Tag Archives: Burbank Faith

03.11.21
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Gems From the Well: Finding Contentment in the Bright Meadow (Vol.6)

Shirley Fruchey, “Gems From The Well”

In these strange and difficult times, we all need a reminder of where our hope is found…come to the Well…

By Shirley “Kay” Fruchey

“…for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all things through him who gives me strength.” Philippians 3: 11 -13

When I was young, I couldn’t stand my name!  Continue reading →

10.11.20
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FaithView: October 10, 2020

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 →

03.02.19
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FaithView: March 1, 2019

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 →

02.18.19
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Can I Trust the New Testament?

By Dr. Rick Cornish
(”5 Minute Apologist”—2005)

The New Testament is a collection of twenty-seven documents written by Christ’s apostles and their friends 2,000 years ago. Their original writings, called autographs, no longer exist. Today we read copies of copies translated from Greek into English or other modern languages. But copyists make errors. How can we know that today’s versions accurately record what the authors wrote so long ago? When we read the New Testament, is it what God intended us to have. Continue reading →

02.15.19
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FaithView: 2/15/19

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 →

02.08.19
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FaithView: 2/8/19

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 →

01.17.19
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FaithView:1/17/19

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 →

01.09.19
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FaithView: 1/8/2019

Joe Torosian
Senior Pastor
Burbank Faith Nazarene

By Joe Torosian

“We hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.”—2 Corinthians 4:8-9

Do you change the temperature in the room or do you just become part of the climate of the room? Continue reading →

11.09.18
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FaithView: November 9, 2018

2nd Corinthians 4:16-18

We Can Change Everything Without Changing a Single Law

By Joe Torosian

I’ve always viewed voting the way we’ve been taught. People died to secure this right. The ability to vote and choose is something much of the world doesn’t have. Many societies cannot even grasp the idea/concept of having the freedom to vote. Continue reading →