Faith Presbyterian Church

Morning Devotional – Friday, March 27, 2020

March 27, 2020 14:30 - 76.5 MB Video

This is the second of our morning devotionals with our pastors! Here’s the outline for this morning: OPENING PRAYER: O God, come to our assistance, O Lord, make haste to help us. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and will […]

Morning Devotional – Wednesday, March 25, 2020

March 25, 2020 14:30 - 55 MB Video

This is the first of our morning devotionals with our pastors! Here’s the outline for this morning: OPENING: O God, come to our assistance, O Lord, make haste to help us. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and will be […]

Imitating Imitators: The Early Church and Epidemics in the Ancient World

March 23, 2020 01:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MB

“As individuals and as a community – as a congregation – we need to be ready, once our doors are open again, to invite and to welcome non-Christians around us to join us – on Sundays, yes, but also in our lives. In our church, yes – but also in our homes. That is what […]

Jesus’s Delayed Deliverance, John 11:1-16

March 22, 2020 18:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MB

“When Jesus calls us to go through suffering in this life, trusting that he loves us, he does not ask us to do anything that he has not already done himself for our sake. For in his death on the cross, he too went through suffering – suffering far beyond what he would ever ask […]

Whose Hands Are You In?, John 10:22-42

March 15, 2020 18:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MB

“Whatever comes our way – whether war or famine, social isolation or sickness – still Christ holds us in his hands. He is close to us. He is with us. He is sovereign over all that happens to us. That doesn’t mean we won’t face hardship. It doesn’t mean we won’t face great loss or […]

Forgetting God’s Faithfulness and Turning to Worldly Ways, 2 Samuel 3

March 10, 2020 18:17 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MB

“This is the calling of our text: to remember God’s past faithfulness, and to trust his promises, as we walk into the future – into new seasons and new challenges in life. It is not easy. We will fail. We will fall short. David certainly does here. And his failures bring sorrow and suffering into […]

Identifying Our True Helper, 1 Samuel 26

November 25, 2019 02:00 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MB

“We must draw close to the Lord in order to see what is good and what is not, so that we can truly discern who is our helper and who is our enemy. That means that at root we must rely on our truest and most faithful helper, the Lord. It means that, judging by […]

Comfort for the Afflicted, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

November 24, 2019 19:00 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MB

“As we find comfort in God from our afflictions, and find hope in him and in his church, we who were comforted by others are now called to comfort others who have gone through similar afflictions… it is as he heals us and restores us through the relief and refuge he has given us, that […]

Egypt: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, Pt. 2

November 24, 2019 17:45 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MB

Pastor Rayburn concludes his short, two-week series on Egypt.

Principal David Miller – Remarks on Christian Education

November 18, 2019 02:00 - 24 minutes - 11.3 MB

Covenant High School Principal David Miller gave some remarks on Christian Education during our 2019 CHS Service on Sunday evening, November 17.

Christian Education & Growing Solid, Rooted Christians

November 18, 2019 02:00 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MB

“Properly equipped by an education that is rooted in God’s Word, filled with the truths of our world that God has made, and engaged with the challenges of the culture around us, Christian education is to equip each generation of the people of God to press into the world, make disciples, and extend the kingdom […]

Conduits of the Holy Spirit, John 7:37-39

November 17, 2019 19:00 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MB

“We show love and kindness to those who are spiritually thirsty around us, we help them to see their spiritual thirst, and then we lovingly speak the truth of Christ and the gospel to them. And as we do, the living water that is the Holy Spirit will flow like a river from Christ, through […]

The Sanctifying School of Silent Listening, James 1:19-21

November 11, 2019 02:00 - 31 minutes - 14.4 MB

“Our life in this world will always include suffering. Don’t let this world tell you otherwise. But in God’s word there is wisdom to be found, and when we are willing to listen to it, it brings us hope in the midst of the anguish and grief. For that reason, James calls us to stop, […]

Zooming Out from the Imminent Frame, John 7:15-36

November 10, 2019 19:00 - 37 minutes - 17 MB

“Zooming out to a transcendent perspective leads us to relate to God rightly. We see this displayed most clearly in Christ himself. Again and again in this conversation, Jesus speaks of truth from a perspective that includes both the imminent and the transcendent – that includes both the natural and the supernatural. Every time the […]

Egypt: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, Pt. 1

November 10, 2019 17:45 - 1 hour - 27.7 MB

Pastor Rayburn begins a short, two-week adult Sunday School class about Egypt.

Egypt: From Ancient Times to the Present Day

November 10, 2019 17:45 - 1 hour - 27.7 MB

Pastor Rayburn begins a short, two-week adult Sunday School class about Egypt.

The Rev. Craig Harris – Gospel Truth, Colossians 1:3-14

November 04, 2019 02:00 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MB

The Rev. Craig Harris, an assistant pastor at Christ Church Bellingham who will be planting a church in Yakima this year, gave a presentation on the proposed church plant and preached on what it means for the church to find its identity in the Gospel from Colossians 1:3-14, “Gospel Truth.”

Appearances vs Right Judgment; Death vs Life, John 7:14-24

November 03, 2019 19:00 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MB

“…more and more Christians struggle with, or even oppose, the commands of God because they do not lead to our culture’s definition of human flourishing. But human flourishing as the Word of God defines it includes sacrifice. It includes pain. It has costs…The Bible has a much more complex – a much deeper and richer […]

International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church

November 03, 2019 17:45 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MB

During our Adult Sunday School hour, Jonathan Nichols lead a discussion in observance of the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, with some special guests.

A Survey of the New Testament, Pt. 13

October 28, 2019 16:45 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MB

Pastor Rayburn completes his Survey of the New Testament.

Abigail, 1 Samuel 25

October 28, 2019 01:00 - 38 minutes - 17.6 MB

“What we see in Abigail’s ministry and David’s response is that while we are all prone to sin that will lead to the judgement of God, God desires to deliver his people from their sin, and often uses unexpected messengers to do so… we must hear the Abigails who are in our lives, we must […]

Glory, Fear, and Disordered Priorities, John 7:1-18

October 27, 2019 18:00 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MB

“We too are often concerned with esteem from others more than anything else – we crave their approval and glory, and we fear their rejection. In our culture such rejection is done through exclusion from the realm of the respectable, the realm of the sophisticated, the realm of the honorable. And such realms exclude the […]

Responding to Our Adversaries, 1 Samuel 24

October 21, 2019 01:00 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MB

“In our culture, in the Church, in our families, in our interactions with others in the world, our text tonight reminds us that because God is sovereign, we are called to give others the honor due to their status, to boldly confront others with the truth they need to hear, and to entrust both them […]

This is a Hard Saying; Who Can Listen to It?, John 6:59-71

October 20, 2019 18:00 - 38 minutes - 17.4 MB

“…if Jesus is the Holy One of God, if he has the words of eternal life, then we should expect him to confront us and correct us on what is good and what is right. If he is the one who made humanity, then we should expect him to know what leads to human flourishing […]

A Survey of the New Testament, Pt. 12

October 20, 2019 16:45 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MB

Pastor Rayburn reviews Revelations in the second-to-last installment of his Survey of the New Testament.

Tithe & Tribute: A Brief Theology of Online Giving

October 14, 2019 01:00 - 36 minutes - 16.6 MB

“God is aware that a faithful Israelite who desires to give his tithe to the Lord may face circumstantial obstacles that make it more difficult to obey even when he is willing to. And God’s response in Deuteronomy fourteen is to adjust the means by which the Israelite can give in order to help him […]

A Survey of the New Testament, Pt. 11

October 13, 2019 16:45 - 39 minutes - 18.3 MB

Pastor Rayburn continues his very informative and interesting survey of the New Testament.

The Crown of Life, James 1:12-18

October 07, 2019 01:00 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MB

“Paul and the apostles rejoiced at the thought that they participated in Christ’s sufferings. How could this bring them joy? The reason it could bring them joy, is because suffering for the cross meant that they were united with Jesus in his suffering. If they are united with Christ in his suffering, that is a […]

The True Roots of Belief and Unbelief, John 6:35-51

October 06, 2019 18:00 - 35 minutes - 16 MB

“The root of unbelief is that on their own, people don’t want to believe that the Christian message is true. Those who persist in unbelief choose it. But that is not the major take-away for us this morning. The major take-away for us is that in light of our deep-seated sin, it is the unfathomable […]