Faith Community Church - Sunday Sermons

During our 2026 summer retreat, we gave attention to this beloved psalm.Before David became king over Israel, he was a shepherd boy. In the fields, he gained firsthand knowledge of the skill, vigilance, courage, and care required to tend sheep, which prepared him to lead a nation. Drawing on that experience, David presents the LORD as the expert and faithful Shepherd of His people.Psalm 23 reminds us that the LORD provides for our souls, protects us from ultimate harm, and preserves us until He has brought us safely home to heaven.May we learn to trust Him more fully and walk with Him more faithfully, knowing that there is no better place to be than under His good and perfect shepherding care.

During our 2026 summer retreat, we gave attention to this beloved psalm.Before David became king over Israel, he was a shepherd boy. In the fields, he gained firsthand knowledge of the skill, vigilance, courage, and care required to tend sheep, which prepared him to lead a nation. Drawing on that experience, David presents the LORD as the expert and faithful Shepherd of His people.Psalm 23 reminds us that the LORD provides for our souls, protects us from ultimate harm, and preserves us until He has brought us safely home to heaven.May we learn to trust Him more fully and walk with Him more faithfully, knowing that there is no better place to be than under His good and perfect shepherding care.

During our 2026 summer retreat, we gave attention to this beloved psalm.Before David became king over Israel, he was a shepherd boy. In the fields, he gained firsthand knowledge of the skill, vigilance, courage, and care required to tend sheep, which prepared him to lead a nation. Drawing on that experience, David presents the LORD as the expert and faithful Shepherd of His people.Psalm 23 reminds us that the LORD provides for our souls, protects us from ultimate harm, and preserves us until He has brought us safely home to heaven.May we learn to trust Him more fully and walk with Him more faithfully, knowing that there is no better place to be than under His good and perfect shepherding care.

During our 2026 summer retreat, we gave attention to this beloved psalm.Before David became king over Israel, he was a shepherd boy. In the fields, he gained firsthand knowledge of the skill, vigilance, courage, and care required to tend sheep, which prepared him to lead a nation. Drawing on that experience, David presents the LORD as the expert and faithful Shepherd of His people.Psalm 23 reminds us that the LORD provides for our souls, protects us from ultimate harm, and preserves us until He has brought us safely home to heaven.May we learn to trust Him more fully and walk with Him more faithfully, knowing that there is no better place to be than under His good and perfect shepherding care.

For the first time in history, God had formed a redeemed community on earth. How, then, were they to live? What kind of worship would please Him? How were men and women to worship Him in spirit and truth? Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, the teacher of the nations, gives us the answer. God wants His redeemed people to draw near to Him as a people unpolluted by sin, marked by repentance and sanctification. May the Lord continually sanctify us and raise up men who will lead us to the presence of our holy Father in heaven.

God’s gracious purpose and saving work intersected at the cross. There Christ, the one Mediator, gave Himself as a ransom for all, and by this singular act revealed the Father’s tender heart toward the lost. When we are tempted to question whether God cares for us in our weakness, grief, and struggles, we must look again to Calvary and rest in the sure proof of His love. This testimony of grace was meant for all the world to know. Therefore, God commissioned Paul as His chosen instrument to proclaim this gospel of grace to the nations. May we, too, be smooth and unobstructed channels of that same grace, making Christ known to all around us.

Convictions are the roots that hold and steady the tree of compassion. Paul underscores three deep convictions that undergird compassion for the lost: one God, one Mediator, and one Ransom. In this study, we give thoughtful attention to these three biblical truths that move us to pray and labor for the salvation of the lost.

God desires all people to be saved. This fundamental truth about God our Savior had grown dim in the church at Ephesus, and Paul seeks to restore it by calling believers to pray for the lost. Here is where our hearts begin to align with the heart of the God of salvation. As beloved children, we are to share His concern, calling those who are not walking with the Lord to reconciliation with Him and restoration to His paths of righteousness. May God be magnified in us as we move in step with His love for the lost.

Scripture teaches us that every church is a witnessing community of believers who need to make disciples of all nations. Every church has a mission to reach the nations with the Gospel and to announce to every creature that Christ has made redemption through his blood and that by repentance and faith, each can receive the remission of sins and entrance into the kingdom of God.