Sermon Archives

First Baptist Church
Matthew 6:19-24
January 29, 2023
In this sermon, Brendon teaches we can’t be fully focused on heaven if we are dabbling in sin. Christ calls us to focus on our eternal reward. A good practice is to pray The Lord’s Prayer daily. Listen in this week, as we look at the Life Goal of Treasures in Heaven.
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Nathan Smith
Matthew 6:16-18
January 22, 2023
Pastor Nathan teaches that fasting is a way to humble ourselves before the Lord. Fasting (as a spiritual exercise, not dieting) is like a spiritual shock to our faith and a way to see right-with-God-ness.
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Nathan Smith
Matthew 6:5-15
January 15, 2023
Pastor Nathan teaches that when we pray, we are seeking right-with-God-ness or alignment with God. The “homework” for this week is to secretly and personally pray The Lord’s Prayer.
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Nathan Smith
Matthew 6:1-4
January 8, 2023
To begin this new sermon series, Life Goals, Pastor Nathan asks what motivates you as a person? Is it approval from people? Is it an award? Is it fear? This passage instructs us to do acts of mercy in secret and our Heavenly Father will reward us. Listen in and work on the homework as suggested by secretly doing mercy.
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First Baptist Church
Matthew 5:43-48
January 1, 2023
In this sermon, Brendon teaches on how to love our enemies. Because God loves differently, so we must love differently. Listen in this week, as we look at a challenging passage on loving our enemies.
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Nathan Smith
Matthew 1:18-25
December 25, 2022
In this sermon, Pastor Nathan explains what is true about God and how He can help us make decisions. God is with us to forgive sin, to free us from sin and to work His plan.
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Nathan Smith
Matthew 5:38-42
December 18, 2022
In this sermon, Pastor Nathan preaches about how God is The Just Judge. We are challenged to overcome evil with good. Listen in to see how we can be Jesus-different when it comes to fighting evil.
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Nathan Smith
Matthew 5:33-37
December 11, 2022
In this sermon, Pastor Nathan asks who do you trust and who trusts you? Because God is trustworthy, He wants us to be truthful. We should be trustworthy because we are different, because God is our witness, and because this is how we want to be treated. Listen in to see how we can be Jesus-different.
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Nathan Smith
Matthew 5:31-32
December 4, 2022
Pastor Nathan preaches that God is for your marriage so we need to protect and defend our marriages.
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First Baptist Church
Psalm 100
November 27, 2022
Pastor Michael Brown from Kalamazoo Gospel Ministries preached on Psalm 100. He taught that we need to be intentional about being grateful when things go our way and when they don’t. He also challenged us to always have an attitude of gratitude.
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