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Welcome to Week 6 of Follow. Today's lesson is on leadership. If Jesus is a leader worth following then he is a leader worth learning from on how to lead well. We don't often think of him as a leader in the classical sense but he must have done something right. He built his brand in only 3 years and he has thousands of franchises operating globally over 2000 years after he left.

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Our podcast has moved. To get the latest from Faith Mountain to https://pcr.apple.com/id1270374588 and subscribe. You can also watch video of our sermons on the Faith Mountain app. Go to http://fm.church/app to download the Faith Mountain app.

What are you wearing? And does what you are wearing communicate what or whom you follow? As we continue our summer series called "Follow", the discussion is about what defines us as Christians. It is not the shirts we wear, the fish on our cars, or the cross on a necklace around our necks that defines us. Love is what defines us, and love is displayed by our actions.

Last week, we started a new series called Follow and learned that being a Christian is not about religion but rather being in a relationship with Jesus. In our second week, we talk about different steps involved in being in that relationship. What is YOUR Next Step?

Over the last three weeks, our prayers have been about what we want God to do for us - Search Me, Break Me, Save Me. But what if we prayed more about what we could do for God? In our final sermon in the Dangerous Prayers series, we pray for God to Send Me.

In our third installment of the Dangerous Prayers series, we pray for God to "Save Me". You, at your very best, are never going to be good enough free yourself from slavery to sin. That is why God sent Christ Jesus to be the righteousness that we need. Through salvation in Christ our past is forgiven, our present is given purpose, and our future secured.

Could it be that all of our problems in life happen FOR us, not to us? We tend to engage in our little problems because the big ones scare us. But it is the big ones that drive us toward brokenness and dependence on something bigger than ourselves. Dependence on God. This week we are praying "Break Me".

So much of what we pray is generic, predicable, safe. Protect me, bless me, bless others. This series, Dangerous Prayers, is to help empower your prayers, and to experience a closer relationship with God. We start with David's plea to "Search me"

Have you ever made a mess messy-er? Some messes are unavoidable and if you are in the middle of a mess, there is no way to go back and unmake the mess. But with the mess you currently facing, there are some really bad options and you are being tempt to opt for something that will make you mess messy-er. This is the subject of our last sermon in the Address The Mess series.

Do you have a memory of happening upon a messy situation, then turning around and walking away from it? Our Address The Mess series up to this point has focused on our own messiness. Acknowledging that we are messes, that we create our messes. Today we will talk about how we can use messes as opportunities to love on others.

There is something about being forgiven and knowing it that is almost indescribable. While God doesn't magically fix all of our messes when we become Christians, the moment you feel His forgiveness is magical. That is when God begins to change you from the inside out.

As we continue in our series Address The Mess, we focus on messes that are so big, they seem impossible to clean up - especially alone. Messes so big we don't even know how to start the cleanup. The messes that bring us closer to God...

Church is for messy people. Because the church, if it teaches what the bible teaches, regularly talks about our messes. It is full of examples of people just like us - people who make mistakes and poor choices, and have to deal with the consequences. In our first sermon in the Address the Mess series, the topic is how the church should do more than just point out our mistakes...it should also offer solutions and help.

If you died tonight and found yourself at the gates of Heaven, and God asked you, "Why should I let you into My Heaven?", what would your answer be? Our Resurrection Day service is all about what it takes to get to Heaven.

In our third sermon in the Love Like Jesus series, we look at the imagery of breaking bread, or we might say fellowship, or community, of the first century followers, and how it compares to todays believers.

This is the second week in our series titled Love Like Jesus. As Jesus followers, our goal is to become more like Jesus in our attitudes, actions and lifestyles. Last week, we talked about forgiveness. To Love Like Jesus is to Forgive Like Jesus. It is not always easy to do, but it is definitely the right thing to do. This week we're going to look at the kind of love that displays itself through serving others. To Love Like Jesus means to Serve Like Jesus.

Our new series, Love Like Jesus, seemed most appropriate since Easter is the culmination of the most loving act in all human history. Jesus giving His life in exchange for ours. As Jesus followers, it is our goal to follow Him so closely that we begin to live as He lived, and love as He loved. This first sermon is on forgiveness.

In our third and final part of this series Crazy Like Us, we see practical solutions to making generosity a premeditated, calculated and designated part of our lives.

In the second of our three-part series on cultivating generosity, we learn how worry can create a "crazy" circle that can keep us from our full potential regarding generosity.

Everyone knows how to do generosity, but few of us know how to be generous. In the first of our Crazy Like Us series, we discuss what comes natural when it comes to our finances, and generosity

Our fourth and final Sunday in the I "Heart" My Church series is less a Sunday message and more of a Faith Mountain family conversation. The discussion focuses on what God has planned for Faith Mountain in order to grow the Church, HIS Church.

The Church is one body with many parts. OUR Church is one part of THE Church - the global body of Christ. OUR Church is made up of people who, if you've accepted Christ, are part of the body of Christ. The third sermon in this series focuses on OUR Church and it's purpose, and how it impacts our people and our community.

Our teaching passage today - 1 Peter 2:9-12 - calls us "a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession." We are who we are because of "whose" we are! In the 2nd sermon in 'I "Heart" My Church' we discover how to find our identity.

Bill Hybels one said, "the local church is the hope of the world". That's a pretty bold statement, almost arrogant. But it's only arrogant if it's not true. When we understand that THE Church is the only entity in the entire world getting the word our about the cure for death, the seeing it as the hope of the world makes perfect sense.

Virtually everyone has said "I wish I had more time ..." to whatever: rest, read, spend time with family, etc. But the truth is that we all have time for what we choose to have time for. In our fourth and final sermon in our I Choose series, the subject is choosing what is important over what is urgent.

John 16:33 says, "In this world, you will have trouble." The reality is that we will all experience pain in our lives. Some of this pain is beyond our control. In our third week of the I Choose series, we look at the pain that we can avoid by applying some discipline to our lives.

In the second week of our series called I Choose, Pastor Ben discusses surrendering control. All of us battle, in some area, wanting to control, but the reality is whenever we are trying to control something that is not ours to control, it is a reflection of a really big spiritual problem.

Imagine waking up every single day with passion and purpose in your life knowing deep down what you are created to do. It drives you and the approval of others does not distract you… It is the choice that Pastor Ben encouraged us to make: I choose purpose over popularity.

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Our final Carol in the series is O Come O Come Emmanuel. We focus on the name Emmanuel, which means "God is with us".

This week's Carol is Away in a Manger. While one picture the song brings is that of a newborn baby boy, there is another that focuses on his destiny as Lord. Over and over he is referred to as the "Little Lord Jesus". Since Jesus is referred to as Lord 740 times in the New Testament, today's sermon will help us to understand that he is LORD.

Our second week in the Carols series focuses on O Come All Ye Faithful. Originally written in latin and named Adeste Fideles, it is probably one of the most well-known carols known today.

We begin our Christmas series called Carols with O Holy Night

If you could ask God one question, what would it be? Our final sermon in our No Apologies series is driven by the single largest complaint people have with God. Why is there suffering in the world?

That Jesus is the only way to heaven is one of the most often cited objections to Christianity. It's offensive to some because it seems so narrow-minded, arrogant and bigoted. Today's sermon continues our No Apologies series with a discussion about this argument.

Throughout history, Christians have evangelized. They have shared the truths of Jesus' death and resurrection. So this morning we are going to talk about what evangelism looks like today in 2016.

Our culture is changing in major way, and we must train for new types of encounters. Our culture has a split brain problem. On the one hand, our culture craves facts, evidence and technology. On the other hand, our culture believes that ethics, values and religious issues are simply personal preferences, not grounded in facts. Today's sermon addresses some of the arguments non-believers use to justify their non-belief.

The Bible is central to the Christian Faith. Understanding what the Bible is and what it isn't, what it says and what it doesn't say, how to use it and how not to , is one of the most important lessons any of us will ever learn in relation to Christianity. Today's sermon tells us to stop reading it...and start studying it.

Today's guest speaker, Greg Koukl, helps us to better understand the story of Jesus, in the hopes that we will be able to relay the good news to others.

This week's sermon is from Crick Porier. He and his family are our missionaries in Estonia, and he has some wonderful things to share about what God is doing through their ministry.

Week one of our two week emphasis on missions focuses on David Roberts' ministry in Argentina.

Faith Mountain is 10 years old. Today's sermon visits some of the ways that God had blessed our church over the past 10 years.

Today's sermon is inspired by the 50th wedding anniversary of David and Johnnye Toney. Pastor Pat tells us what Jesus had to say about marriage...and divorce.

As we continue our Weird Not Weird sermon series, today we talk about the weird things that churches do.

Welcome to week 3 of Weird not Weird. The objective of this series is to put a spotlight on things we do and say as Christians that are weird to non-Christians. Things we do and say that might actually drive people away from considering Jesus instead of driving them to Him.

We are in the second week of our Weird series. We are talking about behaviors that believers fall into that make us weird to people who don't know Jesus. We have our own little language and mannerisms that are normal to us but really weird to non-Jesus people. Last week, we talked about the things we say that get in the way of our witnessing. But this week, we talk about how, more often than not, it is the things we do.

Today's sermon is the first in a series on the idea that we, as Christians, need to be different from the world around us. Jesus' teachings have incredible value, but would not be considered normal in today's culture. In order to obey Jesus, we need to be different - we need to be weird. But is it possible that we've become the wrong kind of weird?

We want our lives to count for something, toward something. As we continue our series on Genesis, we learn that God's purpose is for us to reflect Him and His glory.

As we continue in Genesis with the story of Noah, we find that even Noah was not immune to sin. But we also learn that no matter how far we fall, we cannot fall beyond the reach of God's grace.