Ray Bentley

Pastor Ray Bentley has practical encouragement today for those living lives that fall a bit short of happily ever after. Would you agree with me that life can be frustrating and sometimes you just get overwhelmed. You get angry. It's not easy to be married and keep your head down, children, and keep your head. Life isn't easy. It's going to be hard.

Are you in the ministry? Pastor Ray Bentley points out, we're all involved in ministry, whether we know it or not. The ministry is not. Being a pastor and giving Bible studies. The real ministry is what happens in your life outside of these doors. The real ministry is when you go outside and are sprinkled like salt and the earth.

Pastor Ray Bentley says God has the resources to meet those needs. You can do an instant survey here anywhere and ask people, okay, what are the top three things that you want out of life? Well, I would like more love. I would like joy and happiness and please give me more peace.

Today, pastor Ray Bentley examines the miracle moment when the angels announce the birth of the Christ child. I absolutely love this. The angels literally take the veil between heaven and earth. Step through that veil as they now announce to the shepherds down in the fields of Bethlehem. Behold unto us born this day a Savior, which is Christ the Lord spread.

astor Ray Bentley points out how the little town of Bethlehem fits into God's plan of redemption. Bethlehem is the place where shepherds raised the sheep that would be used for sacrifice. How amazing, then, that Jesus, who is called the Lamb of God, he would sacrifice his life as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world.

Pastor Ray Bentley explains the Kingdom connection to Christmas. The message Jesus commissioned his disciples to teach in Luke chapter nine, verses one and two, was they were called to give the good news of the kingdom. In Matthew chapter 19, Jesus equated salvation with entering the kingdom and the gospel of Mark, the hope and comfort of the Christian hour in entering into the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven spread.

The message of the gospel is the King is coming and returning to the kingdom that he purchased, with his own body being broken in his own blood that was shed. Pastor Ray Bentley says Christmas celebrates the birth of our king and our connection to our father. You are members of a royal family, and one day the Bible says that we will rule and reign with Christ and the days of the coming kingdom spread.

Pastor Ray Bentley on the self-sacrifice of evangelism. There is something about those who really follow Jesus who so love their fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters, that when abuse and insult and ridicule is heaped upon them, they absorb it. And they say, you know what? I will take it so that you will one day change your mind about the direction you are headed and say, maybe this love is authentic.

Pastor Ray Bentley maps out the pathway to a deeper fellowship and friendship with God. Perfect love casts out all fear. When you're not afraid, you start to relax. And when you relax, you find that you can actually be yourself when you're really if someone's friend. The friends that I have or the friends that I can just be me.

oday on Maranatha! Radio, pastor Ray Bentley highlights the blessing of knowing Christ and the blessing of sharing Christ. If you're a believer in Jesus Christ, eternal glory is in you. And the greatest privilege you will ever have in your life is sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with another human being, and see them open their heart and receive Christ.