Bethesda Christian Church Sermon of the Week

Jesus told his followers to prepare to experience intense persecution because of their faith in Him. In the face of such tribulation, Jesus predicted that many of His followers would turn away, even turn against each other. What Jesus told his closest companions still applies to followers of Christ today. Today’s message speaks to how Christian can resist turning away from Jesus, and even turning...

Your eternal life in Jesus is not just a one time profession, but ongoing, daily pursuit, a pursuit that will be challenged. Fight the good fight.

Taking a passage from Jeremiah 32 - "the everlasting covenant" Like the covenant that Jeremiah made when God asked him to buy land (which made no sense at all), and Jeremiah put the deed (covenant) in safe keeping - God's safe is everlasting, His promise preserved forever. Pastor Pat Visger

Dr. Analee Dunn - Pastor Emeritus

Drawing your line in the sand is simply making a decision, from your heart, that you will not allow anything or anyone to move you away from it. When based on the Word of God it becomes an ‘all in’ commitment. It is a permanent and irreversible decision of the heart.

The place of the greatest spiritual growth MUST be in the home. Guard and build our homes: this is where the most growth should happen!

Pastor Terry Allen - Church On Fire

Pastor Terry Allen - Church on Fire, Batesville

It's time we recognize that true independence is found only in a lasting dependence in God. Pastor Barry Allen

Pastor Alex Silva

Fathers Day Pastor Barry Allen Jesus said that if fathers in the natural know how to give good gifts to their children, how much more is God willing to do for His children? Imagine the joy He has in anticipation of you receiving what He has prepared for you out of the love that He has for you. The worst father ever (Satan) only takes, but our Good Father always gives.

When things get difficult and you're tired, call on the Lord. Ezekiel faced a similar circumstance, and the dry bones came back to life.

We are the kingdom of God on earth. Will you commit to compelling others who are in need of redemption, the salvation of Jesus?

What are you hungry for? Just as the Israelites were delivered from slavery in Egypt, we’ve been delivered from the slavery of sin through Christ. However, just as the Israelites longed to go back to Egypt to taste the cucumbers and melons, we also have an appetite for Egypt we deal with. A taste for sin is sweet, yet leaves us bound again as slaves. Only a Savior can change our appetites.

No plea of our own justification will ever restore us to life. Only by faith in the salvation of our souls offered by the sufferings of Jesus on our behalf.

Life Challenge Detroit and Gateway To Glory stop by for an update.

Before your mother knew you had been conceived, God was involved with you, he was molding and forming you. Before you entered this world and drew your first breath, God saw you as you were, and He saw what you would become, like an artist with a bare canvas can already see the painted image. Be reminded on this Mother’s Day that God gave you life, and he has promised you eternal life. Have you rec...

Confirmation Day! Today we confirmed our Rooted 1 & 2 classes along with Rooted Youth.

Jesus gives His true followers favor for understanding His teaching.

Resurrection Sunday, the day Jesus beat spiritual and physical death, all by the power of the Spirit. Jesus promised the same Spirit to all who believe in him, a beautiful, wonderful promise. The same Spirit that filled Jesus as he walked the earth, the same Spirit that energized and enlivened His body in a cold tomb was promised to us. The same Spirit to fill us and guide us as we trod this earth...

When Jesus was entered Jerusalem to celebrate His last Passover, He was welcomed as a king by an exuberant crowd. Yet, in a few days crowds were demanding Jesus be executed. People turned on Jesus, their hearts were not with Him. We often resist those who seek to touch our heart, even resisting God. Take in this Palm Sunday message and see that you need not fear Jesus touching your heart.

We all have cravings, longings that draw and pull us. We might thirst for money, power, popularity, people, and things and life can become a quest to quench that thirst. When those cravings come, and they will, how do will you satisfy them? Jesus has a way to satisfy your every thirst. Listen in and discover what he has to offer.

Are we people following in the footsteps of our Savior? From the time He began His ministry, Jesus was led by and filled with the Holy Spirit. A visit to His hometown synagogue provides a powerful and practical pattern for our lives. Jesus entered in the power of the Spirit, and he left anointed and sent. We are partners in His mission and sent for a purpose. Are we moving in power of the Spirit a...

We are informed in the gospels that immediately after Jesus was baptized, He was led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted. That the Holy Spirit leads into temptation seems a conundrum, yet Jesus is our example, the Spirit is with us even in times of temptation. He relied on the Holy Spirit to be delivered from temptation, and we can too. Be encouraged through this message to rely o...

Often we go about our day without giving a thought to the enabling power afforded to Christians through the Holy Spirit. Yet, when we have a need, when we desire a miracle, it's then that we seek the power of God to meet the need. Jesus modeled an altogether different approach to daily life that began when the Spirit descended on Him. He promised the same enabling for His followers. A situation is...