Note to Faith & Friends: Reminder about service tomorrow in-person and online…
Jan Hart thanks you for your prayers–she has healed nicely.
David Davies heart is good, and all is well.
This is FaithView that was written in response to a question put to me.
FaithView: 9/17/2022
By Joe Torosian
Dave Bowman: You see, something’s going to happen.
Dr. Floyd: What? What’s going to happen?
Dave Bowman: Something wonderful.
—2010: The Year We Make Contact
As believers, we’re familiar with the story arc.
Creation, Fall, Redemption…God created, Man fell, and Christ redeemed us with his work on the cross and resurrection.
The fourth aspect we neglect, too often, is Restoration. The Bible begins in the Garden and essentially takes us back there in Revelation 22. We are restored back into the relationship God intended us to have with him. Continue reading
Joe Torosian
Senior Pastor
Burbank Faith Nazarene
By Joe Torosian
Nothing more fun than talking about the end of the world, right?
It’s something the church has embraced, seemingly, above everything else the last fifty years. The Rapture is imminent, the Antichrist is here, the Great Tribulation is about to start, and Armageddon is coming. Continue reading
Today I talk about the need to be part of a church and not just attending a service…
Joe Torosian
Senior Pastor
Burbank Faith Nazarene
By Joe Torosian
If you spent any time in the church in the late 1970s or early 1980s…You may have heard a testimony like this during a Sunday service just before the end of the year.
“The Lord’s been good to us this year. Our family has been blessed, and, of course, we’re really believing this is the year the Lord’s coming back.”
And you may have heard a Christian celebrity or, even, your own Pastor say something along these lines when attempting to encourage you about the future. Continue reading
Joe Torosian
Senior Pastor
Burbank Faith Nazarene
By Joe Torosian
Picking this up in Part Three, I’ve already established that I don’t believe we are looking at a Rapture, Antichrist, 7-year Tribulation, 666-Mark, Battle of Armageddon…and that Jesus did fulfill all he said he would do in Matthew 24 (and in the Gospels Mark & Luke) regarding “that” generation not passing away.
These beliefs move me from a Dispensational/Premillennial camp (Lindsey, LaHaye, Van Impe, everything we were taught growing up) to a “Partial Preterist” position. Continue reading
Joe Torosian
Senior Pastor
Burbank Faith Nazarene
By Joe Torosian
(If you don’t agree, you won’t lose your salvation and neither will I. Just trying to expand the thinking on this subject.)
“It is certainly the most embarrassing verse in the Bible.”—C.S. Lewis speaking of Mark 13:30 in “The World’s Last Night” (1960) Continue reading
Joe Torosian
Senior Pastor
Burbank Faith Nazarene
By Joe Torosian
Nothing more fun than talking about the end of the world, right?
It’s something the church has embraced, seemingly, above everything else the last fifty years. The Rapture is imminent, the Antichrist is here, the Great Tribulation is about to start, and Armageddon is coming.
…And we haven’t even started talking about pestilence, famine, and the dreaded “Mark of the Beast.” Continue reading
Joe Torosian
Senior Pastor
Burbank Faith Nazarene
By Joe Torosian
“When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you…When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army…He shall say: ‘Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be terrified or give way to panic before them…For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.’”—Deuteronomy 20:1-4
Too often we stop when we see we are outnumbered and, visibly, overmatched in a given situation. We see all we are facing, all we’re going to have to do, and for what? When nothing gives even the smallest hint of a guarantee. Continue reading
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