Millington Baptist Church Sermons

In Jonah 1:17–2:10, guest speaker and MBC pastoral summer intern Oliver Aridi shows how God meets Jonah in the depths with mercy, discipline, and salvation. From inside the fish, Jonah learns to pray in panic, repent on the road back to God, and declare with grateful praise that “salvation comes from the Lord.” This message reminds us that God’s provision may not always look like what we want, but...

In Jonah 1:3–16, Pastor Dave Hentschel shows what happens when God’s people run from his voice and resist his mission. Jonah’s rebellion takes him down into danger, but God lovingly disrupts, exposes, and calls him to surrender—not to destroy him, but to bring him back. This message reminds us that God’s discipline is mercy, that sin is costly, and that Jesus is the greater Jonah who entered the s...

Guest speaker and MBC World Partner Eric Yee opens Matthew’s Gospel by showing how the genealogy of Jesus is not a passage to skip, but a powerful “season one recap” of God’s redemptive story. From Abraham to David, from exile to Christ, Matthew shows that God always keeps his word, sovereignly came through sinners for sinners, and began a new creation in Jesus. This message connects the family li...

In the opening message of Jonah: Running From Mercy, Pastor Bob Erbig begins with Jonah 1:1-4 and challenges us to see Jonah not as a story about a big fish, but about a big God with a heart for the nations. As God sends Jonah to Nineveh, we see the word that sends, the prophet who runs, and the God who pursues with relentless mercy. This message calls us to examine our own Ninevehs, the people or...

Can someone be too far gone for God’s grace? In this message from Acts 8:26-40, guest speaker Jack Kraus examines the encounter between Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch—a man who appeared permanently excluded, spiritually disqualified, and unable to participate fully in the covenant community. As Philip opens the Scriptures and proclaims the good news of Jesus Christ, we see God’s heart for outside...

In the final message of Passing the Faith to the Next Generation, Pastor Dave Hentschel closes 2 Timothy by looking at Paul’s final words and the call to finish well. From a Roman prison cell, Paul reflects on his life as an offering, his race as completed, his faith as kept, and his hope as fixed on the crown of righteousness. This message challenges us to live for eternal reward, continue minist...

In this message from Passing the Faith to the Next Generation, Pastor Bob Erbig walks through 2 Timothy 4:1–5 and warns against the temptation to trade sound teaching for myths that simply scratch our itching ears. In a culture shaped by endless swiping, personalized algorithms, conspiracy theories, and feel-good gospels, Paul charges Timothy, and the church today, to preach the Word, endure the w...

In this message from Passing the Faith to the Next Generation , Noah Graves walks through 2 Timothy 3:16–17 and reminds us that Scripture is not merely religious advice, but the very Word of God breathed out for our teaching, correction, and formation in righteousness. Through personal testimony, the story of Genesis, and the fulfillment of Scripture in Jesus Christ, this sermon calls us to reject...

In this message from our Passing the Faith to the Next Generation series, Pastor Bob Erbig walks through 2 Timothy 3:1–15 and confronts a pressing question in a culture shaped by AI, shifting truth, and spiritual confusion: is your faith real or counterfeit? Exploring what real faith loves, what it seeks, and what it costs, this sermon challenges us to examine the difference between an appearance...

In this message from 2 Timothy 2:22, Pastor Dave Hentschel continues the Passing the Faith to the Next Generation series by confronting the urgent and often hidden issue of sexual integrity within the church, showing how private compromise can lead to public devastation and why purity is essential for a lasting gospel legacy. Walking through the reality of temptation, the cycle of lust, and the sp...

In this message from 2 Timothy 2:20–26, Pastor Bob Erbig continues the Passing the Faith series by challenging the church to move from passive spectators to engaged “spiritual athletes,” asking who God actually uses to build His kingdom and what it looks like to be ready for that work. Through the framework of “take a bath, run the race, and teach the truth,” the sermon calls believers to ongoing...

Pastor Dave Hentschel continues our series Passing the Faith to the Next Generation with a timely message from 2 Timothy 2:14-19 on how a church stays healthy, unified, and anchored in truth. In “How Do We Pass on a Healthy, Unified Church?” he explores what not to fight about, what we must fight for, and how to tell the difference. This sermon challenges believers to avoid pointless quarrels over...

On Easter Sunday, Pastor Bob Erbig opens 2 Timothy 2:8-13 and centers the church on the command, “Remember Jesus Christ risen from the dead,” showing that the resurrection is not merely a comforting tradition or a distant doctrine, but the unstoppable foundation of Christian hope, courage, and mission. Framed through the image of a seed that seems buried and lifeless yet bursts forth with new life...

As Millington Baptist Church continues its 175th anniversary year, Pastor Dave Hentschel opens the new series Passing the Faith to the Next Generation by walking through 2 Timothy 2:1-7 and asking a pressing question for every church and Christian institution: how do we prevent gospel drift? Drawing from Paul’s final charge to Timothy, this message explores what it means to hold the line with cour...

Pastor Bob Erbig continues the “Passing on the Faith” series with a sobering and timely message from 2 Timothy 1:6-18 on what it means to live with courage when faith comes under pressure. As Paul writes from prison to Timothy, he calls him not to retreat in fear or hide in shame, but to fan into flame the gift of God, stand unashamed of the gospel, and hold fast to the truth entrusted to him. Thi...

As Millington Baptist Church begins a new sermon series through 2 Timothy, Pastor Dave Hentschel opens with a message on the urgency and beauty of leaving a legacy of faith. In 2 Timothy 1:1-5, we are brought into the deeply personal relationship between Paul and Timothy and reminded that the gospel does not move forward automatically. It advances when one generation receives it faithfully and pas...

Dr. Jason Thacker, Director of the Research Institute at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a leading voice on human dignity, ethics, and culture, joins us to open Psalm 8 and help us recover a distinctly biblical vision of what it means to be human. In a cultural moment where personhood, value, and moral worth are often treated as fluid, developmental, or dependent on ability, autonomy...

In this final message of our Upside Down Glory: Disability and the Kingdom of God series, Pastor Bob Erbig turns to 1 Corinthians 15 to ask a deeply personal and eternal question: What happens to disability in the resurrection? Framed by the sobering yet hope-filled reflections of former Senator Ben Sasse, this sermon explores Paul’s powerful imagery of the seed and the resurrection body—sown in w...

In this guest message, Dr. Corey Miller, President and CEO of Ratio Christi, explores a foundational moral question: Is Jesus truly unique when it comes to basic morality? Centered on the Golden Rule and its formulation in Matthew’s Gospel, this sermon examines how people across cultures recognize moral truths—even without hearing Jesus’ teaching directly—and what that universal awareness reveals...

In this second guest message, Dr. Corey Miller, President and CEO of Ratio Christi, addresses what he calls “The Third Revolution” and the growing intellectual challenges facing the church. Examining the rapid cultural shifts of recent years, Dr. Miller explores where these changes originated and how universities have played a formative role in shaping today’s dominant ideas. Reflecting on the phr...

In week six of Upside Down Glory, Pastor Dave Hentschel opens Romans 8 and 1 Corinthians 12 to explore what it means to be “The Body That Suffers Together.” Scripture tells us that all creation groans under the weight of the fall, and believers groan as well—not in despair, but in hope. This message reminds us that suffering is not a sign of weak faith, but a shared reality in a broken world, and...

In week four of our Upside Down Glory series, Pastor Dave Hentschel walks through 2 Samuel 9:1–13 and Luke 14:12–14 to reveal the heart of a King who seeks out the forgotten and makes room for those the world overlooks. Through the story of Mephibosheth—crippled, exiled, and hiding in Lo Debar—Scripture shows how David’s covenant faithfulness leads him not to eliminate weakness, but to honor it wi...

In week three of Upside Down Glory, Pastor Dave Hentschel addresses one of the most difficult and misunderstood questions Christians face: where does disability come from, and what does it mean for our faith when God does not remove weakness? Walking through Exodus 4, Genesis 32, and John 20, this message confronts the popular but unbiblical idea that “God never gives you more than you can handle,...

In week two of our Upside Down Glory series, Pastor Bob Erbig walks through Mark 2:1–12 to show how faith becomes advocacy when it refuses to accept barriers that keep people from Jesus. Centered on the story of the paralytic whose friends literally break through a roof to bring him into Christ’s presence, this message confronts a culture that quietly assigns value based on ability, productivity,...