First Friday Fellowship

First Friday Fellowship
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FirstFridayFellowship.com is a visual/audio arts ministry, that focuses on producing short-form video and audio content, for the purpose of adding to the conversations of illuminating The Word.

  1. May 1

    "Just Say No!"

    We all know what sin is. Simply, if it goes against God's Word, or God has convicted us in our hearts, or puts anything in our life before Him and His will for our life, then by definition, that's sin. We struggle, of course, with all kinds of sin, and being a Christian, for sure, doesn't put us above it or beyond it; In fact, sometimes the closer we get to God, the more sin tries to hunt us down.  What should we do when we struggle with sin? Here's our pattern… We choose the path that we know we shouldn't choose. If we do love God and we do know right from wrong, we feel guilty. And then, Satan, whose very name means, “Accuser,” he gets in our ear, and he reminds us of every detail of our failure, and how unworthy of forgiveness we truly are.  We can handle this one of two ways… The accusation from Satan in our ear, in our hearts, can take us away from God and send us hiding. OR… If we really know who God is, and we use the wisdom that he's given us, we run to His throne, and we beg for His mercy, and we beg for His forgiveness. Those choices are critical, and make all the difference.  That heart of our submission to God's will, needs to be a lot more pure.  It’s no different than working out… Any muscle that you want to get stronger, you HAVE to overload it, and then you have to PUSH and RESIST against that load. YOU HAVE TO WORK. That's how you get muscles stronger. You can't just give up as soon as you feel the pressure, if you have any intention of getting better, getting stronger, improving.  We are responsible for our decisions. And while we can take peace, in a perfectly merciful father who is always ready to forgive, it's our responsibility to at least begin the process of getting stronger, and actually push back against the resistance.  Resistance takes many forms, and we want to encourage you with anything that you’re struggling, there is help in the body of Christ. There are professionals, and ministers, and therapists, and stuff that can help us. LOOK FOR THAT HELP!  We have to focus on getting stronger, putting up a resistance, and in turn, developing those muscles to a point, where we can be a great example to the world around us, and to the people that we love.

    6 min

  2. Apr 1

    “I Think Michelangelo Got It!”

    The first time I saw  the Michelangelo painting, “The Creation of Adam,” I was struck by the hands. The hand of God, and the hand of Adam, are telling the whole story.  God is reaching, and stretching his fingers, and fully spread out, trying to connect with Adam. Adam is relaxed, passive, his wrist is hanging. His hand isn't reaching for anything.  This is the WHOLE PICTURE of our relationship with God.  God pursues a relationship with us. He wants to be in our life. He loves us, and He's working moment by moment, to connect with us.  But, in our passivity, and our careless comfort, we continuously create a gap.  The beauty in the painting is the truth of it. Adam can hardly be bothered to reach back. Yet, God constantly pursues us, constantly loves us, constantly  pursues our souls. The Bible says, that it is His heart that NOT ONE of us is lost. He wants us all to be saved.  But just like Adam, how many of us are sitting back, passive and relaxed, waiting for the God of the universe to find us?  How about we put out a little effort? What if, instead of passively going through life, what if we started to take a direct interest in the things that God actually cares about?  What if we actually started reaching our hand back? What kind of amazing things could He do in our lives?  A gift as great as eternal salvation, a gift that was paid for by the BLOOD OF KING JESUS, is not something to treat passively. How about we reach back? How about we try?  Luke 15:4-7 / 1 John 4:19 / Hebrews 13:5

    5 min

  3. Mar 1

    "Faith without Works, is actually DEAD!"

    We are good at “Grace” in the modern Western world. Not necessarily the “Biblical Grace” that the Bible teaches. More like the, “I can do whatever I want and say sorry, and you have to forgive me” kind of grace. When God was made mortal, and the price of grace was HIS blood, and HIS pain and HIS suffering, our freedom was purchased, and it wasn’t purchased cheaply. If we as believers have genuine faith, we will produce genuine fruit. And God will use that fruit to nourish anyone who come across us. That's why when James said, “Faith without works is dead,” that's a TRUE statement. It doesn't mean your salvation is dependent on works. What it does mean is, if you have genuine faith, all of a sudden you're going to start doing something with it. It's going to start producing good stuff. You're going to start using your resources of time, and money, and energy, to share God's GOOD NEWS for all of mankind. So, when the Bible says, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven.” What He means is, there's people out there throwing that "Jesus” name around, and throwing that “Lord” name around, and claiming this, that, and the other. But, God sees the heart. He sees whether that belief is real. And based on that, will determine whether or not we inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. Matthew 7:21 / Galatians 5:6 / James 2:26

    7 min

  4. Feb 1

    "Do What He Says!" (Luke 6: 46-49)

    I read something recently on social media, “Believing in Jesus, but not doing what he says, is the same thing that Satan does.” How many of us know what idolatry is?  Idolatry, quite simply, is making a god in an image, and assuming power that it has that makes us comfortable; A god that cares about, what WE care about, and wants what WE want. A god that is in alignment with all our various proclivities. If we believe in something… ANYTHING… amazingly, so does our god.  A god made in OUR image, is a god that makes US comfortable. And we can be in agreement with everything that this god tells us. We are called to take up our cross and follow Jesus. If we TRULY follow the Jesus of the Bible, we will not be the most popular people in our social groups. We probably won't even be invited to all of our church gatherings.  Hell will be full of people that believe in Jesus, but don't really concern themselves with what He wants for their life, or ever choose to live a life that showed that Jesus was even in it.  We don't get to choose what we like and what we don’t, because WE ARE NOT GOD.  Either God is sovereign over our hearts, and it is HIS will in our life, not ours, or He's not.  Anything other than COMPLETE WORSHIP, and bowing down to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the man described in the Holy Bible, the one who was killed and resurrected three days later… Anything other than that, is idolatry. Satan believes in Jesus. He just doesn't really care about following what Jesus says.

    6 min

  5. Jan 1

    "Go and Make Disciples... But, Don't Forget the 'Go!' Part" (John 20:21)

    God commands us to, “Go and make believers of all nations.”  God gave us the machine. He gave us the Holy Spirit. He gave us the horsepower. He gave us words, attitudes, and behaviors that can that can share His goodness to the world.  So, when we become Christian, when we accepted Christ as our Savior, and surrendered to His will, we were given the keys to that race car. We were given the keys to the kingdom.  We upgraded our performance in the spiritual realm, to the equivalent of a Formula One race car.  In essence, the car that God put us in to race in the spiritual world, is built for competition and spiritual warfare. It's built with eternal stakes in mind.  We are not given the gift of the Holy Spirit and spiritual excellence to sit in our ivory towers, to drink coffee with all the other believers and talk about how broken the world is. God is the master engineer. He is the pit boss. He is the creator of this whole sport that we call life.  He is sending us out to engage the world around us, to to share THE GOOD NEWS, and to reach the lost. That is the Great Commission. This is what we are called to do. The “Go!” means get out of our church, get out of our Bible study, and engage in the world around us.  Because this race that we're in, this is for eternity.

    6 min

  6. 12/15/2025

    "Oops... I Blew It, Time to Hide"

    God only gave Adam and Eve ONE RULE… Don't eat from the Tree of Knowledge; and because we have this really predictable pattern in human nature… We SIN… We RUN AWAY.  So, when we mess up, don’t hide from it. Don’t avoid the consequences of it. Don't be like Adam and Eve and hide, because we're naked and ashamed. Let's RUN TO our merciful King, and come before his throne, in honesty and thanksgiving. Ask for his mercy, and be healed in Jesus's name. AMEN. #Genesis 3:8-9 / #John 3:19 / #Hebrews 4:15-16

    5 min

  7. 12/01/2025

    "Be Hot or Cold... Lukewarm is Over!"

    Being a follower of Christ, especially in today's world, is not a place for a lukewarm commitment.  As a Christian, we are called to take up our cross, and follow Christ. This cannot be done, when we are concerned with pleasing everyone.  Be truthful, be authentic, and stand up for what you know to be true.

    9 min

  8. 11/15/2025

    "Truth Will Be Resisted... Be Prepared!"

    The closer that we draw to Christ, the closer that we draw to TRUTH, Satan ends up taking a much greater interest, and real world dangers RAMP UP. How do we deal with this?  The Bible says, to always be ready to make a defense for the joy that we have in Jesus. Be ready! Know your story! Be ready to share it! Tell people why! And then speak the truth in love, and in Jesus’ name; Because, there is NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN, in which someone can be saved.  THE TRUTH WILL SET US FREE!

    6 min
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FirstFridayFellowship.com is a visual/audio arts ministry, that focuses on producing short-form video and audio content, for the purpose of adding to the conversations of illuminating The Word.

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  • Creator
    First Friday Fellowship
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    94
  • Rating
    Explicit
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