Posts from May 2026

You always know when summer is here. School is out, kids are playing outside, and you can smell charcoal from the grill as you walk through your neighborhood at night. Sure the days are hot, but the warm brings refreshment with it as you sit outside in the evenings. At the same time, summer brings a certain temptation. Anytime there is an opportunity for leisure and refreshment, the evil one will bring the temptation to focus inward and to neglect what…

Weekly Update – May 14th, 2026  Last Sunday, we had a parent/child dedication. At First Baptist Church, we want to be a community that not only celebrates children, but we also want to be a place that stands with parents to equip, support, encourage and pray for them as they seek to lead their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord (Col. 4:4). That means that as joyful as it was to watch seven young families present their children to…

Weekly Update – May 7th, 2026  How is it that we are supposed to live as Christians? Does the Bible say anything about how we are to interact with others?  In short, Yes! The New Testament gives us what we might call 59 one another’s that are to direct us in how we live in relationship with others. In other words, once we become Christians, it is rightly assumed that we would then be connected to God’s church. For it…