Saving Grace

Whether you are fearful, doubtful, angry or sad, the Psalmist David has been there, and wrote a song to tell about it. Over the next six weeks you will have opportunity to hear powerful and insightful messages based on Psalms, entitled, Songs of Praise. Today’s message, based on Psalm 3, will no doubt turn your heart to praise!

Ephesians 2:10 says we were created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Scot Pollok is back today to conclude our series on grace as he explains how grace is the seed that leads us to do good works, not for salvation, but for spiritual maturity and growth.

You would likely agree that it is easy to love those who love us, those who are like us, but Jesus said, “Love your enemy.” What if someone has badly hurt us or those we love? Jesus said to love them. How do we do that? Today, Scot Pollok, our guest and lead pastor of Faith Bible Church, shares another gift inside of grace that will help us to love even our enemies.

God’s gift of Jesus should remind us of who we were without Him. Only God’s grace gives each of us a new identity in Christ. He is the one who justifies. Yet so many relationship problems today are rooted in pride. Today we will see how a gift of God’s grace may well be the healing balm needed, in our relationship with others, and our fellowship with God.

Are you certain you will spend eternity with Jesus? Many people, including those who profess to be Christians, will answer that question, “Well, I hope so.” Because of God’s grace, we can know so! Today’s message from Scot Pollok, lead pastor of Faith Bible Church, may be the most important message you will ever hear since you first believed in Christ for salvation.

Beyond the wonderful truth that we are saved by grace through faith, there is much more to know about God’s amazing grace. Over the next few weeks we will have opportunity to take a fresh look at God’s transforming power in our lives, because of grace. Today our guest Scot Pollok will focus on the Grace Gospel, how man can be made right with God, apart from works of the law. This episode will open our fresh new podcast series entitled Grace.

Does your past record - the things you have done – haunt you with guilt and a broken spirit? Is your life like a broken record? One in which your past is replayed over and over again? In this final message of Strong at the Broken Places podcast series, Mark Rae will be dealing with our broken records – the records of our past lives that can break us and bring us to our knees…

Perhaps one of the most debilitating parts of life can be summed up in one word – doubt. Doubt can destroy faith, trust, belief, and confidence when it is left unchecked and unresolved. The disciple Thomas and even John the Baptist experienced doubt that could have shattered their faith and trust in Jesus…

Have you ever gone through the painful experience of loss? Either personal loss or material loss? Loss of this magnitude can break us and leave us shattered but God meets us in the middle of this loss and can put the pieces back together. In fact, God provides abundantly and magnificently in the midst of loss if we will look for Him…

In the last two podcasts we have looked at trials and failures as things in life that can break us. We have seen the beauty, joy, and strength that God can bring out of those circumstances. In today’s podcast Mark Rae will share about the difficulties of suffering – the reasons for them and the responses to them as seen through the characters of Peter, David, Paul, and Christ.

Have you ever experienced failure? If you have spent any amount of time in life on this earth, you have failed, and those failures can break you. If there is one person who understood failure in full measure it would be the Apostle Peter. Time and time again he failed spectacularly but through those failures he experienced wisdom, faith and grace in abundance.

“Life breaks us all”, so says Earnest Hemingway, “but many are made strong at the broken places.” The truth of this statement can be seen throughout the Scriptures not only on what we are taught but also in the lives of certain biblical characters. In this 6-week study, we will journey together through things in life that can break us and what God does in our brokenness to strengthen us and to bring beauty and joy out of our broken places. In this first podcast we will take a look at trials and see what James tells us is the reality of trials, the response we are to have to trials and the result of our response to those trials. Let’s listen as Mark Rae, Vice President of Community Development at Grace School of Theology and Executive Director of Grace Center for Spiritual Development shares with us the beauty and joy that God can bring out of trials.

In God’s power and provision, we have the ability to experience purity. This podcast concludes our series on Stormproof Men, as we consider the importance of preparing for the storms of temptation that are sure to come. Our guest is Dr. Roger Fankhauser, author of “Stormproof Men: Sexual Purity for Christian Men in a Sex-Saturated World.”

Many passages of Scripture talk about the importance of sexual purity. But what does sexual purity look like? How do I make godly choices? What happens when I fail? In this podcast, we get answers to those questions. Continuing our 3-part series is our guest, Dr. Roger Fankhauser, author of “Stormproof Men: Sexual Purity for Christian Men in a Sex-Saturated World.”

“Evil associated with sex comes from abuse of God’s gift, not from the gift itself. God intended sex to be loving, pleasurable – not a source of heartache and destruction.” In this sex-saturated world, with Satan and our flesh active, is sexual purity really possible? If so, how do we experience it? Our guest today to start our 3-part series is Dr. Roger Fankhauser, author of “Stormproof Men: Sexual Purity for Christian Men in a Sex-Saturated World.”

Instructions for living by grace will be helpful if the world is to be drawn to Christ by our testimony and deeds. What is the ministry of grace we’ve been given made possible, by Christ alone? How are we to be ministers of grace, shedding Christ’s light in this dark world?  Mark Rae, Vice President of Community Development at Grace, will help us with these questions, and prepare us to take Christ to the nations, in this last message of our series, Life of Glory.

At the core of a life of glory, is unbroken fellowship and intimacy with God.  So, how do we nurture our lives to insure that our fellowship with the Lord is unbroken, and to increase our intimacy with Him?  Mark Rae, Vice President of Community Development at Grace, believes there are two pillars that will guard our fellowship and intimacy with Christ. In this podcast, Mark shares the value of worship and prayer. 

The Holy Spirit is often ignored, or misunderstood, in Christian circles today.  Without His help, however, we can never pursue holiness in a manner that brings honor and glory to God. And yet, that is our purpose and calling to do so during our life on earth.  So who is the Holy Spirit? Why is He called Holy? What role does He have in the Trinity and in our lives today?  Mark Rae, Vice President of Community Development at Grace, will address these very important questions as we continue our series, Life of Glory. 

Perhaps with the Apostle Paul you ask,  “Why do I do the things I know I shouldn’t do, and don’t do the things I should do?” Why is this a dilemma for every human alive, even Christians? Because the flesh is weak, Scripture tells us. What exactly is “the flesh?” How can the flesh be defeated for me to walk triumphantly with Christ, in a life of glory?  Mark Rae, Vice President of Community Development at Grace, will take us to Scripture for the answers to those questions.

There is an identity crisis in the world. What difference could our lives make in the world if we grasped our true identity in Jesus Christ? What if we understood that we are no longer bound by sin and can freely present our lives to the Lord, for His purposes and glory? The answer is, we can! Today, Mark Rae, Vice President of Community Development at Grace, brings a powerful message to tell us how, as part of our series on A Life of Glory.