CFFC Podcast

CFFC Podcast carries the weekly preaching of Christian Faith Fellowship Church, recorded live and released largely unadorned. Each message opens with prayer. Then comes the same instruction, week after week: turn with me, open your Bibles, find the chapter. The passages get read aloud at length — John 19 from verse 16 to verse 30, Matthew 21 as Jesus approaches Jerusalem, 2 Corinthians 5 on what it means to be a new creation. Pastor Tom Fiola offers a short self-introduction on Easter morning, saying all anyone needs to know is that he loves Jesus. That sets the register for the whole feed. The teaching is plain, warm, and conversational, with none of the polish of a produced program. Sermons are grouped into runs rather than delivered as standalone talks. Portrait of a Savior spends a week each on Jesus as servant washing feet, as healer touching the broken, as sacrifice, and as the king who arrived on a colt instead of a warhorse. Living in Resurrection Reality follows Easter and presses on a question the preaching says believers often take for granted — what actually happened at the new birth, and what power now lives in them. The church calendar drives much of the year. Good Friday communion is described as one of the highlight services. Resurrection Sunday is celebrated as the greatest day. Pentecost gets called the birthday of the church. A men's Good Friday breakfast gets prayed over. Application rarely stays abstract. One message uses a long winter and the snow outside as a way into a verse about scarlet sins made white. Another holds up decades of marriage — 43 years, and another couple at 38 — as an argument that life works best done God's way, while admitting the first five years can be the hardest. Parenting, influence over the people in one's own area, and staying steady when standards shift all get airtime. The preaching does not pretend the wider world is calm. Division in government and disagreement inside churches both get named directly, but the response is consistently to return to Scripture as an anchor rather than to argue politics from the pulpit. The congregation is audible throughout. Amens come back, phrases get repeated on cue, and the recording captures the room going quiet when a point lands hard. Messages end in blessing — a spoken declaration over the church, a wish for safety in the days ahead, a simple God bless. With more than 450 episodes, it functions as a running archive of one congregation's teaching rather than a curated highlight reel. Best suited to listeners who want to follow a passage with a Bible open and hear it taught the way it was preached.