Fellowship Bible Church Sermons

Mark December 31, 2025 PM. Mark's gospel shows Jesus as the servant of God and of mankind. He came to serve, not to be served, and to give His life a ransom for many. We examine some key verses, doctrines, and literary features of Mark's theological biography.

Various December 28, 2025 AM. In this sermon, we examine the general nature of how we can build Christian character without falling prey to a law-based approach, which did not work in the prior era and will not work in the modern time. We learned about God's "tools" to develop our character, including His Spirit, His Word, and His Church. We also thought about the transformative nature of our unio...

2 Corinthians 3:4-6 December 28, 2025 SS. Paul was confident about the Corinthian’s recommendation-letter-status because Jesus Christ gave him that confidence. And he had good reason: he gave them the genuine gospel message, the church was started, and he could see God was doing a work there. So he continued in faith with confidence that the work of the gospel was having an impact. The source of h...

Various December 24, 2025 PM. For our Christmas Eve service, we read some in Jesus's birth narrative, and then considered several matters regarding when Jesus came. First has to do with the calendar date--December 25? Second was the condition of the spirit world that operates unseen "behind" our world. And third is the condition of humanity at the time of Jesus's coming. A little bonus music is at...

Matthew 1-2, Luke 1-2 December 21, 2025 AM. We began reading through a harmony of Matthew and Luke birth accounts of Jesus. We looked at a few debated issues, like whether Mary and Joseph wanted to stay in an "inn" but were turned away; whether December 25 was really the date of Jesus's birth, Christmas trees, the abbreviation Xmas, and who the "three kings of orient" are. Why Christmas? Because o...

Various December 21, 2025 SS. The Bible has a lot to say about friends and brotherly kindness. Over 100 verses use the word friend. Being friendly and maintaining friendships are character traits of a mature Christian. A friend is someone attached to you with whom you have some affection or esteem. In this message we look at many examples of how the idea of friends is used in the Bible and remind...

Proverbs 3:5-8 December 17, 2025 PM. Pastor Lorch encourages us to trust entirely in the Lord, to acknowledge God in all of our life, and enjoy the promise that God will direct our life.

Various December 14, 2025 PM. This is the recording of our annual Christmas Program with Christmas music, narration, and preaching about why Jesus came.

Luke 1:26-38 December 14, 2025 AM. We extend our "Perspectives on Christmas" series over the years with another one: Christmas from the perspective of God the Father. God the Father’s perspective on Christmas must be ascertained from His revelation recorded for us in Scripture. Join us as we examine one example of this in Luke 1:26–38. This text tells us that God the Father was setting into motion...

Various December 14, 2025 SS. Someone who is peaceful is untroubled by an ongoing conflict, agitation, or commotion. They are “at ease,” in a state of well-being. The work of the gospel results in peace in the life of a Christian, but we make a mistake, however, if we hear “gospel of peace” and think only of a tranquil feeling of inner calm. That is not the peace of the gospel. A tranquil spirit i...

Jeremiah December 10, 2025 PM. The book of Jeremiah is the record of Jeremiah’s prophecies about the southern kingdom and surrounding nations, as well as some narrative about what happened during those days with Jeremiah himself and Jeremiah’s interactions with King Zedekiah and other officials in the royal court. The book is focused on judgment as well as future restoration. It is a call to repen...

Psalm 96 December 7, 2025 PM. Missionary Benjamin Green and his wife Meredith, sent by Inter-City Baptist Church , share their desire to serve the Lord in Finland, followed by a message of worship to God. He teaches us that we who love the Lord must spread his praise and worship to the ends of the earth, because only God is worthy of worship, because only proclamation of His greatness will bring t...

2 Corinthians 3:1-3 December 7, 2025 AM. These three verses are convincing that Paul does not need letters of commendation to or from the Corinthians. They themselves are his best recommendation letter because of their conversion to the gospel. Christ wrote the genuine letter on their hearts, and a copy of the letter is on Paul’s heart. Other people could read the recommendation for Paul’s ministr...

Various December 7, 2025 SS. At our Lord's Table service today, we were reminded that confession of sin leads to joy. Having joy is part and parcel of the experience of being a follower of Christ. Real joy starts with a saving relationship with Christ and there are many reasons for ongoing joy in life, for example that we are free from the guilty of sin. But sin steals joy. Thankfully, confessing...

Proverbs 3:1-4 December 3, 2025 PM. The big idea in this sermon is that wise people internalize God's word in order to live by it. You will notice a pattern in the first 12 verses of the chapter where the odd-numbered verses are conditions or behavior that Solomon enjoins, and the even-numbered verses are the corresponding blessing that comes with obedience. The conditions are the Law of Moses res...

2 Corinthians 2:12-17 November 30, 2025 AM. Despite a particular hardship, Paul was able to thank God for victory in Christ and for advancing the gospel through him. Here is a lesson we can learn from Paul's shift of mindset from extreme distress to thanksgiving: always take yourself back to thanksgiving to God when you are in troubled circumstances. It will lift your spirits. Do not wallow in you...

Various November 30, 2025 SS. A Christian is a thankful person, that is, a person who expresses gratitude and appreciation for what God has done, and in turn what others have done for them. God is working in us to develop ever-more thankful hearts, because thankfulness is a characteristic of holiness. A non-Christian is not thankful, at least not toward God, and maybe not at all. Thanklessness is...

Various November 26, 2025 PM. For our Thanksgiving meditation this year, we considered many of God's blessings. Some of us can thank God that we have a new baby this year, a new car, a new bathroom, a healthy spouse, a living parent or parents, children who are growing in knowledge and wisdom, and many other particular gifts...

2 Peter 2:17-22 November 23, 2025 PM. 2 Peter chapter 2 ends reminding us about the allure of false teachers and their apostasy. Their words are empty, they pray on weak Christians, and they promise the opposite of what they actually give. They had a so-called knowledge of God but were overtaken by the world. Peter takes false teachers very seriously, and so should we.

Psalm 23 November 23, 2025 AM. Guest speaker Pastor James Lorch charges his son Jansen at his ordination service to be a good shepherd, like the one we read about in Psalm 23. This shepherd feeds his flock, leads his flock, protects the flock, and cares for the flock. After the message, special prayer is offered for Jansen and his wife Kalee as they begin a new chapter in their ministry calling. T...

Proverbs 2 November 23, 2025 SS. Wisdom is found through diligent pursuit, and results in a deeper understanding of God and deliverance from tempting situations. For example, Proverbs 2 tells us wisdom delivers the wise from the crooked and devious paths of evil people and sexual sin. In the end, God's blessing is in store for the wise who are upright, but the end of wicked is death.

Matthew November 19, 2025 PM. The gospel of Matthew is an account of the birth, life, and death of Jesus of Nazareth. Matthew, also known as Levi and a tax collector, wrote about the birth of Israel’s Messianic king, described the early announcement of the kingdom and the teaching of its king and his followers, recorded authenticating signs done by the king, explained how he was rejected by the le...

2 Peter 2:10-17 November 16, 2025 PM. The church wages a spiritual warfare, in which false teachers play an important role. We learn the sinful ways of the false teachers, as well as their future judgment.

2 Corinthians 2:5-11 November 16, 2025 AM. When there is a problem in the church, we must recognize that it affects the whole church, like Achan's sin in Joshua 7 affected the entire nation. Appropriate censure is called for and then if there is repentance, the church is to forgive, comfort, and renew their love for the former offender so that Satan will not get the better of the church.

Various November 16, 2025 SS. A Christian definition is that joy is the affection associated with spiritual well-being, which is produced by the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian. We spend the majority of our study finding many different reasons that the Christian can experience joy.