Pastor Chad Johnson shares what he's been teaching his church family at Fellowship Bible Church. Where 1 Peter focuses on preparing the church for future persecution, 2 Peter encourages those being persecuted.

What if we told you that you're not making resolutions - you're making a wish list? This year, reflect on the goodness of God, look forward to what lies ahead, and look into God's Word for guidance.

We connect to light – we even celebrate with strings of lights and candles! And it’s no coincidence that the first creative act that God performed was creating light. So how much more significant is it that Jesus, God incarnate, is the Light of the World!

The season of hope doesn’t come when all goes well or when nothing bad happens to us - Realistically then, we'd never find hope! No, hope rises from the ashes of despair and helplessness – why? Because the Light of the World has come into the darkness to save us.

Where does your joy come from? Do you have joy at all? Pastor Steve Pierson digs into Luke 1 to discover the source of Joy even in the midst of despair and calamity.

We live in a culture where everyone is expected to make a decision quickly and then stick to their guns no matter where the truth may lie. If you change your mind about an issue, people call you a traitor, and things get nasty and mean. What’s the answer? How do we pursue truth with love and unity?

In 1993 Rock band Collective Soul released a song that sounded suspiciously biblical – the words in part being “I'm gonna let it shine, I'm gonna let it shine, Heaven send a light, let it shine on me.” Biblically, heaven’s light is Jesus, himself, and in giving himself to us – his love, his righteousness – we are commanded to let that light shine before men. Let’s learn more.

Here’s a command that flies in the face of culture – walking the narrow way. In a world that celebrates “free thinking” (and at the same time villainizes those who think differently) Jesus instructs his followers to choose the narrow way. Let’s find out what He means.

Hell is real, and Jesus, more than anyone else in all of scripture, spoke on the subject. As sinful humans, we are deserving of God’s wrath. God’s rage against sin is legitimate, which makes his fierce grace all the more amazing.

Christians will often talk about having “righteous” anger as a way to justify their negative feelings toward a person who has wronged them. What they fail to remember is what Jesus warned in Matthew 5 – those who are angry are liable to judgment. Whoa.