Posts from September 2025

Weekly Update – September 25th, 2025  After the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, many are wondering if revival will break out in America. Kirk’s memorial service was likely the largest in recorded history, with over 90,000 people in attendance, and more than 100 million who watched it via livestream. If you watched the service, you could attest to the gospel being preached with great clarity. In fact, it was proclaimed many times. Additionally, there was this…

Weekly Update – September 18th, 2025  At 2:40pm on September 10, 2025, it was announced that Charlie Kirk had died. In many ways, the world went silent. I had never seen him speak in person, nor had I ever been to one of his debates, but like so many, I had watched YouTube videos, interviews and had watched his career from afar. In the last week, you have likely seen a thousand different comments or read numerous articles about Kirk’s…

Weekly Update – September 11th, 2025  In the 1840s, two Baptist preachers named Jeremiah Farmer and W.P.C. Caldwell, along with two deacons from the West Fork Baptist Church decided to organize a church closer to their community. The new church, named the United Baptist church of Jesus Christ, was constituted on Monday, July 10, 1848, with 12 charter members. At this time, the area that we know now as Grandview wasn’t incorporated yet. In fact, it was a rural community which after…

Weekly Update – September 4th, 2025  Last year we brought back our Sunday night service on the 2nd Sunday of the month.  As I often remind us, everything we do here at First Baptist Church is meant to be done on purpose. We are not looking to merely fill a spot in the week or give you something extra to do at night. We want to be deliberate in how we conduct ourselves and intentional in seeking to fulfill our…