Today is collection and dedication Sunday here at our church. Each year we fill shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child and have a special Sunday where we pray for them and send them off. We ask God to guide them to just the right places, connecting the right box with the right child. We pray for…
Read more
About: Todd Baker
Recent Posts by Todd Baker
Michael’s Alaska Trip
This week one of our own young men will be sharing about a ministry trip he took with Live 10:27 Ministries. Michael went on a hiking trip to Alaska with a group of other high school and college students. Their plans were very open ended with their main goal being to give God an opportunity…
Read more
Successful Parenting – Part 2
Last week we dug into the question, "What is success in parenting?" (watch here if you missed it) and we looked at God's teaching on the matter. This week, with that target in mind , we will discuss strategies for teaching our children's life's most valuable truths. Now if that statement brought and eye roll because…
Read more
Successful Parenting – Part 1
What does it mean to be a successful parent? So often we are just caught up in surviving that we forget to consider the end goal. We are so focused on what we are doing that we don't think about why we are doing it. In this message we want to address the question of…
Read more
Removing Barriers
What are some barriers that prevent people from hearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ? What are some barriers that prevent us from sharing the Gospel with certain people? Today, we want to discuss some of the answers to these two questions and address them with a third question: "What would Jesus do?" You see, Jesus gave…
Read more
Overcoming Fear
What prevents many Christians from sharing the life-giving, world-changing news of the Gospel? What is it that keeps us from sharing God's grace in personal, powerful ways? It is fear. Now sometimes fear is a good, God-given gift for the purpose of preserving our life. More often than not, however, it becomes an excuse to…
Read more
The Master Bomber
"We love because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19) or you could say "We Grace Bomb because He first Bombed us" In my last message I introduced the idea of sharing God's grace through Grace Bombs. But why would anyone want to give a surprise, generous gift to someone they might not even know,…
Read more
Grace Built
We tend to think of relationships as transactions: we give to get. But if you have put your trust in Jesus Christ alone to deliver you from sin and lead you, you have experienced grace - getting something that we neither paid for nor ever have the capacity to repay. You have experienced what it…
Read more
A Faith Big Enough for the Bad Times
What is your faith system like? What is yours like? Is it big enough to answer the hard questions? Can it sustain you when the bottom falls out in your life? We all have a faith system. Whether it is secular humanism, which puts faith in things like chance, the goodness of man, and the…
Read more
Back to School With God – Part 3
This week we wrap up our series with an in-depth look at one of the most essential elements of God's training for us. Some people take full advantage of this crucial aspect of Christianity, others despise it, to their own loss. I am speaking of the church. As believers, we are all part of the…
Read more