God takes those who are divided ethnically and culturally and creates true unity through the blood of His Son. He makes Jews and Gentiles into one new man in and through Jesus Christ, who came and preached peace to both groups. He breaks down the ...

Truly good, God-honoring works flow from regeneration and are God's creation. God makes those who were formerly dead alive in him by grace, and he has prepared the good works that his new creations will walk in....

This passage looks at God’s glorious grace in rescuing the spiritually dead from the course of the world and its ruler. He makes the dead come to life and leads them on paths of goodness....

Believers can rejoice in the spiritual blessings in Christ because of God’s commitment to his purposes. He blesses believers by making his master plan known to them, by making believers his possession, and by guaranteeing their inheritance by th...

God is the blessed one, and he lavishes blessings on believers because of his grace and sovereign determination. Some of those blessings are being chosen by him, being adopted as children, and having redemption through Christ's blood....

In Ephesians we see that God calls people to himself and to full riches in Christ so that we can be filled up in him and conduct ourselves in a worthy manner.  Ephesians overview summary preview...

The apostle Paul starts this epistle explaining his gratitude for the way God had worked and was at work in the Thessalonian believers' lives. This work, when applied to our own lives, helps us declare Christ with our lives, on our campuses, and i...

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...

Main Idea: Regard gospel ministers the way God wants us to regard them, leaving judgment and praise for Him. God’s standard for servants and stewards Man’s insufficient standard God’s final and suff...

This message continues our Walking and Warring series looking at the second and third pieces of the armor of God: the breastplate of righteousness and the shoes of the readiness given from the gospel of peace....

This section of Scripture shows us our natural state and that we desperately need new life in Christ, or regeneration. Out natural state is this: we are spiritually dead and unable to save ourselves, nor are we able to resist sin, the world, the D...

Tony Medina is a man who can attest to the change brought about by denying self and following Christ. Tony grew up in a home where he and his five siblings were pretty much left to themselves. His father was in and out of the...

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...

Part One 1 John 1:1-3:10 He was in the beginning. He was seen. He was heard. He was touched, fully observed; He is the Life and the Word, Who was made manifest. ...

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...

As believers, we are Christ’s ambassadors in the world. The places we go each day are full of people who need to hear the truth of the Gospel and the full counsel of God contained in his Scriptures. Some of those people would even b...

“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...