Watch or listen to sermons preached from the pulpit at Fairview Baptist Church.
Divine Medicine for the Needy
In a world filled with idols and the weight of sin, many of us feel spiritually low and burdened. Guest preacher Pastor Clint Humfrey challenges us to confront the idols in our lives and the heaviness we feel living in a broken world. He asks: “Are you searching for the divine medicine?”. Pastor Clint invites us to look beyond temporary fixes and turn to Christ, who is the only true medicine for the soul. Through His healing grace and the…
Eternal King, Endless Praise
We delve into the apostle Paul’s doxologies in 1 Timothy 1:17 and 6:15-16, where he erupts in praise for God’s sovereign kingship, immortality, invisibility, and holiness. Exploring these divine attributes, we uncover their profound practicality for Christian living, as they ignite gratitude, fuel delight, evoke worship, provide purpose, galvanize endurance, drive obedience, and reset perspective. By meditating on the greatness of the eternal King, we are equipped to live vibrant, God-honoring lives that reflect his glory and grace. Passage: 1…
Boasting in the Lord: True Happiness and Success
This sermon, drawn from Jeremiah 9:23-26, challenges the pursuit of happiness and success through worldly wisdom, strength, and wealth, as the people of ancient Israel did by imitating idolatrous nations. Instead, God calls us to boast in understanding and knowing him””his steadfast love, justice, and righteousness. While Israel faced judgment for their idolatry and pride, we are urged to avoid their folly by recognizing God as the ultimate Judge and Redeemer. True joy comes not from earthly achievements but from…
9 Reasons Not to Be Anxious
In this sermon, guest preacher Dr. Andy Naselli teaches us on nine reasons from Jesus Christ on the importance of not being anxious. Passage: Matthew 6:24-34
A Call to Worship the Living God
In this sermon, part of the series “The Living and True God,” Psalm 145 is explored as a earnest call to worship God for his divine attributes and mighty works. The Psalm, with its rich vocabulary of praise, emphasizes God as the worthy recipient of adoration. It reveals God’s God’s greatness, seen in his everlasting kingdom and reminds us of God’s goodness in his love for his people and all creation. This psalm calls us to overcome ignorance and pride,…
The Name of the Lord: Greatness, Goodness, and Justice
This sermon explores God’s self-disclosure to Moses in Exodus 34:6-7, where he proclaims his name and character, emphasizing his greatness, goodness, and justice. God’s greatness is seen in his self-existence and supreme sovereignty as “The LORD, the LORD,” unmatched in authority and power. His goodness is revealed through attributes like compassion, grace, patience, steadfast love, faithfulness, and forgiveness, inviting believers to draw near and imitate these qualities. Yet, his justice ensures that the guilty who do not repent face consequences,…
I AM: Knowing the Living and True God
The greatest problem facing society, families, and the church today is a lack of knowledge of God. This sermon, like the Bible, presupposes God’s existence and focuses on revealing who he is, particularly through his personal name, YHWH, translated as “I AM” in Exodus 3:14. This name signifies God as the self-existent, sovereign, unchanging, and covenant-keeping Lord, fully revealed in Jesus Christ, who is the “I AM” incarnate. There is transformative power in knowing God, which brings eternal life, holiness,…
The Exalted Christ: A Call to Joyful Worship
We explore the final moments of Jesus’ earthly ministry, focusing on his blessing of the disciples, his ascension, and the disciples’ response of worship, joy, and public praise. The blessing signifies a transition, not an end, as Jesus commissions his followers to continue his mission with divine favor. His ascension marks his exaltation, vindicating his obedience and completing his redemptive work. The disciples’ response””worshiping Christ, joyfully waiting for the promised Holy Spirit, and praising God together publicly””serves as a model…
From Resurrection to Mission: Proclaiming Christ to the Nations
Here we consider Jesus’ commission to his disciples to proclaim the gospel of repentance and forgiveness of sins to all nations. The sermon highlights three key points: the proclamation of Christ’s suffering, resurrection, and the call to repentance as foretold in passages like Joel 2 and Isaiah 49; the necessity of personal testimony, where believers share their own experience of Christ’s transformative grace; and the promise of the Holy Spirit’s power, which emboldens disciples to preach with courage and enables…
From Doubt to Divine Understanding
The sermon examines the encounter of the disciples with the risen Christ on the evening of the resurrection. We see their initial fear, doubt, and struggle to believe in the physical resurrection despite compelling evidence, reflecting the human tendency toward unbelief. Jesus addresses their doubts through his physical appearance, while emphasizing the necessity of understanding Scripture. This sermon shows that true enlightenment comes not from worldly rationalism but from God opening minds to grasp the Scriptures, revealing Christ’s identity, suffering,…
Declare the Glory of God
In this sermon, guest preacher Kevin Swanson emphasizes the importance of the Gospel and the need for Christians to declare its message to all nations, tribes, peoples, and languages. He highlights that not only should Christians share the Gospel, but they must also be genuinely excited about it, recognizing that it is the only message of hope and joy. Passage: Psalm 96
Jesus Revealed: The Christ of Scripture
This sermon explores how the Old Testament Scriptures prophetically reveal the identity, suffering, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as taught by Jesus himself to the disciples on the Emmaus road. By examining key passages like Psalm 110, Psalm 2, Deuteronomy 18, Psalm 22, Isaiah 53, and Daniel 7, the sermon demonstrates that Jesus is the promised King, Priest, and Prophet who suffered, died, and rose again according to God’s divine plan. It emphasizes the importance of biblical literacy in understanding…