The Proof of Love
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about living everyday life in faithful and joyful obedience to God. While reading Psalm 26 this morning, I was struck by what David says in verses 2-3: [...]
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about living everyday life in faithful and joyful obedience to God. While reading Psalm 26 this morning, I was struck by what David says in verses 2-3: [...]
Today is “Maundy Thursday.” What is Maundy Thursday? It is the Thursday before Easter when Jesus celebrated his final Passover with His disciples. Most notably, that Passover meal was [...]
In last week’s sermon, I mentioned that followers of Jesus seek to do “whatever is good for the common good.” As people who have had the good work of Christ radically transform [...]
This Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the six-week season leading up to what is known as the Pascha (Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday). Lent is traditionally a time for us to [...]
*This weel’s blog is a re-post from 4/06/22 As we continue to learn what it means to become gospel fluent people (see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), we recognize the importance of becoming a [...]
*This week’s blog post is a re-post from 3/20/23 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of [...]
*This week’s blog is a re-post from 3/23/22. As we continue to learn what it means to be a gospel fluent people, we want to ensure that we truly understand what the gospel is. Last time we [...]
* This week’s blog is a re-post from 3/16/22 When I was in high school, I took four years of Spanish, but I never really could speak the language fluently. On the other hand, my friend took [...]
This past Sunday, the elder team shared “Twelves Stones” that have and will continue to root us in helping people find and follow Jesus here, near, and far. The pillars help center us [...]
I pray you have been finding encouragement this Advent as you consider four eternal truths about God, which we call the “Four G’s.” These truths help battle unbelief in our [...]
As we journey in this season of Advent, we’ve been briefly exploring the truth of who God is and what he’s done to free us from sin and to set us free to live flourishing, [...]
Last week, we began looking at how four eternal truths about God can help us embrace the reality and beauty of Advent more deeply. To refresh your memory, the four eternal truths, or four [...]
A couple of years back, we did a sermon series called God is: Four Kingdom Truths for Everyday Life, where we focused on four key attributes of God: God is Great; God is Glorious; God [...]
This post comes from the Elders of Faith Bible Church who feel it is necessary to address this issue. Today marks the 34th day of Israel’s war against Hamas. We are aware of the pain and [...]
I had a friend ask me the other day, after sitting through our Sermon on the Mount series, why Jesus teaches his disciples to pray to God the Father, “Your kingdom come” (Matthew [...]
Have you ever wondered about the significance of our FBC logo? Take a look: The logo isn’t just a fancy diagram or cute little graphic. It helps us understand who we are and what we do. Our [...]
This week’s blog post comes from our Children’s Ministry Director, Nancy Olson. Over the past few months, you may have noticed how we have included our children from time to time in [...]
People ask me why FBC has multiple preachers and why I’m one of many who preach every Sunday. I understand the question since many (most?) churches have one preaching pastor who teaches [...]
I want to ask you two questions. First, how would you define evangelism? Many of us describe evangelism as the process that brings people to a point of belief in Jesus. And here’s the [...]
Here at Faith Bible Church, we believe that the acrostic DNA can easily capture the characteristics of a disciple: . Dwelling in Christ Nurturing Relationships Advancing the Gospel Under each of [...]
Have you ever heard that all you need to do to change your life is to try harder? If we’re honest, not only have we listened to this lie, but we’ve believed it to be true. No doubt, [...]
I was listening to one of my favorite bands today in my car, and their song, “I Will Not Take These Things for Granted,” was playing. It’s not a so-called [...]
Author Randy Alcorn in his book Money, Possessions, and Eternity. He writes: “Too often, we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living when his stated [...]
If you’ve been a part of Faith Bible Church for any time, you’ve heard us teach that church isn’t an event or a building. You’ve heard us preach that the church is God’s people, saved by God’s [...]
Yesterday marked the beginning of Lent, the six-week season leading up to what is known as the Pascha (Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday). Lent is traditionally a time for us to [...]
Today we finish our three-part series on the Sabbath. Read Part One and Part Two. What response is the Christian to make regarding the Sabbath today? Is the observance of the Sabbath necessary, [...]
Last week we began a short series to help us rediscover a rhythm of God’s grace called the Sabbath. We first considered how the Sabbath was a command given to God’s people in the Old [...]
*We will be taking a short break in our “Participating in the Missio Dei” series to look at the Sabbath and rest in the Bible. Why are we hurried people? Why do we often feel distracted and busy [...]
In part 8 of our series, we learned three significant ways in which Jesus was reshaping Israel to live up to her God-given mission of being a light of God’s good rule and reign to the [...]
Last time (part 7), we saw how Jesus began to restore Israel to her calling of being a light to the nations by calling twelve disciples to learn from him, along with his call for people to repent [...]