Episodes
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
11-01-20 Kevin Goins - After 2020 Can We Look to 2021 with Hope? Annual Report
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
After 2020 Can We Look to 2021 with Hope?
Romans 8:18-30
I In Romans 8:18-30 Paul gives us ___________ reasons why we should face the coming year with hope.
II First, we ought to hope because only hope can help us see our disappointments in the _________________ way.
(8:18) “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”
A. What does Paul mean?
1. First, suffering p________________ us for the glory which lies ahead.
(1Peter 1:6-7) “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold – may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
2. Second, suffering helps us to see things as they ____________ are.
(2 Corinthians 4:17-18) “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes, not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
B. Paul reminds us that for a Christian there is far more happening in our lives than what we can _______________.
III Second, we ought to hope because God has built hope into his entire _________________.
(8:19-23) “The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly and as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”
(Genesis 3:17) “Because of your sin, cursed is the ground because of you.”
A. The effect of the physical creation being cursed is that nature is now _____________ _________________.
B. Because the physical world is c__________________ to us, it too is seeking what we are seeking: It wants God to make things ______________.
(Revelation 21:1) “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.”
IV Third, we ought to hope because our hope does not depend on what we can see with our p_______________ e_________.
(8:24-25) “For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.”
A. Pastor Jennifer Bliss-Criswell (Worship Report)
B. Paul and Nancy Gieschen (Discovery Class Report)
C. Margaret Goins (ESL Report and Children’s and Youth Report)
V Fourth, we ought to hope because the one who makes hope possible is the ______________ ______________ who lives within us.
(8:26-27) “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.”
VI Finally, we ought to hope because for the Christian, hope is never a __________________.
(8:28-30) “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.”
VII We have hope as a church because a church is made up of people who know _______________ and everyone who knows __________________ has hope.
Hebrews 6:19 “We have this hope as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul.”
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
11-03-19 Kevin Goins - Our City, Our Calling
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
“Our City, Our Calling” Jeremiah 29:1-14
Is there a Scripture text which speaks specifically to us about our calling at FAC? That is what I have been looking for, and I believe the Lord has provided it in these words of Jeremiah.
I What is happening here in the twenty-ninth chapter of the prophetic book of Jeremiah? The leaders of the Jews have been ___________ to Babylon (29:1).
II In his letter, Jeremiah makes ________ points:
A. First, God’s people are called to the p__________, p_________, s___________ city (29:4-9).
1. We are just like the Judeans in Jeremiah’s day – the New Testament calls Christians, “_____________.”
2. God says, “I want you in this strange city because I can d____________ and r___________ your faith here, and you can do __________ to the people of this city.
B. Second, God’s people must offer an a____________ to the v__________ of this city (29:10-14).
1. God says he banished them, not to _____________ them, but to give them a chance to decide what is truly ____________ to them.
2. When we wake up and find that we are in Babylon, there are three things that we can do:
a. We can give our ___________ to Babylon.
b. We can build a _____________ and never allow ourselves to become a ________ of this city.
c. We can live in Babylon in such a way as to bring the ___________ of ______ to this city.
C. Third, God’s people must ________ and ________ for the city.
-We are to pray, not only that people will _________ Jesus, but that they would be whole in their mind, body, career, relationships, finances - in ________ way.
III This is where we live. This is where ______ put us. This is our _____________.
Sunday Nov 04, 2018
11-04-2018 Kevin Goins - A New Year for FAC
Sunday Nov 04, 2018
Sunday Nov 04, 2018
“A New Year for FAC” James 4:13-17
Today is our Annual Meeting, but rather than think about where we have been and where we want to go, which I have covered in the Annual Report, I want to direct our attention to something far more important: our commitment to seek the will of God in all we do. It is foolish to make plans without seeking and doing God’s will. Why?
I First, planning for the future without seeking God’s will is u__________ (4:13-14a).
II Second, planning for the future without seeking God’s will is a______________ (4:14b-16).
A. James says our life is like a m_______.
B. Making plans for FAC without seeking God’s will is like making an e______ b_______.
III Third, Planning for the future without seeking God’s will is s_________ (4:17).
A. God defines sin, not only as doing what we know to be w________, but also as not doing what we know to be r________.
B. When we live without any concern for God’s will, we are denying his sovereignty (his right to r_______ over us).
IV What is the answer to all this? What is the correct way to plan for the future? We must say, verse 15, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will l_______ and d_____ this or that.”
V This brings up a separate issue: ____ do I determine the will of God in a p____________ instance?
A. First, to know God’s will in a particular situation we must s____________ ourselves to the will of God.
B. Second, if we want to know God’s will, we must _______ _______.
C. Third, we must s__________ God’s _______.
D. Fourth, we need to learn to read the p________________.
E. Fifth, we need to t_____ s______ in the direction in which God is leading us to go.
Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
10-29-17 Annual Meeting Sunday
Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
Once a year we take a Sunday and give opportunity to our ministry leaders to talk about what God's done through their ministry and what they see coming next.
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
11-06-16 Annual Celebration Service
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016