No one likes to suffer, but the extremes many take to stay comfortable has become an idol to many. In Part 2 of our sermon series, What Now: How Tomorrow Shapes Today, Pastor Rob Bentz addresses the hard truth that suffering in this life is inevitable--especially as Christians. Listen to our latest message, Don’t Be Surprised When Suffering Comes, as we look at what Jesus teaches His followers in Matthew 24.

Today, we begin our new message series, What Now: How Tomorrow Shapes Today based upon Jesus words from the Olivet Discourse. Together, we'll unpack some tough questions about what Jesus calls His followers to consider in light of tomorrow. Listen with us as Pastor Rob Bentz shares the message, Not So Breaking News, as we explore how the Gospel should and WILL be proclaimed throughout the world regardless of the circumstances of our day!

In our culture, we've come to relate the idea of birth with a new beginning, a fresh start, a grand renewal.  In the final part of our series, The Forgotten Virtue: Learning to Love Again, we unpack what it means that our new birth in Jesus Christ to make us a child of God. Listen as Pastor Rob Bentz shares our latest message, Born into God’s Family, to discover how 1 John 5 reveals that when we become a child of God, we believe in Jesus, love others, and have overcome the world!

In Part 5 of The Forgotten Virtue: Learning to Love Again, the words of the Apostle John in his first letter reveal that to believe in Jesus Christ as Savior is to know God’s love! Listen as Pastor Rob shares our newest message, What’s Love Got To Do With It? 

* Also in this episode, Pastor Rob interviews worship team member Jen Bowers *

Has loving the people around you ever felt like a chore? Like you're running on an empty tank? In the next part of our series, The Forgotten Virtue: Learning to Love Again, 1 John 4 teaches us God is our ultimate, enduring source of love because He IS love! Listen with us as Pastor Rob Bentz shares our newest message, Love Defined, to discover how love begins, manifests, and is perfected through the Trinity! 

It wouldn’t take much searching to find harsh, hate-filled words being spoken in the name in our culture today. We may even contribute to these damaging conversations ourselves. In part three of our series, The Forgotten Virtue: Learning to Love Again, the words of the Apostle John reveal how seriously God condemns hatred--to the point of equating it with murder! Listen as Pastor Ben Hixson shares our latest message, A Tale of Two Loves.

We often hear that God is love--and He is! But our world has a way of twisting something God created into a thing He never intended it to be. And our understanding of love is no exception. In our misunderstanding of God's love. Today, we continue in our series, The Forgotten Virtue: Learning to Love Again, by looking to 1 John 2:12-17 for the truth about love. Listen as Pastor Rob Bentz shares our newest message, The Love God Hates, as we compare the love God intended for us with the love of the world that surrounds us.

When we face trials, we can easily lose sight of what it means to really love. Today, we begin our new sermon series, The Forgotten Virtue: Learning to Love Again. Listen as Pastor Rob Bentz shares our newest message, The Old (New) Commandment, as we discover how truly knowing God transforms our understanding of love.

At the end of an incredibly difficult 2020, Pastor Rob Bentz offers the White Lake church family biblical encouragement from the promise of God's peace found in Philippians 4. The truth of this promise is important for today--and the year ahead! 

Our Advent sermon series, Gift Wrapped, concludes with a look at the amazing new covenant in Jesus Christ. The prophet Jeremiah helps believers see the new covenant that believers have in Christ is a far better gift than we could ever imagine! Here on Christmas Eve, Pastor Rob Bentz shares from Jeremiah 31:31-34.