Posts from 2022

Dear Faith Community Church Family, It was a joy to worship with you at our Christmas Eve and Christmas morning worship services. What a wonderful Savior we have been given in Jesus Christ, the light of the world. As we read in Isaiah: “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.” (Isaiah…

Brothers and Sisters, The Apostle Paul says in Romans 5:1-2: “[S]ince we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” As followers of Jesus, we can rejoice in hope. This is a better hope–better than the…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, Our God is a covenant-making, covenant-keeping God. In fact, you could say that God’s covenant with his people has a motto: I will be your God, and you will be my people (Leviticus 26:12). Our God can always be counted on to do what he has said he will do. He has bound himself to his people by a special agreement, a covenant. He did so…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, This Sunday we have the special opportunity to invite family, friends, and neighbors to join us for our Christmas Community Lunch. Our lunch will begin at 11:00am in the Mission Center. Besides enjoying a delicious meal, we will share a little about the vision of Faith Community Church and the hope of Christmas found in Jesus Christ, our Savior.…

Dear Family Community Church Family, In the book Confessing the Faith, Chad Van Dixhoorn says this: “It is one of the great wonders of the incarnation and our salvation that the all-glorious and only begotten of the Father could humble himself and become man . . . . As prophet, he is our teacher. As priest, he is our mediator and only hope. As king, he is our defender and…

Happy Thanksgiving! “We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, In September, our congregation came together to explore our church’s Called to Flourish vision. During that evening, we described how we aimed to grow in Christian maturity through pursuing richer, biblical intimacy with God through prayer. Our Praying Life Sunday school class, Praying Life seminar, and Kingdom Prayer series have…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Christian life is frequently described in the Scriptures as a battle. “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,” the Apostle Paul says, “but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:12) We cannot win this…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, Do you ever feel tired and frustrated when it comes to your prayer life? Sometimes, it seems that the harder we try to pray, the more easily distracted we become when praying. Or maybe you’ve had this experience: You put together a long prayer list, fully intending to pray faithfully through the list on a daily basis, only to find that…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, This past Sunday our Kingdom Prayer small groups launched. If you were not able to participate this month, it’s never too late to join! It was a delight to fellowship together and enjoy each other’s company in homes. I am especially excited to see how God will move through our prayer groups to transform us as individuals and as a church, and to…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, Over the past two weeks we’ve looked at the second and third petitions of the Lord’s Prayer: “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” I hope you have been reminded (as I have) of how great a gift prayer truly is–we have the privilege of going to our heavenly Father for our every need! This Sunday, from…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, The second petition of the Lord’s Prayer is: “Your kingdom come.” The Lord’s Prayer is a kingdom prayer. When we pray the Lord’s Prayer we are praying a God-sized prayer; we are asking for something that only he can do. We are praying that the Lord would use us–his people–to advance his kingdom through spreading the good news of salvation to our…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Prayer is God’s ordained means to bring Kingdom change in the world, and it is also the means he has ordained to cause Faith Community Church and our community to flourish! Jesus himself has given us a script in the Lord’s Prayer; a prayer, yes, to pray, but also a prayer to live. This Sunday our series on Kingdom Prayer begins. Sunday’s sermon…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, For three weeks we are digging into Ezekiel 17:22-24, the theme passage for our three year vision Called to Flourish. The first Sunday we focused on how to become a flourishing church; this past Sunday we turned our attention to what a flourishing church looks like: its root, its fruit, its majesty, and its provision. This Sunday, we…

Brothers and Sisters, This week I have been expressing thanks to our God for the way he so clearly blessed our Called to Flourish Vision Night. Thank you to everyone who served with food, sound, set up and take down, and in a number of other ways. Thank you to those of you who have already enthusiastically responded to the vision through offering to host prayer gatherings…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, This Sunday we will join together for Vision Night. I have been praying that the Lord would bless our time together and that it would be a time when we grow in unity and in hope as we look to the future prayerfully and expectantly. The vision night meal will be at 4:00pm in the Mission Center and afterwards, at approximately 5:00pm,…

Brothers and Sisters, Do you know of any greater privilege than being able to go to our heavenly Father in prayer knowing with confidence that he will hear us? Prayer is not something we do so we can check it off the list; prayer is a way of life. This is what the Apostle Paul is getting at when he says, “Pray without ceasing.” (1 Thessalonians 5:17). We breathe in the…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, This Sunday we conclude our Acts of History sermon series. Last Sunday we focused on Jesus, our great Prophet, Priest, and King. This Sunday we turn our attention to the consummation of the Kingdom. The story is not yet finished! We live in the “already and not yet.” When Jesus was on earth he preached that the Kingdom of God has…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, At our June congregational meeting I shared with you about a three year ministry vision which our church leadership has been prayerfully discussing over the course of many months. By God’s grace, we have seen growth in multiple areas in our church over these last several years. Naturally, we are eager to see our Gospel maturity continue…