First Naples Podcast

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.

Calm - Ask the Shepherd to Lead You

“If you don’t learn to metabolize stress well, you will be vulnerable for an emotional escape.”We will only ask the LORD to lead us when we see that His leadership is better than the lies that we believe about ourselves.

Calm - Consider Who Your Shepherd Is

The first step to being calm is to consider who your shepherd is: He is powerful and personal, sustaining and satisfying.

Miracles - Raising Lazarus

In John 11, we see that in the face of death, we can turn to and trust in Jesus because He has forever defeated death for us.

Miracles - Trust in Jesus

Trust in JesusJohn 9:1-11