FBCL - Sermons

Pastor Tanner continues our journey through Esther. This week we ask the question: does doing the right thing always result in immediate blessing and reward? Continuing to try to undestand Jesus' splitting of wisdom and goodness, and how we can integrate them. Passage from Esther 2:12-23.

Pastor Tanner continues to exposit Esther from a literary "emobided wisdom literature" perspective. How to be wise and good? Is it ever appropriate to conceal? From Esther 2:1-11.

Pastor Tanner invites us to consider the serpent and the dove: How the characters in Esther reveal shrewdness and righteousness, and our need, and call from Jesus, to integrate both. Text from Esther 1:10-22.

Pastor Tanner begins the exposition of Esther. Passage from Esther 1:1-9

Pastor Tanner gives us a prequel to the themes in Esther. Primarily, where is God? He's not mentioned... passage from Esther 9.

For Trinity Sunday, elder Nick explores the ways of thinking about the Trinity and its implications for our lives. Text from the benediction in 2 Corinthians 13.

Pastor Tanner bridges our biblical theology series with the beginning of our next series on Esther. We hear: context on being in exile, what this meant for Esther and Mordecai, and the biblical theology themes and types in this book. Passage from 1 Peter 1.

Preaching from brother Fernando, sharing from Leviticus 19.

Elder Paul takes us on a tour from Eden to Revelation. How are we called to live in the in between? Text from Revelation 21-22.

Elder Paul continues our series on Biblical Theology, focusing on the theme of Sacrifice. What was the shadow or picture in sacrifice? What is the reality? How has it been transformed? Text from Genesis 22.

Elder Paul walks us through the first week in a series on Biblical theology, with a focus on covenent, looking at Genesis 15.

Pastor Tanner opens up the second half of Philemon and talks about God's desire for us: to want his will, not just be compelled to do it; and about how God chooses to reveal his will over time.

Pastor Tanner takes us through the first half of Paul's letter to Philemon and differentiates forgiveness and reconciliation.

Pastor Tanner reminds us what Easter does...change everything. Text from 1 Corinthians 15.

This Palm Sunday, Pastor Tanner reminds of that there are different ways we can see Jesus...do we see him as King?

Pastor Tanner encourages us to balance this titular tension in our modern individualist culture; from 2 Thessalonians 3.

Pastor Tanner reminds us that God is the one who holds us fast. From 2 Thessalonians chapter 2.

Pastor Tanner dives into 2 Thessalonians chapter 1.

Elder Nick navigates the controversial (for protestants) tension between faith and works from James 2.

Elder Nick introduces the book of James and James' main pastoral concern: spiritual wholeness.

Pastor Tanner gives us some motivation to engage thoughtfully in this Lenten season with spiritual formation and disciplines.

Pastor Tanner wraps up 1 Thessalonians, expounding on chapter 5 and how to think about 'The Day of the Lord'.

Pastor Tanner unpacks living with urgency and encouragement in our lives because Jesus could return any moment. From 1 Thessalonians 4.

Pastor Tanner explains the goal, example, and effects of the church in society using the analogy of the work of macrophages in the human body. From 1 Thessalonians 3.

Pastor Tanner explains what it means to be called to a redeemed family, from chapter 2 of 1 Thessalonians.