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From Galatians 4:1-7. "When the set time had fully come." What does this mean? It means that everything that was supposed to happen in Christ's life has happened. It means that you can look toward 2020 with the vision of God Himself, who sees you with the righteousness if Jesus.

When someone has experienced only the feelings of fear, disappointment and inadequacy, the "feeling" of Christmas doesn't mean much. But is Christmas just a feeling?

Jesus wasn't God's plan B. He was planned from before the foundation of the world, and your salvation was too. Jesus is born for you.

Can we always rejoice? What about when life gets difficult? Do Christians always have to be happy? Is it wrong to be sad or afraid? Philippians 4:4-7 4Rejoice in the Lord always! I will say it again: Rejoice! 5Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. 6Do not worry about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God...

Song of Songs chapter 4 doesn't seem like it belongs in Scripture. It seems like an intimate letter between a groom and his bride. And that's exactly what it is: Christ's letter to His Bride, the Church.

The most joyous advent of Christ is the one where he comes to you, personally. He does this today though His sacraments (mysteries) and Word.

The procession of King Solomon to bring his bride back to his palace was quite the event. Christ coming to us is even better.

The Jews in ancient Rome were focused on outward things, which separated them from their fellow Gentile Christians. They had focused too much on their past and present, and lost focus on what really united them: their future. Our God is a God of hope and a future.

King Solomon wrote this Song of Songs, which means “The Greatest of All Songs,” for his marriage to a woman known only as “The Shulammite.”  It is expressed in beautiful terms, and the love of each for the other is evident. Christian husbands and wives can learn to value and honor one another the way the king and his bride honor one another in the Song. But what is more, the Song depicts the relat...

Our sins should terrify us, and Jesus'return did frighten us. But when they do, we can take comfort in Jesus' first Advent and look forward with joy to His second Advent.

God uses the most joyous of all earthly things to describe something better. And He gives thanks for us.

Looks can be deceiving. Nowhere is this more true than the Church. Is this also true for heaven?

On All Saints Day we give thanks to God for the witness of those who have gone before us in the faith, who have overcome the battle though Christ and have gained the victory if heaven. We are still struggling here in Earth, but are en route to the shore of heaven where we will join them and be set apart from struggle.

The Leipzig Debate (1519) between Martin Luther and Johann Eck was the event that made the Biblical idea of Sola Scriptura spread like wildfire to the common people.  In a different type of sermon today, Pastor Hendrix leads us through the history of the Reformation starting all the way back in the Old Testament with Hezekiah's Reformation, and explains the significance of the Leipzig Debate...

If someone is unfaithful to us, we have a tendency to want to shame them. God could and should do that to us for our unfaithfulness. But instead, Christ Shames Death.

God expresses frustration over the fact that the majority of people reject or condemn Him. We often do too. Sometimes we take it personally. But when God teaches us about how some reject Him, God doesn't intend to guilt trip us into working harder. Instead, God wants to call us to repent over our doubt and comfort us with the assurance that all the elect are saved not because of our great work, bu...

The very first sermon pastor preached at Faith two years ago. Is the Pastoral Ministry what you expected? Or does God promise something more generous?

Broken homes and loneliness. What do angels, and specifically Jacob's vision of the angels ascending and descending the ladder to heaven, have to say to us regarding these very real issues today?

Take it from someone who felt guilt and was immensely sad over loosing things in his life to learn how to be thankful even through hardship. Jeremiah has been called the"weeping prophet" but yet could rejoice even though losing all.

God commands His people to go the opposite way. Charity is going the opposite way, and God goes the opposite way for us.

God works through means of medicine and people to provide healing. But what happens when it seems God doesn't? What happens when our bodies and our health get worse? Hear what God does though His Word.

Pharisees are usually bad, right? In 1 Corinthians 15 however, we see a righteous and humble Pharisee. So what makes one a saint or a sinner?

How do you manage everything you've got to do? Sports, music, family life, church? Learn from Mary and Martha of the One Thing Needful.

Each of us has our very own personal false prophet within us, calling us back to be slaves to our own lusts. Hear how God has adopted us as Sons in this sermon from Romans 8.

What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus? How do you know if you are over? The answer of the Bible is not what you hear in most modern churches.