Faith Sermons and Studies

How many of you have ever gotten a defective product? There is this thing called the instruction manual and there are warnings all over the place. If you have a defective product you can relate that there’s nothing more frustrating than if something is designed to do something and it doesn’t. Jude is going to argue that false teachers are junk when it comes to the church—defective products. When w...

Jude gets tucked away in the Bible, but I believe that this book is more appropriate to our time than most of the other books. Jude was writing “to those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ.” Kept is eternal security. No one can be plucked from the Father’s hands. Eternal security is assured. Verse 3: “Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our commo...

Jude 3-4: Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lor...

We begin our study on Jude: Contending for Truth is the title of this series. We want relative truth and not absolute truth today. Jude is going to issue for a command to contend for the Truth. The Holy Sprint of God, who inspired Jude to write this book, wants every believer to contend for the truth. We are just looking at the first two verses and will unpack the two sets of threes. Jude, a serva...

This is not the typical message I like to preach. Today is not a theology focus. Instead, I’m going to prep you for what we are going to be doing for July, we will be mining out the book of Jude, which I’d argue has the most powerful application for today. And we will mining out how 2 Peter further expounds on Jude. Today I want to give you the tools and ask why there’s so many translations in the...

The Bible is the best-selling, least read and least understood book in the world today! We are going to expand on what we learned last week learning how to determine what the Bible is teaching and what it actually says. How do we interpret the Bible? Deductive vs. Inductive? Deductive can used to justify what is already presupposed by the use of passages. Deductive Bible study might say that you’r...

The first message of this series was the idea that the objective of studying the Bible is personal change. All Bible study is for the personal change to have us to conform to the teachings of the Bible. We learned that the plot is Jesus Christ. Remember from John 1:1 that Jesus is the Word that became flesh. Now today what we actually want to do is to teach you how to study the Bible. If you don’t...

This is the second week of the series: The Bible Unlocked. In the Bible, when God speaks, he often speaks with a thundering sound out of heaven. God’s voice is never pictured very soft in the Bible. Today, God’s voice is heard in his Word. The Bible is the equipping book for everything in our life. The ultimate purpose of the Bible is to inspire personal change for the glory of God. We should be l...

We are starting a new series. How do we unlock the Bible. How do we figure out what God’s word says and what it means? How do know if we are reading into the Bible to get it to say what we want it to say. As a goal for this series, I want to put great tools in your hands so you’re not ashamed of the Bible. There are churches that teach that you cannot interpret the Bible by yourself. That is not t...

If the church is going to transform the world then we must be united in our love for Christ and our love for one another. Anything short is going to end up in defeat; with in falling short of God’s expectations for us. We are going to look at Ephesians 4:1-6 in this study. I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with...

God has designated us to be in community with one another. As Americans, we are taught be be independent, but the Bible has called us to be one. We can’t do anything individually as powerfully as we can collectively. We know when someone begins leaving a church they isolate and rather than choose to surround themselves with strong spiritual people, they might surround themselves with those that ar...

We are introducing a new series called One of a Kind. God created us as a One of Kind. We are also called to live as one. We need to explore the American culture of self-sufficiency. In Christianity, it’s the exact opposite. God created you to need others and to not be alone. God says it’s not good for man to be alone, but we are taught from an early age to fend for ourselves in American culture....

On this special Resurrection Sunday, we begin with two baptisms including the sharing of their faith in coming to the Lord. Christopher Staser and Jacqueline Divietro were already saved and are now being baptized as a public profession of their faith and the beginning of their Christian ministry. The name Faith Baptist Church represents the idea that it’s by faith first that we are saved and then...

This is the third message in the series, Love Reigns. God is love, but let’s define love. Is the love you have for your wife or husband the same as the love God has for you? Or your love of ice cream? Or the love of your passions, like airplanes? God’s love is a different love. So if we are told to love one another, is that possible outside of God? Man’s love is usually a conditional love. If we a...

There’s a lot of different abilities we have and it’s the pastor’s job to remind you of that and recognize them and find ways to build those abilities and to put those into action. The goal of service is to edify Christ. The pastors need to remind members like you that you play a vital role. We need to recognize that we have a vital role in the church, the young and the old. Everyone has a role. W...

Today we are going to talk about how love reigns over your past. If you’re a believer, Jesus Christ has set you free of your past. You are defined today by one person and one person only: Jesus Christ. Because of the love that God demonstrated for us that while we were sinners, he died for us, we are not longer defined by what we were in our past. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new cre...

I want to talk about the future because sometimes when we have fear, it’s oftentimes about the unknown. Before we were saved and after we were saved, we could see Christ in our lives before and after. We could see how he used our history. We could see how he was there in our timeline. If God is sovereign, then he’s in control. What are the odds that if he’s been faithful in the past he will be fai...

This is the forth and final sermon of the Fear Not Series. We have learned many things, but one is that we can be victorious over fear. My goal through this series is to share what the Bible says about anxiety and worry and being fearful.  There’s a lot of fear-mongering in our world today from our governments to our media. On the flip side of victory, we get defeated in these areas. We get d...

This is the third week on the Fear Not Series. We’ve learned that there’s healthy fears and unhealthy fears. We’ve learned that all fear belongs in the hands of God. God always cares. Fear and worry and doubt belong with God, not with us. Today we are going to focus on today. Wouldn’t it be nice to find a passage where Jesus speaks about today? Matthew 6:34: “Therefore do not be anxious about tomo...

We’ve been talking about fear. Do we believe that God is greater than our anxiety and fear. Do we believe that God can actually get rid of your fear and anxiety. If so, where does the Bible talk about this? The whole chapter of Philippians 4 address this topic. We will focus on verses 6 and 7. We are taught in verse 4 to ‘rejoice in the Lord always’ no matter what situation. Philippians 4- 7: 4&nb...

The Greatness of Jesus Christ with Guest Missionary Bill Jenkin III — 2 Peter 1:1-10 2 Peter 1: 3-4 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having es...

Have you heard or seen anything about fear lately? It seems our world is fixated by fear. All of us have experienced fear. Not all fear is good and not all is bad. There is a healthy fear of self-preservation. It comes from experience. The Bible has a lot to say about it. It's found in almost every book of the Bible and occurs 365 times from Genesis to Revelation. God made sure there would be an o...

David Levy is with the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism and is a Good Soil Trainer & Pastoral Coach His theme is: Believers in Jesus Christ ought to actively participate in fulfilling the Great Commission. Matthew 28:18-20: 18  And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, b...

This is the last in the Redeeming Your Time series discussing eliminating the hurry in our lives. There’s a difference between being busy and hurried. Jesus was never hurried, but sometimes was so busy he forgot to eat. Jesus was cognizant of time. He also knew when it was time to get away.

We are going to talk about prioritizing our presence. Can we be in more than one place at one time. Jesus did a great job of doing this. While Jesus was omniscient and all-powerful, but he never invoked his omnipresence. He made himself like us. When he took on the form of flesh, he limited himself to a place and time and moment. Let’s find out how Jesus, who created time, showed us how he used ti...