Posts from August 2023

Weekly Update – August 31st, 2023 Last Sunday, we celebrated our 175th anniversary as a church.  The Lord has done many things through us over the years as we have sought to not only impact Grandview, but Kansas City, Missouri and the world beyond us.  Even though the Lord has been faithful to work through us in the past, we as the people of God here at First Baptist Church, ought to long to grow in pressing forward together as…

Weekly Update – August 24th, 2023 On Monday, July 10th, 1848, with 12 charter members, First Baptist Church (United Baptist Church of Jesus Christ – then) was constituted.  Through the desire to two preachers and two deacons from West Fork Baptist Church (Connection Point Church – now) Grandview now had a Baptist Church.  Within a year, James J. Robinson became the first official pastor in 1849.  The church initially met in a one-room log school/meeting building, owned by the community,…

Weekly Update – August 17th, 2023 Last week, I wrote about a new Biblical Counseling course that we are offering on Wednesday nights, starting on September 13th. The course will run for about 30 weeks (with a few nights off here and there) from September to April. The course will be video led with discussion to follow concerning the material that was taught. In that post I also explained what Biblical Counseling is. You can find that HERE. What I…

Weekly Update – August 10th, 2023 On Sunday, I announced that we will be starting a new training series for those interested in biblical counseling.  We will meet on Wednesday nights, starting September 13th at 6:30pm.  The series will run for 30 weeks over the course of the fall and spring.  Our times will include a mixture of video teaching, discussion and quizzes.  For anyone who is interested, come and talk with me and I can give you some more…

Weekly Update – August 3rd, 2023 Last Sunday, we had an opportunity to witness the baptism of Mark Petty.  Mark has been coming to First Baptist Church since around March, came to Christ, and then approached me in May about going public with that decision in baptism.  Since then, his wife Kirsten started coming with him and they are about to enter the membership process.  Aside from this, there were four significant things that were going on during this baptism…