Faith Community Church - Sunday Sermons

I can always be content in Him who strengthens me. Our satisfaction in Christ is proof that He has faithfully supplied us with grace through faith to live for Him in every situation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mary, who was the first to see the risen Lord, loved Him. She showed it through her dedication, her emotion, and her submission. She loved Him with a depth of feeling, but that is not where her love ended. She loved Him as she was taught to love Him, through her obedience to His commands. May the Holy Spirit warm our hearts to love our Lord who is worth of our supreme love, and may we thus sing jo...

True worship with a renewed mind leads to harmony in the Lord. This means, we must dwell on excellent and praiseworthy things, all of which are found in their absolute form only in the Lord. True peace and peace making only occur in the Lord. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John provides the evidence of Jesus’ death, burial, and the empty tomb. But instead of merely giving the evidence, John weaves the stories of the five people through whom the evidences come. These are the five witnesses seen in this passage: Joseph, Nicodemus, Mary, John, and Peter. Each of these individuals also provide an opportunity for us to reflect upon lessons of faith. May our Lord teach. u...

After giving two evidences of Jesus’ death, John reveals that His unbroken legs and spear wound also signified the fulfillment of a type and a prophecy of Scripture, namely, that Jesus is our Passover and coming Judge. These have implications. Jesus as Passover means that we must clean out the old leaven of hypocrisy and compromise. We are to be devoted to Him in sincerity and truth. Jesus as the...

The Christian concept of waiting is much different than the what we generally think about waiting. Our waiting is a privilege and expression of our citizenship. We are actively engaged in holy living—the same living we will do in heaven—as we wait for our Lord’s return. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Christ lays hold of you, He controls you. Subsequently, you yield to Him and lay hold of Him by growing in holiness. A holy life is proof that Christ has laid hold of your life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are many things that we love and cherish. However, Christians consider all of it as rubbish when compared to the surpassing value of knowing Christ. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“It is finished” is a statement full of meaning, but at the very least, it was about His work of redemption. It spoke of His full payment of ransom to free us from sin and judgment. It also ushered us into the new covenant relationship with God. The Lord’s final words “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit” shows us how believers ought to die, with hearts wholly trusting in God. May the Lord...

This sermon is part 1 of a multipart series on our Lord’s cries from the cross that accomplished redemption for His people. In this first installment, the focus is on Jesus’ words “I thirst” and its significance. This cry fulfilled prophecy, signified impending death, demonstrated Jesus’’ humanity, and evidenced His substitutionary work for sinners. May the Lord’s love demonstrated on the cross wo...

The source of our joy in the wilderness times of our lives is God Himself. If our eyes of faith can see Him, we can endure and outlast the dry and weary land. God shows us through the dire and depressing circumstances of David in which he found joy in the LORD, that we, too, can see God for who He is with the eyes of faith in the wasteland. His lovingkindness is better than life, and God Himself i...

Two examples of Christian service are given in this passage. What Scripture says about Timothy and Epaphroditus demonstrate how God works in ordinary Christians both to will and to work for His good pleasure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The cross was once an emblem of suffering and shame. But it has become to us a symbol of beauty because it was at the cross that our Savior revealed Himself to be our beautiful Savior. The cross is where we find our redemption, our worth, our identity, and our purpose. “But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified...

Proverbs 3 11 My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD Or loathe His reproof, 12 For whom the LORD loves He reproves, Even as a father  corrects  the son in whom he delights. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Proverbs 3 9 Honor the LORD from your wealth And from the first of all your produce; 10 So your barns will be filled with plenty And your vats will overflow with new wine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Proverbs 3 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and turn away from evil. 8 It will be healing to your body And refreshment to your bones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Proverbs 3 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In the remainder of Jesus’ trial before Pilate, we encounter the sinfulness of sin of Pilate, Caiaphas, and the Jews. In all of these we see a glimpse of ourselves and our own sinful hearts. But in this text we also see the immense suffering of our Savior who has paid our ransom. There is hope for sinners because Christ Jesus suffered on our behalf. He has paid the price to call us out of sin and...

We have a Lord to serve, a church to build, and a world to reach. All who belong to the kingdom of Christ are to be about the Lord’s business. As Jesus stood before Pontius Pilate, He testified to the reality of His heavenly, redemptive, eschatological kingdom. May all recognize the voice of the Lord and heed it faithfully and follow Him diligently in the strait and narrow way to eternal life. Hos...

While Jesus was progressing toward the cross to pay the debt of sin of sinners, Simon Peter kept driving himself deeper and deeper into the debt of sin. The contrast between Simon the sinner and Jesus the Savior is as stark as it can be. John intertwines the two stories of Jesus’ trial and Peter’s denial to showcase the golden thread of Jesus’ righteous character against the contrast of Simon Pete...

Our attitude is the paradigm from which we live. This passage directs our attention to the attitude of Christ, compelling us to adopt the same attitude He embodied. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jesus selflessly gave Himself up for us, a profound truth vividly displayed in the scene of His arrest. In these eleven verses, John reveals how Jesus truly surrendered Himself for our salvation. His rejection of personal gain, self-preservation, and self-centeredness exposes our own selfishness, highlighting our need for the Savior and repentance. May the Holy Spirit guide us to behold Jesus’ glo...

Worship is the insignia of salvation. We who wish for all our children to be saved must pass down to them an enthusiastic worship of the LORD. This is the pattern revealed in Psalm 145. Extolment of our God passes from personal to generational to universal, and the character of that worship is seen as reverberative, personal, constant, wonderful (full of wonder), and faith-ful (full of faith). May...

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