Faith Community Church Tucson

God's Word shows us that even in our darkest, most disappointing, and most confusing chapters of life... that our sovereign God is transforming the story of our lives into total PRAISE!!

One of the most famous lines ever spoken in human history, had to be when Jesus (from the cross), cried-out and said – “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Take a walk some evening this week, look at the night sky, and worship God's majesty. Thank God every day this week for the dignity He conferred on you.

Psalm 2 talks about how to handle the stress and chaos in life.

Psalms are music: they help us invoke God, to thank God, and to praise God.

We don't just pray for the forgiveness of past sins, we need to pray that God would help us resist new temptations.

Jesus links God's forgiveness of us with our forgiveness of people.

Our Daily Bread

When we pray, "Your kingdom come..." what we are saying is... "I want this place to be shaped by You."

To pray “hallowed be Your name” means to ask God to let His name be worshipped, exalted, honored and adored on earth as it is in Heaven.

Whole Hog for the Scripture

Jesus models for us a simple but complete way to pray to God in heaven and for our needs.

Growing spiritually includes two perpetual, complimentary, irreplaceable disciplines!

Scripture speaks of the effectiveness of prayer and the sovereignty of God. These two characteristics are not inconsistent with each other. God ordains the means (faith and persistence) as well as the ends (answered prayer).

Real and lasting unity in the local church is only capable of achieving when we share a single message. ‘The Word of the Cross'…. The Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In spite of life's difficulties, we should be devoted to prayer. Each one of us want God's will to be accomplished in our lives – not only to us but through us.

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When people are saved and lives are changed it is because our Lord is at work within and among us.

When people are saved and lives are changed it is because our Lord is at work within and among us.

Memory Verse: Isaiah 12:2

If God's Word is to do its' work in our lives, we must keep our "noses" in the Book and receive the Scripture as the very Word of God.

No matter what accomplishments believers may achieve in this world, Jesus will always be better and worth it.

Paul points to Jesus as the example we are to follow in loving our eternal family. We may disagree on some small things but we are followers of Christ Jesus and we should follow His example in accepting one another … just as Jesus has accepted us.

Enjoy your lives as Christians; enjoy sweet fellowship with each other, and break bread together.

There is coming a day when we will stand before God's Judgment Seat for our works to be evaluated. On that day, there will be no excuses for what we should have done.

The Word of God ought to be such a thing for every believer that they love and delight in it and seek to do all that it asks of them.

Legalism is a destructive distortion of Biblical Christianity. Legalism hinders the freedom grace gives and makes minor matters the “test” of true spirituality. For the strong believer, freedom is not to become a stumbling block to the weaker believer. Nor is the weaker Christian to pass judgment on matters of opinion regarding Christian liberties.

Every believer needs to live their lives with a degree of anticipation and expectation of the Lord's return and in fervent effort of obedience in preparation for that day.

The goal for each one of us should be verse 8, owe nothing to anyone except to love one another.

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God is sovereign over all things and that includes human government. Romans 13:1 informs us that there is no authority except that which God has established – the authorities that exist in our day are under God's authority.

It is important to listen to God and learn from Him and His Word, and to make sure we are passing that knowledge along to the next generation.

James Chapter One

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This “love” is “agape,” the love of God. Here is the love God has for us and the love we are to have for each other. Jesus is the perfect example of agape love – love hates evil and clings to what is good.

“We must make a great difference between God's word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth, yea, greater than death and hell, for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly.” Martin Luther (1483-1546)

One key to spiritual vitality is not getting more from God but in giving God our all. Matthew 6:33, Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you.

Our strength comes from being plugged into the strength of God. Loving God with all our strength means making sure we are putting on the full armor of God so that we can love God with a greater intensity, and a higher level of quality, and a superior abundance.

God mercifully saves a people for Himself. He does this through His mighty power and grace.

To love the Lord with all of our mind means making sure that the "mind" doesn't simply justify what the heart loves. Instead, the mind makes the heart and will accountable to the written Word.

God has purposed to save all of His elect – our “names written in the Book of Life from before the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8). We must rest in His promises because God will surely finish what He has started (Psalm 138:8). God's “elect” are both Jew and Gentile.

How can anyone place their faith in the Gospel unless someone brings the gospel to them? Our “job” here and now is to “let your light shine.”