Fellowship Bible Church Sermons

Luke 1:26-38 December 14, 2025 AM.We extend our "Perspectives on Christmas" series over the years with another one: Christmas from the perspective of God the Father. God the Father's perspective on Christmas must be ascertained from His revelation recorded for us in Scripture, primarily through the messengers who delivered His word. Join us as we examine one example of this in Luke 1:26–38.

Various December 14, 2025 SS.Someone who is peaceful is untroubled by an ongoing conflict, agitation, or commotion. They are “at ease,” in a state of well-being. The work of the gospel results in peace in the life of a Christian, but we make a mistake, however, if we hear “gospel of peace” and think only of a tranquil feeling of inner calm. That is not the peace of the gospel. A tranquil spirit is one side-effect of the gospel, but gospel peace is peace with God through Christ which extracts us from the status of being “enemies of God” (Romans 5:10, James 4:4).

Jeremiah December 10, 2025 PM.The book of Jeremiah is the record of Jeremiah's prophecies about the southern kingdom and surrounding nations, as well as some narrative about what happened during those days with Jeremiah himself and Jeremiah's interactions with King Zedekiah and other officials in the royal court. The book is focused on judgment as well as future restoration. It is a call to repentance, like many of the other prophets.

Psalm 96 December 7, 2025 PM.Missionary Benjamin Green and his wife Meredith, sent by Inter-City Baptist Church, share their desire to serve the Lord in Finland, followed by a message of worship to God. He teaches us that we who love the Lord must spread his praise and worship to the ends of the earth, because only God is worthy of worship, because only proclamation of His greatness will bring the nations to join in our worship, and only universal praise throughout the world is good enough to offer the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:1-3 December 7, 2025 AM.These three verses are convincing that Paul does not need letters of commendation to or from the Corinthians. They themselves are his best recommendation letter because of their conversion to the gospel. Christ wrote the genuine letter on their hearts, and a copy of the letter is on Paul's heart. Other people could read the recommendation for Paul's ministry just by looking at the work God had done through him in the lives of the believers. It should be the case that Christians are the best recommendation for faith in Christ. Your life, if you are a follower of Jesus, is an epistle written by Christ. Do the contents of that letter come across with clarity in your life, or are they crinkled up, hidden, stained, or sealed shut?

Various December 7, 2025 SS.At our Lord's Table service today, we were reminded that confession of sin leads to joy. Having joy is part and parcel of the experience of being a follower of Christ. Real joy starts with a saving relationship with Christ and there are many reasons for ongoing joy in life, for example that we are free from the guilty of sin. But sin steals joy. Thankfully, confessing sin can restore that joy (Psalm 51).

Proverbs 3:1-4 December 3, 2025 PM.The big idea in this sermon is that wise people internalize God's word in order to live by it. You will notice a pattern in the first 12 verses of the chapter where the odd-numbered verses are conditions or behavior that Solomon enjoins, and the even-numbered verses are the corresponding blessing that comes with obedience. The conditions are the Law of Moses restated. For example, see Deuteronomy 8:1-3. We are encouraged to carefully pay attention to the text of Scripture wherein is wisdom for us today; to ask questions about the text; use Scripture as we pray, and ask if my character causes people to despise me or respect me?

2 Corinthians 2:12-17 November 30, 2025 AM.Despite a particular hardship, Paul was able to thank God for victory in Christ and for advancing the gospel through him. Here is a lesson we can learn from Paul's shift of mindset from extreme distress to thanksgiving: always take yourself back to thanksgiving to God when you are in troubled circumstances. It will lift your spirits. Do not wallow in your miry thoughts, the negativity, anxiety, stress, restlessness, the past, the failures, or the baggage. You can go over and over the bad situation, and it will not change it one little bit. Instead, turn your brain toward thanks-thinking, and your spirit toward thanks-praying, and your lips toward thanks-speaking, and your emotions and focus will be lifted heavenward.

Various November 30, 2025 SS.A Christian is a thankful person, that is, a person who expresses gratitude and appreciation for what God has done, and in turn what others have done for them. God is working in us to develop ever-more thankful hearts, because thankfulness is a characteristic of holiness. A non-Christian is not thankful, at least not toward God, and maybe not at all. Thanklessness is a mark of those who do not recognize God's grace, His power or His divine nature (Romans 1:21). Thanklessness is a morally repugnant trait from which Christian salvation delivers us.

Various November 26, 2025 PM.For our Thanksgiving meditation this year, we considered many of God's blessings. Some of us can thank God that we have a new baby this year, a new car, a new bathroom, a healthy spouse, a living parent or parents, children who are growing in knowledge and wisdom, and many other particular gifts...

2 Peter 2:17-22 November 23, 2025 PM.2 Peter chapter 2 ends reminding us about the allure of false teachers and their apostasy. Their words are empty, they pray on weak Christians, and they promise the opposite of what they actually give. They had a so-called knowledge of God but were overtaken by the world. Peter takes false teachers very seriously, and so should we.

Psalm 23 November 23, 2025 AM.Guest speaker Pastor James Lorch charges his son Jansen at his ordination service to be a good shepherd, like the one we read about in Psalm 23. This shepherd feeds his flock, leads his flock, protects the flock, and cares for the flock. After the message, special prayer is offered for Jansen and his wife Kalee as they begin a new chapter in their ministry calling. The sermon connects Psalm 23 to New Testament shepherding passages and raises issues of application for the entire audience, whether pastor or not.

Proverbs 2 November 23, 2025 SS.Wisdom is found through diligent pursuit, and results in a deeper understanding of God and deliverance from tempting situations. For example, Proverbs 2 tells us wisdom delivers the wise from the crooked and devious paths of evil people and sexual sin. In the end, God's blessing is in store for the wise who are upright, but the end of wicked is death.

Matthew November 19, 2025 PM.The gospel of Matthew is an account of the birth, life, and death of Jesus of Nazareth. Matthew, also known as Levi and a tax collector, wrote about the birth of Israel's Messianic king, described the early announcement of the kingdom and the teaching of its king and his followers, recorded authenticating signs done by the king, explained how he was rejected by the leaders and many of the people of the nation, his further teaching to his followers, the persecution he experienced, and his death at the hands of the Romans and Jews, after which he arose from the dead and left important instructions for his followers to carry out in his long-but-temporary absence from the earth. Matthew's message to the church is that we need to become followers of this king and obey his teaching, and then persuade our neighbors to do the same.

2 Peter 2:10-17 November 16, 2025 PM.The church wages a spiritual warfare, in which false teachers play an important role. We learn the sinful ways of the false teachers, as well as their future judgment.

2 Corinthians 2:5-11 November 16, 2025 AM.When there is a problem in the church, we must recognize that it affects the whole church, like Achan's sin in Joshua 7 affected the entire nation. Appropriate censure is called for and then if there is repentance, the church is to forgive, comfort, and renew their love for the former offender so that Satan will not get the better of the church.

Various November 16, 2025 SS.A Christian definition is that joy is the affection associated with spiritual well-being, which is produced by the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian. We spend the majority of our study finding many different reasons that the Christian can experience joy.

Deuteronomy November 12, 2025 PM.The words of Deuteronomy record Moses leading the people up to the end of his life, reminding them of the law of God, and calling them to faithfulness to the covenant.

2 Peter 1:1-10a November 9, 2025 PM.In our study of 2 Peter 2, we learn that false teachers will come to the church, but we can be confident in God who protected His people of old from evil men. He judged the wicked and spared His children. The example of Lot reminds us that we need to take clear steps to protect ourselves against false teachers and their corruption.

Psalm 104 November 9, 2025 AM.Dr. Snoeberger introduces the important question: "Why am I here?" This question and its answer should govern every part of our lives. We can get a start on the answer by looking at Genesis 1. But in Psalm 104, there is a second and longer creation account, and it was written to answer that very question.

Various November 9, 2025 SS.Dr. Snoeberger teaches on the subject of "personal eschatology." Heaven will be our intermediate home until the kingdom, which is on the earth. This is followed by the eternal state, what many simply call "Heaven," which is actually also centered on the renewed earth.

Numbers November 5, 2025 PM.The fourth book of Moses, Numbers, recounts the preparation for entry into the promised land and the failure of the people to obey God and actually enter it. It then summarizes key events in the 40 years of wilderness wandering.

Various November 2, 2025 PM.We reviewed that righteousness is the perfect conformity to God's holy standard in character and action. Job 4:17 reminds us that none are righteous like God. Scripture attests to God's supreme righteousness. Our sin highlights God's righteousness. And His righteousness is why I am condemned, but it is also why I am saved.

2 Corinthians 1:15-2:4 November 2, 2025 AM.The apostle Paul made his ministry plans with Christian integrity but changed those plans when a better way to build up the Corinthians came into view. Paul spoke to the Corinthian church in a way that mirrored God's gospel promises in Christ--not ambiguously or equivocally but clearly, in accordance with how God speaks to us, with promises that are sure and unbreakable. But he realized that his two-stop double-blessing plan to visit the Corinthians was not actually the best way to resolve the challenges that were going on there, so he changed his approach. We learned how to interact with people in difficult circumstances, being people of our word, and how to reconsider our corrective efforts when a better approach is available.

Various November 2, 2025 SS.We studied the Christian character trait of compassion. The word compassion has the prefix "com" which means with or together. The second part is "passion," having to do with feelings. Compassion is therefore "co-feeling." It is defined by Webster as a "sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it." A synonym ius "pity." It is concern for the troubles, trials, or misfortunes of other people.

Proverbs 1:20-33 October 29, 2025.In this message, we learn three lessons from the call of wisdom. First, wisdom is readily available to all people (v. 20-21). Second, wisdom comes to those willing to listen (v. 22-23, 30). Third, Refusing wisdom results in distress and anguish (v. 24-29).

2 Peter 1:12-21 October 26, 2025 PM.Peter pens his epistle as an urgent reminder as one who knows his life is nearing its end. He declares himself an eye-witness of Christ's Kingdom, which is of great comfort to him, but above all, he is comforted by the true and infinitely authoritative words of scripture. All we like grass. “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.” (Isaiah 40:8)

Acts 11:19-24, Acts 13:1-4 October 26, 2026 AM.Missionary Jack McMahan challenged our church today with these five key elements in any church that reaches the world: evangelism, discipleship, faithful leadership, faithfulness to Christ, and Christ-dependence.

Various October 26, 2025 SS.Like in the book of Acts, our missionaries Jack and Bev McMahan report on the progress of their ministry. They are working with two churches, particularly in the areas of leadership development.

Leviticus October 22, 2025 PM.Leviticus continues the account of how God created the nation of Israel for its significant role in redemption and world history. Leviticus delineates the regulations for the people of God in Israel to interact properly with Him now that they have a basic constitution and the central worship site has been constructed and is operational. He required them to follow precise instructions as to various offerings at the tabernacle, the annual feast calendar, the life of the priests, and ceremonial cleanliness (for example, with childbirth, leprosy, and sexual purity). If they followed these instructions, they could be forgiven for their offenses against the theocracy and live in a way that pleased God.

2 Peter 1:8-11 October 19, 2025 PM.Peter promises us that those who are true Christians showing abundant fruit will be fruitful and productive children of God. Peter also warns us that those who lack fruit show themselves to be no Christians at all. Therefore, in addition to giving God all glory, the fruit of living Christian lives gives us great assurance of our salvation and the reward of an eternal Kingdom

2 Corinthians 1:15-2:4 October 19, 2025 AM.Paul writes to the Corinthians that despite his change of plans, his interactions with them reflected the sincerity and integrity of the gospel message itself, which is based on the promises of God. These promises are solid, including that God establishes, anoints, seals, and guarantees our final salvation.

Proverbs 1:8-19 October 19, 2025 SS.In Prov 1:8-19, we learn that the reception of wise instruction has its reward, we expect persuasive pressure to sin, and we must consider the reward of evildoers.

Proverbs 1:-7 October 15, 2025 PM.Proverbs 1:1-7 tells us the purposes of biblical proverbs. Proverbs teaches wisdom, and wisdom is skillful living in God's world. Proverbs is a tutor for the naïve to attain wisdom and a continual source of knowledge for the wise.

2 Peter 1:5-7 October 12, 2025 PM.True believers live wholly transformed lives. Peter reminds us that it is not enough that we merely have a general knowledge of, generic love for, or unstimulated will for God and his glory. Thus we rightly pray with the hymnist "our whole being sway" as we live out our faith as sojourners in this world of corruption.

2 Cor. 1:12-14 October 12, 2025 AM.What should you do if there is a problem of hard feelings that develop between you and someone else? What did Paul do here? He addressed it head-on by mentioning all the problems and responding straightforwardly to them. That is a model for us. We do not deal with problems by ignoring them, or hiding from them, or not talking about them as if that will make them go away, or by isolating from the person with whom we have the problems. Those things will only make the problem worse over time. The main point of this message is that we must conduct ourselves in sincerity--not just "I tried" but "I did." There is no excuse for not carrying through with what you say; no excuse for saying things you do not mean; no excuse for duplicitousness. The bottom line is that we must, like Paul, live "in simplicity and in godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God."

Various October 12, 2025 SS.We extend our study of Christian character by observing that God wishes for His people to be knowledgeable and skillful, not only in His word, but also in the areas of their work and expertise. The message highlights several practical examples. There is an entire segment of Scripture devoted also to wisdom, which is the proper use of knowledge and skill. Time limits prohibit any depth of study in that direction.

2 John October 8, 2025 PM.In our continuing series covering every book of the Bible in a single message, this time we visit 2 John. We review the message of the book, some key verses, and important concepts that the apostle John emphasizes.

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Psalm 48:1-14 October 5, 2025 SS.The greatness of God reflected in His holy city calls us to worship.