First Church Fayetteville Podcast

Thanksgiving is all about giving thanks for the gracious hand of God on our lives. The Bible says at least four times that Ezra in the Old Testament had the gracious hand of God on his life. How did he get so blessed? Ezra did five important things to position himself in God's blessing - things you and I can do to benefit from God's gracious hand.

God understands that all of us, even the closest followers of Jesus, will sometimes fall. The true test of a Christian is whether he or she will get back up after they fall. In this message in the "How to..." series, Pastor Daryle challenges us to determine to get back up, determine to go to God for help, and determine to use this knock down to make us better.

Everyone lives their lives with one of two mindsets: a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. A fixed mindset says, "I'll never be anything other that what I already am;" a growth mindset says, "I have potential to make progress in my life." God has great plans for our futures and wants us to live with a spiritually growth mindset - trusting that God is able to take our insufficiency and do the miraculous.

Everybody is talking about work/life balance. But how can we live a live that is balanced in God's eyes? Pastor Daryle launches the new "How to..." sermon series by challenging us to live in every opportunity, have fun, leave some things undone, define your purpose and values, and live to glorify God.

Everywhere we turn there are voices speaking into our lives. Too many of those voices are negative, harmful, and deceitful. It is absolutely critical that we, as Christians, listen to the right voices when it comes to our identity, our family, and the way we interact with the world around us.

On this Baptism Sunday, Pastor Daryle Williams reminds us that tomorrow’s experience follows today’s obedience. When we obey Jesus' command to be baptized, God blesses us with forgiveness, righteousness, new life, and blessings.

How can we love Mondays and every other day of the week? Read the Bible. The daily practice of ingesting God's Word into our minds and hearts does remarkable things for us. In this message, Abraham LaVoi gives us 3 reasons we need to read the Bible and 3 practical tips for making the most of our Bible reading.

In order to love Mondays, we need to have a constant source of power to overcome the mundane, the obstacles, and the challenges we face in life. God knew this and provides us the Holy Spirit to give us that power.

Jesus told us what we must do to be His disciples - deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him. We can check our progress by asking ourselves these questions: Who is calling the shots? How much do I love Jesus? How do I feel about His Word and His house? How well do I love others? and How well am I glorifying Him with my actions?

How can we love Mondays instead of dreading them? In this message in the Love Mondays series, Pastor Daryle Williams helps us discover that serving and blessing others actually aligns us with God and His blessings. That makes any day - including Monday - a great day!

Everybody fails. We make mistakes, commit sins, and do things that offend God. How can we be undaunted in the face of our failures? The apostle Peter learned that even in the midst of mistakes, Jesus shows up and, though painful, He confronts our sins so He can take them away from us and put us back on track to fulfill our purpose.

When you see all the wickedness that is advancing in our world, how do you keep an undaunted faith in God? Pastor Daryle Williams encourages us to hold on to God's presence, God's power, and God's promises. In doing so, His light will shine so bright in us that the darkness will have no power.

The Biblical figure Job found out that life was uncontrollable. Yet, he had prepared himself for the chaos of life by worshipping, connecting with others, and knowing his purpose long before the tragedies hit. Pastor Daryle Williams helps us prepare for chaos in this sermon from the Undaunted series.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow in the face of opposition from society and the king. How can we do the same? Pastor Daryle Williams launches a new sermon series, Undaunted, with the answer to these three men's courage.

In this final message in the You Asked For It series, Abraham LaVoi answers this question: "How can I worship a God I cannot see?" The answer is that we have to have faith in God. But God does not ask for us to believe in Him blindly - He gives us abundant evidence to His existence.

We continue our sermon series, "You Asked For It" based upon questions you submitted. In this sermon, Pastor Daryle Williams clarifies, "Can God be in the presence of sin?" He further explains why we sometimes feel far from God or feel as though God's presence is not with us in a way we would like.

This month we are answering your questions in a sermon series titled, "You Asked For It." Several people submitted the question, "Why do I keep sinning?" Pastor Daryle Williams provides answers from the Bible to this question and ways we can break the cycle of habitual sins.

How should Christians approach people who identify themselves as LGBTQIA+? In this sermon in the "You asked for it" series, Pastor Daryle Williams gives Biblical ways a Christian can love and interact with those who identify this way.

Jesus said, "By this will all people know you are my disciples: if you have love one toward another." Radical love is risky; it is an adventure. But the reward of radical love is that we are pleasing to God and we will be rewarded for investing love in others.

God is not a boring God. All throughout the Bible, God never did the same miracle in the same way twice. He led His people on adventures of faith and living real, exciting lives. So, are you in on a life of adventure with God?