Fairfield Church of Christ Sermons

Jacob Hoover - FCC Student Minister

One last foundation, that is also one of our core missions to to have compassion for people.  Jesus was about having compassion for people.  Christ-like compassion …

When you pray.  Not if but when you pray.  It’s a given that all of us should pray.  You need to take the initiative; stir yourself up to pray.  The spirit of prayer precedes breakthroughs and opens …

Matt. 25:14-30; Rom. 14:10-12; Deut. 8:17-18; Ps. 89:11-12; 1 Peter 4:10 - When you go to a hotel, you might give your bags to a steward who takes them to your room, but they are not his bags. You en…

The word “disciple” comes from the classroom. It literally means “student” or “learner.” It isn’t unusual that the men who followed Christ were called his disciples. The first disciples were students…

God speaks, and He does so through His Word. The God who spoke to reveal Himself and His ways promised a Savior, a promise He fulfilled through Jesus Christ. As you submit your life to Christ in repe…

The fact:  Jesus came and died a cruel death on a cross!  The fact:  Jesus was raised to life 3 days later.  These two facts make the raising of Jesus critical to the people of faith.  Without these …

Palm Sunday is the day we traditionally celebrate Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem the week prior to the crucifixion and resurrection. It is a day that starkly contrasts the events that occur la…

Foundational to your spiritual formation you find that God wants a relationship with you. Let me remind you that God is not simply a power, He is a person. As a person, you can relate to Him and love…

Many have confused then concept of God.  Some even say they follow God.  But do they truly know who God is?  Others see God as far removed, a distant, unapproachable power, having faded into the past…

In this last section of John’s first letter we will read the purpose statement of the letter.  “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may KNOW that you ha…

This message hopes to help you in understanding the difference between the world’s view of overcoming  and the Biblical view.  You will be reminded that the unbeliever is looking to overcome material…

In chapter 4 of 1st John, we see a comparison of the antichrist and those who truly are following God. What's the difference? Simply put, love is the difference. Who we love, what we love and how we …

Just like so many other believers, you may have a hard time believing that you’re valuable to God.  You know your past and everything you’ve done wrong. So you doubted God truly loving and valuing yo…

Here is our real Hope:  the truth is that love wins.  Our passage today is good news.  You and I can know that our sins are forgiven, we can grow in our knowledge of God through Jesus, and we can ove…

God has uniquely put the church together to model exactly what Jesus modeled, serving others.  Serving is the means of showing how to imitate Jesus.  

Why should we serve God?  Because we belong to Je…

There comes a moment where there is a collision where what the church is to be about actually takes steps to run into people.  Why?  Because people matter to God so people matter to us.  We need peop…

What do you hold dear to you?  What do work at with everything in you to be better at?  These are questions every believer in Christ needs to daily ask themselves when it comes to living for a love o…

God, in Jesus, is going to intervene!  He's going to work, He is on duty, accomplishing what He intends in every situation!    

Seven hundred years after Isaiah spoke these words, a teenage girl who w…

What does a “father” do? What image is evoked by the word? I suggest he has in mind the tenderness and sensitivity of a compassionate and affectionate father. It is the security and love he provides,…

Jesus has come as a baby to be the source of all serenity. He “is our peace”, having broken down the barriers that divide us from one another and, most important of all, the barriers between us and G…