FBC Lubbock Podcast

  In the most adverse of circumstances, Paul offers imperatives resulting in a peace that surpasses all understanding.#PeaceImperatives

 Throughout the entirety of scripture the word “behold” is held forth as an assurance of hope for the people of God#BeholdHope 

 The punchline of forgiveness is no laughing matter.#AHauntingDestruction

Though many have sought to reduce faith down to nothing more than the intellectual belief of certain truth claims, we hauntingly aware of the expectations of true belief.#Expectations

 Some are so haunted by constant worry, it's as if all of life is about waiting for bad things to happen.#ExpensiveWorries

 What are the giants that haunt your fears? There is another reality in which your life can exist.#FaithYourFears

 Whether the baseball diamond or Federal court, one maxim remains constant, “Three strikes and you're out.” #Graceball

The disappointment that God often says “No” to our prayers, can easily cloud the miracle that he answers at all.#RequestDenied

What could you possibly have in common with a prophet like Jeremiah? At one time or another, we have all been riddled with feelings of inferiority.#ANewSelfPerception

 If it were possible to move beyond the regrets of the past, would you be interested? And all the people said, “Amen!”#FlippingTheScript

Christianity is not a religion of sanctuary decorum but a warfare for the soul of every person in the trenches of life.#BootCampMentality

 #fitcheck

 Out of all the major questions you may anticipate having to answer in the course of your lifetime, there is only one that carries the weight of eternal consequence.#TheUltimateQuestion

After mentioning in every chapter various patterns of destructive speech, James closes his letter by holding forth the one redeeming form of speech that is practiced exclusively by the church.#AboveAllElse

 In dealing with adversities of this present life, James offers an answer no one wants to hear: Patience.#WhyWait?

 #HelpWanted

 If we imagined life as a business to be built, is yours being built to last? Or does it represent the flavor-of-the-day fads and trends that seek to capture the moment?#BuiltToLast

 While Homer wrote, “Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid, ” James argue for even more words that are better left unsaid.#WordsBetterUnsaid

 What happens when the heart is in the wrong place?#SitusInversus

 If intelligence is the acquisition and assimilation of information, wisdom is its application for a greater good.#WiseUp

The journey of faith has freed us to experience more, know more, and want more, than could have ever been realized under the restraints of the “present evil age.”#WantMore

 #HWJDI

 Though James speaks directly regarding the office of teachers, the fact is, by our words and actions, every confessing believer is teaching a watching world something about what it is to be a follower of Christ.#AStricterJudgment

Claims of faith are not left to their own subjectivity. When real, it will bear forth, objective, observable evidence.#InnocentOrGuilty

Within a secular society, and under any given political ideology, equality is an impossible ideal. In the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, however, it is a non-negotiable expectation.#PlayingFavorites

 James makes clear the difference between a religious show and a faith that shows#Showtime

 Faith isn't so much a cognitive exercise of belief as it is the active exercise of what you believe.#ErgonomicFaith 

 Knowing what we know regarding the Gospel, places us in a position of immeasurable influence.#WordPower

 Most people do well in resisting everything except temptation.#ResistanceTraining

 #Remember

 While God's love for all is unconditional, there is one condition in particular that proves out eternal life.#EnduringProof

 When you catch what you're chasing, what will you have when you've got it?#LifePursuit

 As the church, we best bear witness to the reality of the resurrection not in our Easter Sunday participation but our every day manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit.#EasterTherefore

 James offers the keys to acquiring a wisdom that exemplifies practical righteousness in everyday living.#JustAsk

 In the growing reality of secularity, our task is not to look less like the church that the masses might find us attractive. On the contrary, it's only as we reflect the witness of a living hope, even in our hardships, that we become the Real Presence we are called to be.#AnEthicalMatrix

 For our friends that are skeptics of the faith, Nathanael is a refreshing testimony of willing and thoughtful inquiry.#LookBeforeYouLeap

 March 12, 2023

 Does it even matter that Jesus is the Messiah? Does it matter to you?#AsAMatterOfFact

 When is an ending never-ending? When it comes to the work of the gospel.#ToBeContinued

 By examining the heart of, arguably, the greatest missionary to have every lived, we discover heart necessary to being a missional people.#HeartDrive

 Scripture challenges us to envision a salvation so much larger than how you have chosen to define it. We don't dictate to God how his salvation is to be defined.#UnityIsn'tUniformity

 Scripture challenges us to envision a salvation so much larger than how you have chosen to define it. We don't dictate to God how his salvation is to be defined.#UnityIsn'tUniformity

 Whether it is a full engagement of the political processes that govern a nation, or a fearful withdrawal from the established structures of society, either is a departure from the biblical and strategic intent for the people of God.#SubversiveIntent

 #GoesALongWay

 Comfortable, manageable, predictable; these are words that most frighten me in the life of faith, because it's only in the discomforting, unfamiliar situations, and unpredictable ends, that we grow in life and faith.#OnTheWayToNotKnowing

 Don't get comfortable! Being a commissioned people means we have been sent out from a place from which we were never intended to stay.#GoInDiscomfort

It defines you, it determines everything you do, it is how everyone sees you and perceives you to be, it is the one thing that must be resolved in your life.#ResolvingIt

 That the word became flesh and dwelt among us is evident for all to see, but is overlooked by most.#FleshingOutChristmas

 12/18/2022

Joy is not circumstantial. Being a fruit of the Spirit, it is expected in all circumstances#AJoyfulTrifecta

 Sometimes you can only dream of a peace that comes from the reconciliation of things that seem irreconcilable.#DreamPeace