Sermons

From the Pastor's Desk / Sunday Sermons

The Origin of the Local Church

How important is the church? I have been a pastor for over 25 years and I have been a follower of Jesus for 45.  If I have not learned anything else in all my experience, I have learned that the most important elements of the Christian life are time with God in prayer, time with God in His Word, and time with God’s people, specifically through local church involvement.  I have also learned that those are the things Satan most wants to keep us from. Now I think we all know those first two items are important.  I’ve never heard …

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Services Cancelled Today (1/7/2024), but…

Due to the weather, we have decided it was best to cancel our Sunday Services. Let me encourage you, however, to do one or both of the following: If you were not able to be part of last week’s service, take the time to watch that here.  Our guest speaker Trevor Route gave a great message that is a perfect introduction to the new series I will begin next week (Lord willing) on the local church.  If you have already heard that message, then take a minute and view this video “Disciples Make Disciples” by David Platt on RightNow Media. …

Christmas / Sunday Sermons

The Hope of All People

It says in Proverbs 13:12 that “Hope deferred makes the heart sick”.  Have you ever experienced that, where you had high hopes, only to have the dashed at the last minute?   Maybe you have had this happen just this Christmas season. It really does drain our souls and make us feel empty, like when we have been physically sick. Living in a fallen world with fallen people all around us, disappointments are a reality.  Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small.  Too many of them can really get us down and give us a pessimistic view of life; they …

Christmas / Sunday Sermons

To Save Us From Our Sins

Can you believe this is the week before Christmas?  We have been celebrating it here at First Baptist for the past couple of weeks and we continue this celebration in today’s service.  Join us as we enjoy a bell choir composed of 20 of our church kids, and then a Christmas program put on by kids both young and old.  We will finish by looking at Matthew 1:18-25 and be reminded of why we even celebrate Christmas.  All this along with singing together and fellowshipping together.   I hope you will come out and join us in person if at all …

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Ministry Trip Presentation

Today Abigail is going to be sharing with us about a recent ministry trip she took to Ethiopia with her college professor and a classmate. They were part of the team helping out with an international children’s ministry conference. She will be telling about her experiences, the people, and how God impacted her heart for international ministry to children.

Christmas

Daughters of the King Ballet

The Nutcracker is a story of a battle between good and evil.  In Clara’s dream, she is thrown into a world where the evil mouse queen desires to rule the kingdom.  But Clara and the Nutcracker fight to restore goodness and peace to the land of sweets. While we know that the Nutcracker is a fictional fairytale, the battle between good and evil is very real.  The good news is that the end has already been determined, because Jesus conquered the enemy when He died on the cross to pay the price for our sin, and then came back to …

From the Pastor's Desk / Sunday Sermons

Jesus, the Ultimate Fulfillment or “What Can We Learn from a Genealogy?”

In our Boys Only Club we have been looking at the reliability of God’s Word and the fact that every word in the Bible was put there on purpose by God. Sometimes, however, we treat parts of the Bible as less important than others, such as genealogies. Who wants to read a long list of hard to pronounce names? What meaning do they have for us? Well today, as we look at Jesus as the ultimate fulfillment, we will see that genealogies can be very important, and God knew what He was doing when He started the book of Matthew …

From the Pastor's Desk / Sunday Sermons

Ministry Trip Presentation

Today we have one of the young men who grew up in our church sharing about a ministry trip he was on.  He has had the desire for a long time to go on such a trip and God worked out the perfect timing so that desire could be fulfilled last month. Curtis has come back excited about what he has seen God doing in Asia and he is eager to share it with us this morning.  I am eager to hear all about it and invite you to join in as well!

From the Pastor's Desk / Sunday Sermons

Becoming Humbly Grateful

Pride and thankfulness don’t mix.  Thankfulness acknowledges that you have been given something, something that someone chose to give you.  Thankfulness acknowledges some form of exchange that you came out ahead on.  On the other hand, pride tends toward the attitude that someone owes you something.  Pride is demanding, it says people owe me. The other side of this coin is the fact that humility fosters thankfulness and thankfulness fosters humility.  They tend to build on each other.  The more we focus on what we have been given from God, the more humbled we become by His generosity.  This is …