Sermons from the Rev. Alan D. Bentrup, rector of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Keller, Texas.
Hope Springs Eternal
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Sermons from the Rev. Alan D. Bentrup, rector of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Keller, Texas.
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May 10, 2026
The Reason Nobody Wants to Hear About Your Faith (And How to Fix It)
<p>What does your mom have to do with evangelism? More than you think.</p><p>This sermon starts with a simple question: if you wanted to tell someone about a woman who shaped your life, what would you say? You wouldn't hand them a spreadsheet. You wouldn't list her measurable outputs. You'd testify -- about how she loved you, showed up for you, changed you.</p><p>So why do we think sharing our faith looks like winning a debate?</p><p>Drawing on 1 Peter 3, this message reframes "always be ready to give an account" away from intellectual self-defense and toward something far more honest: testimony. Something happened. It changed me. Let me tell you about it.</p><p>The hope Peter is talking about isn't a vague feeling that things will work out. It's the specific, resurrection-grounded claim that we are free to live differently right now -- free to do good even when it costs something, free to love even when it's easier not to.</p><p>That's a hope worth knowing well enough to say out loud.</p>
May 4, 2026
God's Mercy is Bigger than You Think!
<p>On the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Fr. Alan Bentrup preaches from Acts 7, John 14, and 1 Peter 2 at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Keller, Texas.</p><p>Two of the most misused texts in the New Testament show up in this week's readings. John 14 has been turned into a border checkpoint. 1 Peter 2 has been stamped onto a flag. Both readings have been used to draw the circle small and keep people out.</p><p>But then Luke slips a single sentence into the story of Stephen's martyrdom: the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.</p><p>The man who wrote half the New Testament was holding the coats.</p><p>This sermon asks what it means to worship a God whose mercy is bigger than our categories, bigger than our politics, bigger than our preferences, and bigger than the lines we have drawn around who deserves it.</p><p>St. Martin's Episcopal Church | Keller, Texas</p><p>Easter 5, Year A | Acts 7:55-60, Psalm 31, 1 Peter 2:2-10, John 14:1-14</p>
April 12, 2026
Jesus Doesn't Wait for Your Doubt to Resolve | A Second Sunday of Easter Sermon
<p>What does it mean that the risen Jesus keeps saying the same thing? To frightened disciples behind a locked door. To Thomas in his doubt. Over and over: "Peace be with you."In this Easter Sunday sermon at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Keller, Texas, Fr. Alan explores John 20:19-31 and what the resurrection has to do with a plumber named Mike Jesus, a week of doubt, and the moment every Sunday when a room full of people turns toward each other and says the peace.Jesus does not wait for the fear to lift. He does not wait for the doubt to resolve. He walks in and says it anyway.That is not a small thing. That is the resurrection moving through a room.St. Martin's Episcopal Church | Keller, TexasSecond Sunday of Easter | Year AJohn 20:19-31</p>
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