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Dear Brothers and Sisters, We continue our 3-week series on 1 Peter 2 this Sunday with 1 Peter 2:4-8. These verses speak of believers as living stones, built up together to be a spiritual house. As part of our Donut Day this past Saturday, Mark helped me to design a structurally sound banner-post setup for our Community Celebration banner outside of the church. With one…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Faith Community Church is blessed with a wonderful musical heritage. I praise God for the biblically robust music we sing each week in worship, chosen by our Worship Director, Dave Wright, and led by our music team. One wonderful song we often sing in our worship service is 10,000 Reasons. The song is based on Psalm 103: Bless the Lord, O my…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, When was the last time you had an all-nighter? Maybe you are past the days of staying up late to finish some work, and maybe the weather or little aches keep you up much of the night. In our passage this week (Mark 13:28-37), Jesus continues to speak on the end times but calls us to a certain kind of sleeplessness. As we see the signs of the end…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Do you ever wonder (at least in your heart) whether evil will ultimately have the last word in world history? One clear teaching of Scripture is that Jesus Christ (or the “Son of Man” as he refers to himself in Mark 13:26) has conquered sin and death through his own death and resurrection. Evil does not have the upper hand. It never has. It…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, The spring colors are in full bloom all around us, but if you turn on the news, you might think that the world is falling apart leaf by leaf. Thankfully, in this Sunday’s text (Mark 13:1-13), Jesus teaches us that tumultuous times are to be expected. Wars and dissent even within families are but the beginning of the end of all things. Take…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, The 19th century pastor Charles Spurgeon wrote several wonderful devotional books. I am reading through one of them right now called Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith. In the devotion dated March 18, he addresses the topic of prayer and calls the Christian to seek their heavenly Father in continual, childlike prayer. Spurgeon says this: “He, as a…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, He is risen! (Everyone shouts from their homes, “He is risen indeed!”) We return to our “Follow Me” series in Mark this coming Sunday with Mark 12:41-44. We thank the Lord that our Savior is risen and calls us to follow Him where He has gone, even into death, because He truly is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Our…

Dear Brothers and Sisters, This is the week that changed the world. No, I’m not referring to any particular event you might have come across in the news over the last several days. This is “Holy Week,” the week Jesus rode into Jerusalem as the King of Israel, died for the sins of the world, and which reached its climax with his glorious resurrection on the…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, Palm Sunday is this Sunday! We may have already heard from the text on the triumphal entry, but it is always good to remember that our Lord rode into Jerusalem as the king of not only Zion but also the whole earth. Our text for Palm Sunday will be Mark 12:35-40, when Jesus confounds the scribes by teaching that He, being David’s…

Dear Faith Community Church Family, For many Christians, the spiritual life is something reserved for Sunday morning. They get up, go to church, listen to a sermon, maybe talk with a few other people about the events of their week, then it’s back to their “real life.” To reduce the Christian life to attending a church service is to entirely misunderstand the…