Faith Family Church

Faith Family Church

Welcome to the Faith Family Church Podcast, our hope is that you'll be inspired and encouraged with messages from God's Word for the Faith Family Church community in Baytown and Crosby, Texas. Our mission is to lead people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ by helping them Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, and Make a Difference. Through this podcast, you'll experience our dynamic services, engaging sermons, and practical discussions designed to strengthen your faith and enrich your daily life. Whether you're seeking spiritual growth, guidance in relationships, or encouragement in your personal journey, the Faith Family Church Podcast offers biblical wisdom and real-life applications to support you. Join us as we explore transformative topics, share personal experiences, and celebrate the love of Christ together. No matter where you are on your faith journey, you belong here. Stay connected with us through our website at myfaithfamily.org, and don't forget to subscribe to the Faith Family Church Podcast on your favorite platform to receive the latest episodes.

  1. Oct 25

    Make Room

    What if the miracle you’ve been asking God for isn’t waiting on your prayer, but on your willingness to make room for it? In this message, special guest Charlotte Gambill opens up 2 Kings 4 and shows us something we tend to skip right past. Before the Shunammite woman ever saw a child born to her barren womb, before her son was raised from the dead, before God restored everything the famine took, she did one simple thing. She built a room. She bought a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, and she made space for the man of God to stay. Every miracle that followed came through the door she opened. Here’s the truth that will stay with you long after this message ends: God doesn’t fill full. So many of our lives are full. Full of our agendas, our worries, our schedules, our tables. But God is not interested in adding to full. He’s looking for something to fill. And He will fill exactly as much room as we are willing to make. Charlotte walks through three places God is asking every one of us to make room right now. In our minds, so we start thinking the way He thinks instead of the way our problems think (Proverbs 23:7, Philippians 4:8). In our hearts, where our words reveal what is really there (Luke 6:45). And in our mouths, because God wants to use what you say this week to speak life into someone who is quietly thinking about quitting. You’ll hear about the widow in 1 Kings 17 who was asked to make a meal when she had planned her last one. The widow in 2 Kings 4, whose oil only stopped flowing when the jars ran out. The ten lepers in Luke 17 and the one who came back. And a story from Charlotte’s own home this summer that proves God always has a bigger agenda than the one we’re aware of. God is present. God is pouring out. He is actively moving on behalf of His children right now. This message leaves you with a simple, life-changing question: Is your life going to stay this size, or are you going to let Him make more room? Faith Family Church is a multi campus church in the greater Houston area with locations in Baytown, Crosby, League City, and our Español campus. Our mission is leading people into a growing relationship with Jesus. Learn more at myfaithfamily.org

  2. Oct 18

    Get Over Yourself So Others Can Get to Jesus

    Somebody used their influence on you. A parent, a grandparent, a Sunday school teacher, a friend who said “come and see.” That is the only reason any of us are here. And in the final week of Seeds, Pastor Josh asks the question most of us have been avoiding: what are you doing with the influence God gave you? In John 12, a group of Greeks come looking for Jesus, and He answers with a seed. “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.” Jesus was talking about His own life, and then He turned it on us. Whoever clings to their life loses it. Whoever lets go of it for His sake finds it. You were formed to be fruitful. John 15 says it plainly: when you produce much fruit, you prove you are His disciples and it brings glory to the Father. This message will meet you right where you are. Whether you have been quiet about your faith for years, or you think your issues disqualify you, or you keep postponing the conversation because you have already decided they will say no. Pastor Josh walks through why we hold back, and then gives three simple steps the Holy Spirit can use starting tomorrow: be bold, be real, be ready. God is already working in the hearts of the people around you. The seed may have been planted by someone else. You might be the one He has set up to water it. There is a coworker, a neighbor, a barista, a family member who is closer to Jesus than you realize, and God is orchestrating moments so your paths will cross. If you have ever wondered whether your life matters beyond you, this is the message you need to hear today. Write down your three. Pray for them. Pursue them. Invite them.

  3. Oct 11

    Multiplication

    What if some of what you have been calling “mine” was never meant to stop with you? Every harvest God brings into your life carries two things: bread and seed. Bread is for you to enjoy. Seed is for you to sow. Both come from the hand of a good Father, but they do not have the same purpose. In week 7 of Seeds: Tomorrow Starts Today, Pastor Grant opens 2 Corinthians 9 and shows us what happens when we learn to tell the difference. “Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.” 2 Corinthians 9:10 God is not holding out on you. He is the One who supplies. He is the One who makes it grow. And what He does in you, He wants to multiply through you. The comfort He gave you in your hardest season. The story of how He found you. The resources He placed in your hand right on time. None of it was random, and not all of it was meant to end with you. In this message, you will discover the difference between increase and multiplication. You will see why a seed has to leave your hand before it can multiply (John 12:24), how the comfort God gave you becomes comfort for someone else (2 Corinthians 1:3 and 4), and why what looks like “not enough” becomes more than enough in the hands of Jesus. You will also hear a bedside story that will change the way you see your own testimony. Someone in your world is waiting on the seed in your hand. God placed you near them on purpose, and He is already at work.

  4. Oct 4

    Still Struggling?

    If I'm really saved, why do I still struggle? If that question has ever followed you out of a church service, down the highway, or into a quiet moment where you wondered whether your faith is even real, this message is for you. In week 6 of Seeds, Pastor Josh Joines opens Matthew 13 and the story Jesus told about a farmer, a field of good wheat, and the weeds an enemy planted while everyone slept. When the workers offered to rip the weeds out, the farmer said no. He would not risk the wheat. That is how God sees you. The day you gave your life to Jesus, He planted His seed in you, and 1 Peter 1:23 calls that seed imperishable. It does not rot. It does not leave when you lose your temper on the way to church. Having weeds doesn't make you a weed. In this message you will hear: Why Jesus did not shed His blood to modify your behavior, and what He came to do The better question to ask when you feel like a failing Christian: if I'm not saved, why does this bother me so much? Why shame has never been a good fertilizer (Romans 8:1) What grace does. It never lowers the bar. It is God giving you the power to get over it (Titus 2:11 and 12) Three ways to grow what God planted in you: fix your eyes on Jesus, feed the seed, and cooperate with the Holy Spirit God is not standing over your life with a list of everything wrong with you. He is protecting what He planted, and He is growing it right now. Stay planted, and one day you will look back and say, look what the Lord has done. Scriptures in this message: Matthew 13:37-39, Romans 10:9-10, 1 Peter 1:23, 1 John 3:9, Romans 2:4, Romans 8:1, Titus 2:11 and 12, 1 Corinthians 15:10, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Hebrews 12:2, 1 Peter 2:2, Philippians 2:12 and 13, 1 John 1:9

  5. Sep 27

    Change Your Harvest

    Is there an area of your life you keep trying to change, but you keep getting the same results? Your marriage. Your money. Your mind. Your walk with God. You have prayed about it, you have wanted it to change, and it still feels stuck. In week five of Seeds, Pastor Josh asks the question that changes everything: could the harvest you are reaping today be coming from the seeds you planted yesterday? And then he gives the hope that comes right behind it. Your future is not stuck. God is not finished. You can reap a better harvest if you start planting better seeds, and God Himself will give you the faith and the wisdom to plant them. From Galatians 6, Mark 4, Genesis 8, Hosea 10, Joel 2 and Psalm 126, this message walks through five laws of the harvest that are just as true today as they were at the beginning of time. Seed not sown does not grow. You always reap what you sow. You reap later than you sow. You reap more than you sow. And the best news of all, you can reap where you did not sow, because Jesus reaped the harvest of our sin on the cross so we could receive the life we could never earn. If you have been planting the right seeds and nothing looks different above the surface yet, this message is for you. God is making life happen beneath the soil right now. He is never early and He is never late. At the proper time you will reap if you do not give up. Do not give up in the gap. Grab your Bible, open your notes, and let God speak to you today.

  6. Sep 13

    Resistance Training

    Somewhere along the way, many of us have heard the Word of God, and nothing changed. Not because God stopped speaking. Because something in us stopped receiving. In week three of Seeds, Pastor Josh Joines opens Matthew 13 and asks the one question none of us can answer for anyone else: Is the soil of my heart receptive or resistant to what God is trying to grow in me? Jesus said the same seed lands on four kinds of ground, and the dirt determines the seed's destiny. The Sower is faithful. The seed is alive and powerful. What happens next depends on the condition of the heart it lands in. This message names the resistance most of us never see coming. The heart that slowly hardens after hearing four hundred sermons on forgiveness and still refusing to make the call. The vow made in pain that was supposed to be a boundary but turned into a wall. The offense that took root at church, in the parking lot, in the group chat. The worry that quietly says if it's to be, it's up to me. The comfort of having enough that whispers you no longer need God. And then the good news that runs underneath all of it: hard ground is not hopeless ground. The same God who spoke through Ezekiel is still saying it today. "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." Hosea says break up the unplowed ground. Colossians 2 says let your roots grow down into Him. Jesus Himself says your heavenly Father knows exactly what you need and will take care of tomorrow. God is not waiting on you to fix your own heart. He is actively softening it, deepening it, and bringing a harvest from it right now. If you have felt stuck, shallow, or slowly going numb to the things of God, this message is for you. It is honest, it is funny, and it is going to leave you with three practical ways to become good soil this week: keep your heart soft, let your roots grow down, and let God be God.

  7. Aug 30

    Ready To Receive

    God is speaking. The question is never whether He wants to move in your life. The question is what is keeping you from receiving it. In week 2 of our Seeds series, Ready to Receive, Pastor Josh Joines opens up the parable of the sower in Matthew 13, where Jesus said, "Whoever has ears, let them hear." The seed is the Word. The soil is your heart. And God promises in Isaiah 55 that His Word never returns empty. It is looking for a place to work right now, in your family, your marriage, your finances, your mind. So why does it feel blocked sometimes? In this message, Pastor Josh names the four roadblocks that keep us from receiving everything God wants to produce in us: bias, busyness, blur, and blockage. Then he hands us four practical ways to become good soil: be open, slow down, test it, and act on it. If you have ever wondered why God feels silent, if your schedule is full but your soul feels empty, if you want to recognize the voice of God with confidence, this message is for you. God has not left you in the dark. He is a good Father who is actively working for your good, and He has a harvest He wants to bring into your life.

  8. Aug 23

    Growing Into Your Potential

    What if everything God wants to do in your life is already inside you, just waiting for the right environment to grow? In week one of our brand new Seeds series, Pastor Josh Joines holds up a single acorn and asks a question that will follow you all week: Am I becoming everything God created me to become? From the very first chapter of Genesis, God designed life around seeds, and He still works that way today. He gives the future in seed form; He does big things through small beginnings, and He is actively growing something in you right now, even when you can't see it yet. In this message, you'll discover why you can't judge your life by what you see today, why your potential is real but not automatic, and the three things you can actually do to grow: get planted, focus on the seed instead of the fruit, and trust the process. If you've ever felt small, stuck, or like your life isn't producing what you hoped, this word is for you. You're not defective. You may just need to get planted. "Blessed is the one whose delight is in the law of the Lord... that person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season." Psalm 1 If you've still got a pulse, God's still got a purpose for you. Watch this one with your notes open, because God is not done with you.

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Welcome to the Faith Family Church Podcast, our hope is that you'll be inspired and encouraged with messages from God's Word for the Faith Family Church community in Baytown and Crosby, Texas. Our mission is to lead people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ by helping them Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, and Make a Difference. Through this podcast, you'll experience our dynamic services, engaging sermons, and practical discussions designed to strengthen your faith and enrich your daily life. Whether you're seeking spiritual growth, guidance in relationships, or encouragement in your personal journey, the Faith Family Church Podcast offers biblical wisdom and real-life applications to support you. Join us as we explore transformative topics, share personal experiences, and celebrate the love of Christ together. No matter where you are on your faith journey, you belong here. Stay connected with us through our website at myfaithfamily.org, and don't forget to subscribe to the Faith Family Church Podcast on your favorite platform to receive the latest episodes.

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  • Creator
    Faith Family Church
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    242
  • Rating
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    © 2026 Faith Family Church
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