Category Archives: Sunday Sermons

The Mission of the Church

This third installment of our series on the local church focuses on one of the most important questions we should be asking: "What is the Mission of the Church?" We have talked about the origin of the church, the formation and activity of the early church, now we need to find out, what is the…

Learning From the Early Church

In our first message in this series on the local church, we looked at the fact that the church was God's idea, it is not manmade. While man has produced many forms of church that may be very different than what God intended, make no mistake, God is the one who created and established the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Shoebox Sunday!

Today is a special day on our church calendar and one of our favorites. For the past several weeks we have been collection shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. Today we will be praying over them and dedicating them to the Lord's use. These shoeboxes have been known to literally change the life of a child…

Remembering Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We are Going

The night before His crucifixion, Jesus gave His disciples a very important command. It was not the "Go" command that He gave before leaving earth, but it was an equally important perpetual command that calls us to come together in the midst of our going and doing. It was the command to regularly and perpetually…