First Naples Podcast

Functional Faith and our Thinking || Pastor Alan Brumback

James tells us what Godly wisdom is, why we need it, and how to get it.

Functional Faith and Your Tongue || Pastor Alan Brumback

Real faith in Jesus should change how we speak to and about other people. James teaches us that what we say is powerful, it points to the condition of our hearts and it pushes us to our need for Jesus to be healed.

Functional Faith and Your Testimony || Pastor Alan Brumback

James teaches us that there is a difference between fake faith and real faith. James teaches us that fake faith is dead and demonic, and that real faith is dynamic.

Functional Faith and the Treatment of Others || Pastor Alan Brumback

How are we going to reach our community for Jesus if we mistreat people at church?James is teaching us that the proof that we have been transformed by the Gospel is seen in how we treat other people, especially people who are unlike us and people that we do not like.

Functional Faith and the Truth || Pastor Alan Brumback

Spiritual blessings and lasting freedom come to those who receive and obey the truth of God’s Word.

Functional Faith and Temptation || Pastor Alan Brumback

We can trust God in our temptations because He is not the cause of them, but is the only cure for overcoming them.

Functional Faith || Pastor Alan Brumback

When trials come, we can joyfully trust God to give us what we need because He is good and is using them to make us more like Jesus.

Jesus is the Same || Pastor Thomas Keys

Because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever more, we have no reason to doubt His divinity, trust in our fallen identity, or fear our eternity.

Jesus is the Better Savior || Pastor Alan Brumback

The message of Christmas is that Jesus became a human to save humanity by defeating the devil and delivering us from the fear of death.

Jesus is the Better Promise || Pastor Alan Brumback

Ultimately, Christmas means that God keeps His promises.In Hebrews 8, we see that there were old promises we could not keep, and there are new promises that we cannot beat found in Jesus.

Jesus is the Better Priest

Hebrews 4 teaches us that we can have confidence to get mercy and help despite our sinfulness because we have a great High Priest, who is God, to advocate for us, and Man, to sympathize with us.

Jesus is the Better King

Hebrews 2 teaches us that we do not need to fear because our sovereign King entered our broken world to fix what we have broken.

Jesus is the Better Word

Hebrews begins by telling us that Jesus is the exact, exalted, and exclusive Word of God and that no other voice should be louder in our lives than His.

Calm - Meditate on the Goodness and Mercy of God

At the end of the Psalm, David calls us to meditate on God’s goodness despite the chaos and His mercy that will eternally sustain us.

Calm - Let Go of the Shadows and Look to your Shepherd

David teaches us that we can becalm in life when we let go of the shadows and look to our Shepherd.