Faith Bible Church Sermons

We all leave a wake behind us for good or for bad. The question is…what kind of wake are we leaving? Unfortunately, our wakes are often more destructive than we might like. When you look back at your wake do you like what you see? Are you proud of it, or do you wish you could change it?

Bad experiences often cause us to flinch. Flinching of course is when we pull back, shy away, waiver, hesitate, falter in the face of what we anticipate might happen. It’s common to flinch when we start a difficult but necessary conversation, when we agree to take on responsibility that we know will be challenging. It’s not unusual to flinch any time we anticipate negative repercussions that might...

We see people through lenses that alter our perception for better or worse. These lenses come from our culture, biases, beliefs, and prejudices. They come with labels too, and we use them to categorize people as "Liberal or Conservative," "Good or Bad," or even "Christian or Worldly." Each of these lenses and labels causes us to summarize people, assign them value and treat them accordingly. None...

When it comes to how we live our lives there’s a lot to listen to these days. You’re hearing all the things you should be doing but you haven’t quite figured out what to do with the information. You probably hear something almost every day on how you should live your life. In all of this instruction what we really want is to find the thing that’s going to make us happy. Not fleeting happiness that...

It sure would be nice if God could just write that recipe out to follow when trials come. God consistently does that for us and He wants to guide us through these difficult times. James knew his readers would need a recipe to follow during their trials and it’s a recipe that we can all follow as well.

Our happiness is only as reliable as the power grid of life, which you and I do not control. What's a reliable source of genuine happiness? And how might that kind of happiness be connected to the subject of trials? Because it seems like trials and happiness don’t belong in the same sentence together. James tells us otherwise.

Do you find it easy to walk away? When the relationship gets hard? When the job is too demanding, or the boss is too toxic? When the other people on the committee are unreasonable and don’t listen? When the pain is too constant. When you’re exhausted? It’s easy to walk away, but every time you do, another dream is lost. The inability to endure is a real problem, because as James made clear, withou...

What are we suppose to do with trials when we aren’t certain we can get through them? What if any purpose do they have? How do we keep from becoming bitter, angry, depressed, or just plain mean and selfish? In what many scholars consider to be the very first book of the New Testament, James answered these kind of real life questions for his former Jerusalem congregation that had found it necessary...

Because Jesus lives, our lives are not dust in the wind, here on second and gone the next. Through Jesus we will inherit the kingdom of God. Orienting our lives to that kingdom is the key to living our best and most productive lives now and in eternity.

Many times this is what is happening when our lives don’t seem to be playing out the way we want them to. We’re only seeing the picture from one angle and it looks like a jumbled mess. What do you do when your hopes and dreams are shattered? You pursue life from God’s perspective. The cross didn’t shatter the hopes and dreams of Jesus, it fulfilled them. He pursued the cross because of his perspec...

Sunday's message is Part 2 of our In Fact series leading up to Easter. Last week we focused on the historical fact of Jesus’ resurrection, and now we focus on the prophetic fact of our resurrection. If death has no respect for people, it is certainly no respecter of childhood. One of the earliest aspects of every child’s loss of innocence is their first encounter with death. It is revolting to us,...

Over the next three weeks, we’re going to take a closer look at the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and why it matters…not just why it matters historically, but why it matters in our own lives. As we’re going to discover, the resurrection changed the course of human history, and it changes the course of our lives - the way we look at life and even death, and the way that we live in light of it!

How are we suppose to get our lives right when life is coming at us so fast? How do we take Jesus’ ancient advice and apply it in the modern age right here where we live? You can make the most of your life if you’ll let the Scriptures improve your insight. Make life’s most important decisions long before you face them, and maintain perspective by keeping eternity in mind.

Today we come full circle in our series on How to Make the Most of Your Life. We began this series in Matthew 16.24 with Jesus calling the 12 to follow him to Jerusalem to suffer and even die. Naturally the 12 would have asked why they would want to do that? And Jesus answered by telling them that their willingness to suffer with him was the key to making the most of their lives. As we’ve said thr...

Have you ever had a moment in your life where you almost talked yourself out of something that could have made the most of your life? Zaccheus had every reason to not take the risk and to talk himself out of making the most of his life. But when he met Jesus, that didn’t matter anymore, he knew his life was about Jesus from here on out. What risk is Jesus asking you to take so you can make the mos...

Throughout this series, we have been adjusting our list to reflect Jesus’ call to give our lives away…but too often, what we want overwhelms our list. Imagine what it would look like if everyone in this room moved in the motion of the Holy Spirit, yielded to Him! Imagine what it would like if every single one of us lived what’s on our list. What a difference that would make inside our church famil...

We are now at the point in the series where we’re asking ourselves what adjustments we need to make to our list to make the most of our lives. In week one we said we can’t limit our list to what we can see. Jesus said there is a future reality that is so certain that if the life we’re living now doesn’t matter then, it doesn’t matter now. In week two we said we need to make sure we don’t make excu...

Last week we started our series by acknowledging that we all have a list for how to make the most of our lives. And of course we asked the question, “How do we know if our list is correct?” Because our lists are normally about what we can get, whereas Jesus said we gain our lives by giving them away. So we asked ourselves if we trusted him enough to adjust our list to reflect his. Starting today,...

We all have a list about what it means to make the most of our lives. But our list may be limited. Unless someone who knows more and has seen more helps us out, there’s a chance our list may not reflect reality. What’s on your list about how to make the most of your life? Are you sure it’s correct? Is it possible that your list isn’t as reflective of reality as you think?

A look at FBC’s global and local missions partners.

Religion made simple is one look of faith to Jesus. He is our salvation and he is our model for sacrificial love. Everything works better when people who have believed in Jesus for eternal life love like Jesus in this life.

When we exploit our advantages for our own gain, it’s insider trading. Why do we adopt this as a way of life? the gospel of grace has the power to deal a death blow to operating like inside traders. It has the power to turn us into people who not only believe in Jesus for eternal life, but love like Jesus in this life.

If you’ve been around religion much you know it can get complicated. In fact complicated Christianity is what causes many people to walk away from Christ. If the core of the Christian Faith is as simple as faith expressed in love, then how do we make it so complicated that it doesn’t work when we most need it? Everything works better when the people who have believed in Jesus for eternal life love...

When facing uncertainty do you look about, for that one fix to stabilize your situation, or do you look above, to God? Look above by looking out for the person next to you.