It isn’t hard to put pieces of bread into cups. It isn’t hard to pass a tray up and down the sanctuary rows. But it takes commitment to show up and do it every single week. Faith Bible Church’s server team keeps showing up so that ev...

Last Sunday at Faith Bible Church, our campus of The Master’s Seminary celebrated the graduation of two men, with a third participating in the ceremony at the main campus in Southern California. Their accomplis...

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 ...

Main Idea: Love fellow Christians like Christ, and you will display supernatural evidence of God’s work of salvation. Remember Christ’s original message (1 John 3:11)John 13The Apostle Paul...

Faith Bible Church is a sending church. We sent Natalie Widman to Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands on January 21, 2012. Natalie arrived in Tenerife to join a church plant, partnering with Dave and Lois Belch, Nathan and Julie Thir...

If you aren’t one already, imagine you’re a seventh-grade boy. Who do you think is cool? Who do you want to be like? The twelfth-grade guys in youth group at Faith Bible Church remember being there. They remember the seniors they w...

For several years, Jared and Claire Millican have been praying about whether to move their family to the Czech Republic to partner with our Global Outreach Partners, Marcus and Amie Denny and the church in Kladno. Here...

Six weeks have passed since Trinity Church covenanted together to officially become a church. We miss gathering with you and ministering alongside you. In many ways the reality hasn’t set in yet, almost as if we are just on a long vacati...

The Lord is in the business of making a people for himself, who enjoy Him and each other. Part of our life together, and one of the great blessings we share, is a wonderful church building and piece of property. Many opportunities exist t...

Every year, the members of Faith Bible Church examine and affirm the biblical qualifications and godly character of our Elders and Deacons. Before I came to Faith Bible Church, I had been involved in several denominations and had never se...

Dustin Erbeznik remembers what was like to be lost. He’s encouraging believers to remember the people all around them who still are. Dustin came from a nominally Catholic family and knew of a distant God, but the idea of kn...

Before taking the Faith Bible Church marriage class in 2008, Gary and Kari Norton’s marriage was not in a healthy place. Gary was a newer believer and had no real understanding of the husband’s biblical role in marriage. H...

Greetings Faith Bible Church, It’s good to keep the big picture in mind as we face another spike in Covid cases. The Prophet Isaiah gives us this key reminder: I am God, and there is none like me,10 d...

As we finished cleaning our old house this past week I said to my children, “the time has come to say goodbye.” We walked as a family into each room of the house and shared memories that we had experienced in each space. There were a lot of te...

Main Idea: God’s Name is Proclaimed to the World through the Unity of His Church The Church is: A People Shaped By the GospelA People Clothed in Christ’s GloryA People Included in His Love...

In the first part of our Back to Basics series, we focused on what it means to be a loving community. We studied the love of God, the Word of God, and the family of God. In this second part, we will be returning to some basics that we pray will co...

Thank God that He does need not work arounds for pandemics or have to overcome cultural and political turmoil. God does as he pleases and never wrings his hands (Psalm 115:3). Jesus builds his church—period (Matthew 16:18). That’s the only exp...

It’s a ubiquitous truth that when a friend wants to catch up, a student needs to study, or your family comes to town to say a quick hello, heading to your local coffee shop is natural. Much like the dinner table, people gather around the coffee ...

“But…isn’t that more of an Easter theme?” Astute observers have noticed that this year’s Christmas theme calls to mind imagery of sacrifice and atonement; things we (rightly) focus on during the Easter season. So why have we chose...

The pandemic has caused us all to rely on technology to connect with others. Online groups, streaming, texting, video chats etc. became the new normal as we had to physically distance. Dan and Emily Kopp have led their growth group using t...

Main Idea: Three essential disciple-making convictions will make us effective in becoming like Christ as a church and powerful in our witness to the world. Pre-requisites to disciple-making convictions  Know...

Have you ever thought about how to join and how to leave a church well? Membership at Costco and membership at a local church are wildly different things. Yet, if a person is not careful, the comings and goings from a church may not s...

Main Idea: The Church is God's church and exists to bring Him glory by displaying His perfections Know who you areKnow what you are for...

At the launch of the school year Jared explains Doxa's mission statement: A loving community where collegians can learn to declare Jesus Christ with their lives....

Acts 2:41—27, Ephesians 4:10–13, Hebrews 10:23–25 Main Idea: We gather as a local assembly so we can joyfully experience the victory of Christ in our lives The chief impulse in assembling (Acts 2:41-47)The central...

This past week Trinity Church, (a church plant being sent to the Valley by Faith,) had its first of three “preview” services which will be held over the course of the fall semester. These preview services help to work out some of the logistics...

Being a teenager is hard, even in a loving and supportive family. For Jennifer Gentry, it was even harder. Her parents divorced when she was very young. Her dad’s claim to faith was her only example of what “Christian" meant—and it ...

Main Idea: Continually marveling at God’s love in Christ compels us to continually love Him and love others 1. Marvel at God’s love in Christ 2. Respond by loving Him and loving others Loving GodDeuteronomy 6:4-5Ma...

“I know church is important, but I only have a few people whom I talk to regularly. With my busy life, it just seems like a long drive. The pastor that used to meet with me regularly is no longer here, and no one seems intereste...

As we approach our 30th anniversary as a church, we want to revisit the core values and commitments that we see in God’s Word that are the foundation of who we are as a church. The result of these core values and commitments is our passion state...

King Jesus has given spiritual gifts to his people so that they build each other up. Are you using yours? We are working our way through the resurrection account of Luke 24 as a church. None of the disciples were expecting Jesus to be rais...