Sermons By Alan Bentrup

What do we do when violence silences a voice and the world feels less safe?In Matthew 4, Jesus begins his public ministry not in a moment of calm, but after John the Baptist is arrested. This sermon reflects on how Jesus responds to injustice and violence, how lament becomes the soil of God’s work, and what it means to follow Christ when silence would be unfaithful.Preached in the shadow of real-world violence, this message names grief honestly and holds fast to the hope that when voices are silenced, God still speaks and Jesus still calls people to follow him into the broken places of the world.