Future Glory - Present Trial :: The Man of SinOctober 3, 2021 :: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12In the short body of Paul’s first letter to the young church at Thessalonica (1 Thessalonians 4-5), he moved quic...  Read More

I can’t believe Fred and I have been members of Faith Bible Church for 20 years! A smile emerges when I think of all the memories, friendships, and answered prayers over the years. When asked to write...  Read More

Dear Church,Waiting on God can be a crushing experience. Most would choose His heavy conviction of sin or the demanding aspects of a difficult calling over the often unbearable experience of His patie...  Read More

If you would have told me ten years ago that I’d be working as a Worship Director at a church, I would have told you with 100% certainty that there was absolutely no chance of that happening.In 2010, ...  Read More

Dear Church,Suffering makes God appear to be absent. While this modern phrasing was likely made prominent by Simone Weil, a French Christian mystic, this sad truth long predates her. It appears clearl...  Read More

Future Glory - Present Trial :: Presence and AbsenceSeptember 19, 2021 :: 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10This text is a continuation of the short introduction to Paul’s second, brief letter to the young church...  Read More

Life is full of ironies. The further I have come, the more I realize how much I have yet to go. The more that I learned, the more I have recognized that I don’t know. The Bible is full of them too. Th...  Read More

Dear Church,I pray our trek through the worship songs and prayers of the Old Testament is encouraging to your heart and inspiring to your intimacy with Jesus, who, by the way, referenced these song-pr...  Read More

Future Glory - Present Trial :: How to Survive a Pressure CookerSeptember 12, 2021 :: 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4Having completed our study of every verse of Paul’s first letter to the young church in Thess...  Read More

Dear Church,I find it curious that our common concept of strength is largely (perhaps unconsciously) focused on something like the ability to lift a heavy object. I know it’s more than that, but it’s ...  Read More

Faith Bible NEXT :: Vision SeriesAugust 29, 2021 :: Acts 3 and 4Today we continue our vision series by engaging the third point of emphasis God has revealed: we will saturate our city with the gospel ...  Read More

Hi, My name is Suzanne Landrum.  My family and I have been members of Faith Bible for almost three years.  My eleven year-old daughter, Natalie, and I have been blessed to participate in the Sewing wi...  Read More

Dear Church,I’m not quite sure what a “wild passionate song” looks like in Old Testament times, but that’s where we are. I invite you to Psalm 7 today. The first word, in Hebrew, is “Shiggaion.” Altho...  Read More

Faith Bible NEXT :: Vision Series Part 2August 22, 2021 :: Mark 6:33-44As we continue to explore, discuss and pray through the vision that God has given our church, we come to the first two of the fou...  Read More

Dear Church,The more I read, study and meditate on the Scriptures, especially the Old Testament, the more I have come to understand a major part of the complex idea of shame as the painful consequence...  Read More

Faith Bible NEXT :: Vision Series Part 1Mark 6:13-32 :: August 15, 2021As an introduction to a larger discussion of the new vision God has given our church family, we want to look at a surprising narr...  Read More

Future Glory - Present Trial :: August 8, 20211 Thessalonians 5:19-28 :: A Chief DangerOur text today is the final verses of Paul’s ancient letter to the young Thessalonian Church. In typical fashion,...  Read More

Type your new text here. It was the summer of 1992, and we had been asked to lead the Campus Crusade summer project to Cordoba, Argentina. Our children were four, six and eight. It would be our first ...  Read More

I grew up in a Christian home pretty much all my life. My parents divorced soon after I was born, and when I was four, my mom married my stepdad, who later adopted as his own. When I was about seven, ...  Read More

My testimony fully displays the love, grace, and mercy of Jesus. I grew up in a church-attending, Christian-claiming household; I even aspired to be a preacher in middle school. At the age of 14, I fe...  Read More

In the Fall of 2017, my husband, Rhett, and I, along with the Campos, Courington, and Purtle families from Faith Bible, became part of a small group based on the topic of parenting tweens in our chang...  Read More

Dear Church,I’ve never bruised easily. Some do, but I don’t. So when I do discover a purplish-green spot on my shin or hip, I realize I must have hit something pretty hard, even if I don’t remember it...  Read More

When Diane and I moved to Singapore with our family in l984 we did not know that God had much bigger plans than just working for an oil service company; He opened up His world of missions to us in the...  Read More

1 Thessalonians 5:14-18 :: Intramural ActionsThe text before us today is a staccato collection of nine commands, as if Paul anticipates the close of his first letter to the young church at Thessalonic...  Read More