Fielder Church Sermons

We tend to get frustrated with God when life interrupts us. We fail to realize that every interruption of our plan is God using life’s interruptions to move us into his plan. Every encounter with God is an interruption of our plans. God interrupts our plan to bring us into his plans. God is sovereign over every single one of life’s interruptions, and he uses them as opportunities to bring us into...

We hate it when God (or anyone else for that matter) interrupts or disrupts our lives and our plans, and so we hardly ever get to see what God is up to. God does His greatest work in the midst of our hardest interruptions. The lineage and coming of Jesus shows how God uses disruptions to accomplish His divine purpose. If the interruption of the cross in Jesus’ work could bring real life, then God...

People are dying daily and we are not doing anything about it. Jesus died so that all the nations would know him and have salvation. And the church has to do something about it. What will it take for us to say yes to the calling?

Because we hate suffering, we end up avoiding the one thing that most releases the power of the Spirit of Christ in us. Our self-preservation ends up destroying us. Christ experienced the supernatural power of the Spirit because He obeyed the Spirit completely and immediately. But his obedience was learned through suffering, a suffering that took him to the cross. When we follow his example and di...

When we aren’t willing to live with insane faith in an insane (from the world’s perspective) God, we miss the insane power of God in our families. The best way to care for our families is to live insanely for God. His insane plan was to give up His only Son for us, and that made us family. When we give up our families for Him, we end up seeing His insane power in our families.

We naturally tend to seek glory for ourselves over anything or anyone else. The gospel teaches us that we were made to bring glory to God but we couldn’t do this on our own because of sin. Jesus defeated sin so that we would gain access to the spirit who is the one who can help us fulfill our purpose.

We do not know the Word of God well enough to test our thoughts against it and to find the author of life in it. Because of this, we suffer confusion at best and wickedness and death at worst. Christ died so that the Word wouldn’t just be a book we read but a living power that transforms us and comes inside us. Thus, we need to commit not just to reading the word of God but ingesting and memorizin...

We struggle to hear the voice of God, because we don’t want to hear what he has to say. It is hard to hear a voice that calls you to selflessness and sacrifice when you are selfish by default. Jesus calls me to walk in what he walked in. He calls me to the end of myself. Choosing to follow Jesus isn’t giving up my wrongs, it is giving up my rights and emptying myself of my will for the sake of us...

Because we think the will of God isn’t knowable, we choose to live according to our own will and desires, and that always leads to destruction. Christ died not only to redeem our souls but also our spiritual ears, so we could hear his voice and obey his will. When we listen and obey, we experience intimacy with Christ, blessings from above, and power through His Spirit.

We want freedom when it benefits us but often agree to deny it for others if it doesn’t directly benefit us or even feels like a threat to us. That is hypocrisy, and in the end, it doesn’t allow for true freedom. God made us to be free creatures, and Christ died to set us free. But freedom necessarily means a choice to respond to the gospel and choose God or reject Him. We must uphold the freedom...

We tend to view politics as a means to shape the country to benefit us, and when we do we miss the power of the cross in our country and in our lives, and we lose our witness in the process. When we strive to be Christlike by considering others more important than ourselves in how we participate in politics, we show the power of the cross and lean our country deeper into God’s blessings.

When we value some human life above others, we negate the glory of God by rejecting those who bear His image. Every human being has dignity both because they bear the image of God and because Christ died for their salvation. Therefore, we must fight for the good of all human life in every stage and condition of life.

We tend to put our hope in an earthly kingdom and an earthly king and so we either give too much loyalty to a person or party, or we live in too much fear of what will happen if our person doesn’t win. The crucified Lamb is our only hope. We must put our faith solely in him, follow his ethics above all else, and live for his glory alone.

We often try to handle life on our own, avoiding the messiness of relationships, even within the church. But God designed us for community, where we grow and are shaped into His image. True growth comes from engaging with others, despite the challenges, as it helps us develop humility, gentleness, and patience. We need each other to be spiritually healthy and to grow in our faith. As we begin a ne...

We find so much identity in our work, both our physical and spiritual work, we depend on it to make us feel worthy instead of the finished work of Christ. As such, far too many of us live as slaves to work, even if that work is spiritual work. We are made holy by Christ’s sanctifying work on the cross, not by our work for God’s approval or man’s approval. Our ability to rest shows that we trust in...

We tend overestimate our own ability and underestimate our need to be filled with the Spirit of God. We think we need the Spirit for the sensational or miraculous work, not the “everyday” work. The will of God for our lives is that we would be filled with the Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit not just for the Supernatural, but for the miracle of transforming a disobedient person into an obedien...

We think we can save ourselves because we forget there is a high price to be paid for for our salvation. Jesus paid the price for our salvation once and for all. To remember this we need to constantly renew our minds through the cleansing work of the Holy Spirit sanctifying our lives.

We neglect our time of prayer because we fail to remember that Jesus has not only justified us, but he also intercedes for us at the right hand of the Father. The altar of Incense reminds us that we can elevate our prayers to God daily because we have been granted access to the Father through Jesus, who is our intercessor in heaven. Sign up to receive a Tabernacle Resource Guide with personal and...

Because we don’t understand the cost of holiness, we don’t appreciate what Jesus did through his sacrifice on the cross and live for his glory. When we look at all that it took for the priests to be made holy it allows us to understand the cost of being made holy is greater than we could ever imagine. The gospel reveals that Jesus didn’t just pay the price for my sin, but he paid the price for me...

We miss fellowship with God and the blessings of His hand because we instinctively know that we are not dressed for the occasion. Our sin and shame make us feel naked and exposed, so we stay away. Just like the priests had to dress for the occasion to meet with God, so we too must be dressed to meet with God and cover our sin and shame, but our clothing is not a breastplate or an ephod but Christ...

We let the defilement of the world spread to us and through us because we don’t receive the full anointing of the Spirit of God to change us and purify us. Christ was crucified in our place so we could become pure vessels that receive the full measure of the Holy Spirit. When we trust in Christ, we are made holy and become agents of God’s holiness to a defiled world.

We are afraid to approach God, so we keep our distance when all the power and blessing of God is found in getting close. Jesus Christ is the gate to God’s presence and the sacrifice that gives us the right and gumption to His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. 

We tend to want to find another way to relationship with God besides sacrifice and shedding of blood. We look for a backdoor to heaven by trying to make ourselves good enough for God, hoping to find a way around the bloody, smoky altar of sacrifice. There is no other way for sinners to come into relationship with a holy God without atonement being made for their sins through the shedding of blood....

We think experiencing God is something reserved for the elite rather than something attainable by all people through Jesus. The gospel teaches us that because of Jesus breaking the veil of the temple, God is now attainable to all through him.

We live in darkness because we don’t seek or depend on the light that Jesus Christ can bring us. God is our source of true and pure light, and until we learn to trust in His light, we will never experience the knowledge, blessing, and healing His light brings.