Faith Community Church

Churches that support every member in the family help the next generation. The Christian faith is best passed on, one generation to the next, by building relationships, sharing Biblical truth, encouraging family members, supporting & caring for them during difficult times, investing in them with wisdom and love. Ministry partners can serve the next generation by directly investing into children an...

The Family is the primary source of spiritual influence into the lives of children and teens. They spend a few hours a week (at best) at church and many times that under their parent's influence. Studies consistently show that parents are an important influence into the lives of teenagers and children, their values & worldview influencing their children's. If we want to reach the next generation,...

God cares about the next generation of believers. He always has. The Bible contains stories of young men and women who He used to do a great work (Joseph, David, Esther). They are both the future of the church and a present mission field. Every church is within forty years of disappearing. God cares about the Next Generation because they are the future leaders of the church. They will shape, direc...

Pastor Mike's Vision Sunday Message.

Week 4 of the series "Time of Your Life". If we live as though the best satisfaction, purpose, pleasure and meaning we can experience is while we live, then we will be disappointed, finding life to be meaningless. Solomon reflected on the meaning of life. He discovered that life has no purpose or meaning if we define it only by the days we have "under the sun". If we consider eternity, then we wil...

Week 3 of the series "Time of Your Life". There is a cumulative value to investing small amounts of time in important activites. In a corollary fashion, there is no value in investing small amounts of time in random things that interfere with the important. This is why God advises us to carefully consider how we use our time. As Paul states in Eph. 5:15-17, we should count our days like an investm...

Week 2 of the series "Time of Your Life". The secret to achieving your capacity isn't about getting more done, it's about prioritizing correctly. Priority determines capacity. We need to take the time to identify our priorities and then plan the rest of life in around them. As Christian, we're called to make God's will the organizing principle to our life. We need to give God's desires, ambitions,...

Week 1 of the series "Time of Your Life". The "Time of your Life" series comes from Northpoint Church. It's based on the premise that we have a limited number of days to our lives. Therefore, we should use them thoughtfully and carefully. When we realize how short our lives truly are in light of eternity, we see how foolish it is to live as though life revolves around us and our interests. If live...

The Faith Community Church Student Missions Team shares testimonies from their trip to Philadelphia.

Week 5 of the series "Everybody's Watching" from Faith Community Church. Society has become fascinated with anti-heroes: people who do the wrong thing for “right” reasons. Breaking Bad transforms a chemistry teacher into a Crystal Meth drug dealer in order to provide for his family. Dexter is a troubled man trapped by the desire to live out a double life as a police officer and a serial killer who...

Week 4 of the series "Everybody's Watching" from Faith Community Church. The People's Chocie Awards picked "Iron Man 3" and "Gravity" as two award winning movies. Both movies explore the way suffering shapes us and how we can overcome it to be reborn anew. Tony Stark is trapped by debilitating fear from violence and Ryan Stone is trapped by the tragic loss of her daughter. They have to find the me...

Week 3 of the series "Everybody's Watching" from Faith Community Church. The 2014 Kid's Choice Awards picked Frozen as the animated movie of year. The movie explores the dimensions of true love between two sisters and how it can save the people we love. Another Disney movie, Saving Mr. Banks, based on the real life story behind the scenes of making the original Mary Poppins film, also explores the...

Week 2 of the series "Everybody's Watching" from Faith Community Church. In 2014, the People's Choice Awards picked The Voice as the best reality competition television series. Along with American Idol and The X-Factor, these shows give vocalists/musicians the opportunity to perform in front of celebrity judges with the possibility of receiving a record contract and other lucrative deals/prizes. T...

Week 1 of the series "Everybody's Watching" from Faith Community Church. The series starts with the question, "How do I find that hope?" In 2014, movies and TV shows about hope - the loss of it - gained prominent attention. In The Walking Dead, humans are constantly pursuing hope (healing, safety, community) only to have it ripped away from them. In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, champions are p...

Week 3 of the series "Don't Just Give" from Faith Community Church. God established a system of giving to empower ministry. When the people gave faithfully to the work of the Temple, ministry flourished. When they didn't, ministry was hindered. When ministry flourishes, God is glorified (people praise God for the help they receive from the church), ministry is empowered (we are able to subsidize t...

Week 2 of the series "Don't Just Give" from Faith Community Church. Giving is a great way to grow spiritually. When we give, we have to evaluate our priorities, ambitions, values and desires. We give from a fixed sum so the distribution of money in one direction takes it from another. The exercise of determining how much we give and to what direction forces us to examine our hearts. In addition, i...

Week 1 of the series "Don't Just Give" from Faith Community Church. In the OT, God taught the people to bring their first and best as an offering to God when they came to worship. These offerings were generally used in two ways: for sin and celebration. In regards to sin, it was a foreshadow that someday God would send His firstborn son as a sin offering for the people, the best He had to offer. W...

A standalone message from Faith Community Church. Pastor Mike speaks about the Global Leadership Summit.

Week 3 of the series "Why Worry?" from Faith Community Church. Paul is another person who lived in difficult circumstances that would cause most people worry and concern. We're looking at a letter he wrote while under house arrest. Christ changed the direction of his life, moving him from a career path of financial, social and mental security. In doing so, Paul became an itinerant preacher, church...

Week 2 of the series "Why Worry?" from Faith Community Church. Jesus was another person who had a lot to be concerned over. He did not have a steady income. He was constantly challenged and defamed in public by respectable leaders. His closest followers were unreliable. He lived under a foreign power that could be ruthless in maintaining control. Anyone of these conditions could be worth our worry...

Week 1 of the series "Why Worry?" from Faith Community Church. We're going to study the lives of three people who had a lot to be worried about. We'll look at the troubles they faced and how they responded in order to learn how we can turn our worries over to God and find peace. The first example is Elijah. He was a prophet of God who had to face off against two of the most debase, immature and un...

Week 6 of the series "Portraits of Christ" from Faith Community Church. Luke tells an interesting story of an encounter between two followers of Christ and a stranger. Through the story, people who have lost hope and are struggling to find their way in life meet someone who listens, guides and instructs them. Suddenly, in an intimate and surprising way, Christ reveals Himself as the Risen Savior....

Week 5 of the series "Portraits of Christ" from Faith Community Church. Jesus possessed the power of life over death while He walked among us, preparing for the cross. He could raise the dead with the command of His voice. His words were life because He is life. Moved by compassion, Christ raised children from the dead. In a scene from John's Gospel, Christ waited for a friend to die in order to d...

Week 4 of the series "Portraits of Christ" from Faith Community Church. Jesus commanded authority over evil. Demonic forces trembled in His presence. Jesus released tortured souls from influence. We will look at a story Mark tells about a man so plagued by demonic forces that he dwelled in a cemetary, cutoff from people who were terrified of him. Christ delivered the man from their control and tra...

Week 3 of the series "Portraits of Christ" from Faith Community Church. Jesus possessed power over Creation. He could calm storms, multiply food stores, and walk on water. We'll focus on the storm at sea an example of Christ as Master of Creation. This one incident demonstrates Christ's trust in God for His safety, the ability He had to control nature, and challenge to us to trust in His power. Jo...