Our Easter Series will be called Hope: Desiring a Better World. All of us have deep longings and intense desires for a more perfect world. The people that lined the streets on Palm Sunday were looking for something more, something better, somet

Hope: Desiring a Better World

Mar 24th, 2024

Daniel: Our Only Hope

Mar 17th, 2024

This is the last message in the series on Daniel. The focus will be on the “Christ Sightings” in the book to achieve the unimaginable. Three main ones will be reviewed: 1) the great stone that crushes the kingdoms of this world (2:34-35, 44); 2

Daniel: Our Only Hope

Mar 10th, 2024

Some things just can be fixed; they need to be recreated. Evil will be fully and finally defeated. Sin and sickness will be defeated. The broken will be made whole. Tears will be wiped away. So, two questions get asked, “how long?” and “what wi

Daniel: Our Only Hope

Mar 3rd, 2024

God’s Grand Plan to Achieve the Unimaginable These few verses are meant to comfort and encourage Daniel and God’s people. First, there is deliverance for God’s people that rages against them—then and now. Michael is the angelic prince, Israel’s

Daniel: Our Only Hope

Feb 25th, 2024

Wars and More Wars, but God is in Control While these final verses of chapter 11 continue from our last message, they point beyond to another great, but destructive leader. Jesus spoke in the same way in Matthew 24 of near events folded into fa

Daniel: Our Only Hope

Feb 18th, 2024

Wars and More Wars, but God is in Control The war mentioned (10:1) is now focused on empires at war. The intensity and longevity of these wars will cause the people of God to wonder if God even knows or cares. Depression and Discouragement can

Daniel: Our Only Hope

Feb 11th, 2024

Daniel 10 brings us into the final vision (chapters 10-12) that involves a great war, a conflict of unimaginable magnitude. Though exiles are returning to Israel and things should be getting better, but Daniel is found in a time of mourning and

Daniel: Our Only Hope

Feb 4th, 2024

Our Only Hope Daniel was in prayer and a vision comes to him that was at once staggering, confusing and full of hope. In prayer he was concerned for the people of God because of the Babylonian captivity prophesied by Jeremiah and God’s promises

Where Are We Going?

Jan 21st, 2024

Who is Fox Valley Church? Every church has its own DNA. Even if a church shares a similar vision and mission, because a church is people, each spiritual community takes on a flavor of its own. It is well known that as the church leaders go, so

Who Is Fox Valley Church?

Jan 14th, 2024

Choosing The Good Part

Jan 7th, 2024

Luke 10:38-42 Choosing the Good Part: Martha’s Invitation, Martha’s Irritation, and Martha’s Information

Christ’s Finished Work

Dec 31st, 2023

The Wait: The Promised King Will Be A Perfect Redeemer

Dec 24th, 2023

The Wait: The Promised King who will be a Perfect Redeemer God, our Creator, the One who made us, IS the only One who can redeem us and claim us as His own. With remarkable insight of Isaiah, we could see the promised fulfilled in the One and O

The Wait: The Promised King who will be a Perfect Priest

Dec 17th, 2023

The Wait: The Promised King who will be a Perfect Priest Jesus is our High Priest who is the perfect mediator between God and human beings. Jesus steps in as the Perfect High Priest who is our teacher, calls us to worship, and significantly ser

The Wait:

Dec 10th, 2023

The Wait: The Promised King who will be a Perfect Shepherd The King for which we wait will be our Perfect Shepherd. We need a shepherd who will lead, feed, care and protect us without compromise. Today too, we live in the shadows of so many com

The Wait: The Promised King Who Will be a Perfect Son

Dec 3rd, 2023

The Wait: The Promised King who will be a Perfect Son This promised King goes back to the writings of Moses, but is carried forward with the prophets clarifying it would be One out of the tribe of Judah, in the family of David, born in Bethlehe

Daniel: What You Think About God (and why it matters)

Nov 29th, 2023

Daniel: A Model Prayer Daniel’s prayer models how we might pray as we see countries (even our own) and individuals deny God. Perhaps we can see also the weakness of the church as it is often compromised. But it’s ultimately an appeal to the mer

Daniel: What to Do When Life’s Unfair

Nov 19th, 2023

Daniel: Our Only Hope Daniel receives another vision that God is all-knowing of the past, present and future. God was paving the way for the fullness of time in which to send the promised Messiah. This is tightly tied to the vision of Daniel 7

Daniel: The Ancient of Days Still Rules

Nov 12th, 2023

Daniel: The Ancient of Days Still Rules As we live in uncertain times with a growing threat of nuclear weaponry, financial uncertainty, and a danger of a spreading Middle East crisis, we do not have to live in fear or intimidation on a world sc

Daniel: Trusting God When Life is Unfair

Nov 5th, 2023

Daniel: Trusting God when the World’s Against You Daniel modeled a spiritual response of trusting in God and diligently seeking Him when others sought to work against him. So whether in our families, neighborhoods, or workplace living innocentl

Daniel: God’s Grand Plan to Achieve the Unimaginable

Oct 29th, 2023

Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream of a Great Tree and Humiliation shows how this world is filled with ego, pride, self-centeredness, and self-focus, and one day, all of this will be finally and forever overthrown by Jesus when He comes as King and Judge.

Daniel: Will You Risk It All

Oct 22nd, 2023

Daniel: Will you risk it all? Nebuchadnezzar’s Image of Gold and the Fiery Furnace reveals that God’s people are always safest when living in the convictions of God and His Word. The world and sadly many in the church too easily set the agenda.

Daniel: Equipped for Life

Oct 15th, 2023

Daniel: Equipped for life There is a standoff between God (His kingdom) and the kingdoms of this world. This can be brought down to the individual level as we seek God’s will and leading in matters. God has equipped us to do everything He has c