What Keeps You Going When Life Falls Apart?
May 1, 2025
When life’s challenges threaten to overwhelm you, what’s your response? Pastor Mike Fabarez reveals the powerful mindset that kept Paul going through imprisonment and persecution. Learn why “I don’t think God is finished with me yet” should be your default perspective in every trial.
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Past Episodes
Life sometimes feels like a treadmill—lots of effort but going nowhere. Pastor Mike Fabarez offers the biblical antidote to spiritual listlessness. He explains why the Christian life isn’t a meaningless cycle but a purposeful journey toward a divine destination. Gain the endurance you need to push through life’s most challenging seasons.
April 30, 2025
Every detail of your life has purpose. Pastor Mike Fabarez reveals how God doesn’t waste a single circumstance—even the painful chapters of our past. Discover how your background, birthplace, and timeline are divinely orchestrated components of God’s master plan.
April 29, 2025
Is your life unfolding by random chance, or by divine design? Pastor Mike Fabarez unveils God’s sovereign blueprint at work in every life. As we examine Paul’s remarkable testimony in Acts 22, we’ll discover how our birth, background, and even our struggles are divinely orchestrated to fulfill God’s perfect plan.
April 28, 2025
What is the “unpardonable sin?” Is it really possible to cross a point of no return, where it’s too late to repent? Pastor Mike Fabarez tackles these questions and presents a definitive explanation of what it means to “blaspheme the Holy Spirit.”
April 25, 2025
The Bible presents a God who orchestrates worms and wind as deliberately as kings and prophets. Pastor Mike Fabarez challenges our limited view of divine sovereignty. If God strategically positioned Cyrus 150 years before his birth, what might He be positioning in your life today?
April 24, 2025
Some churches teach that baptism literally washes away sin—but is that true? Pastor Mike Fabarez tackles the relationship between religious symbols and spiritual realities. Cutting through centuries of confusion, he’ll explain what actually saves us.
April 23, 2025
When dirt and grime ruin fabric, we toss it—but what can we do about the stains on our souls? Pastor Mike Fabarez examines God’s surprising solution. Through powerful ancient metaphors, discover how completely God deals with sin’s marks on our lives. No halfway measures, no partial fixes—learn how Christ makes the crimson white as snow.
April 22, 2025
Baptism—a simple ritual or profound symbol? When Ananias told Paul to “wash away your sins,” what did he really mean? Pastor Mike Fabarez decodes the rich biblical metaphors that give baptism its true significance. Dive beneath the surface and unpack the meaning behind the metaphor.
April 21, 2025
What makes Good Friday “good”? After all, it commemorates the brutal execution of an innocent man. Pastor Mike Fabarez explores the profound paradox at the heart of Good Friday—how history’s darkest injustice became humanity’s brightest hope. Discover the true weight Christ carried beyond the wooden cross, and why his suffering opens the door to our freedom!
April 18, 2025
Any kind of authority requires some kind of credentials. Pastor Mike Fabarez unveils the ultimate credential behind Christ’s authority—his resurrection power. He explains why the one who conquered death has legitimate claim over every aspect of our lives. It’s an eye-opening message that connects Easter’s triumph to our daily choices!
April 17, 2025
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If you have seen the stats on children raised without parental boundaries, being reared on tablets, smartphones and gaming systems, you know they are not good.
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Be sure to request the book Fierce Marriage by Ryan & Selena Frederick with your generous donation this month.
About Focal Point
Focal Point is the Bible teaching ministry of author and pastor Mike Fabarez. Focal Point explores and proclaims the depths of Scripture on its daily radio broadcast and is dedicated to clearly explaining the truth of God’s Word.
About Pastor Mike Fabarez
Mike Fabarez is the founding pastor of Compass Bible Church in South Orange County, California and has been in pastoral ministry for more than 30 years. He is committed to clearly communicating God’s word verse-by-verse and encourages his listeners to apply what they have learned to their daily lives.
Pastor Mike is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute, Talbot School of Theology (M.A.) and Westminster Theological Seminary in California (D.Min.).
Mike is heard on hundreds of radio programs across the country on the Focal Point radio program and has authored several books, including Raising Men Not Boys, Lifelines for Tough Times, Preaching That Changes Lives, Getting It Right, Praying for Sunday, and Why the Bible?
Mike and his wife, Carlynn, reside in Laguna Hills, California and they have three children, Matthew, John and Stephanie.
Pastor Mike is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute, Talbot School of Theology (M.A.) and Westminster Theological Seminary in California (D.Min.).
Mike is heard on hundreds of radio programs across the country on the Focal Point radio program and has authored several books, including Raising Men Not Boys, Lifelines for Tough Times, Preaching That Changes Lives, Getting It Right, Praying for Sunday, and Why the Bible?
Mike and his wife, Carlynn, reside in Laguna Hills, California and they have three children, Matthew, John and Stephanie.
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