Faith Community Fellowship Pastors @ FCF

Message by Todd Crosthwaite, Lead Pastor

Life is a series of restarts.

Some people stop starting.

We stop starting when we stop believing.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

Great life stories get written when you believe.
The BEST life stories get written when you believe AGAIN!

The church should be the best place on earth to believe again, hope again and trust again.

With God, what we will see comes from nothing we currently see.

Hebrews 11 [NLT]

We lose hope when we project past failures onto future situations.

WHAT in your life needs a restart?
WHO in your life needs a restart?

Message by Todd Crosthwaite, Lead Pastor

500 years
Moses > Joshua > judges > King Saul > King David

David: PASSION

God is always allowing us to decide how we want to relate to Him.

Passion: emotion // distractions

Psalm 36:5-7

a picture of God

PIC 1

A.W. Tozer: “The most important thing about a person is what comes to their mind when they think about God.”

PIC 2

We are tempted to define what God is like based on our ability to interpret life circumstances.

God is loving, faithful, righteous, and just.

God is worthy of our sustained passion.

What does your God look like?

Message by Bob Crosthwaite, Pastor Emeritus

False
Evidence
Appearing
Real

**Face Everything And Rise!**

Matthew 14:22-27

Fear is a very normal response to an impending situation, either real or imagined.

Matthew 6:25-34

Anxiety, in medical terms = a mood state.

A normal human emotion that everyone experiences at one time or another.

John 14:1, 27

Toxic worriers: paralysis by analysis.

Anxiety is “our” keeping, or maintaining, control of the situation.

“Worry is the interest paid on trouble before it arrives.”

See Luke 12:22-34

Philippians 4:6-7

Message by Todd Crosthwaite, Lead Pastor

Moses: PASSOVER

Abraham > Isaac > Jacob > Joseph > Egypt> 400 years > Moses > I AM

Exodus 11:9
Exodus 14:17-18
Exodus 12:12-13
Exodus 19:20

God gave the Law to a group of people who were already in a relationship with Him.

Exodus 20:1-3
> That’s the pattern of a relationship with God.
>>“I am the God who initiates relationship.”

Law was never given as a means to get in to relationship with God.
There’s something in us that wants to earn our way.

Are you trying to earn God’s acceptance?…
“God, I accept your acceptance of me.”

Message by Todd Crosthwaite, Lead Pastor

Abraham: Promise

Genesis 11:27-32
Genesis 12:1-4

3 Promises:
I will make you a great nation.
I will make your name great.
All peoples of the earth will be blessed through you.

Galatians 3:8

Why?
Genesis 15:1-6

What God wants most from us is to trust Him.
Trust paves the way to relationship.

What do you have a hard time trusting God with?

“Lord, bring me to the place where I’m able to trust you with __________.”

Message by Todd Crosthwaite, Lead Pastor

Genesis 1 & 2

Adam - POTENTIAL

...one rule

Genesis 3:1-12

Paradise > deception > distrust > disobedience > death

Romans 5:12

What do we do now?

Vs 9:
God wanted Adam to know where Adam was.
God wanted Adam to know that He was looking for Him.

Genesis 3:21

The only thing keeping me from God’s grace is my hiding and my blaming.

Are you hiding? Are you blaming?