First Friday Fellowship

If you follow Him, and you love Him, and you bend your knee to Him in those darkest moments, when things seem their bleakest, THAT’S when He shows up. THAT’S when He reveals Himself.   When we finally say, “I will come to you on Your terms, not on mine. I truly surrender all.”   And that’s when we get to know, what GRACE really feels like.

We have this amazing tendency of taking all the credit, for all of the good things in our life. But, God knows our inner-most thoughts, and He loves us enough to pull us into a truer, deeper and fundamentally more rewarding relationship with Him. And do you want know how He does it? Pain! Pain is how He reaches AND teaches us. Pain is the greatest teacher, and unfortunately, the more stubborn we a...

Since the dawn of man, we have worshipped everything from the sun, to the moon, we have worshipped trees, weather and big statues made out of precious metals. Literally, we have made our own gods, and done everything, from bow to them, to sacrifice our children to them.   We have a heart bent on worship but we seem to be addicted to worshipping everything, except the one, true God.  &nbs...

For many of us that will listen to this, the world would call us believers; People who firmly believe that Jesus Christ is who He says He is.   Somewhere along the way, someone shared the story of Jesus, whether that was a minister or a parent, a close friend, or a perfect stranger… We were told about Jesus; We were told about His birth, His life, His death and His resurrection.   ...

We’ve all heard of the phrase, “The writing is on the wall?”   Being able to read the writing on the wall has come to mean understanding the signs of the times; Seeing things before they happen.    Can we see the traps that are beginning to ensnare us?   Everyone of us will face death. We all will be judged, and only Jesus will be found worthy.   He has told us, that He wi...

Our faith in a Sovereign God, a God that has our best interests in mind, diminishes, our hope for a future outside of this world also diminishes, as we begin to fearfully hold on more and more to this life, and believe less and less in the life to come. To walk in faith is to know that the master of life and death, the King of this world and the world to come, loves us, watches over us and has a p...

We have all seen the movies where the ancient peoples of this earth would build golden calves, half men half animals, golden demon gods, etc… and they would worship them, make sacrifices to them and pray to them. We’ve all seen that. But, we don’t that anymore… do we? This particular little sin, might just be the biggest thing we battle against in our culture today. What is idolatry, really? Idola...

When you wake up and realize that everything you believed about something has been a lie or is false, the incredible toll on your psyche is a concept in social psychology called Cognitive Dissonance. Cognitive Dissonance occurs when our behavior is in direct conflict with our deep seated beliefs. As we challenge our beliefs, as we look to life, and try to determine what is true and what is not, wh...

If you were Satan, and had a deep, unearthly hatred for God’s creation, and you wanted nothing more than to destroy it, and your were here on this earth, how would you access the minds, and the hearts of all of God’s creation? Well, I for one, would deeply infiltrate media. And I would make sure that, subtly, all of the time, I would remind you that there is NO God; Remind you that those whom beli...

We have transitioned as a society, from demanding high degrees of competency required to increase a person’s self-confidence, to teaching self-esteem in the hopes that it would increase competency. But when we don’t include the simple fact that we are so special, because we are the loving creation of a perfect creator, we aren’t telling people the real story. We instead build people that believe t...

We are in a constant war with the enemy of humankind, since the beginning of time; A war for our hearts, our minds, and most importantly, for our souls.  And as a result, we tend to look at the world one of two ways:  The Human Perspective: Get as much as we can, as quick as we can, live the best life that we can, and when we die, it’s over.   OR The Godly Perspective: That He has a...

No matter how much you trust in God, no matter how much you try to follow Him and seek His face, why does it feel as if the world is always out to get us? Jesus was hated first, and we are not greater than the master, so we will be hated as well. We’re going to suffer and have struggles, BECAUSE: We follow Him; We love Him; Our enemy is powerful. Stand firm, love your brothers and sisters, and PRA...

“The first to speak in court sounds right, until the cross-examination begins.” ~Proverbs 18:17  We are the perfect creation of a loving creator, who wants nothing more than to have a relationship with us. He didn’t make us into mind-numbing robots, that are designed to automatically do whatever he says.  He gave us free will, and with that free will, we have the freedom to love him, or...

I had a teacher in high school who would always say whenever you point the finger, three are pointing right back at you.  We are far more likely to accuse of what we are, than what we aren’t. We are really good at spotting the weakness in other people, and very often, we are really bad at seeing our own. Hypocrisy is everywhere. Are you a good person?  You see, God is the perfect judge....

A person can be incredibly persuasive, have amazing communication skills, appear to be humble, searching, teachable, and look to truly have your best interests in mind.  Yet, at the same time, be as dangerous to you as any human could possibly be. Style is not the same as character. Style is not the same as who the person really is. Style is how you come across, how you appear to others. Styl...

What Love Looks Like - Matthew 8:2-3 God will show you how much He loves you, and it will be exactly where you need it to be, for those that trust Him, and look to Him. Matthew 8:2-3 2. Suddenly, a man with leprosy approached him and knelt before him. “Lord,” the man said, “if you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean.” 3. Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be he...

700 years before the birth of Christ, the book of Isaiah was written. The prophet Isaiah's writings are probably best known for their prophecy about Israel’s coming savior, the promised Messiah, who Jewish scholars call "The Suffering Servant." These words have not changed in almost 3000 years. Religious scholars, historians and kings have poured over these words since they were first pressed to a...

One of the greatest tests of our faith, is when we are confronted with our own mortality. When we truly believe that God has already prepared a home for us, then why should we fear? A much higher authority stated in 1 John 4:16-18 : 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. The Consummation of Love 17 Love...

The book of Psalms were written 1000 years before Christ was born, and was written, primarily, by King David. The 22nd Psalm opens with “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Three of the Gospels, Matthew 15:33, Luke 23:44, and John 19:28, all share this particular expression of, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” What was David thinking when he wrote those words? Were the words mean...

By any measure and any account, 2020 was a tough, strange year - And that might be the understatement of all understatements.  However, it has led us as a nation to a place we haven’t been in a long time...

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