As we prepare our hearts for Easter the prayer of Jesus for His followers in the upper room on the night of His betrayal gives a beautiful picture of His requests to the Heavenly Father for you and me. Do you struggle with feelings of insignificance?...

As the Holy Spirit fire is expanding the infant church of Jesus Christ, and as the apostles are performing many signs and wonders of healing, and as all the believers are boldly sharing Christ and reaping a great harvest of new believers, those who...

In Acts 4 we see the brand new church of Jesus growing and expanding. They are unified, filled with the Holy Spirit and powerful in their sharing about Christ and taking care of one another. This power and growth helps offset the opposition from...

Life Change

Romans 12:1-2; Philippians 3:3-11

 

         Life change is not change around us that we notice. . .

         this is change in us that the other people around us notice.

Isaiah 64:8; Romans 9:20-21

 

 

 

 

 

He gave up some...

Why can’t churches and Christians all get along? I am sometimes asked why all the churches don’t experience more harmony. Well, there was great differences and conflict with followers of Christ and the religious establishment of that day as well...

Jesus warned there would be many antichrists and false teachers in the last days, who would lead many astray. In Acts 4 we see two uneducated men who held no position in the religious establishment challenge the hardened and false religious leaders...

In Acts 3 Peter healed a man lame since childhood. This passage actually shows God’s greater plans for Israel, and how He offers salvation and power through the Holy Spirit to do His Great Commission and plans today. Peter, the lame man, Israel and...

The world looks very different from Christ, His kingdom and His people. Some churches look much more like the world than like the Lord’s people. Faith Baptist has set some 2017 goals that we have distributed on bookmarks. This description of the...

Peter’s first sermon was perhaps his greatest. He gave an apologetics of Jesus and testified to what God’s big plan was regarding Christ, the Messiah and Salvation.