In this sermon on 2 Corinthians 8:16–24, Pastor Mike Fabarez argues that biblical generosity must be governed by careful, accountable stewardship rather than impulsive or naïve giving. Drawing from Paul’s commendation of Titus and the appointed brothers entrusted with administering the collection, the message establishes that Christian giving is both joyful and discerning. Paul’s concern to do “what is honorable not only in the Lord’s sight but also in the sight of man” (2 Corinthians 8:21) demonstrates that financial integrity and transparent administration are essential components of faithful ministry. Pastor Fabarez explains that wise stewardship protects the reputation of Christ, strengthens trust within the church, and ensures that resources advance gospel priorities. The sermon calls believers to evaluate their giving practices in light of Scripture, recognizing that generosity is not measured merely by amount but by faithfulness, accountability, and alignment with God’s revealed purposes. In a culture prone to emotional or careless financial decisions, this passage provides a doctrinal framework for responsible Christian stewardship.

Christmas matters because the incarnate Christ alone provides our acceptance before God, accomplishing what we could never achieve on our own.

Questions in this episode:

1. 0:55 – What will happen in the end times to those who reject Christ?
2. 8:50 – Church buildings in the past were very beautiful, why aren’t our church buildings beautiful like they used to be?
3. 15:04 – Does the Bema Seat judgment only judge a Christian’s deeds after they become a Christian?
4. 17:59 – Is the video “23 Minutes in Hell” okay to watch regarding near death experiences?
5. 19:37 – Why does the Bible say that Jesus prays for us and that he has the same power as God?
6. 21:52 – If Jesus already has the power, why doesn’t he just do what we ask if it’s already God’s will?
7. 25:04 – What is the sin that leads to death in 1 John 5:16 and can a Christian be separate from Christ until they repent of all sins?
8. 29:29 – What should we know about the Millennial Kingdom that should influence our evangelism today?
9. 36:33 – How do we reconcile man’s free will with God’s sovereignty?
10. 41:46 – What heaven and earth will pass away when the New Jerusalem comes down?
11. 45:51 – Can you explain your statement that if you are at odds with your church you are probably at odds with God?
12. 53:50 – Can we get along with other Christians even though we don’t all believe the same on secondary or tertiary issues?
13. 1:03:40 – Why did Ananias & Saphira receive such a harsh judgement?

Questions in this episode:

1. 0:46 – Where did Cain and Abel’s wives come from and what is the biblical understanding on how we grow families?
2. 5:52 – How do we rightly think about Israel of the Old Testament versus modern day Israel?
3. 14:02 – How do we pray for people and their salvation?
4. 17:27 – What is the biblical view of medically assisted death?
5. 22:09 – As Christians, are we in sin if we choose not to procreate?
6. 25:36 – My sister is a pastor, how should I think biblically about this?
7. 27:38 – How do we address people who come to us with their problems and issues?
8. 30:39 – Why did people live longer in the Bible than we do today?
9. 35:14 – How do we manage our speech so that we don’t tempt others to be envious?
10. 40:42 – Should we love the people of Israel for their sake or for the sake of the nation?
11. 46:41 – How do we battle the sin of idleness?
12. 49:52 – Why does Roman Catholicism include the Apocrypha in their Bible?
13. 55:53 – In the Bible, where do demons go when they are exorcised?
14. 59:52 – What does it mean that a man has an evil spirit?
15. 1:02:50 – How should we think about Israel’s killing of Palestinians?
16. 1:08:47 – When is it okay to move someone to palliative care?

1. Why does Paul in the Spirit say he will continue to Jerusalem, when Agabus says the Holy Spirit says he will be imprisoned?
2. Who made God?
3. What is the biblical view of retirement?
4. In 1 Corinthians 15:10 what is meant by “the perfect?”
5. Did Jesus die for all the sins of mankind or just exclusively for the elect?
6. Is casting out demons still going on today?
7. What are the biblical principles for using AI?
8. Why is Samson mentioned in the “hall of faith” in Hebrews 11, despite his sins and apparently never repented?
9. What is going on in Matthew 27 with the tombs opening and the bodies of many saints coming out and appearing to many?
10. Was Jesus raised by God or did he raise himself?
11. Should we be venerating Mary?
12. What was your original vision for the Compass Revival summer camp?
13. What are Last Rites in the Roman Catholic church?
14. What was the significance of the Temple veil tearing at the crucifixion?

Questions in this session:

1. If we pray with any doubt at all does God hear our prayer?
2. Did Jesus have a part in the creation of the universe?
3. What are your thoughts on “altar calls?” What are your thoughts on Jeremiah 29:11? How can you surrender to Jesus when life is throwing things at you?
4. As a believer, we have been giving the Holy Spirit, but in the New Jerusalem will the Holy Spirit still be with us?
5. Describe the relationship between a spirit of flesh and a spirit of righteousness?
6. How should a Christian deal with alternate medical treatments and practices?
7. How do we handle times when people, even close family members, reject the Gospel?
8. Could you explain what purgatory is and should we read authors that believe in it?
9. How do we reconcile God’s sovereignty and man’s free will and responsibility for our choices?
10. What is biblical literalism and how should apply God’s word to our lives today?
11. How did you change your teaching with your children as they grew up and became Christians?

Questions in this session:

1. Should we believe in a “young earth” or “old earth?”
2. How do we communicate what it means to be a “slave of Christ?”
3. Is addressing someone by their preferred pronouns somehow sinful or a compromise of my Christianity?
4. What does it mean in Matthew 27:52-53 when people were coming out of their tombs at the crucifixion?
5. Are there any miracles that still happen today, if not, how do we explain things in our life that seem miraculous?
6. Why does Satan need to be released again after the Millennial Kingdom?
7. When the rapture occurs, what will happen to children who haven’t reached the “age of accountability?”
8. How do we define Christian mysticism and should we be reading authors who are aligned with it?
9. As Christians, how should we approach the Enneagram Personality Test?
10. How would you answer a Christian who says if I don’t will to read the Bible then I shouldn’t do because my heart doesn’t fully desire it?
11. Should we pray to the saints?
12. How can Muslims be saved?
13. Is it biblical to say that Christ died for our past, present and future sins? And how do we approach God about our sin?
14. How did we get the pope? How do we deal with a Christian pastor who is performing a gay wedding?

1. How do we discern pride in ourselves and others?
2. Where did all the different ethnicities come from after the flood.
3. What is the biblical view on the “age of accountability”
4. How does Satan have any authority on earth if dominion is giving to Jesus and humans?
5. How do we talk to people involved with the Assemblies of God church regarding baptism of the Holy Spirit?
6. The Bible calls King Hezekiah and King Josiah the greatest king, how can they both be the greatest?
7. If Christians are saved, why is there a judgment day and what do we need to do to be saved?
8. How do you respond to someone who says, that it would be better for a suffering child to die before the “age of accountability” and go to heaven rather than perhaps survive and have a chance to go to hell?
9. How do you respond to people of the Greek Orthodox faith who say they are the original church?
10. Should we watch tv shows or movies that glorify evil and denigrate good?
11. What does Paul mean in 1 Corinthians 6:12-13 regarding Christian liberties?
12. How do you go about preparing for a sermon?

Questions in this session:

1. Do you need to believe in the resurrection to be saved?
2. Is it okay for Christians to donate their organs after death?
3. How should Christians respond to the cultural pressure to reduce the population?
4. Could you provide Scriptural evidence for a pre-tribulational rapture?
5. Where does the rebuilding of the temple fall in the eschatological timeline?
6. When we die, will we remember those who are unsaved and are in hell?
7. How would you answer a person who does not believe in the existence of hell?
8. Is it okay for a Christian to do yoga?
9. When do we get our glorified bodies on the eschatological timeline?
10. In communion, how do we understand the substance of the bread and the wine?
11. How do we understand the five fold spiritual gifts in Ephesians 4?
12. Do you think people in hell will remember the opportunities they had to repent and place their trust in Christ?
13. Is being saved by grace through faith in conflict with predestination?
14. Could you expand on the predestination versus free will discussion?
15. What’s the difference between limited atonement and unlimited atonement?

Questions in this session:

1. How should Christians view birth control and artificial insemination?
2. Does the Bible say what language will be used in the New Heaven and New Earth?
3. How do we work out God’s sovereignty with our prayers for people’s salvation?
4. What happens to people left behind after the rapture of believers?
5. God took everything from Job except his wife. What does that say about Job’s wife and when Job gets blessing after this terrible time, is it the same wife?
6. Since God created time, does that mean when we pass away, we all wake up with the Lord at the same time?
7. Were people in the Old Testament “born of the Spirit?” And how does somebody get the Spirit into them to be born again?
8. What does the Bible say about female pastors? And with women speaking about God in many different settings, how do we discern if they are acting in the role of pastor or not?
9. How do we reconcile the passages in Scripture about God’s sovereignty and people’s responsibility to respond to the Gospel?
10. What does it mean that the “man of lawlessness” is being restrained?
11. How do we understand the three days that prophecy says Jesus would be in the tomb?
12. Does demonic possession occur today and can a Christian filled with the Holy Spirit be demonically possessed?

Questions in this session:

1. How do we deal with a professing Christian about sin that they are unwilling to acknowledge?
2. Is AI/machine learning dangerous? And what about pastors who use it to create sermons?
3. What happens to us immediately after we die?
4. In the Millennial Kingdom, why are there still sacrifices?
5. Is it okay for Christians to do Yoga?
6. Can we point to prophecies that have been fulfilled to prove God, Jesus and the Bible exist and are true?
7. What is the New Perspective on Paul and is it legitimate?
8. Should Christians get cremated?
9. How can a holy God allow an evil satan to come into His presence?
10. Is there an aspect of theology that would benefit Christians the most to fully understand?
11.  Do you ever see Compass getting involved in K-12 Christian education?
12.  What does it mean that we are made in the image of God?
13. What does the verse in Jude mean about the Archangel Michael disputing over the body of Moses?

Questions in this session:

1. Is it a sin for professing Christians to not read the Bible?
2. Is belief in the sign gifts a secondary issue in the Christian life or is it salvific?
3. How do we navigate friendship versus a dating relationship between Christian men and women?
4. What is spiritual healing and how does the Holy Spirit work in that?
5. How do we have unity with Christians who believe in replacement theology?
6. How do we make sense of election versus freewill in the examples of Pharaoh and Judas?
7. What should a new Christian do if they are married to an unbeliever?
8. How can we trust the Protestant movement when it is so fractured into different denominations?
9. Was the Fall part of God’s plan or Satan’s plan, who is in control?
10. Will there be an ocean in the New Earth?
11. Can you accept Jesus without following him?

Questions in this session:

1. How would you respond to Roman Catholics who use church history, church fathers and apostolic succession just as authoritatively as the Bible?
2. How do you respond to a Christian who says they are homosexual but are not acting on it? And how do you deal with a family member who is a practicing homosexual without alienating them?
3. How would you explain to a non-Christian how we can trust the Apostle John’s revelations, but not trust Joseph Smith’s revelations?
4. How do you respond to someone that says you can’t speak truth to me because you don’t know me?
5. Deuteronomy 23:3 says no Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord, but in the genealogy of Christ there is Ruth a Moabitess?
6. As a single person, how do you recommend dating and being respectful and not offending someone?
7. Where do we find in Scripture evidence of a pre-tribulational rapture?
8. How do we make sense of the imprecatory Psalms?
9. What are we to think about women being pastors when we have some churches saying yes they can and some churches and denominations saying no they can’t?
10. How would you prove to someone that Jesus is who he says he is?

Questions in this session:

1. Would Job be one of the first people to be a Christian?
2. What is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and is that an unforgivable sin?
3. Please explain John 14:28 where Jesus says the Father is greater than I.
4. Is there any reference to baptism in the Old Testament?
5. Do you see what is happening in the world today God giving us over to sin like in Romans 1:20?
6. Do we have to pray exactly like Jesus’ model prayer and only to the Father?
7. Are there markers in Scripture that indicate whether something is literal or poetic?
8. Is America referenced in Scripture?
9. In Joel 2:25 what are the years the locusts have eaten?
10. Is the furniture in the temple set up in the form of a cross?
11. Should faith-based organizations use the term “pregnant people?”
12. How do I know if I’m in a “dry season” versus not being in Christ?
13. When Christ died on the cross, did he die for everyone or just the elect?
14. In Romans 1 it says God subjected the world to futility, is that why there is so much craziness in the world?
15. Could you talk about a pre-tribulational rapture versus a post-tribulational rapture.
16. In Job who are the sons of God?

Questions in this session:

1. How do you transition from knowing about God to knowing God?
2. What is the best way to help people find the right path to live a life God wants them to live. (My paraphrase)
3. What is the best way to handle a situation where you do not want to take the vaccine but your employer is mandating it.
4. How does Romans 13 apply to the vaccine mandate? Is this against God’s will?
5. Explain what is meant by suffering at judgment time for Christians. Also, when will the judgment happen?
6. Discussion on replacement theology.
7. Does God still care about sin and the need for repentance?
8. Explain the difference between spirit and soul.
9. What does the Bible say about ministering to the homeless?
10. Are the Psalms based on ASAPH prophetic?
11. Why did the children of Israel weep for meat when they had plenty of cattle with them?

Questions from this session:

1. Covid Vaccine and the Mark of the Beast.
2. What happens to a young child that passes away before hearing the Gospel.
3. What is deconstruction? Definition of Modernism and Post-Modernism.
4. Roman 5 verses 30 and 40 are unclear to person.
5. How do we as Christians talk to people transitioning.
6. Secular teaching over millions of years vs. Biblical teaching.
7. Is Jesus suffering on the cross just physical or spiritual?
8. Explain the Trinity in a simple way.
9. Explain the meaning of the end of Judges having to do with the almost complete destruction of the tribe of Benjamin.
10. Explain the rapture since it is not specifically mentioned in Revelation.

Questions in this session:

1. Question on same sex attraction.
2. Do all pastors at Compass agree to all 5 points of grace.
3. Question related to understanding the differences between dispensational and Covenantal theologies and can they be reconciled.
4. How does a woman teach pastoral authority in a Christian College.
5. Questioner does not believe Jesus loves him.
6. How can we justify the celebration of Christmas which is based on a pagan holiday
7. How would you point out sin to another Christian
8. Why do I need to pray if God knows everything?
9. Is waiting on the Lord that simple, or is there more to it than that?
10 Explain the difference between faith works and salvation.
11. Does the atoning power of Christ result in healing in the here and now
12. How do predestination and free will coincide?
13. About Jesus and his baptism by John the Baptist – was this baptism an example?
14. Discuss the topic of head coverings in Corinthians.
15. Why are you a Pastor?

Questions in this service:

1. How do we learn to trust the Lord more?
2. Daughter goes to a Lutheran school that teaches confirmation. Is it okay for the daughter to go through these ceremonies when she does not know what she is doing?
3. Please discuss Election vs. Free will and having assurance in one’s salvation.
4. Do you agree with the pre-tribulation rapture?
5. Book of 1 Samuel. Why would a good God send an evil spirit on to Saul?
6. Is pornography a reason for divorce? Is it a biblical reason?
7. How do you respond to someone who asks about the native on a remote island that will never receive the Gospel message? What is to happen to them?
8. What do you say about people that claim they have been saved and then later on say now I am for sure saved?
9. Please talk about Social Justice as related to the Biblical view.
10. When people die, are they asleep or in heaven?
11. Please discuss church discipline and church membership.
12. Please discuss if Pentecost is the only time tongues were spoken and is it demonic if done today?
13. One of my children seems to be getting spiritually attacked with bad dreams etc. What can we as parents do to fight this?

Questions in this service:

1. How should I respond to my sisters gay marriage?
2. Matthew 12:31-32 – what exactly is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit and how can we be sure we have not done so?
3. Galatians 5:22-23 – how are we to consider this related to the immigration crisis?
4. Question on the Tower of Babel.
5. Why was Jesus able to teach in the synagogues when they did not like what he had to say?
6. How do I know from the Old Testament that gentiles would be included with Jews to be saved?
7. 1 John 5:16 – what is the sin referred to?
8. How can an all loving God create the world we have?
9. How do we have free will if God is sovereign?
10. Question on the teaching of Eldridge and spiritual warfare.
11. 1 Peter 3:18 what is your understanding about the meaning of “proclaimed to the spirits in prison”?

Questions in this service:

1. How do we maintain rest without being a legalist about it? What is rest?
2. How do you know that you are understanding what the Bible is instructing you to do. Talk about righteousness and self righteousness.
3. In Acts, Paul does not protest about his incarceration until late in the process. He did not mention his citizenship at the start. Why?
4. Question on Paul to the Corinthians questioning them on why they would be baptizing for the dead? What did Paul mean about this?
5. A question relating to the 4 soils. Is the second soil talking about burnout?
6. Relating to Ezra and Nehemiah… many broke up their marriages because they had married pagans. Is this not breaking God’s law to divorce for reasons other than adultery? What is to be done about the women and children left on their own?
7. Concerning Matt 24:36. Please explain why only the Father knows the day.
8. Having trouble with the math relating to the 70 weeks prophecy in Daniel.
9. Please talk about Christians having to deal with the possibility of using or prescribed to use medical marijuana.
10. The 10 commandments seem to be different in list form from Catholics than what we see as Protestants. Is the Catholic religion a cult?
11. Is there physical proof of the reality of the Bible?