In this last week, an awfully familiar event came flooding through our news and social media. Again, another school shooting. Again, debates raged predictably along political lines. However, we as a people of America have responded in two directio...

Growth Groups Define Us  Because of the unique structure and history of Faith Bible Church, it is appropriate to think of our body as a church of Growth Groups, not a church with Growth Groups. We would not be able...

Have you ever felt like the Christmas classic “It’s the most wonderful time of the year” is a cruel lie? If you live in the same world I do, you might. A recent widow or widower might. A cancer p...

Ministry Expansion At A GlanceIt is our passion to be a loving community making disciples of Jesus Christ. Our prayerful aim has been to discern and respond to God’s leading to fulfill that passion....

Most people know about the diary of Anne Frank and the Jewish girl in the Netherlands who wrote it. My Friend Anne Frank will give you a new perspective about Anne and the true story of her best friend and Holocaust survivor Hanna...

One of my first interviews writing for Faith Bible Church was with facility manager Willie Gallion, and I’ll never forget what the primary caretaker of the building at 440 W. Cora said about it: “It's not the church. It's the buil...

A Jewish wedding tapestry, an old church, an elderly woman, a plasterer, a young boy, and a pastor are at the heart of this children’s book written and illustrated by Patrica Polacco. Christmas Tapestry spans generations and contin...

Few areas in society have experienced more attention and upheaval than the roles of men and women in public, home and church life. Confusion has grown again in the greater Church about the roles of men and women. It is necessary to r...

Main idea: Five foundational truths Christians embrace about the origin and nature of the Bible. God exists, and God communicates. The Bible claims to be God’s very words. It is g...

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, tha...

On May 5, two men celebrated their graduation from the Faith Bible Church location of The Master’s Seminary. Training pastors is one way Faith partners in the Gospel with sister churches throughout our region and even around the world. ...

Genesis 1:26-28  Matthew 25:14-30 Main idea: Take hold of your privileges and responsibilities as God’s steward for a purposeful and satisfying life.  Consider the King and His ...

“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...

For the past 30 years, God has been faithful to the members of Faith Bible Church. Jim and Helen Campbell have been at Faith since the very beginning and have witnessed God’s faithfulness in action. They encourage our co...

Sonora Smart was 16 years old when her mother Ellen died giving birth. Her father, at 56, had to raise his children alone, and Sonora began helping him raise her siblings. In 1909, while attending a Mother’s Day service in Spokane, she h...

Thank you for giving generously through Church Center toward the ministries and global partners of Faith Bible Church! God has graciously given Faith a family of cheerful givers to further His work and to provide the practical needs of our mission...

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...

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 ...

Our study of 1 John continually raises the idea of assurance of eternal life: How do we know we are truly in Christ? There are two errors into which we might fall as we read: (1) looking at our sin and doubting our position...

Our study of 1 John continually raises the idea of assurance of eternal life: How do we know we are truly in Christ? There are two errors into which we might fall as we read: (1) looking at our sin and doubting our position...

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...

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...

Main Idea: Delight in your God and King and declare His greatness to the next generation! Delight in your God and KingPsalm 145:1-3Declare God’s greatness to the next generationPsalm 145:4-7 Declar...

In Acts 2, thousands of people of many languages came to Jerusalem for Pentecost and heard Peter’s proclamation of the gospel. Many of the 3,000 who were saved that day presumably returned to their homes across the region carrying t...

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...

Sermon NotesMain Idea: Four decisions to accept or reject grace in response to the imminent return of Jesus Christ      To be cursed:   ...

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 ...

“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...

An Update on the Valley Church Plant Paul, not an apostle but your fellow brother in the Lord, partaker together with you in the unrelenting grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, set apart for the pastoral ministry by God’s go...

He can do above and beyond all that we can ask or think. Ephesians 3:20 I like those words. They were written by a missionary who had many years to test those words and many opportunities to prov...

For moms, life can simultaneously feel like a roller coaster and a slow walk through the park. MomLife was launched nearly ten years ago to support moms through the overwhelming toddler years. For years, MomLife met once a mo...

I don’t know about you, but I often wonder how current world events and even my actions and decisions will affect the generations and world of the future. Some refer to this as the butterfly effect, a seemingly meaningless event (li...

An updated Children’s Wing is coming soon! Construction will start June 1 (Tuesday) for the remodel of the Children’s Wing entrance. Starting that Sunday (June 6), children’s classrooms will be in the Education Wing for the summ...

Tragedy Turned into Bitterness Tragedy followed this poor woman. And she blamed it all on God. She and her husband and two sons left their hometown and went to a foreign country to escape famine. Instead of a temporary exile, they remain...