Posts from August 2025

Weekly Update – August 28th, 2025  The Christian life is never a solo journey. We need consistent encouragement from each other in order to persevere in faith and live lives characterized by love and obedience to Christ. Here at First Baptist Church, we believe Home Groups are an excellent way to facilitate the mutual encouragement, care, and service that the Bible calls the local church body to practice toward one another. Therefore, as we prepare for another season of home…

Weekly Update – August 21st, 2025  In Nehemiah 10, there are 84 men who come together to sign a commitment to reaffirm the covenant made at Sinai and to live according to the Old Testament Law.  Some of these men were leaders, Levites and heads of their homes.  By no means was this all of Israel. But the goal wasn’t just for these men to sign this commitment and move on with their lives.  No, in Nehemiah 10:28, these men…

Weekly Update – August 14th, 2025  On Sunday, we took the Lord’s Supper together as a church.  We used to take it quarterly, then we paused for a while during Covid, began to take it every other month and now we take it monthly.  Some argue that taking the Lord’s Supper too frequently causes a church to forget its significance, but I would argue that we ought to long for the gospel to not only be proclaimed in word but…

Weekly Update – August 7th, 2025  Confession can be a confusing topic in the Christian life. The reason why is because many wonder if there is a need to actually confess sin. Very few Christians will deny that they still sin, but if we are forgiven in Christ (Eph. 1:7), accepted by God (Rom. 5:1), justified of all our sins (Rom. 10:10), and waiting for the fullness of our inheritance to come (Eph. 1:14), then why the need to confess…