“Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are, who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God. For they have...

Three aspects of hospitality that put God's generosity on display. Sermon Notes Introduction Review Hospitality reflects the generous character of God the creator (Acts 14:17).Hospitality reflects th...

Hospitality is welcoming the stranger – the needy and the vulnerable – Into your home and life and treating them like family because God has welcomed you and made you His family when you were needy and vulnerable....

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has co...

Folks involved in cross cultural ministry seem to love acronyms. I’ve heard creative ones put an entire sentence together with just verbs and acronyms. But the goal isn’t to have secret codes that others can’t understand. It’s really to sh...

What is the role of the church member in a worship service? Sermon Notes Introduction & Review Two Weeks Ago: The Word-Filled Worship ServiceRead the Word, Pray the Word, Sing the Word, Preach the Wor...

This morning’s message focuses on the role we as individual worshipers play during our corporate worship gatherings, but I wanted to also take some time to see how we can apply what we’ve been learning about biblical worship to our lives outsi...

Three considerations for Gospel Shaped Worship that will help us offer acceptable worship to our supremely worthy God. Sermon Notes Introduction Hebrews 12:28-29 Therefore let us be grate...

Our Sunday Morning gatherings are centered on God's word in reading, praying, singing, preaching/teaching and seeing (through ordinances). Sermon Notes Introduction The Importance of Gathered...

Looking Back in Thankfulness Like winter itself (we hope), another Winter Camp has come and gone. Here are just a few of the signs of God’s Spirit at work for which we can be thankful. We can be thank...

Jesus commanded us to make disciples of all the nations in Matthew 28:18-20. In Acts 1:8 he said “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to t...

3 Keys to Genuine Fellowship:  Walking in Obedience Produces Genuine Fellowship with God and Other BelieversRegular Confession of Sins Keeps the Lines of Fellowship OpenJesus, Your Advocate, Secures Your Fellows...

In his article Sound Theology: Teaching Your People Through Music, Bob Smietana interviews Keith Getty about the import...

We begin Luke 6 as Dan walks us through verses 1-5 which challenges us not to lose our worship and love in our religious activities. Sermon Notes Introduction: Losing Worship and Love in our ‘re...

I grew up in a home that was nominally and hypocritically religious, but decidedly non-Christian. Raised to believe that the Bible was God’s word, I never remember a time in my life when I questioned that fact. There was a large Free Methodist U...

Read Study Introduction The book of Hebrews has been a cause of confusion, spiritual doubt, and unrest for many Christians. It contains a number of very challenging “warning passages” which seem ...

Defining the Church Let me ask you a question: What is it that makes the church unique in the world? Asked another way, what is it that distinguishes the church from all other public gatherings of people across the globe? How are the peo...

“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the ma...

Have you ever had unexpected circumstances arise and wondered how you might pay for it? Maybe an illness, the loss of a job or an automotive repair. In the earliest years of Faith Bible Church the Elders set up the Care Fund to care for th...

Global Outreach at Faith Bible Church is all about preaching the gospel to the world so that people from every nation will worship Jesus Christ, be gathered together into local churches and be made into disciples who make more disciples. This is w...

The ordinances of the Lord's table (the Lord's supper) and water baptism are key elements in God's plan for the Church....

You’ve been writing songs and playing music for years. Since having kids and starting a family, how have you seen that affect your craft? Have you seen any big changes in how you write songs and do ministry? ...

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...

I would like to begin with a question. It is a simple question, but one that may not be easy to answer. I am convinced that it is also an essential question that demands an answer if you are to grow into Christlikeness. I mean, truly, your spiritu...

It was 5 years ago my friend and college classmate, Nate Hippauf, asked me a life changing question. The question went along the lines of, “Hey man would you be interested in coming to a Fall Retreat with my college group?”  He asked me t...