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Christmas Eve 2013 - The First to See Jesus

December 25, 2013 - 02:28 PM Sermon SeriesChristmas from Isaiah

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Isaiah 52:13-53:12 - The Gospel in the Old Testament

December 22, 2013 - 08:33 AM Sermon SeriesChristmas from Isaiah



At school my daughter was told Christmas isn't about Santa Claus. It is about a chance to be kind and giving. Jesus was left out of Christmas, as he often is, in the interest of being politically correct and not offending other religions. This week we discover what makes the birth of Jesus so different from other religions. Christ's life and death was described in vivid detail hundreds of years before he came. This is something other religions do not have, the truth of a God who declares what will happen in history.

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Isaiah 50:4-11 - Suffering and Darkness

December 15, 2013 - 04:37 PM Sermon SeriesChristmas from Isaiah



How much did Jesus know about the suffering he would face on the cross? How did he make it through without giving in to sin? In Isaiah 50, we have a unique window into the suffering Jesus faced and how he made it through. We learn how to face our suffering from following the example of Jesus.

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Isaiah 49:1-16 - Jesus, Hope When We Are Hopeless

December 08, 2013 - 05:27 PM Sermon SeriesChristmas from Isaiah



When you are facing desperate times, is there hope? In Isaiah 49 we learn how God provides hope when we are hopeless through a mysterious individual called, "The Servant of the Lord."

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Isaiah 42:1-9 - Jesus, the Gift of Restored Relationships

December 01, 2013 - 03:02 PM Sermon SeriesChristmas from Isaiah



Christmas is a time for memories with family and friends. Unfortunately, for many, Christmas is a filled with memories of frustration and pain. Unresolved marital arguments come to the surface. Fights between extended family members ruin holiday meals. How can the broken relationships that litter our lives be fixed? In Isaiah 42, we find God the Father sent us a gift in his son Jesus. Jesus came to restore the relationships broken by sin in our life.

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FINGERPRINT - Culture

November 17, 2013 - 03:14 PM Sermon SeriesFingerprint



In this series, we cover seven core values that drive the Faith Church experience. Our seventh core value is culture. Many churches encourage you to escape culture and condemn it. You are encouraged to live in separation from the world. At Faith, we encourage the opposite. We want to engage culture and redeem it for the glory of Christ. Join us as we explain why we are heading in the opposite direction.

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FINGERPRINT - Family

November 10, 2013 - 04:57 PM Sermon SeriesFingerprint



At Faith Church, what can you expect? In this series, we cover seven core values that drive the Faith Church experience. We want to reinforce them on the Spirit Lake campus and replicate them at the new Spencer campus. Our sixth core value is family. At Faith, we place a high priority on healthy families and supporting parents as they train their children in Christ. Join us as we learn what a biblical marriage looks like and along the way get a few pointers on raising our children.

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FINGERPRINT - Discipleship

November 03, 2013 - 04:22 PM Sermon SeriesFingerprint



At Faith Church, what can you expect? In this series, we cover seven core values that drive the Faith Church experience. We want to reinforce them on the Spirit Lake campus and replicate them at the new Spencer campus. Our fifth core value is discipleship. We don't believe we are called to just trust in Christ but, embracing the gospel and working with the Holy Spirit, we are to continually become more like Christ. In addition, we believe every Christian, not just paid church professionals, are called by God to make disciples.

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FINGERPRINT - Outreach

October 27, 2013 - 04:45 PM Sermon SeriesFingerprint



At Faith Church, what can you expect? In this series, we cover seven core values that drive the Faith Church experience. We want them felt across all campuses. Our fourth core value is outreach. We believe one of the best ways to reach our community is by serving the needs in our community. It is when we serve our community that the community knows the Gospel message is different.

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FINGERPRINT - Gospel

October 13, 2013 - 03:55 PM Sermon SeriesFingerprint



At Faith Church, what can you expect? In this series, we cover seven core values that drive the Faith Church experience. We want them felt across all campuses. Our third core value is we believe it is the simple gospel message that has the power to change lives and grow the church. The simple gospel message is in short supply. A survey from LifeWay Resources of 450 American sermons randomly pulled from across the country revealed only 6% contained the entire gospel message. A natural strategy is to use anything in place of the Gospel to grow the church. At Faith, we believe the power to change lives and grow the church is in of the simple message of the gospel.

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FINGERPRINT - Community

October 06, 2013 - 03:28 PM Sermon SeriesFingerprint



At Faith Church, what can you expect? In this series, we cover seven core values that drive the Faith Church experience. We want them felt across all campuses. Our second core value is living as a church of authentic relationships that serve one another. Each of us is created like a Lego. God designed us to be different and he created us to connect to one another. It is only in community that we find that we will mature in Christ and find joy in living for Christ. We are created to serve one another.

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FINGERPRINT - Bible

September 22, 2013 - 04:31 PM Sermon SeriesFingerprint



At Faith Church, what can you expect? In this series, we cover seven core values that drive the Faith Church experience. We want them felt across all campuses. Our first core value is the relevant expositional teaching of the Bible. The Bible and church history are clear. The people of God are always created and sustained by the Word of God. Relevant expositional teaching of the Word of God is how God gathers and sustains his church.

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John 21 - Built for Others

September 08, 2013 - 04:58 PM Sermon SeriesGospel of John



What does a life that pleases God look like? Does it mean our theology is tight? Does it mean we attend Bible studies, pray and read the Bible every day? While spiritual disciplines are good, we love God by loving his people. We are built for others. As we wrap up the Gospel of John, the final chapter challenges us to move from right beliefs about Christ to caring for others in the name of Christ as the way we express our love to God.

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John 20 - The Resurrection Changes Everything

September 01, 2013 - 02:43 PM Sermon SeriesGospel of John



The church often talks about the cross what Christ achieved for us on it. The early church in the book of Acts didn't talk about what Christ did on the cross. All twelve sermons in Acts talk about what Christ made possible through the empty tomb. The tomb is empty. Jesus loves you. He is alive and hears your prayers. That is the message of every spiritual revival in history. It is the resurrection that changes everything.

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John 19:17-42 - The Crucifixion, More Than The Eye Could See

August 18, 2013 - 10:08 AM Sermon SeriesGospel of John


As the apostle John tells about the crucifixion, he shows us again and again how the everything unfolded according to God's plan. In addition to what the naked eye saw, there was much more happening the eye couldn't see.

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John 18:1-19:16 - Life Feels Out of Control!

August 11, 2013 - 09:54 AM Sermon SeriesGospel of John



A drunk driver runs a red light and broadsides a car. The passenger, a bubbly 13 year old junior high girl, is paralyzed for life. Where was God? How could he let this happen? A hard-working father finds himself unemployed for over a year. His job was sent overseas to swell the company's bottom line. Struggling to find work, his sense of self-esteem is shattered. His family scrapes by and his wife works minimum wage jobs. God, where are you? How could you let this happen? Sometimes life feels out of control. Is God there? If he is there, how much control does he have over our life? As we look at the betrayal Christ, we find the answer.

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John 17 - Profane Church

August 04, 2013 - 10:13 AM Sermon SeriesGospel of John



Today, churches feel like a coffee shops. Preachers dress in jeans and shirts from The Buckle instead of suits. There are video projection screens and colored lights. Sometimes church feels more like entertainment. How much should the church become like the world? What would Jesus do? In John 17, we look at Jesus' prayer for how his disciples would carry on the mission of connecting people to God through his life. His prayer is that we would be profane in the way we do it. What does that mean? Join us as discover what it means to be a profane church that follows a profane savior.

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John 16:16-33 - Everything is About to Change

July 28, 2013 - 10:39 AM Sermon SeriesGospel of John



In minutes, Jesus' betrayal will begin. For the disciples, everything is about to change. The changes will not just be in how they know Christ but in how they will know God and pray to him. For the first time, they will pray to God in Jesus' name. Jesus promises that God the Father will always answer those prayers. What does it mean to pray in Christ's name? What can we expect when we pray in his name? In this message, we discover how praying in Jesus' name changes everything.

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John 16:5-15 - The Holy Spirit in Action

July 21, 2013 - 04:00 PM Sermon SeriesGospel of John



In the New Testament, we read about the Holy Spirit empowering God’s people for amazing miracles. Sometimes the Holy Spirit miraculously healed the sick. Occasionally people spoke in a foreign language because the Holy Spirit enabled. Most have not experienced the Holy Spirit working in those miraculous ways. Sometimes, we wonder if the Holy Spirit is working in us at all. In this message, we discover how the Holy Spirit works today in ways we probably didn’t expect.

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John 15:18-16:4 - Persecution

June 30, 2013 - 04:14 PM Sermon SeriesGospel of John



Around the world, Christians suffer. In Pakistan, Christian women are gang raped. In China, men are set outside naked in the winter and doused with cold water, left to freeze to death because they shared Christian literature. In the Sudan, children are hacked open with machetes and their mothers have their hands hacked off, all for claiming Christ as the only one who can save them from their sin. Why are Christians persecuted so mercilessly, and without cause? In John 15, Jesus tells us why following Jesus draws persecution like blood in the water for a shark.

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John 15:1-16 - My Life Can Make a Difference

June 23, 2013 - 04:03 PM Sermon SeriesGospel of John



Monday comes and the rat race begins. Evenings are missed dinners as parents scurry to baseball, softball, and football with the kids. Husbands and wives are like ships, passing in the night. Sunday comes and we take care of our religious obligations. Before we know what happened, youth and vigor are spent and we are marking time on a calendar in a retirement home waiting our grave. After a lifetime of work, did our lives make any kind of lasting difference? In John 15, Jesus teaches us the difference between a life that is busy and a life that makes a difference.

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John 14:15-31 - The Holy Spirit

June 16, 2013 - 02:31 PM Sermon SeriesGospel of John



An alcoholic swears off the bottle. Three days later he grabs another case of beer at the corner gas station. A husband looses his temper with his wife again. He hates himself for it. Why does he keep losing his temper? Why can't he change? As Christians, we become frustrated when we want to obey Christ but we keep drifting away. Where does the power come from for lasting change? In the second half of John 14, Jesus introduces his disciples, and us, to the Holy Spirit and the crucial role he plays in changing our life.

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John 14:1-14 - On Mission

June 09, 2013 - 03:16 PM Sermon SeriesGospel of John



A recent Pew Forum survey revealed 57 percent of evangelical church attenders say many religions lead to eternal life. 70 percent of Americans with a religious affiliation share that view. Today, we don't believe everyone has a right to their opinion but we now believe all opinions are equally right. In John 14, Jesus prepares his disciples for his departure and for what they need to know to keep them on the mission once he is gone. A big part of that is understand how unique Christ is. As we study this chapter, we won't just learn what kept the disciples on mission but we learn how to stay on the mission Jesus gives to us today.

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John 13:18-38 - Love One Another

June 02, 2013 - 01:55 PM Sermon SeriesGospel of John



Facebook and Twitter are the rage. What make them so popular? Connection. We are desperate to connect and hungry for love. In John 13, Jesus gives his disciples a new command, the command to love one another as he has loved them. Jesus' vision for the church is of a place where the love God is tangibly felt through God's people. Join us as we discover how God cultivates love in our life.

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John 13:1-17 - Scandalous Love

May 26, 2013 - 09:50 AM Sermon SeriesGospel of John


On October 2, 2006, Charles Roberts burst into an Amish one-room schoolhouse in Lancaster Pennsylvania. He shot ten girls, ages 6-13, killing five, before committing suicide. Incidents like this make the news, but what kept this in the news was the response of the Amish. The Amish visited Charles Roberts family after the shooting to tell them they were extended forgiveness. Members of the Amish community visited Charles Roberts widow, parents and parents-in-law to comfort them in their loss. One Amish father held Charles Roberts' sobbing father in his arms for an hour. The Amish even set up a charity fund for Charles Robert's widow and children. Over 30 Amish attended Charles Roberts' funeral. When does this kind of love come from? It is scandalous. When the Amish were asked how they could forgive and love, they only had one name,… Jesus.

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John 12:34-50 - One Last Chance

May 12, 2013 - 11:19 AM Sermon SeriesGospel of John


In life, there are windows of opportunity. Once those windows close, opportunities are gone. As John 12 draws to a close, the final moments of Jesus' public ministry come to an end. The last window of opportunity slams shut. Like the crowds, each of us has a limited number of opportunities to respond to Jesus. We don't know which one will be our last chance.

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John 12:12-33 - Living for the Applause of One

May 05, 2013 - 02:56 PM Sermon SeriesGospel of John


Applause… We want them. It is hard to live without them. What should we do when we can't make everyone happy? As Jesus enters Jerusalem, it is the high point of his ministry. A crowd of thousands cheer his arrival and ask him to be king. He can't make everyone happy. To gain the applause of God the Father, he needs to turn his back on the intoxicating pleasure of the crowd and embrace a horrifying death for us. Like Jesus, we also need to choose whose applause we will live for, our friends and neighbors or our Heavenly Fathers. Like, Jesus, to gain the applause of God the Father will involve a path of suffering. The applause of God the Father are worth it in the end.

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John 12:1-11 - The Biblical Case for Extravagant Living

April 28, 2013 - 03:02 PM Sermon SeriesGospel of John


In 1994-1995, Robin Leach starred in the television series, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. The program featured those who lived in excess. Their overdone lifestyles became a mocking form of entertainment. Reacting to the excesses of our culture, Christians pride themselves on frugality. In so doing, we may have become men and women of cheap worship who make too little of Jesus. In this part of the Bible, the apostle John teaches us the more we know Jesus , the more extravagant our lives will become.

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John 11 - How Christ Gets Glory Through Cancer and Death

April 21, 2013 - 12:54 PM Sermon SeriesGospel of John


Diseases, such as cancer, grab us by the ankles and drag us into the jaws of death. If God loves us, why do we get sick? If Jesus loves us so much that he died for us, why does he allow these heartbreak into our lives? In John 11, we learn it is because of Jesus' love for us that he allow sickness and suffering into our lives. That feels backwards! Join us in discovering how Jesus transforms suffering and death for His glory.

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John 10:22-42 - The World's Greatest Hero

April 14, 2013 - 11:28 AM Sermon SeriesGospel of John


Everyone loves a hero. We admire men and women who change society for the good. We celebrate Martin Luther King day for how he changed society. We remember Washington's Birthday. In Israel, they also had a holiday to remember their heroes, it is the Feast of Dedication. Jesus steps on the stage of world history about to become the greatest hero in the world.

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Easter 2013 - Easter is Hard News

March 31, 2013 - 04:42 PM Sermon SeriesStand Alone Sermons | Easter


Journalists classify news as either hard or soft. Soft news are the heart-warming public interest stories in our newspaper. Hard news is not just interesting, it is news we need to know because it changes our life. What kind of news is Easter? Is it a soft philosophy or a hard news difference. The answer makes a world of difference.

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John 10:1-21 - Take Me To Your Leader

March 24, 2013 - 10:29 AM Sermon SeriesGospel of John


Even in our postmodern hyper-individualistic culture, everybody is following somebody. The only questions are: "Who are they following?" and "Are they worth following?" As we return to the Gospel of John, crowds of people are following Jesus. What kind of leader is he? Is he planning to use them and use us? Is he a leader that, like a pyramid marketing scheme, is simply trying pad his power? Discover why Jesus is different. He is the one leader worth following.

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Daniel 12 - The Last Battle

March 10, 2013 - 03:56 PM Sermon SeriesDaniel


How will the world end? Will technology make the world a better place? What does the future hold? In this fascinating final chapter, God answers these questions.

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Daniel 11 - From Ancient History to the Antichrist

February 24, 2013 - 05:29 PM Sermon SeriesDaniel


Daniel 11 is considered one of the least inspirational chapters of Daniel. Surprisingly, the Jews from the time of Jesus until the time of Christ were fascinated by this chapter. What did they see that we miss? Join us as we let this chapter unravel the map of history from the time of Daniel to the end of the world history.

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Daniel 10 - Dark Matter and Dark Energy

February 17, 2013 - 02:44 PM Sermon SeriesDaniel


In 1998, scientists used the Hubble Space Telescope to examine the edges of our universe. To their surprise, they discovered the universe was expanding at a much slower rate than expected. To account for this difference, they hypothesized that 95% of the universe must contain some kind of Dark Matter and Dark Energy that we can not detect. In this message, we explore the world of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, not through a telescope, but through the Bible where we can learn about the vast unseen world of angels and demons.

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Daniel 9 - Moving the Heart of God

February 10, 2013 - 02:01 PM Sermon SeriesDaniel


God is sovereign over all things. Last week, we learned God decrees events of history hundreds of year before they come to pass. If God is so sovereign, why pray for a friend who has cancer? Won't God do what he already planned? In this passage, we discover why we pray to a God that sovereignly ordains all things.

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Daniel 8 - Does God Know Who Will Win the Super Bowl?

February 03, 2013 - 02:46 PM Sermon SeriesDaniel


This Sunday, the 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens face one another in the Super Bowl. Who will win? This week, Sports Illustrated's cover story asked the question, "Does God care who wins the Super Bowl?" Only 27% of Americans said, "Yes." Most Americans believe either God doesn't know or doesn't care about football. How much control does God have over our life? How much does God ordain of our future? In Daniel 8, we discover the answer.

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Daniel 7 - Four Beasts and the Throne of God

January 27, 2013 - 02:30 PM Sermon SeriesDaniel


Daniel 7 begins the apocalyptic section of the book. What is God telling us when it comes to a metal-mouthed monsters and a little horn that insult God? This chapter is not all difficulty and perplexity. It has a clear message to play hard for the team of Jesus. While the battle is rough, keep your eyes on the prize of reigning with Jesus. If we stay faithful to the end, we will be on the winning team when the dust finally settles.

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Daniel 6 - The Lions' Den

January 20, 2013 - 11:21 AM Sermon SeriesDaniel


Check the headlines of any newspaper and what will you find… stories about government corruption. In Daniel 6, we find Daniel's integrity elevates him to a position of authority. Like any rising politician, his opponents set out on a smear campaign to bring him down. When they can't find compromise, they intend to create it. Join us in learning how Daniel honored God when it would be easy to bend. In staying true, he continued to be God's man of influence for his generation.

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Daniel 5 - Divine Graffiti

January 13, 2013 - 03:03 PM Sermon SeriesDaniel


Mark Bowden recently released his new book, The Finish. It details the ten year hunt of Osama Bin Laden. It begins with nothing more than a fictitious name and ends ten years later with his body sinking in the sea. Daniel 5 is a similar story. It is the hunting down of another evil dictator name Belshazzar. His death warrant was not signed by the CIA, but by the fingers of God inscribed it on the wall of his palace right before his eyes. It didn't take God ten years to carry out. In less than an hour, God overthrew the most powerful city in the world.

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