Faith Community Fellowship Pastors @ FCF

Message by Bob Crosthwaite, Pastor Emeritus

PART 1: That's A Funny Name

Ecclesiastes 3:4
Psalm 126:2
Proverbs 17:22
Genesis 17:19

Genesis, chapters 15 -21

Some Benefits of Laughter:
1, Helps us not to take ourselves too seriously.
2, Helps the healing process: physically, psychologically, and spiritually.
3, Helps us maintain balance in a crazy world.
4, Helps us (and our surroundings) stay sane.
5, Empowers us to live more into the image of God.

“If you have never seen God smile, nor heard Him laugh, you don’t know Him very well.”

Great News: The Power of Jesus’ Blood
Leviticus 17:11
Matthew 26:28
Luke 22:20
Acts 20:28
Romans 3:25
Romans 5:9
Ephesians 1:7
Colossians 1:20
Hebrews 9:14
Hebrews 9:11
Hebrews 10:19
Hebrews 13:12
1 Peter 1:18-19
1 John 1:7
Revelation 1:5
Revelation 7:14
Revelation 12:11

Revelation 5:12

**Turn your eyes upon JESUS!

Message by Todd Crosthwaite, Lead Pastor

Zedekiah: PRIDE

2 Chronicles 36:11-16

When the creature unplugs from the Creator, we make self-destructive decisions.

Jeremiah 52:4-11
**Jeremiah 21:2

2 Chronicles 36:19-23

God disciplines His disobedient children... not to pay them back but to win them back.

The only way to avoid the discipline of God is to surrender to the Spirit of God.

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.”