Posts by Michael Nelson (Page 6)

Weekly Update – September 21st, 2023 A little over 5 years ago now, First Baptist Church opened up a “bookstore”.  Now it’s no Barnes and Nobles, but it is a few shelves in the welcome center of key books that will help influence your Christian life.  We have books such as, The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller, which will help shape your view on marriage, or Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life by Don Whitney which will give you…

Weekly Update – September 14th, 2023 Over the last 9 months, we have been slowly walking through our newly adopted statement on Biblical Sexuality.  There are nine points to this statement.  This week we will look at point six.  Point one can before found HERE.  Point two, HERE.  Point three, HERE.  Point four, HERE.  Point five, HERE. Point six is as follows: “Sin distorts sexual desires by directing them away from the marriage covenant and toward sexual immorality. This distortion can include both heterosexual…

Weekly Update – September 7th, 2023 This week we will have a responsive reading in the middle of our service.  In fact, it is placed right after our prayer of confession and will serve as our reminder of the pardon we have received through Jesus Christ.  In terms of responsive readings, over the last several years, we have done everything from reading scripture together, reciting catechisms to even reading our statement of faith.  We don’t do this because we are…

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…

Weekly Update – July 27th, 2023 Over the last 7 months, we have been slowly walking through our newly adopted statement on Biblical Sexuality.  There are nine points to this statement.  This week we will look at point five.  Point one can before found HERE.  Point two, HERE.  Point three, HERE.  Point four HERE.  Point 5 is as follows: God’s revealed will for all people is chastity outside of marriage and fidelity to one’s spouse within marriage.  No affection, desire or commitment ever…

Weekly Update – July 20th, 2023 The Biblical command issued by Jesus throughout the gospels to those who would be his disciples is, “Follow Me.”  Every passage in the New Testament in some way or another gives us this command too.  Hopefully this has been clear the last several weeks as we have been walking through Paul’s letter to the Philippians.  But, for the sake of even greater clarity, lets take an overview look at what the command from Jesus…

Weekly Update – July 13th, This week, we have had the opportunity to host our annual Vacation Bible School.  The theme for this year is, Twists and Turns: Following Jesus Changes the Game. Every day children from our church and all over our community have come to learn about how big our God is and how much he cares for them.  This has been shown through the different memory verses that we have had, as well as through our teaching…

Weekly Update – July 6th, 2023 In your life, there may be many kinds of communities to be involved with, but none will rival the true community you are redeemed to.  You can join a gym, play a team sport, interact with your neighbors, and form all sorts of good relationships, but there is still something different about the true community.  The reason I say this is because, ultimately, a true community is the only type of community that is…