Fox River Christian Church PODCAST

Step 1: Identify

Pastor Guy begins our new series "Build-It" which comes out of the book of Nehemiah. He will walk us through the 6 steps of building or accomplishing. As he unpacks Step 1: Identify, he gives us questions to ponder because every child of God is made to build.

Faith

God desires for all of our relationships to trend with strong faith. Pastor Bill retells the story of Abraham and Isaac, inspiring us to have strong faith, like that of Abraham, regardless of our circumstances.

Unity

Relationships are either trending up or trending down. Guest speaker, Pastor Brian McKee, talks to us about unity between people and living in line with the truth of the Gospel. With issues of racism, segregation and prejudice, he points out that we can be different and be unified and gives us 4 ways to get involved.

Truth

Every relationship is trending - up or down. Honesty is a relational and spiritual megatrend. So, why do we lie? Pastor Guy continues our series #Trending with insights from Acts 5:1-11 and shares with us "the lie of the lie" and ties in the biblical truth of grace and truth.

Honor

For Mother's Day weekend, Pastor Guy talks to us about honor. Giving honor is a choice. Honoring someone requires action and blesses the one being honored and the one giving it.

Gratitude

Pastor Rob kicks off our new series #Trending by teaching on the magnitude of gratitude. He talks about how gratitude is God's will for your life and trending up in gratitude can even improve your health!

Life

The fifth awakening we come to on our path to God is realizing that God intends for us to have a full life now, not just when we get to heaven. Pastor Guy finishes teaching from the parable of the Prodigal Son and helps us see that we can experience "life in all it's fullness" now.

Regret

Have you ever wished you could have a do-over on life? Pastor Guy comes to the second awakening on our way back to God: Regret. He talks about how regret doesn't have to be a bad thing and can actually be a valuable part of moving closer to God.

Longing

In every one of us are soul cravings. We spend the majority of our lives saying, “There’s got to be more…” Pastor Guy explains the first of five awakenings in everyone’s path to God and how we can discover our purpose as followers of Jesus and he gives us a 30-Day Challenge.

Waterford Campus

Jesus said, “Do This In Remembrance of Me.” What exactly should we remember as we participate in communion? Why have believers held either Passover or Communion for nearly 3500 years? Pastor Ken shares the answers to these questions and more as we look at the meaning and significance of communion.

Muskego Campus

Pastor Rob teaches about the importance of Communion, and how we should remember Jesus' sacrifice going into the Easter season.

Waukesha Campus

Sometimes we drift away from important relationships in life. Pastor Bill challenges us not to do that with Jesus. Communion is a way for us to remember Him and to come back to Him if that's what we need to do. Because #drifthappens, we need communion.

And God Is Able To Bless You...

The Bible is clear that God is able to bless us, but do you believe God wants to bless you? In the first two messages, we were given the key to a blessed life and the reminder. This weekend, Pastor Guy wraps up our series, “The Blessed Life” with a focus for us and emphasizes that God’s desire for us is to live and experience The Blessed Life.

A Matter Of The Heart

Pastor Rob bring us the third past of the series "The Blessed Life" and talks about matters of the heart. He encourages you to take a look at your own life to see where your heart lies, and also challenges you to trust God and His plan to fill the holes in your life.

Give Generously

Pastor Guy continues our series "The Blessed Life" and gives us insights into Jesus' direction to us in Luke 6:37-39. He reminds us what the key to a blessed life is and a reminder that we can keep in mind. Is something keeping you from living The Blessed Life? Watch and find out.

The Blessed Life

Pastor Guy takes the stage for the first week of the new message series "The Blessed Life." He uses the history of Passover to teach the value of putting God first, and by doing this, how it will increase our flow in our daily life with Him.

Pastor Panel

Four of the pastors from our teaching team came together to address your questions. We've spent the last several weeks narrowing down the main topics and taught on those, but spent this time on several asked questions outside of that. Check it out. If you still don't see your question addressed here, stay tuned. 2016 will prove to be a time to address them.

Sexual Immorality

We have received hundreds of questions for our series "Just Ask It" and some of the top ones related to sex. Pastor Guy shares God's plan for sex and differentiates shame vs. conviction.

Which Religion Is Right?

Pastor Guy brings us Part 3 of the message series "Just Ask It" with the second most asked question which is, “Aren’t all religions basically the same?” Or, it could be asked this way, “Aren’t we all worshiping the same God?” He walks us through the overwhelming evidence for the answer and reveals God’s greatest desire for us.

Suffering

Pastor Guy brings us part 2 of the message series "Just Ask It" with the #1 topic that came up. The topic for this week covers "Suffering" and how God's grace can give you hope of a bigger plan for your life.

Does God Want Us Asking?

Pastor Guy brings in the new year with the first part of a new series "Just Ask It." He stresses the value of question asking; whether it is about your relationship with God, Christianity, or even your own life.

Strength Through Weakness

Pastor Don Mingo Sr. visits Fox River and brings us the final part of the series "Christmas Reframed." He gives a sermon on the topic of "Strength Through Weakness" and teaches us how our struggles can turn into a source of strength for others.

God's Plan

Pastor Rob takes the stage for the third part of our series "Christmas Reframed" and teaches about changes God may put in our lives. When God intervenes with your plans, how do you react to them? Pastor Rob uses Mary giving birth to Jesus as an example of how God may have different plans, and how we can apply God's changes in our lives.

The People

Pastor Guy takes us trough "Part 2" of the series "Christmas Reframed" by taking a closer look at the classic Christmas story of Jesus' birth. He talks about the roles of people involved in the journey and how each of them have a piece of wisdom we could use in our lives.

Reframe

Pastor Guy starts the season with the first part of the series "Christmas Reframed." He talks about how we can look at Christmas from a different perspective, and also ways we can respond to Jesus' gift to us.

Hope For The World

Pastor Jim Horne stops for a visit to teach us one of the many lessons he has learned in his travels across the world. Jim teaches us the message that we are the "hope for the world" and how God's plans for us will help spread his love to others.

Voice of Hope

Pastor Guy brings us Part 9 of the series "Keep It Real" with a strong message about being "A Voice of Hope." He talks about how it is important to engage with other people and invite them to know Jesus so they too can live in God's grace.

Humanity

Pastor Guy brings us the 7th part of the series "Keep It Real" by teaching on the core belief of "Humanity." He teaches how God can use our lives to touch the lives of others, and reminds us that God can't help guide us if we don't take the first step.

The Church

Pastor Ken takes the stage a message in our series "Keep It Real" and talks about the church. He points to the Bible to give us a clearer understanding of how staying connected to the church will give God opportunity to bless our lives.

A Child of God

Pastor Guy takes part 5 of the series and talks about our identity as Christians that "Keep It Real." He teaches us that through Christ we are no longer slaves to fear, but we can trust we are all children of God.

The Bible

Pastor Guy takes the stage for the fourth part of "Keep It Real" with the realness of the Bible. He encourages us to make time to read the Bible, and to follow God and His truth for your daily lives.

Following Jesus

Pastor Rob brings us part three of the series "Keep It Real" with the third core belief "Following Jesus." He shows us how we should be looking first to Jesus to make changes in our lives, as we do His will in our lives.

Prayer

Pastor Guy continues to "Keep It Real" with the second core belief of "Prayer". He teaches the importance of prayer in our daily lives, and how it helps us stay connected to God.

Worship

Pastor Guy kicks off a new series "Keep It Real" with the first core belief we can take into the real world. He introduces us to the maxim of the series "Belief produces Behavior" and "Behavior reveals Belief" as he starts the series.

Your Story

Pastor Rob talks about the building of your story in the third part of the series "I Am Second." He encourages us to focus on being in the second seat of blessing to then see how our story is part of a larger story.

A Place of Blessing

Pastor Bill takes the stage for part 2 of the series "I am Second" by teaching us how being second is being in a place of blessing. He talks about how being second to Jesus can only improve our lives and prepare our hearts for better living.

Who Wants To Be Second?

Pastor Guy starts a new series called “I Am Second” and teaches that second really is the place of blessing. Do you believe that? He illustrates for us how having more of Jesus doesn’t make you less, it makes you a better you.

Peter

Pastor Ken Brummel brings us the final message in our series "Just Like Me" with a story of Peter. He relates the story of Peter walking on the water to Jesus to our every day lives and challenges.

Barnabas

Pastor Guy takes the stage for the second part of the series "Just Like Me" and brings us a lesson of encouragement. He talks about the life of Barnabas and gives examples of how we can be more like him through encouragement with our spiritual gifts.

Jonah

Pastor Rob starts our new series "Just Like Me" with a relatable message to Jonah. He relates Jonah's story to how God speaks to our lives and how our alignment with God will help us see his will for us.

If You Knew What I've Done...

Guest speaker, Josh Amstutz, stops by to finish the series "Lies We Believe" with his message. He talks about how God designed us to be dreamers, and how those dreams are part of God's plan for us and not to "Let go of the dream" and let the dream die because of our past.

Good Christians Don't Suffer

Pastor Rob takes the stage for part 4 of our current series "Lies We Believe." Rob tackles the lie "Good Christians don't suffer" and gives sound advice about how to deal with hard times, and trials in your life.

God Doesn't Care

Pastor Guy teaches part 3 of the series "Lies We Believe" to debunk the lie "God doesn't care..." Pastor Guy gives us a foundation of biblical truth and tests we can look at in our own lives to see God working.

God Is Not Enough

Pastor Bill continues our series "Lies We Believe" with a lesson on temptation. He teaches how the devil can use our positive momentum to derail God's plan for us, and how we can battle those temptations by realizing that "God Is Enough".

First Lie Believed

Pastor Guy takes the stage to teach the first part of the new series "Lies We Believe". He teaches on how some lies, or belief in the lies, can desensitize us to our relationship with God, and how the truth can purify our lives.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness

Pastor Bill takes the stage to teach a lesson of forgiveness. He talks about the act of forgiveness shown to the woman who washes Jesus' feet as he visits Simon's house, and how forgiveness fuels our love for Christ.

Intentional Living

Pastor Guy gives a great message on the power of the seed. He gives great insight on how the seeds we plant in our lives and in others today, will come back around to you in the future.

Better Fighting

Pastor Guy wraps up the series "For Better Or..." with a session on "Better Fighting." He gives us the 4 Apocalyptic Horsemen of marriages and how to combat them, as well as 6 steps for "Better Fighting."

Love Is A Choice

Pastor Bill takes the stage for the third part of the series "For Better Or..." about marriage and relationships. Bill brings biblical examples around the theme of "Love is a Choice" and also gives examples of how we can love like Jesus did to make our marriages stronger.