Included Music: You Never Let Go, Cornerstone, One Thing Remains, and Here's My Heart followed by the FBC Children's Choir singing Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee
Message Title: Daring Faith
Text: Daniel 3:1-30
Take Home Point: The Student Ministry's Summit Weekend spills over into Sunday Morning Worship as special guest Brandon Massey shares the importance of having a daring faith.
Included Music: Crown Him with Many Crowns, Come Now Is the Time to Worship, My Tribute, and This I Believe (The Creed) followed by Larry Cross singing Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Message Title: Public Identification
Text: Romans 6:4-11
Take Home Point: When we are baptized as a confession of faith, we die with Christ so sin and death no longer hold any power or influence over us.
Included Music: Lilly of the Vally, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, No One Understands Like Jesus, and Jesus What a Friend for Sinners
Message Title: Beyond the Surface
Text: John 7:14-24
Take Home Point: We can only understand God's truth by coming to Him with a heart surrendered to His plan - even before we know what that plan is.
Included Music: Serve the Lord with Gladness, Christ Is Able to Save, Have Faith in God, and Living Hope followed by Jim Duncan singing Above All
Message Title: Everywhere We Go
Text: Acts 8:26-40
Take Home Point: Making disciples as we go requires us to enter every conversation and every encounter expecting a God moment to occur when we can be used to connect someone with Jesus.
Included Music: I Shall Wear a Crown, I Feel Like Traveling On, and Precious Lord Take My Hand
Message Title: Timing Is Everything
Text: John 7:1-13
Take Home Point: Following Jesus requires us to embrace God's timing and a lifestyle that stands in stark contrast to the world around us.
Included Music: Jesus Saves, This Is Amazing Grace, Nothing but the Blood, and Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone followed by Matthew Jones singing Broken Vessels
Message Title: The Mission
Text: Matthew 28:18-20
Take Home Point: Our mission is to lead people into relationship with God that includes living every aspect of their lives in submission to him.
This episode is a special student led worship service with a special message from First Baptist's Minister to Students, Cory Bennett.
Christmas is always a special time at First Baptist, and one of the most important celebrations during the Christmas season is our annual Christmas Eve Candlelight Service. This year we invite you to celebrate Christmas Eve again with us through this audio recording of our annual Candlelight Service.
Included Music: There's a Song in the Air, Come Thou Long Expected Jesus, It's Christmas, As with Gladness Men of Old, Isn't He, and Your Name followed by Gwen Vance and Janice Sutton playing an arrangement of instrumental praise
Message Title: A Time for Clarification
Text: Luke 2:12
Take Home Point: We do not need to clean up our lives before worshipping God because when we truly worship God He will clean up our lives.
Included Music: Angels We Have Heard on High, Good Christian Men Rejoice, All Is Well, O Come O Come Emmanuel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Hallelujah What a Savior followed by the Children's Choir singing Welcome to the Newborn King
Message Title: Time for Reconciliation
Text: Luke 2:11
Take Home Point: Jesus came to give you the opportunity to be forgiven and to enjoy a restored relationship with God so that you might bring pace to others.
Included Music: O Little Town of Bethlehem, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful, Joy to the World!, The First Noel, and Emmanuel (God With Us) followed by the Worship Choir singing O Holy Night
Message Title: A Time for Salvation
Text: Luke 2:10-11
Take Home Point: We are all imperfect and in need of a Savior, but salvation requires a personal encounter and relationship with Jesus.
Included Music: Sweet By and By, We'll Understand It Better By and By, and Sing the Wondrous Love of Jesus
Message Title: Words of Life
Text: John 6:60-71
Take Home Point: Once you have experienced the power of a personal relationship with Jesus nothing else can truly satisfy you.
Included Music: Angels from the Realms of Glory, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, Silent Night, and How Great Is Our God followed by Pam Setser, Jim Duncan, Chelsea Jones, and Matthew Jones singing Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
Message Title: A Time for Celebration
Text: Luke 2:8-10
Take Home Point: Through Jesus, God gives each of us the opportunity to exchange our guilt and sorrow for His forgiveness and joy.
Included Music: More About Jesus, Enough, Blessed Redeemer, and At the Cross followed by Matthew, Chelsea, and Elijah Jones singing Glorious Day
Message Title: Community Life
Text: Philippians 2:1-4
Take Home Point: Life is simply better in community when believers adopt a "We Not Me" lifestyle.
Included Music: Mansion Over the Hilltop, Whispering Hope, and He Looked Beyond my Fault
Message Title: Entrance to the Kingdom
Text: John 6:41-59
Take Home Point: The only source of real and eternal life is found in a growing and personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Included Music: Victory in Jesus, How Can I Keep/Praise Him, Now Thank We All Our God, and Once Again followed by the Children's Choir singing He Freed Me
Message Title: Encouragement of Community
Text: Colossians 3:15-17
Take Home Point: We were called to a faith of peace focused on the gospel in which everything we do is an act of worship to God.
Included Music: My Tribute, Bless His Holy Name, and To God Be the Glory
Message Title: Life in the Kingdom
Text: John 6:22-40
Take Home Point: We can come to Jesus without fear of rejection knowing that He will provide everything we need for all eternity.
Included Music: Nothing But the Blood, Because of Your Love, I Will Sing of My Redeemer, and Lion and the Lamb followed by the Worship Choir singing Unexpected Places
Message Title: Characteristics of Community
Text: Colossians 3:12-14
Take Home Point: No matter who you were, in Christ, you have been given a new identity and a new way to live that reflects God's work in your life.
Included Music: Great Is Thy Faithfulness followed by a special Southern Gospel presentation by the musical group Measure of Grace
Message Title: Others First
Text: Romans 14:13-18
Take Home Point: Freedom gives us the responsibility to serve others where they are, even if it means setting aside our rights to do so.
Included Music: Jesus Saves, Send the Light, and I Love to Tell the Story
Message Title: The Storms of Life
Text: John 6:16-21
Take Home Point: Following Jesus will not eliminate the storms of life, but when we are obedient, God brings protection during the storms.
Included Music: Wonderful Grace of Jesus, Blessed Be Your Name, All Glory Laud and Honor, and Glorious Day followed by the Worship Choir singing Lion and the Lamb
Message Title: Purposeful Unity
Text: John 17:20-23
Take Home Point: Unity reveals the power of the gospel and empowers us to take the love of God into a broken world.
Included Music: I've Found a Friend in Jesus, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, No One Understands Like Jesus, and Jesus What A Friend for Sinners
Message Title: A Challenging Opportunity
Text: John 6:1-15
Take Home Point: We are never limited by what we don't have. We are limited only by our willingness to give all we have to Jesus so He can do what we cannot.
Included Music: Serve the Lord with Gladness, Shine on Us, I Am Resolved, and Your Name followed by the First Baptist Praise Team singing Lion and the Lamb
Message Title: Through Love
Text: 1 John 4:19-21
Take Home Point: The world simply cannot understand the love of God until it experiences the love of God flowing through the people of God.
Included Music: Now I Belong to Jesus, Love the Lord, I Gave My Life for Thee, and Shout to the Lord followed by the First Baptist Children's Choir singing Holy Spirit
Message Title: Through Sacrifice
Text: Romans 12:1-2
Take Home Point: When we understand all God has done for us, the only reasonable response is to live our lives as an act of worship to Him.
Included Music: I Know a Fount, O the Blood of Jesus, and The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power
Message Title: Evidence Worthy Believing
Text: John 5:31-47
Take Home Point: Nothing attracts people to Jesus more than the surrendered life of a believer who has been completely changed by God.