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Dear Faith Community Church Family, In Psalm 27, David says this: Wait for the Lord;                         be strong, and let your heart take courage;             wait for the Lord! (v. 14) In his excellent, little devotional Chequebook of the Bank of Faith, Charles Spurgeon comments on this verse: “Wait! Wait! Let your waiting be on the Lord! He is worth waiting for.…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, The sermon passage for this Sunday is Exodus 7:8-11:10. If you remember anything from the book of Exodus, you will probably remember these chapters because they cover the ten plagues God sent against Egypt. Lest we become swept up in the glamor of these calamities, recall what God intended by them. Exodus 7:5 says that God would use…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, “Let not your hearts be troubled.” As we turn to Exodus 5 in our sermon series, “The Lord is My Strength,” the Israelites have great reasons for their hearts to be troubled. Their servitude continues as Pharaoh increases their labor. Moses and Aaron’s plea to free the Israelites directly led to this oppression, so the Israelites blame these men.…

By Jonathan Keller This commandment seems the most prudish of all the commandments to Americans. Sure, don’t kill people, don’t steal things, maybe I shouldn’t be jealous of others, and, sure, I should call my parents every now and then. But why can’t I have a little fun here and there? What’s so bad about listening to my desires? The Command Behind the Command: Chastity…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Our God is a gracious God. When the Lord calls us to trust him, he graciously gives us signs of his trustworthiness and his commitment to fulfilling his promises. These signs include, for example, the sacrament of baptism and the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, both of which point to the truth and trustworthiness of the gospel message. In Exodus…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, We continue in our series The Lord Is My Strength with the famous scene in Exodus 3:1-22 where Moses encounters God through the burning bush. Imagine the interruption in Moses’ life at this point. He wanders around, tending his sheep as he stays outside of Egypt, an outlaw in a sense after he murdered an Egyptian. This shepherd would be…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Sometimes (actually, oftentimes) it is difficult to put the puzzle pieces of life together. Life rises and dips like the waves of the ocean. We might experience smooth sailing for a number of months, only then to be slammed with a storm we didn’t see coming–whether that storm is emotional, physical, relational, financial, or spiritual. Can we…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, The incarnation of Jesus Christ is cause for celebration and worship! In Jesus Christ, the light of salvation has come to illuminate a dark world and to bring redemption to every person who believes in him. This Sunday we turn to Romans 3:21-31 for the third part of our Advent series, The Power of Christmas. Also, as part of our Advent…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, We turn to the next passage in our Advent series, The Power of Christmas, with Romans 1:16-17: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, ‘The…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, These next several days are filled with opportunities to turn our attention to the Lord. First, to give him thanks for the many gifts he’s given us, especially the gift of his Son. Second, to prayerfully prepare our hearts for the beginning of the Advent season. Our Advent sermon series which we begin this Sunday is called The Power of…