*This week’s blog post comes from Lindsay Tice. Lindsay is a wife, mother, and member of Faith Bible Church. She and Michael have attended FBC for over 18 years. Most importantly, Lindsay is a [...]

In part 6 of our series, we began looking at what Jesus was doing in his mission of restoring and renewing Israel. Jesus’s purpose was to gather Israel and restore her to fulfill its unique [...]

*This is a repost from Wade’s blog on 12-23-21. I remember that Christmas Eve gathering at my church many years ago. One of our members, Chris, brought his father-in-law, and from the moment the [...]

Last week we looked at four essential questions that can help us learn how to know the gospel, apply the gospel, and speak the gospel. The four questions again: Who is God? What has he done? Who [...]

This past Sunday, we considered what it means to put our hope in God, trusting him with every situation and circumstance. We often find it hard to trust God in the waiting: when we wait to hear [...]

Last time we left the hanging question, “Why does God delay bringing his kingdom into fullness now?” We spoke of how Jesus ushered in God’s kingdom in part five. We said that it [...]

Part 4 of our series left us asking, “Would God be faithful to his promise to gather and renew Israel? Would the promised Messiah finally fulfill God’s mission that Israel failed to [...]

In part 3 of our series, we learned that God had granted Israel an earthly king whose role in leading the people would help nourish Israel’s missional identity and function as a blessing to [...]

Last time we learned that God gave Israel his law so that Israel could learn to walk in God’s ways for God’s glory in the sight of the nations around them—this was Israel’s [...]

In part one of our short series, we saw how God had called Israel to be his missional people, living in the sight of the nations as a priestly kingdom and holy nation. Israel was to be a [...]

The Bible tells the true story of God’s mission to rescue and restore the whole world. The missio Dei (Latin for “mission of God” or “sending of God”) involves God setting out on a long [...]

Today’s blog post concludes our series on the Lord’s Prayer. We’ve been saying that the Lord’s Prayer is a prayer Jesus gave his disciples that reflected his own heart and [...]

In the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6 (and Luke 11), we see Jesus giving his disciples words to pray that, in reality, is introducing them to a whole new way of living. Jesus says this: 9 [...]

Last week we began to look at the petition in the Lord’s Prayer found in Matthew 6:12, which says: “And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” We briefly [...]

We’ve been looking at the Lord’s Prayer, a prayer Jesus has given the family of God. Today we look at the petition in Matthew 6:12: “Forgive us our debts as we also have [...]

We’ve been looking at how Jesus taught his followers how to pray, specifically looking at what has become known as the “Lord’s Prayer.” When Jesus gave his followers this [...]

For the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at the Lord’s Prayer, or “Disciples’ Prayer,” found in Matthew 6. Today we dig into the second part of the prayer in verse [...]

If we are serious about growing in the gospel, we will want to learn and grow in prayer. The Lord’s Prayer helps us transform inside and out. It changes our priorities, goals, hopes, and [...]

Last week we began a short blog series on the Lord’s Prayer found in Matthew 6. This week we look at the first part of the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples: 9 This, then, is how you [...]

Over the next few weeks, we’ll take a brief look at the Lord’s Prayer found in Matthew 6:9:-13 and look at how Jesus taught his followers to pray. The “Lord’s [...]

At FBC, we have four gospel distinctives that fuel our church. These four “basics” – gather, grow, give, and go – help to shape and define the way we live out our gospel identity [...]

Last year 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 is Good; God is [...]

We’ve begun a short series on the importance of cultivating a Biblical worldview among our churches and why this is essential in making disciples. If you haven’t already, I will [...]

Last week I briefly mentioned a new survey highlighting pastors and the strength of their biblical worldview. The results are not good. To summarize, many pastors don’t have a biblical [...]

A recent study by Arizona Christian University and George Barna was recently released, highlighting statistics among Christian pastors and their biblical worldview (click here to see the study). [...]

We’ve taken several weeks to lay a foundation of what it means to become a gospel fluent community (if you haven’t read parts 1-6, I’d recommend that you start there!). As we [...]

I read a story of a meeting of some of the wealthiest businesspeople in the United States in 1923. Among them were a Wall Street tycoon, a significant stockholder in the steel industry, and a [...]

As we have been going through our Becoming Gospel Fluent blog series, we pray that we are learning to increasingly submit all of life to the empowering presence and lordship of Jesus. Here we see [...]

Last time we looked at the importance of taking every thought captive for Christ. Today, we want to dig in a bit more with four essential questions that serve as a helpful framework for [...]

Today is “Maundy Thursday.” What is Maundy Thursday? It is the Thursday before Easter, the day when Jesus celebrated his final Passover with His disciples. Most notably, that Passover [...]