Pastor Ben Smith

01/11/2026

Today’s sermon listening guide and outline. Satisfied in God from Paslm 17. https://www.bensmithsr.org/store/p/psalm-17-sermon-outline

01/07/2026

I have VERY special guests on the podcast this week as we talk about what makes expository preaching both vital—and challenging—for the church today. In this year-end episode of All for the Kingdom, my wife Dana, my dad Ben Smith, and I reflect on a year of sermons and the power of faithful, Scripture-driven preaching.

In this year-end episode of All for the Kingdom, Ben Smith is joined by his wife Dana and his father to reflect on expository preaching and the sermons preached in 2025. They discuss the value, challenges, and necessity of faithful, Scripture-driven preaching in the life of the church.

12/31/2025

"Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" In this week's sermon, Pastor Ben Smith examines John the Baptist's testimony of who Jesus is. Listen now at

Pastor Ben Smith preaches on John 1:19-34, examining John the Baptist's testimony: "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" This Advent sermon explores two essential truths—Jesus is the Lamb of God and Jesus takes away your sin. From Adam to the cross, only God Himself

12/30/2025

158 years ago, C. H. Spurgeon warned his church of the danger of delay in responding to Christ. In this sermon, he lamented the lingering consequences of sin. His words still ring true.

"The devil knows that Christ loves the young, and therefore he tries to keep the young from going to him. “No,” says he, “if he will have that flower, I will not let him have it in the bud if I can help it; he shall have it when it gets full blown, and much of its beauty has gone from it; I will keep it with me while in its prime as long as I can. Ay, and there is this thing in addition, that while I have it in my power, I can do that to it which it can never get rid of in this life: I will lead it into sins that shall cleave to its memory; I will teach that young man vile songs that shall some day come up in his mind when he begins to pray; I will show him scenes that shall stagger him when he grows old, and make him cry, as though his very bones were broken. “Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my former transgressions.” “Ah!” saith Satan, “if I lose him, yet I shall have spoiled him for ever becoming an eminent Christian, and through him I shall have done the King of heaven as much damage as may be.” That is what the devil says; he wants to have you altogether, or if he cannot do that, he would have you wait a little while. O may God’s eternal mercy come to your rescue, and may you be saved from him without waiting the ten days; may your hearts be brought to Jesus now! And how sad the thought, that Satan is getting service out of some who will have to spend much of their after life in trying to undo what they have in their blindness been led to perform for the god of this world! What a waste of time and talent, to build up in misery to-day what you will wish, for very shame, to pull down to-morrow! Some men have written books, or done deeds in early life, which will meet them as long as ever they live, confronting them in the path of service, and proving to be their direst foes. It will be a source of ever recurring grief to find yourself wounded by an arrow feathered thus out of your own wing — to feel yourself crushed by stones your own hands set a rolling in days gone by. And, mark you, that all the increase of your vineyard is now not only lost to your lawful Master, but Satan knows that it is sure to cause a vintage of evil even after your life is over. Your works do follow you. The echoes of your evil words will reverberate far down the ages. Your footprints will have made a track which others will follow when you are not there. The false light you hung out years back will serve to wreck souls even when you yourself, safe over life’s sea, shall be at rest in your desired haven. If heaven could find room for a single sorrow, it would have, I think, some connection with the thought that we have thus helped to ruin souls. Sow no more tares. Come to Jesus, even now."

Delay is Dangerous, Genesis 24:55 (1867)

12/24/2025

Have you become so familiar with the Christmas story that it no longer stirs your soul? Listen to this new sermon on John 1:14-18 and rediscover the joy of salvation:

Podcast SEO Description (400 characters max): Explore John 1:14-18 in this powerful Christmas sermon on the incarnation of Christ. Pastor Ben Smith reveals how the Word becoming flesh reveals God's glory, demonstrates His grace, and provides salvation. Includes moving personal testimony about hope a

12/23/2025

While all our hearts and all our songs
join to admire the feast,
each of us cries, with thankful tongue,
"Lord, why was I a guest?

"Why was I made to hear your voice,
and enter while there's room,
when thousands make a wretched choice,
and rather starve than come?"

'Twas the same love that spread the feast
that sweetly drew us in;
else we had still refused to taste,
and perished in our sin.

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12/20/2025

Sermon outline for 12/21/2025, The Peace of Redemption, John 1:19-34 - https://mailchi.mp/74b73ed2c71f/sermon-notes-10980743

12/18/2025

I wrote this years ago, in the early days of being a pastor, but the genesis of it comes from my childhood, when my home church did a Living Christmas tree.

When I was a kid, my church did a Living Christmas Tree program each Christmas season. The event was very much a product of 1980s church culture. It featured a massive steel-framed Christmas tree that rose from the base of the stage to inches from the high ceiling. The tree was constructed to suppor

12/17/2025

New sermon: "The Faith that Saves" on John 1:6-13 is now available! Discover how God provides for salvation through His sovereign grace and power alone—not by human effort, but by His divine work from beginning to end

Discover how God provides salvation through faith alone in this exposition of John 1:6-13. Pastor Ben Smith explores God's provision through witnesses like John the Baptist, the revelation of truth in Jesus as the true light, and God's sovereign work of grace. Learn why salvation comes not by human