Faith Community Church - Sunday Sermon: Recent Episodes
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09/29/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler –
- The Prediction of Apostolic Abandonment (Matthew 26:31)
- The Guarantee of Gracious Restoration (Matthew 26:32)
- The Protest From Peter’s Pride (Matthew 26:33)
- The Description of Peter’s Denial (Matthew 26:34)
- The Capacity of Collective Blindness (Matthew 26:35)
09/22/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler –
- A Bread That Symbolizes His Sacrifice ( Matthew 26:26)
- A Cup That Symbolizes Our New Covenant (Matthew 26:27-28)
- A Promise That Anticipates His Kingdom (Matthew 26:29)
- A song That Celebrates God’s Victory (Matthew 26:30)
09/15/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Joel Teague – Joel expounds on how Jesus is both priest and king.
09/08/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler –
- The Preparations for the Passover (Matthew 26:17)
- The Precautions for the Passover (Matthew 26:18-19)
- The Predictions of Betrayal (Matthew 26:20-24)
- The Pressures of Loyalty (Matthew 26:25)
09/01/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler –
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God’s Providence Allowed the Plot Against Jesus (26:1–5)
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Christ’s Memorial Magnified Mary’s Devotion (26:6–13)
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Judas’s Betrayal Revealed his Blindness (26:14–16)
Summary: Matthew presents both the Divine sovereignty and the irony of a deceptive plot to betray Jesus against the backdrop of beautiful act of devotion towards Jesus by a woman in the days leading up to His arrest and crucifixion.
08/25/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler –
- Jesus Will Return to Reign on the Earth (Matthew 25:31-33)
- Jesus Will Reward Merciful Compassion for His People (Matthew 25:24-40)
- Jesus Will Recall Uncaring Rejection of His People (Matthew 25:41-45)
- Jesus Will Render Eternal Judgement Over All (Matthew 25:46)
08/18/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler -The earthly return and reign of Jesus will begin with His judgment of all people based on their faith, which, in part, is manifested by how they respond to the persecuted people of God.
- Jesus will Return to Reign on the Earth (25.31–33)
- Jesus will Reward Merciful Compassion for His People (25.34–40)
- Jesus will Recall Uncaring Rejection of His People (25.41–45)
- Jesus will Render Eternal Judgment Over All (25.46)
08/11/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – On TES Sunday, Shane’s expounds on the importance of trading men for leadership.
- Do You Have a Burden For the Church?
- Do You Have Affirmation From Leaders?
- Do You Have Adequate Training?
A. Are you Equipped?
B. Can You Protect the Flock?
- Discernment and Courage.
C. Are you Trained For Oversight?
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Competence and Diligence.
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Do You Have the Giftedness for Vocation?
08/04/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler –
- There is a responsibility for Gospel Knowledge (Matthew 25:14-18)
- There Will Be Reward for Gospel Growth (Matthew 25:19-23)
- There Will Be Reckoning for Gospel Neglect (Matthew 25:24-30)
07/28/2024 – Sunday Sermon on Matthew – Shane Koehler –
- The Carelessness of the Bridesmaids (Matthew 25:1-5)
- The Crisis at Christ’s Return (Matthew 25:6-9)
- The Consequences of Being Shut Out (Matthew 25:10-12)
- The Call to be Prepared (Matthew 25:13)
07/21/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Mike Payne –
- Pass by that Which is Unprofitable (Titus 3:9)
- Perverted Actions Are to be Rejected (Titus 3:10-11)
- Plan With the Right Priority and Diligence in Mind (Titus 3:12)
- Provide for Those Who are Laboring for the Lord (Titus 3:14)
- Prioritize According to Pressing Needs (Titus 3:14)
- Positive Personal Expression Flows Naturally to Those We Love (Titus 3:15)
07/14/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Titus- Tim Brown –
Three motives for godly conduct in an anti-Cristian culture:
- The Motive From Our Past (Titus 3:3)
- The Motive from Our Present Salvation (Titus 3:4-7). A. By the loving kindness of our God (3-4) B. A Basis of Salvation (3-5a) C. The Means of Salvation (5b-6) D. The results of salvation (7)
- The Motive to Connect Doctrine and Conduct (3:8)
07/07/2024 – Sunday Sermon Titus, Richard Goff.
- Be Submissive to Civil Authorities (Titus 3:1)
- Be Obedient to Civil Authorities (Titus 3:1)
- Be Ready to Serve Your Neighbor (Titus 3:1)
- Never Slander Anyone (Titus 3:2)
- Resist Contentious Attitudes and Speech (Titus 3:2)
- Be Gentle and Gracious Toward Others (Titus 3:2)
- Demonstrate Complete Humility and Meekness (Titus 3:2)
06/30/2024 – Sunday Sermon Titus – Joel Teague – Joel continues the Padtor/Elder series in Titus, with an expounding on the importance of Grace in the life of a believer.
- The Achievement of Grace (2:11)
- The Enablement of Grace (2:12-13)
- The Mediator of Grace (2:14)
06/23/2024 – Sunday Sermon on Titus – Joel Teague –
- The Expectation: Comprehensive Submission (9a)
- The Application: (9b-10a)
a. Well-Pleasing
b. Agreeable
c. Honest
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- The Motivation: Doctrinal Adornment (10b)
06/16/2024 – Sunday Sermon Titus – Joel Teague – Joel picks up the study of Titus on an outdoor church service due to construction in the gym.
Paul gives instruction to Titus:
Be an example to younger men
Deeds
Doctrine
Speech
06/09/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Kris Brackett – Kris delivers his final revelation; on Titus, before another Elder continues next week, revealing messages that Paul has for age groups.
- Good Judgment should Distinguish older men. (2:2)
- Godliness should Distinguish older women. (2:3-4a)
- Great Love should Distinguish younger women. (2:4b-5)
- Good Sense should distinguish younger men. (2:6)
06/02/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Kris Brackett – Kris continues the study of Titus with Paul giving advice on how to deal with false doctrine.
- Face Reality (1:10-13a)
- Fight Ruthlessly (1:11, 13b-14)
- Foster Righteousness (1:15-16)
05/26/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Kris Brackett – Our Pastors and Elders continue their 10 week survey of Titus with this week focusing on the qualifications of an Elder/Overseer/Pastor.
- The Dominant Virtue: The First Principle that is non-negotiable in Leadership (6a-7a)
- Domestic Vital Signs: Family Relationships that are Determinative in Leadership (6b)
- Disqualifying Vices: Faults that are Red Flags for Leadership (1:7)
- Distinguishing Virtues: Features that Enhance Leadership (1:8)
- Doctrinal Vitality: Fortitude and Faculty that are Indispensable in Leadership (1:9)
5/19/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Kris Brackett – As Pastor Shane goes on sabbatical, our Pastors and Elders begin a 10 week study in Titus. In the introduction to Titus, Kris Brackett poses and answers th3 following questions:
Who is Paul, the man of God?
What is his mission?
What is his motivation?
What is his mechanism?
What is his means?
05/12/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane continues to explore the Olivet discourse on the return of Jesus.
- You cannot know the timing.
- You can know how to prepare.
05/05/2024 – Sunday Sermon- Shane Koehler-
- Don’t Ignore the Signs (24.32–33)
- Don’t Embrace the Skepticism (24.34–35)
- Don’t Misjudge the Swiftness (24.36–42)
Summary: Jesus warns us not to ignore the certainty of the signs of His coming return and judgment, even in light of the unpredictability or the exact timing of those events.
04/28/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Shane continues through the Olivet discourse concerning the Second Coming of Christ.
04/21/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler -The Temple will be desecrated. The Tribulation will be severe. The time will be shortened. The treachery will be multiplied.
04/14/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler -Persevere through persecutions and defections. Preach the Gospel to all the nations.
04/07/2024 – Sunday Sermon- Shane Koehler -Do not be led astray by false Messiahs. Do not be troubled by international conflicts.
3/31/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – The Gospel is validated by its prophetic history.The Gospel is validated by its powerful Savior.The Gospel is validated by its purifying result.The Gospel is validated by its pervasive reach.
03/24/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – As Good Friday approaches, Shane expounds on how God is revealed in light, but often His judgment is revealed in darkness.
03/17/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Worthless religion cultivates contempt for God’s true messengers.
03/10/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Seth Rhoden -Here are two remedies for Spiritual rebellion.
- Forsake your unwillingness to repent.
- Remember the Lord’s willingness to forgive.
03/03/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Stuart Scott -Faith, love and spiritual growth can flourish during bad times.
02/25/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Kris Brackett –
The Thessalonian Church was known for:
Its reception of the truth.
Its radical transformation.
Its reverent toil.
Its reoriented trajectory.
It is important that we also keep our eye toward heaven, waiting for our Savior to come at any moment.
02/18/2024 – Sunday Sermon – Keith Palmer – Finding God in Fear
Turn to God for needed Grace.Direct your heart to trust in God, God whose Words you praise.Question your fear in light of your God.Verbalize your struggles and desires to God.Recognize God’s detailed attention to your trials and sufferings.Remind yourself that God is for you.Repeat your praise of your Father’s Word.Renew your trust and do not fear Re-Challenge your heart.Publicize your thanks for your Father’s deliverance.
9/10/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler -The determination of wether a person’s life matters, is that we were made in God’s image. Any other criteria is based on unsupported opinion.
09/03/2023 – Sunday Sermons – Shane Koehler – Shane continues his exposition of corrupt credos of the world, with it’s unbiblical focus on the trans world.
08/27/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Shane continues his exposition of corrupted credos of our society, with “No Human is Illegal”, that chooses to mis-represent scripture to support positions on immigration.
08/20/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler -God through the Gospel, honors and elevates women, has plans for babies in the womb, and obligates us to honor God with our bodies. All without guilt or fear.
09/13/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Johnny Gravino – Pastor Johnny Gravino, missionary to Italy, brings the message today regarding the importance of brotherly love to a believer.
08/06/2023 – Sunday Sermons – Shane Koehler – Shane continues his series of Corrupted Credos of our culture with the credo of Live Your Truth. Shane emphasizes that Truth is from God, and a distorted truth is from the father of lies, Satan.
07/30/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Shane begins a series about corrupted credos in our culture that draw on people rather than God. The first is the phrase “Love is Love” which attempts to use attributes of man rather than God to define the meaning of love.
07/23/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Shane unpacks the story found in several of the Gospels, of the blind men asking for and receiving healing from Jesus at the entrance to Jericho. God has compassion on those who the world has no compassion.
07/16/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Shane expounds on this passage, as James and John seek high places in Heaven, the importance of humility, and being the servant of all.
07/09/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Brian Mullet – Guest Pastor Brian Mullet reveals the miraculous deliverance of Peter and how God brings down the prideful.
07/02/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Tim Walker -Tim Walker expounds on the method to deal with conflict within the Church, and with others.
06/25/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler -Jesus tells his disciples that His love for us is so strong, he will willingly suffer and give up his life for us.
6/18/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – In the parable of the land owner and the field workers, Jesus reveals God’s salvation and mercy to all who believe, no matter at what point in their lives they believe.
06/11/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Shane finishes up his exposition on this passage of the rich young ruler who is seeking to enter heaven by his works.
06/04/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Shane unpacks the story of the rich young ruler who was trying to earn his way into heaven. Heaven is gained by heart and faith, not by deeds.
05/28/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Jesus’s insistence on sharing a blessing on children, reveals that God has a special favor for children who have not yet reached an age of accountability.
05/21/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Tim Brown – Elder Tim Brown expounds on how Christ can ease our troubled hearts. Trusting in the person of Christ, trusting Christ’s preparation, and trusting in Christ’s proclamation.
05/14/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Shane continues in Matthew 19, as Jesus expounds on God’s plan for marriage, and although not encouraged, the only acceptable reason for divorce.
05/07/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Jesus deals with the question of divorce by explaining God’s original design for marriage and its intended purpose in creation, while recognizing the rare circumstances where that purpose is undermined by the sinful desires of mankind.
04/30/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – In this passage from Matthew, Jesus uses a parable to remind believers that because God has forgiven us an unobtainable debt, tha5 we should in turn forgive debts owed to us.
04/23/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Shane continues with Jesus’s precise explanation of the process and the importance of trying to restore a believer by the church.
04/16/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – In these verses, Jesus reveals the process for dealing with fellow believers who are in sin, with an emphasis on trying to restore this person to the body.
04/09/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – As the thief on the cross reveals, the path to salvation is not complex. Repent and believe.
04/02/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Tim Walker – Seminary student Tim Walker reveals how all true believers will be persecuted, but told to continue in the true path.
03/26/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Through Jesus’s words in Matthew, it is revealed the importance and value that God holds for every believer, and how straying believers need to be sought by all.
03/19/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – This passage of Matthew reveals the perils of sin, tempting others with sin, and the preference to avoid that which tempts to sin.
03/12/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Richard Goff – In a world of rhetoric and sophistry, the clear presentation of The Gospel is what the world needs.
03/05/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Keith Palmer – visiting pastor Keith Palmer from Grace Bible Church in Granbury, TX, reveals through Lamentations, how the understanding of God’s love and character, will get you through periods when it seems like you have been abandoned.
02/26/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – As the apostles jostle for who is the greatest in heaven, Jesus reveals that one must have some characteristics of a child to even enter heaven.
02/19/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Jesus has Peter pay the temple tax, for which he was not obligated, in a Devine, miraculous way.
02/13/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Mark Ndinyo – Mark, visiting from Kenya, uses James, as well as personal experience to reveal how we need to exhibit patience in our lives, because the return of The Christ is eminent.
02/05/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Tim Brown – Jesus reveals to Nicodemus that one must be “Born Again” to obtain the kingdom of God.
01/29/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – As Jesus heals a boy possessed by a demon, he rebukes the father and others about their lack of faith, and that His time here on earth is short.
1/22/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – on the mount of transfiguration, Jesus reveals to the apostles, a glimpse of what is coming to instill hope and confidence to them.
1/15/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Jesus describes to his apostles, the extreme sacrifices that must be made to be a true believer.
01/08/2023 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – As the end of Jesus’s earthly teaching draws near, He reveals to the disciples, events that must happen, leading up to His death. As Peter tries to intervene, he gets a sharp rebuke from Jesus.
01/01/2023 – Sunday Sermon- Shane Koehler – Paul’s message in Romans reveals the power of the Gospel.
12/18/2022 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – As Shane continues to unpack “the Christmas Story”, he discusses the familiar passage of how “The Word Became Flesh”.
12/11/2022 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – Jesus tells His disciples that He will build His church on the clear testimony of Who He is and by the bold proclamation of the truth to the lost.
12/04/2022 – Sunday Sermon – Shane Koehler – In one of Jesus’s final teaching before heading towards Jerusalem, He warns the disciples about the doctrines of the Pharisees and Sadducees that Jesus describes as leaven.