Living Faith - Sermons

It's More Than You Think!

We're kicking off a new sermon series titled Team God. This week Pastor D sets the stage for where we're going as he presents to us how God is the ultimate team player.

New Life for the Ransomed

He is risen! On Easter Sunday, we celebrate our Savior who conquered sin and death. Pastor D shows us how we, as Christ followers, participate in his death and resurrection.

The Call to Extravagant Devotion

On Palm Sunday, Pastor Randall reminds us that our faith is not just for Sundays, but is to fill and affect every aspect of our lives. We look at Mary as an example: her faith was sincere, her love extravagant, and her devotion undeniable.

Love & Peace in the Body

This is our final week in our sermon series titled "The United Church." Pastor Darryl Williamson wraps up this excellence series with an exhortation from Paul's letter to the church at Colossae and the call to action that this has on our lives as Christ-followers.

Weeding the Church of Christ

Pastor D is back in the pulpit with a lesson on gardening from Paul's letter to the Romans. This is a sobering call to be discerning as we cultivate the community around us.

The Fruit of Christ's Love

As our series on The United Church continues, Pastor Randall explains what "fruits" we should expect to see growing out of Christ's love that unites our congregation and the global church body.

Character: Growing Up In Christ

Darin Anderson, Lead Pastor at Oakwood Community Church, is our guest pastor this week. As a co-laborer at a church in Tampa, he continues in our series on The United Church by looking at Paul's letter to the Ephesians and what mature Christians' role in Christ's body looks like.

A New Humanity, A New Unity

You might have heard the saying, "No Christ, no peace; know Christ, know peace." Pastor Darryl adds some clarity around what "peace" means particularly in the context of Paul's letter to the church at Ephesus as we continue our series called "The United Church."

The Beautiful Church

We're continuing in our series titled "The United Church" which is a deep look at Jesus' vision for the church. Building on this theme, we examine the idea of our calling to be beautiful.

Our Unity is Christ's Urgent Priority

Disunity has become an epidemic within American churches. Yet the vision of unity is core to the very purpose and identity of the church! Pastor Darryl walks us through how Living Faith Bible Fellowship can pursue unity within our community that lasts because our unity proves that Christ is Lord.

God Aims to Break Generational Bondage

Pastor Darryl wraps up his "Reset" sermon series with a message drawn from the book of Leviticus. Together we look at the Year of Jubilee and explore how the character of the Jubilee is to be the character of our church.

Renewing Souls by Restoring Purses

In the second sermon in our Reset mini series, Pastor D gives us the map of where Living Faith Bible Fellowship is going with God in our community. We want to be a church that righteously stamps out poverty in our pews and in the neighborhood around us so that generational bonds can be broken and flourishing can take place. Disclaimer: Pastor D is NOT a socialist.

Dream Again

We jump into a brief new sermon series to kick off 2023! As we look to the coming year at Living Faith Bible Fellowship, Pastor D encourages us to look back at God's faithfulness and to then begin to dream about what that will look like as we humbly work to make much of His name in our community.

Come to Jesus

We've finished our journey through the Sermon on the Mount, but we're still looking at Jesus' ministry while he was here as a man. This week, Pastor Randall examines the story of a man who had leprosy that came to Jesus for healing and what a model that is for us.

Tough Words from a Loving Savior

This is the final sermon from our "What a Way to Live!" series. Tying in to last week's sermon, Pastor D continues to examine Jesus' Sermon on the Mount to prepare us for awaits us on the day of Christ's judgment.

Choose Life, Choose Christ

As we near the end of our journey through the Sermon on the Mount, Pastor D walks us through a very compelling message of what the Judgment Day will look like for us all.

Choose Your Influencers Carefully

Our souls are shaped by the things we surrounds ourselves with. Social media, news outlets, friends - these are some of the many things that influence who we are and who we are becoming. Pastor D gives us a timely and prophetic challenge to take care to mind who and what we are allowing to influence our discipleship.

Looking for the Easy Way? Don't!

The Golden Vision

Have you ever looked at your life in comparison to the life Jesus is calling you to and asked, "Can I really change?"

Unholster Your Weapon & Fire

Ask. Seek. Knock. Trust. A powerful message from Pastor D with a compelling prompt to unleash the power of prayer.

Guard What is Holy

Pastor Randall takes us through a difficult passage as we continue our journey through Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in our "What a Way to Live!" sermon series.

Examine Yourself Before Judging Others

"How dare you judge me?!" Has anyone ever replied to you like this? Have you ever said something similar? We often like to point to Jesus' words on judging others from the Sermon on the Mount, but are we doing so correctly? Pastor Randall leads us through this commonly cited passage in this week's teaching.

Beyond Relief

Sometimes it is easier to treat the symptoms rather than the root cause of the problem. Our brother Fenol digs into Jesus' teaching on how we can move past temporary relief from our anxieties and pains, trusting Him with our lives.

The War on Love

Indeed, Jesus tells his audience that you cannot love God and money. But money is just one of many 'masters' warring for our love rather than our heavenly Father. Our hermano Rafy Amador takes us deep into this examination of Matthew 6:24 as we continue our "Way a Way to Live" sermon series.

Developing a Kingdom Eye

What does Jesus mean when he tells the gathered crowd that "the eye is the lamp of the body"? Pastor Darryl connects last week's message about treasure with Jesus' teaching on developing eyes that perceive His kingdom.

The Power of a Hidden Faith

How do we discern if our faith is authentic or performative? Jesus speaks about this in his Sermon on the Mount and Pastor D unpacks this question for us as we look specifically at the spiritual discipline of fasting.

Community of Forgiveness & Renewal

In Luke's gospel Jesus says, "I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent." In our continuing "What a Way to Live!" sermon series, Pastor D explores the idea that in God's economy repentance is seen as more valuable than even righteousness.

The Disciple's Prayer

Pastor Randall adds to last week's sermon on Right Prayer to dig into how Jesus taught us - His disciples - to pray.

Right Prayer

God has called us to know Him fully, and we can't do that without prayer. Pastor Randall continues our "What a Way to Live" study of the Sermon on the Mount by helping us examine why we must cultivate a disciplined focus on prayer and how we should go about it.

How Reward in Heaven Works

Do we think about the reward we will receive in heaven? As we continue walking through the Sermon on the Mount, Pastor D helps us see that God pays! His good, righteous, and holy character is the assurance that our faith and works are an investment in an eternal future.