for a career advancement, or you may even be put…

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 28 – The Key to Living the Blessed Life

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 28 – The Key to Living the Blessed Life

Are you living the blessed life, or are you living mired in discouragement, disillusionment, and asking God why He allows bad things and suffering to happen to good people? God wants to take all of the painful experiences and disappointments in our life and turn them into gold and silver. He promised us in Romans…

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 27 – How to Live in the Victory of a Renewed Mind

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 27 – How to Live in the Victory of a Renewed Mind

Living the blessed life doesn’t mean you live a care-free life. It doesn’t mean that you have to live in a perfect environment for the blessings of God to flow in your life. Look at the apostles and all of the persecution and trials they endured. One of the things that prevents Jesus’ disciples from…

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 26 – How to Live by the Power of the Holy Spirit

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 26 – How to Live by the Power of the Holy Spirit

Authentic discipleship is living our life after the pattern of the Lord Jesus Christ. This includes patterning after Him: But this doesn’t happen in our own strength and by the grit of our own teeth. If we could change ourselves, we would have by now. We have a spirit so we can be in relationship…

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 25 – God Can Bring to Life What is Dead in You

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 25 – God Can Bring to Life What is Dead in You

Can a person stop their addiction? Can a person stop being bitter and resentful? Can a person stop being depressed? If they could, they would have by now; because surely they have tried many times. So where is the hope for us, when we feel that everything that was good and hopeful inside of us…

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 24 – How to Make a Difference as a Disciple of Jesus Christ

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 24 – How to Make a Difference as a Disciple of Jesus Christ

As Jesus disciples, we not only pattern our life after Him, but we also do the same works He did because God wants disciples to make a difference in this world. Have you noticed that when Jesus chose His disciples, He didn’t go to the Sanhedrin? He didn’t choose His disciples among the Pharisees or…

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 23 – The Call and Cost to Being a Disciple of Jesus

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 23 – The Call and Cost to Being a Disciple of Jesus

When we read in the Gospels about Jesus’ disciples leaving everything to follow Him, it doesn’t mean that they just causally followed behind Him. It means that they walked in His footsteps, observed how He behaved and responded to different situations, and then patterned their lives after Him. The Greek word for disciples means “a…

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 21 – Living the Blessed Life is a Heart Condition

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 21 – Living the Blessed Life is a Heart Condition

God promised us in Ephesians 1 that He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ. He wants us to live the blessed life! But in every one of the scriptures of promised blessing there is a condition. Living the blessed life is a matter of the heart. You don’t get…

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 20 – How to Understand What Is Happening Right Now

Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 20 – How to Understand What Is Happening Right Now

As we look at what has happened in our culture around the world over the past 2 1/2 years through the lens of biblical prophecy regarding the end times, we understand that we are living in the last of the last days. How can the church understand the times and seasons we are living in…