Sermons
Share Jesus: Tell Your Story
This week we’ll dive a bit deeper into the mission of Jesus, a task we’ve summarized as SHARE JESUS that has two primary expressions. The first is in the church; the second, in the world.What is your mission in God’s world? Tell your story!
Share Jesus: Serve the Body
This week we’ll dive a bit deeper into the mission of Jesus, a task we’ve summarized as SHARE JESUS that has two primary expressions. The first is in the church; the second, in the world. Both are influence by the answer to this question:What’s your SHAPE?
Share Jesus, serve the body, tell your story
Following Jesus, being formed by him, and taking on his mission is accomplished through our partnership with the Holy Spirit by making ourselves available through “holy habits” or spiritual disciplines.
Follow Jesus
This Sunday’s focus is on the foundational principle of “follow Jesus.” Join us as we consider four essential spiritual practices that characterize the life of the disciple that follows Jesus.
Know Jesus
God created you to be a part of his family! You belong in God’s household!The themes of Paul’s thoughts in the verse above are especially applicable to a transient, international community of believers like IBF. God has made us his own—his daughters and sons—and put us together in the church family of IBF.
Hear What the Spirit says to the Churches
5 The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. 6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ Revelation 3:5–6 (ESV) 21 The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22 He who has an ear,…
Treasure in Heaven
Lay Up Treasures in Heaven 19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Endurance and Mission in 2022
12 Not that I have already grasped it all or have already become perfect, but I press on if I may also take hold of that for which I was even taken hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12–14 (NASB 2020) Weeds among Wheat 24 Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, “The kingdom of…
Let Us Walk (Live) by the Spirit
Jesus Teaches Nicodemus 3 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.” 3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” 4 “How can someone be born when they are…
What Manner of Love
3 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth…