The Apostle Paul had a decade of experience doing ministry work with a young man named Timothy when he wrote to Philippi: “I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by ne...

God has surprising plans. Anyone who has been around Faith Bible Church for a while knows that we are a training and sending church. Joyful surprises come when new men and families rise up to be trained within the church. Then there i...

“When I was a new believer, I looked at the pastoral staff at Faith Bible Church and thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be a dream to be one of those pastors?’” – Jerod Gilcher Not only did he get to serve as college...

In his first epistle, the Apostle Peter gave specific instructions to the elders among various groups of scattered believers (1 Peter 5:1-3). Almost 2,000 years later, the charge is still the same for overseers in the church. They are...

Faith Bible Church intentionally trains up ministry leaders – via Aspiring Men, The Master’s Seminary and other avenues – to advance the gospel around the world. That means, over and over, Faith has parted ...

“Does sin have sizes or degrees?” This question was posed to me during our missionary church planting context in Tenerife. Maybe you have asked the same or similar question. Why would we ask this question? Maybe we have wanted to win a theolog...

“This is the will of God for me, and I will worship Him in it.” Sheila uttered these words through painful tears as she lost her husband Malcolm at the age of 33 after a three-month bout with cancer. That was 47 years ago. Her confidence in Go...

This was our fourth summer growing grapes on our pergola. It was an abundant crop. We shared bunches of super sweet green and red table grapes with family and friends. I have learned that grapes grow best from vines three years old or more. But w...

No doubt, reading your Bible is an endeavor in and of itself. Often, I find myself defaulting to Paul’s letters or other “more direct” teaching in the New Testament to fuel my soul. However, in doing so I often lose sight of the broader narr...

Global Outreach at Faith Bible Church is all about carrying out the Great commission—we want to make disciples of all the nations who are gathered together in local churches. We do this by taking the gospel to new places to make new disciples an...

We are all aware of psychology as a mostly secular discipline rooted in a secular view of man and that which excludes God and his word. But psychology literally means the study of the soul. As Christians our psychology is best when we root in our ...

The process of sanctification is completed by the Holy Spirit’s working in our lives, but he uses means to accomplish our growth. These means all lead us back to beholding the glory of Christ. In other words, seeing Christ’s glory in scripture...

The process of sanctification is completed by the Holy Spirit’s working in our lives, but he uses means to accomplish our growth. These means all lead us back to beholding the glory of Christ. In other words, seeing Christ’s glory in scripture...

As believers we should be able to look back at our former lives and see a difference. God has changed our nature, do we live consistently with that change? Ephesians 4:17-19 gives us a picture of what our former lives looked like, keeping this in ...

The truth about the process of sanctification is that it is indeed completed by the Holy Spirit’s working in our lives, but he uses means to accomplish our growth. These means all lead us back to beholding the glory of Christ. In other words, se...