Watch or listen to sermons preached from the pulpit at Fairview Baptist Church.
Parenting
What is the goal of Christian parenting? How do we deal with the hearts of our children and not just behavior? Deuteronomy tells us to be diligent to teach our children in all walks of life. This sermon looks at a few unbiblical parenting methods and demonstrates what biblical parenting is. Parents, if you are feeling the weight of inadequacy. If you feel that you are terribly inconsistent. If you are feeling that you’ve already ruined it with your children.…
Family Religion
The practice of family worship has again fallen into neglect. See the biblical foundation, the application and motivation for family worship. Then say with Joshua, “as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
The Honor of Marriage
Marriage should be honored among all. Certainly not natural to our secular society today. Here is a call to honor what God honors. Here is a warning of God’s judgment for those who defile marriage. We examine why marriage should be honored, how we can honor it, and finally, a grave warning from Scripture concerning those who do not honor marriage.
Love and Hospitality
The center of the Christian home is Christ and what proceeds from that center is love. As the sun sits at the center of our universe and from it proceeds rays of light, so to Christ sits at the center of the Christian home and from it proceeds rays of love. This love is not just in word but in deed. In this text, we consider hospitality and caring for the needs of others. May God empower us to this…
A Kingdom that Cannot Be Shaken
We’ve not come to Mount Sinai but Mount Zion. We are called to be part of this new covenant people of God. Be sure that you do not refuse him who is speaking. Here is Christ’s invitation to sinners to come and be rescued. To come and have life. See to it that you believe in him and cling to him until the end.
Three Deadly Traps
* Note: The are some problems with the audio recording during this sermon. As we strive for holiness there are a number of traps or dangers that must be avoided. There are dangers that keep people from obtaining the grace of God. May God grant us grace to overcome.
Strive for Holiness
Hebrews 12:14 calls us to strive for peace with everyone and to strive for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. There is a holiness that is necessary to see the Lord and we are called to strive for it. What does that look like? How do we remain Christ-centered and gospel-driven as we strive for this holiness? We consider these and other important questions surrounding this important verse.
Enduring Hostility
We live in a world where people can lose jobs, income, family and friends, simply because they are Christians following the Lord Jesus Christ. However, this isn’t new. The Christians the letter of Hebrews was written were also losing homes, lands, jobs, family, and were being shunned by their community. It is in the midst of this that we must endure and look to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and remember the Father’s discipline which is training us for…
Response to the Resurrection
Thomas went from skeptic to martyr for the faith. His eye-witness evidence, along with the rest of the apostles gives us confidence in the reality of the resurrection. Faith is not believing something contrary to the evidence. In fact, to disbelieve in the resurrection is to believe contrary to all the evidence. Christ’s death and resurrection was a publicly witnessed historical event. This gives us great confidence to live our lives, entrusting them to Christ in all things.
Looking to Jesus
The Christian life is likened to a race. Are you prepared for this race? Are weights and sin holding you back? Do you know the key to living the Christian life? Do you know what it means to look to Jesus? These questions and more are answered in this text. What we see is how we are to be prepared and how we are to run. We’re encouraged since Jesus is the one who initiates and completes our faith and…
A Cloud of Witnesses Part 3
Here is a call to expect great things from God and attempt great things for God. With world-changers like Moses, Gideon, David and Samuel who have gone before us, we are called to imitate their faith. They trusted God and changed the world. We too are called to trust God and attempt great things for him. Are you going to live a wasted life? Or are you going to live it for God, trusting him and attempting great things for…
A Cloud of Witnesses Part 2
As we continue through Hebrews 11, we consider Abraham and his family. He is a pattern for faith that we are called to imitate.