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1h 54mZac Poonen · May 1
1h 46mZac Poonen · Apr 30
1h 41mZac Poonen · Feb 22
1h 26mZac Poonen · Jan 5
1h 49mZac Poonen · Oct 26
1h 36mZac Poonen · Oct 19
1h 4mZac Poonen · Aug 25
1h 33mZac Poonen · Aug 24
1h 57mZac Poonen · Aug 17
1h 50mZac Poonen · Aug 3
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1h 40mZac Poonen · Jun 8
1h 31mZac Poonen · May 25
1h 32mZac Poonen · May 2
1h 32mZac Poonen · Apr 20
1h 41mZac Poonen · Feb 23
1h 16mZac Poonen · Feb 9
2h 25mZac Poonen · Jan 5
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1h 44mZac Poonen · Dec 22
2h 0mZac Poonen · Nov 24
3h 8mZac Poonen · Aug 23
58mZac Poonen · Aug 11
1h 33mZac Poonen · Jun 23
Zac Poonen · 10m · CFC Daily Devotions
Repentance is the defining mark of a truly born-again Christian. Without genuine repentance—a turning away from sin with changed behavior—one's claim to conversion is hollow and superficial.
1h 54mCFC Bangalore Live
transcribingZac Poonen · May 1, 2026 · 1h 54m
Zac Poonen teaches that believers manifest the life of Christ by partaking of His divine nature, emphasizing transformation through spiritual participation rather than external conformity. The message focuses on how genuine Christian living emerges from an inward union with Christ that produces His character and conduct in the believer's daily life.
1h 46mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Apr 30, 2026 · 1h 46m
Brother Zac emphasizes that the central purpose of Christianity is not merely escaping hell and going to heaven, but rather manifesting and partaking of Christ's life daily through transformation into His likeness. He challenges believers to evaluate whether they are truly growing in Christ's character and nature, evidenced by how those around them—family, spouses, and community—can testify to their increasing Christlikeness, a message CFC has proclaimed for fifty years without seeking money or offerings from the church.
1h 41mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Feb 22, 2026 · 1h 41m
Zac Poonen teaches that suffering is part of God's design for believers, using Job's example to show how God enters into human suffering and calls us to trust Him. The message encourages Christians to acknowledge their weakness and inadequacy before a holy God while finding joy in serving Jesus through trials and tribulations.
1h 26mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Jan 5, 2026 · 1h 26m
Zac Poonen leads a worship service on January 4, 2026, centered on cultivating right attitudes as the new year begins. Through songs of worship and devotion, the message emphasizes trusting in God's faithfulness, yielding to the Holy Spirit's fullness, and committing oneself to serve God faithfully throughout the coming year.
1h 49mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Oct 26, 2025 · 1h 49m
Zac Poonen leads worship and encourages the congregation to focus on God's greatness and presence, emphasizing that coming into the Lord's presence and living in communion with God is humanity's greatest privilege. Through hymns and Scripture reflection, he calls believers to quiet their hearts from worldly distractions and give God their full attention and worship.
1h 36mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Oct 19, 2025 · 1h 36m
Zac Poonen leads a church service centered on worshipping Jesus as King and Lord, emphasizing the centrality of Christ's kingship in the life of believers and the church. The service includes congregational worship, prayer, and reflection on serving the Lord with gladness and gratitude for Christ's redemptive work and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
1h 4mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Aug 25, 2025 · 1h 4m
Based on Romans 10:9-10, Zac Poonen teaches that faith and confession work together like two wires completing a circuit—what we believe in our heart must be confessed with our mouth. He presents eight foundational confessions for Christian living, beginning with God's unconditional love and perfect character, and emphasizing that believers must both receive challenge and encouragement from Scripture. The core message is that genuine faith requires both internal belief and external verbal testimony to produce spiritual transformation and joy.
1h 33mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Aug 24, 2025 · 1h 33m
A worship and prayer service led by Zac Poonen emphasizing gratitude, faith, and the believer's position in Christ. The message centers on the privilege of worshiping at the feet of Jesus after being cleansed by His blood, and the importance of maintaining a thankful heart while walking in the Spirit rather than fulfilling the desires of the flesh.
1h 57mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Aug 17, 2025 · 1h 57m
Zac Poonen delivers a sermon celebrating CFC's 50th anniversary, emphasizing God's faithfulness, blessings, and spiritual inheritance in Christ as revealed in Ephesians 1. He calls the congregation to gratitude and worship, reminding them of God's redemptive promises and encouraging them to remember that Satan's future is defeat while God's promises are eternal.
1h 50mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Aug 3, 2025 · 1h 50m
Zac Poonen leads a Sunday church service focused on worship and exaltation of Christ's majesty and holiness. The sermon emphasizes the privilege of believers to worship and praise Jesus, who holds all authority and power, and to recognize His redemptive work regardless of temporal circumstances.
1h 50mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Jun 22, 2025 · 1h 50m
This sermon focuses on knowing God the Father and becoming like Him through worship and surrender. Through worship songs and prayer, Zac Poonen emphasizes God's faithfulness, goodness, and worthiness of honor, calling the congregation to lift up Jesus and bow down before Him in reverence and adoration.
1h 40mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Jun 8, 2025 · 1h 40m
Zac Poonen leads a Sunday worship service at CFC Bangalore, beginning with corporate worship and prayer. While the transcript consists primarily of worship songs and opening liturgy, the sermon itself on the theme of discipleship is not fully captured in the provided transcript excerpt.
1h 31mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · May 25, 2025 · 1h 31m
Zac Poonen leads a worship service at CFC Bangalore, emphasizing God's sovereignty, faithfulness, and the importance of worshiping and honoring Him. Through worship songs and prayer, he encourages believers to rejoice in God's reign, surrender to His will, and trust in His power to accomplish His plans for their lives.
1h 32mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · May 2, 2025 · 1h 32m
Zac Poonen leads a worship session emphasizing God's enablement for believers to love Him and love others. The message, centered on themes of redemption, freedom in Christ, and devotion, calls Christians to fix their eyes on Jesus, receive His mercy and grace, and live with faith that pleases God for eternal purposes.
1h 32mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Apr 20, 2025 · 1h 32m
Zac Poonen leads a Sunday worship service focused on praising God and recognizing His greatness, power, and the finished work of Christ. Through worship songs and prayer, the congregation is invited to enter God's presence with thanksgiving and to understand the supremacy of Christ seated at God's right hand with authority over all things.
1h 41mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Feb 23, 2025 · 1h 41m
Zac Poonen exhorts believers to embrace suffering as a blessed path, drawing on the theme of God's grace, redemption, and the sufficiency of Christ through trials. Using Colossians 1 as the foundation, he emphasizes that Christ is supreme over all creation and that believers are called to give thanks and praise even in difficult circumstances, trusting in God's rescue from darkness and His sustaining power.
1h 16mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Feb 9, 2025 · 1h 16m
Zac Poonen teaches on yielding our body and its passions fully to the Lord by drawing parallels between Israel's exodus from Egypt and the Christian's journey to victory over sin. Using 1 Corinthians 10 and Hebrews 3-4, he explains that baptism and the Holy Spirit's baptism are meant to lead believers from slavery to sin (Egypt) into a life of complete victory over fleshly lusts (Canaan), not mere wandering in the wilderness of defeat.
2h 25mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Jan 5, 2025 · 2h 25m
Zac Poonen leads a service of thanksgiving, praise, and worship centered on God's goodness, faithfulness, and love. Through a series of hymns and worship songs, the message emphasizes that God is good in all circumstances, has shown marvelous love through Christ's sacrifice, and invites believers to respond with grateful hearts and worship. The service calls the congregation to recognize God's holiness, experience His constant care, and find their identity and security in His unfailing love.
1h 52mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Dec 29, 2024 · 1h 52m
Zac Poonen encourages believers that they can be overcomers in the new year through trust in God's faithfulness, goodness, and provision. The sermon, centered on thanksgiving and God's unfailing love, emphasizes that regardless of circumstances—whether in valleys or on mountaintops—God's mercy and strength enable believers to stand victorious and live as lights in their communities.
1h 44mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Dec 22, 2024 · 1h 44m
Zac Poonen addresses the opposition to the true Gospel, emphasizing the importance of praising God and maintaining faith in Christ as the ultimate victor over Satan. The sermon centers on recognizing God's majesty and sovereignty while encouraging believers to live in acknowledgment of Christ's redemptive work and the power of faith to overcome the world.
2h 0mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Nov 24, 2024 · 2h 0m
The sermon, though heavily interspersed with worship music, focuses on themes of God's enduring presence and faithfulness through life's trials. Key messages include remembering that God is always on the throne, never abandoning His people, and that Jesus remains the constant truth amidst change. The overall call is to maintain faith and worship Him with a grateful heart.
3h 8mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Aug 23, 2024 · 3h 8m
The sermon reflects on the gathering of the church from diverse backgrounds, emphasizing that the church is a unified body built by God's grace. It draws heavily on Ephesians 3, focusing on being strengthened by the Spirit so that Christ may dwell in the hearts of believers. The central message is gratitude for God's enduring love and the continuous work of the Holy Spirit within the church.
58mCFC Bangalore Live
transcribingZac Poonen · Aug 11, 2024 · 58m
The sermon emphasizes the vital importance of Christian fellowship within the body of Christ. True fellowship is not merely social gathering but a deep, mutual commitment that supports spiritual growth and accountability. It is essential for believers to remain connected to one another for mutual encouragement and strength.
1h 33mCFC Bangalore Live
Zac Poonen · Jun 23, 2024 · 1h 33m
The message encourages the congregation to focus their thoughts entirely on Jesus Christ, the Eternal and Everlasting God. It emphasizes that our focus should be on Him, who purchased our salvation and who will return to receive us. The core message is one of worship and meditation on Christ's sacrifice and eternal reign.