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By Jonathan Keller He is risen! This weekend we celebrated the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, who reigns over those who inherit eternal life through Him. Thinking about the importance of His life in light of the Ten Commandments, it is helpful to remember that He fulfilled all righteousness, including the Ten Commandments we reviewed over the past few months. How…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, “Look, the world has gone after him.” This is what the Pharisees said to themselves after Jesus rode into Jerusalem as Israel’s true King in John 12, and they spoke more than they knew! In the very next verses, John says this: “Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So these came to…

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…