Mike Fabarez Sermons on Focal Point

We must respond to anti-Christian accusations against us with a respectful, positive, and well-reasoned defense, doing all we can to represent Christ in a dignified manner.

We can expect in our day all sorts of opposition for being faithful to Christ and biblical truth, but we must remember our calling and courageously endure whatever comes our way.

We’d all prefer to call the shots and be in charge of our own lives, but the resurrected Christ is King of all, including your life and mine.

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Even in our fallen messed-up world we must recognize and respond to God’s sovereign use of governments to accomplish his will for his people.

Though God’s plans for our lives will involve some fearful circumstances, we must be unafraid and resolute about fulfilling God’s calling on our lives as we hold on to his promises.

The Christian hope is to be firmly fixed on our participation in Christ’s coming kingdom, which provides us the strength and courage to face all the current challenges in the here and now.

God is at work on us, using a variety of means to bring us into increasing holiness in the Christian life.

God has planned and is always at work in and for his children to move them across the finish line of the Christian life and into the promised kingdom.

We must consider how God has been at work from long before we can imagine, leading us into the path he would have us obediently walk.

Given the various and conflicting views of water baptism, we must seek to digest and rightly understand all the related biblical data on this important ordinance.

God graciously works through a variety of means to bring us to repentance, both at the outset of the Christian life and throughout it, so that we might walk in fellowship with him.

We need to understand God’s amazing grace and sincerely respond to it with our whole hearts in light of the sinfulness of our sin.

We must make all of life’s decisions with a resolve to do what pleases the Lord, as stewards, knowing that godly choices yield God’s blessings and eternal dividends.

Get the deeper meaning of those Christmas carols we sing each year, but maybe don’t pay as much attention to as we should. There is great theological depth that we too easily sing over without giving much thought to. Gain a deeper richness and enjoyment to some of your favorite Christmas carols in Pastor Mikes Christmas Eve message called More Songs of the Incarnation.

Just as God sent his Son at the first advent right on schedule, we should be assured that he will also dispatch his Son to establish a world of righteousness at just the right time.

We must reconsider the profound reality and far-reaching implications of the incarnate, fully-human, fully-divine Christ.

The increasing sin in our world will provoke anger in Christians, but we must be careful and restrained to never allow our emotions to propel sinful words or actions.

When we recognize our sin before a holy, just and loving God, we will feel the pang of sorrow for our offense. But the happiness of knowing we are forgiven through repentance and trust in Jesus, our savior, should bring joy.

We are engaged in an internal battle with temptation which will rage until we are glorified, and until then will require daily vigilance and the serious application of every available godly resource.

We should look for every opportunity to be strategic and faithful to serve the needs of those around us, even when we are in difficult seasons of life.

Being a Christian will require unique courage and boldness because of the unavoidable clash of our theology, values, and identity with so much of the rest of the world.

Strategic accommodations and biblically allowable personal adjustments will be necessary as we face the painful misunderstandings sure to continue among God’s people, this side of heaven.

We will have well-meaning friends who, out of love for us, will inadvertently tempt us to abandon the course of Christian obedience God has laid out for us.

Our work for God’s people is more than our duty, or an expression of our love for Christ, it is also our loving service for the people we have every reason to affectionately cherish as our spiritual family.