Deo Gloria March 26, 2025 Lenten Sermon Pastor Martin Bentz   Commandments 7-10 Theme: Lord, Have Mercy! For Failing to Live with Integrity   Honesty is such a lonely word.  Everyone is so untrue. Honesty is hardly ever heard and mostly what I need from you.   Many of you will probably recognize those words […]

Deo Gloria March 2, 2022 Sermon for Ash Wednesday Pastor Martin Bentz   Text: John 18:12 Theme: They Bound Him   I suppose that’s what you did.  I suppose it was standard operating procedure to bind prisoners before transporting them.  Binding their hands and feet made life easier for everyone, except for the prisoners, of […]

Deo Gloria Lenten Sermon for March 4, 2020 Pastor Martin Bentz   Text: John 6:66-68 Theme: The Warrior Rejected by Many Followers   Every day, somewhere, couples get divorced.  We remember all the happy moments of that wedding day when two people declared their love for each other and put rings on each other’s fingers.  […]

Deo Gloria Lenten Sermon April 10, 2019 Pastor Martin Bentz   Text: John 18:3-9 Theme: Three Words of Truth – I Am He There were a number of times in Jesus’ ministry when he intentionally kept his identity hidden, at least initially.  Think, for instance, of Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well […]