Mike Fabarez Sermons on Focal Point

Being useful in the spiritual lives of God’s people is aided by hard work and generosity, and is thwarted by cravings for wealth and the trappings of worldly success.

Our service in the church must always prioritize biblical truth, guarding against the selfish ambitions that fracture the church and derail the sanctification of its congregants.

Knowing time is always running out, we must discern and fulfill our God-given stewardship to faithfully invest in the lives of others.

Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: Do you need to believe in the resurrection to be saved? Is it okay for Christians to donate their organs after death? How should Christians respond to the cultural pressure to reduce the population? Could you provide Scriptural evidence for a pre-tribulational rapture? Where does the rebuilding of the...

Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: How should Christians view birth control and artificial insemination? Does the Bible say what language will be used in the New Heaven and New Earth? How do we work out God’s sovereignty with our prayers for people’s salvation? What happens to people left behind after the rapture of believer...

Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: How do we deal with a professing Christian about sin that they are unwilling to acknowledge? Is AI/machine learning dangerous? And what about pastors who use it to create sermons? What happens to us immediately after we die? In the Millennial Kingdom, why are there still sacrifices? Is it okay for Chri...

We must evaluate our competing desires to serve God and our own comfort, resolutely deciding to persist in fulfilling the particular calling he has laid on our lives as Christians.

Our desire to be useful to the Lord for the spiritual benefit of others must begin with a sincere devotion to the Lord and a commitment to his eternal priorities.

We must work to be aware, reflective, and profoundly grateful for God’s grace in forgiving us, kindly upholding us, and providing us with a secured eternal hope.

Active, strategic, and frequent encouragement among Christians is biblically essential and should be the priority for all of us.

We ought to be confident in God’s sovereign work to advance the gospel in our generation, always seeking to be a righteous and wise agent in this successful task.

We need wisdom to discern the larger movements of society that rise up with hostility against the gospel and the values of God, knowing the Holy Spirit is graciously at work to defend us.

Modern culture is still inundated with idols, as each day people pursue goals which the one and only true God can truly and completely supply.

Mature Christians understand the spiritual battle we are in, always assured of the enemy’s defeat and the foolishness of trusting in anything less than the Sovereign Christ.

Mature Christians must be discerning to rightly understand the biblical teaching on the Holy Spirit’s person and works, both past and present.

Each of us must learn to biblically strengthen our fellow Christians in their faith, knowing how to encourage them and to wisely correct them when needed.

By God’s grace, we can be recipients of Christ’s incomparable love that provides for our most profound needs by means of his life, death, and resurrection.

Good Friday

People demand proof that Jesus deserves their submission and allegiance, but God has provided more than ample evidence and it is our honor and duty to relay it to them.

Love and devotion to Christ motivates serious Christians to sacrifice much in their pursuit of being maximally useful to the Lord.

We need the courage to faithfully represent Christ and his word in our generation by believing his promises that he will be with us and give us evangelistic success.

All of our connections, relationships, and friendships must be evaluated, strengthened, distanced, or dissolved based on the Lordship of Christ.

Biblical truth demands a response that should always be seriously pondered, quickly responded to, and never passed off lightly.

Your sovereign omnipotent Creator is knowable; he has revealed himself and requires you to become his lifelong learner.

We would do well to be aware of the prevailing worldly rationale which infects our thinking and threatens to pollute the biblical truths that are presented to us.