Jacob's Well Church

Pastor Brian Faught Filters Series, Week 2 Meaning cures materialism.

Welcome to the club. This week we talk about the need to live as healthy hypocrites. People that are honest, humble, and aware of our image consciousness. 

Are you concerned about deep fakes? Time to take off the masks.

Special guest Nick Houchin joins us as we discuss the heart, culture and intentionality that goes into our worship ministry. 

Jesus did what he said and practiced what he preached. Live Radical Love, Make Peace with God.

The wisdom of Jesus challenges us to reconsider our anger and desire for revenge and retaliation. Special guest: Formation Pastor Brian Faught

Formation Pastor Brian Faught

Honesty, Transparency, Vulnerability… what does it look like to live these out in a complicated world? 

Relationship are difficult with dishonest people. Live with a radical commitment to honesty, integrity, and doing what you said you would do. Live Authentic.

This week we’re joined by Mackenzie Fisk to talk about Jesus’ teaching on Divorce and protecting the oppressed.

We need to feel safe to have healthy relationships. Make your relationships safe.

Special Guest Ryan Robinson joins us to discuss the damaging effects of lust and objectification. 

Connection, intimacy, relationship. We all desire for closeness with people, to know and be known. But tragically, we often trade true, pure love for a form of lust. When we use and abuse people, it numbs us to real connection and intimacy. Jesus wants all of us to experience deep relationships, but if we treat people like objects, we won't be able to connect. 

Understanding Anger and Contempt provides a framework for the entire Sermon on the Mount.

Contempt - When we dehumanize others, we dehumanize ourselves.

The Sermon On The Mount is full of wisdom, with the power to heal our fragmented relationships. 

“I hate conflict.” Most people would resonate with this comment. But relational conflicts are inevitable. As followers of Jesus, we have his teaching and example to show us how to do healthy conflict. Jesus not only modeled healthy conflict, but he also actually created relational conflict when needed. In this series, we will discover Jesus’ teaching in the sermon on the mount and consider the wis...

This service is a lament. We will take time to lament personally and corporately. As we enter into Lent. Let's draw close to Jesus, the suffering servant.

This week we discuss the strong connections between our series in Lamentations and the season of Lent. 

It is easy to feel forgotten. Trauma can cause us to create a narrative that God and everyone else has forsaken us. At those times, we can feel conflicted because we want to hide and be seen simultaneously. A lament allows us to express these feelings and tell ourselves a better story.

*We apologize for intermittent audio quality in this podcast, we experienced technical difficulties at the time of the recording.

Ashes, Salt and Wormwood. This week we discuss the power of these metaphors.

There are three metaphors for Lament: Ashes – Loss, Salt – Tears, and Wormwood (bitter root) – Bitterness. When we Lament, we enter a deep grief that expresses loss, pain, bitterness, and often regret. Grief is acknowledging what has been lost and what we had hoped for that we will not receive. The contrast between where we were and where we had hoped to be contrasted with where we find ourselves...

Through the bitterness of Lament we have an opportunity to experience deep mercy. 

Many of us don't want to draw near to our pain because we fear we will get trapped in pain and bitterness. Lament opens the door to see and experience the mercy of God. We need to experience and receive God’s mercy, so we do not lose our humanity and become something broken under the terrible weight of bitterness caused by the pain of this world.