Posts from January 2025
Dependent Prayer
Weekly Update – January 30th, 2025 In Luke 6:12 we see the dependency that Jesus had upon his father. He spent all night in prayer seeking out the next step in his ministry as he prepared to choose his 12 disciples. It wasn’t as if we see a denial of any of Jesus’ attributes here with his dependency upon God, but, as we all should be, Jesus lived dependent upon the Holy Spirit. The clearest way that dependency upon the…
Keeping the Sabbath?
Weekly Update – January 23rd, 2025 Last Sunday, we saw Jesus interacting with the teachers of his day about the Sabbath. The Sabbath, which was the seventh day of the week, began at sundown and ended at sundown the next day. Yet, in Luke 6:1-11, Jesus and his disciples are castigated by these so-called teachers of the law for their supposed Sabbath breaking principles. The problem is that the principles Jesus and his disciples were breaking were the additional laws…
Child Evangelism Fellowship
Weekly Update – January 16th, 2025 Last Sunday, we had the Snodgrass family share with us a bit about their ministry with Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF). Then, Simon Snodgrass preached for us from Philippians 1:1-11. What a joy it was to have them back with us after not having seen them in person since 2020. Hannah joined our church back in 2018, and shortly after we began to support her ministry with CEF. Once she and Simon married in 2019,…
Three Challenges
Weekly Update – January 9th, 2025 Last week I gave you 10 evidences of God’s grace that have been clear to me, and hopefully clear to you, as we look back upon the last 10 years together. Though there have been ups and downs during this time, God has been at work, and I believe, will continue to be at work in us and in First Baptist Church. As I said last week, not only did I want to give…
10 Reflections for 10 Years
Weekly Update – January 2nd, 2025 I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting this week. Not only because it is a new year, although like many of you, I will try to set goals and plan for the year ahead, but I have also been reflecting for another reason as well. You see, January 5th, 2015 was my official start date here at First Baptist Church. My first Sunday preaching was just a week later on January 11th. That makes…