FBC Benbrook Sermons

If God is sovereign over all creation, then what difference does it make that the Father gave the throne of David to Jesus?

The message of the angels about the Christ child is that Jesus is the Son of God and the long-awaited king. God promised David that one of his descendants would sit on the throne of an eternal kingdom, and Jesus is the fulfillment of that promise. Jesus is the Perfect King for an Eternal Kingdom, but why?

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In Matthew 1, Scripture draws our attention to Joseph—not as a background figure in the Christmas story, but as the one through whom God reveals two essential truths about Jesus. Matthew begins with the “book of the origins” of Jesus Christ, emphasizing Him as the Son of David and Son of Abraham. Yet the genealogy raises a question: if Jesus is not biologically Joseph’s son, how can He inherit these promises? The angel’s message an...

Scripture says the birth of Jesus fulfills everything promised through the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms. In the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth, Scripture shows that God visits His people, raises up the horn of salvation, remembers His covenant with Abraham, and sends the forerunner to prepare a people for the Lord. Preparation begins with repentance—turning from sin and turning toward God. It continues in hope—looking...

What does it mean for the people of God to do justice? The word justice gets thrown around so much in our culture these days, but what does it mean? And how is doing justice different for Christians? The prophet Amos shows us that doing justice begins with a heart that loves good and hates evil, loves others the way God loves them, examines the various ways we stand in for God and administer justice, and extends to working towards ...

The prophet Joel gives us a unique insight into the astounding mercy of God. Even after sending His people a wake-up call in the form of a locust swarm, even after sending His people a prophet to call them to repent, and even after sending a warning of coming judgment, God is still calling His people to return to Him: return to me with all of your heart for I am merciful and relenting. When the people return to the Lord with all of...

What happens when the God of wrath and the God of mercy turns out to be the same God?

Preaching from Hosea 4 and the wider message of the prophet, Pastor Todd explores how the Minor Prophets reveal both the wrath and mercy of God. The sermon begins with Hebrews 10, reminding us that “it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God,” and contrasts two modern views of divine wrath: one that sees only destruction, and a...

Why should the church listen to the forgotten voices of the Minor Prophets—and what do they still have to say to us today?

In this opening message of a new series titled The Gospel in a Minor Key, Pastor Todd invites the church to rediscover the often-overlooked voices of the twelve Minor Prophets. Drawing from Amos 7 and Ephesians 2, he reminds us that the prophets are not relics of an outdated covenant but part of the chur...

What does it mean to live—and die—with a theology shaped by the gospel?

In this concluding message from the life of Abraham, Pastor Todd turns to Genesis 23 and 25, where the patriarch and Sarah pass from this life, to explore what Scripture teaches about a theology of death. Death is not a topic we often expect—or want—to face, but it is one that Scripture treats with honesty and hope. From Abraham’s confidence in God’s promise to...

Every believer longs to be led by the Spirit of God, but how does that actually happen in real life? In this message from Genesis 24, Pastor Todd walks through the story of Abraham’s servant searching for a wife for Isaac—a journey filled with prayer, discernment, and divine direction. Through this “case study in guidance,” we discover that God’s Spirit still leads His people today through an ongoing conversation with Him, through ...

In Genesis 22, Abraham faces the ultimate test of faith—God commands him to offer Isaac, the son of promise. This passage reveals not only the depth of Abraham’s faith but also the clearest foreshadowing of the gospel in the Old Testament. On Mount Moriah, where the temple would one day stand, God provided a ram in place of Isaac, pointing forward to the day when He Himself would provide the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who takes awa...

In Genesis 21, the story of Ishmael raises a pressing question: What do we do with Ishmael? Too often, he’s dismissed as the “problem child” while Isaac is celebrated as the child of promise. But a closer look at Scripture tells a different story—every time God speaks about Ishmael, He speaks blessing. God promises to multiply him, make him fruitful, and raise up nations from him.

This sermon challenges the simplistic Isaac-good/Is...

What if the prophets you’ve been ignoring hold the key to hearing God more clearly?

In this chapel message from Amos 2, we are reminded that God’s word through the prophets still speaks with urgency today. Too often, we treat the minor prophets like ignored warning labels—dense, distant, and irrelevant. Yet these twelve short books are anything but minor. They are the voice of the Lord, the heart of God revealed in history, and a g...

What happens when even the strongest in faith stumble—and how does God meet us there with mercy and restoration?

The Scripture tells us in 1 Corinthians 10, “Let anyone who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” That truth comes alive in Genesis 20, where Abraham—the man of faith—stumbles again in fear and deception. Even after years of God’s promises, Abraham falls back into the same sin of calling Sarah his sister, placing sel...

The Scriptures remind us that even in the darkest and most broken stories, God is weaving redemption through Christ—the Redeemer who turns broken people into new creations.

The Scriptures declare that all of God’s Word is breathed out by Him and is profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness so that His people may be equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16–17). Even the difficult stories—like th...

In this message, we turn to one of the most sobering stories in Scripture: the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19. Far more than an ancient account of judgment, Jesus and the apostles preached this story as a living parable of the coming day of the Lord. Just as in the days of Lot, people will be eating, drinking, buying, and selling when the Son of Man is revealed—and the judgment will come suddenly and unexpectedly.

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What happens when the Judge of all the earth invites us into the tension between His justice and His mercy—and calls us to pray for both?

Scripture presents a powerful tension between God’s justice and His mercy, a theme woven throughout Genesis 18 and Psalm 94. As Abraham pleads for Sodom, the Bible invites us into the same struggle: How long will the wicked prosper? How long will the righteous suffer?

In Genesis 18, the Judge of ...

The Scriptures show that true circumcision is not of the flesh but of the heart, where Christ cuts away our sin and makes us alive in Him.

The Scriptures remind us that long ago God spoke through the prophets, but in these last days He has spoken to us through His Son (Hebrews 1:1–2). In Genesis 17, God appeared to Abram at ninety-nine years old and gave him a new name—Abraham, the father of many nations. God established His covena...