In this essay I examine the uncomfortable truth that true faith is crazy reckless. https://freebornchurch.com/podcast/essay-reckless_faith.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Part 1 of the sermon series, “John: The Gospel of Our Cultural Narrative” https://freebornchurch.com/podcast/real.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

It is intriguing to me the complaint that Christian ministers voice commonly. There are several variations of it and it is expressed in several different ways, but essentially it goes something like:  “Christians will pay to watch 3 hours of entertainment but are unwilling to sit through even one hour...

Thesis of Men’s Retreat 2021 “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery “Wherever we want to go, we go. That’s...

In this final sermon of the series, we consider that the ultimate point of the word of faith is that Jesus is Lord. That is the necessary conclusion of the fact of the resurrection and it is the occurrent instantiation of believing in our heart that God raised him from...

Our relatively recent explosion in technical and scientific progress has shaken the foundations of traditional society, especially that of the nuclear family. Women are more able to enter the workforce today than ever before in history. Activists like to think this is because they have beaten down patriarchal discrimination, but...

In this sermon we discuss the coherence between ‘dispositional belief’ and ‘occurrent belief’ that Paul is referring to when he explains that the word of faith is to both “believe in our heart” and “confess with our mouth”. A true, saving faith must crystalize the abstract, unarticulated belief that God...

Hello, my name is Mike Jackson. I am a pastor and teacher at Free Born Church. I would like to discuss with you the subject of Sin. I know that this is not a subject that anyone is comfortable talking about, especially in the current social environment. Many of you...

The most reckless decision you will make in life is how to respond to Jesus. It doesn’t matter what you decide, there are no safe options. Even though Pascal’s Wager sounds logical, it is deeply flawed and untrue: If God exists and you don’t believe you are damned, but if...