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Joel
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Hosea
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Nothing Else: The Simplicity of the Gospel
A layman at First Baptist Jackson shares what Scripture says about salvation, the Christian walk, and what happens when we fail, and why grace covers all of it.
Christ Is Good Enough
A sermon through Colossians 2-3 on what it means to walk in Christ, free from legalism, empty tradition, and self-made religion, with Christ as fully sufficient.
Colossians · Week 26
Christ in You, the Hope of Glory
A sermon from Colossians on Christ's supremacy, humanity's alienation from God, and the reconciliation made possible through the cross and the mystery of Christ in you.
Colossians · Week 25
He Is Indeed in First Place
Colossians 1 shows Jesus as preeminent over all creation and the dead, the agent of peace through the cross, and the one who must hold first place in every part of life.
Colossians · Week 24
Philippians Chapter 4:14-23
Pastor Ray closes Philippians and opens Colossians, showing how Paul's gospel of grace, contentment, and unity speaks across every congregation, culture, and century.
The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
A sermon on Philippians 4:10-13 exploring what Paul meant by contentment in plenty and in need, and why "I can do all things through Christ" is so often misread.
Philippians · Week 47
Saddling Up Anyway
A sermon on Philippians 4:4-9 about rejoicing, gentleness, prayer, and training your mind to dwell on what is true, honorable, pure, and good.
Philippians · Week 46
Scubula: Counting It All Loss for Christ
A sermon from Philippians 3 on trading religious pride and moral license for the one thing that actually matters: being found in Christ.
Philippians · Week 45
Forgetting What Lies Behind, Pressing Forward
A sermon from Philippians on finding true worth in Christ, letting go of religious pride, and pressing forward together in unity, joy, and faith.
Philippians · Week 44
Therefore: Action, Light, and Rejoicing
A sermon on Philippians 2:12-18 about what it looks like to take action, shine brightly, and rejoice, following the pattern Christ set for us.
Philippians · Week 43
Give Me Jesus
A pastor at First Baptist Jackson preaches on Philippians 2 and five other passages showing who Jesus is, then leads the congregation in communion.
Conduct Yourselves Worthy of the Gospel
A sermon from Philippians on standing firm together, suffering for the gospel, and finding joy and unity in Christ rather than division.
Philippians · Week 42
For Me to Live Is Christ
A study of Philippians 1:12-26 exploring how Paul found purpose in prison, preached the gospel despite rivals, and chose others over himself.
Philippians · Week 41
Partners in the Gospel
Paul writes from prison with joy, not complaint. This sermon from Philippians 1 explores thankful partnership, confident faith, and love grounded in knowledge.
Philippians · Week 40
Don't Fight About Which Preacher You Follow
Paul's letter to Corinth shows why Christians divide over favorite teachers, and why that pride leads somewhere ugly. A look at 1 Corinthians 3-4.
1 Corinthians · Week 27
Joy Despite Imprisonment
A sermon on Philippians 1:3-11 exploring joy in partnership, confidence in God's unfinished work in us, and loving others with both heart and knowledge.
Philippians · Week 39
They Belong to You
A sermon on 1 Corinthians 3-4 about why Christians should not divide over favorite teachers or preachers, and how to think rightly about the leaders God gives us.
1 Corinthians · Week 26
Grace and Peace, Always
Paul closes Ephesians with grace and peace, then opens Philippians with the same. A study of how joy, unity, and humility flow from the gospel.
Ephesians · Week 51
The Full Armor of God and the Comms Check
Pastor Ray works through Ephesians 6, showing that the armor of God is a collective calling, not an individual one, and that our fight is never against other people.
Ephesians · Week 50
Hills and Valleys: Walking Out the Faith
Pastor Van closes Ephesians and opens Philippians, tracing grace, peace, and the call to humble, joyful service through Paul's final greetings and opening words.
Ephesians · Week 49
Strong in the Lord and the Strength of His Might
Ephesians 6 sermon on the armor of God, spiritual warfare, communion, and what it means to stand firm not by your own strength but in the Lord's.
Ephesians · Week 48
Submitting to One Another in the Fear of Christ
Pastor Nathan walks through Ephesians 5, exploring mutual submission, marriage, parenting, and work as expressions of being filled with the Spirit.
Ephesians · Week 47
Submitting to One Another in the Fear of Christ
Pastor Van walks through Ephesians 5, exploring what mutual submission looks like for husbands, wives, children, parents, and workers who follow Christ.
Ephesians · Week 46
Whatever You Ask in My Name
Pastor Brad walks through John 14:13 to show that prayer is not a formula for getting what we want, but the means by which we draw near to God himself.
Whatever You Ask in My Name
Brad Yates walks through John 14:11-14 to show that prayer is not a formula for getting what you want, but a relationship with the God who gives himself to us.
Pay Careful Attention to How You Walk
Ephesians 5 calls believers to walk wisely, diligently, and in step with God's will, filled by the Spirit rather than wasting the season God has given.
Ephesians · Week 45
Awake Sleeper and Rise from the Dead
Ephesians 5 calls Christians out of darkness and into light, which means leaving behind corrupting speech, sexual immorality, greed, and foolish talk to walk as saints.
Ephesians · Week 44
Awake, Sleeper, and Rise from the Dead
A verse-by-verse look at Ephesians 5:3-14 on corrupt speech, sexual immorality, greed, and what it means to walk as a child of light rather than darkness.
Ephesians · Week 43
Easy to Understand, Hard to Do
A Mother's Day sermon on Ephesians 4:25, 5:2, calling believers to speak truth, guard anger, work honestly, tame the tongue, and imitate God as His beloved children.
Ephesians · Week 42
Put Away Falsehood, Speak the Truth in Love
Ephesians 4-5 examined: put away falsehood, anger, theft and corrupt speech, and walk in love as imitators of God, just as Christ gave himself for us.
Ephesians · Week 41
Walk Worthy: Put Off, Put On
Pastor Mark opens Ephesians 4 by grounding the call to walk worthy in the solid truth of chapters 1 through 3, tracing the path from darkness to light.
Ephesians · Week 40
First Be, Then Do
The pastor walks through Ephesians 4, showing how who we are in Christ comes before how we live, and why being precedes doing in the Christian life.
Ephesians · Week 39
Fine Tuning the Saints
Ephesians 4 explored: what it means that every believer is a saint with a spiritual gift, and how ordinary work and service build up the body of Christ.
Ephesians · Week 38
Fine Tuning the Saints
The pastor teaches Ephesians 4:11-13, showing how God equips every believer with gifts for real ministry, whether at church, at work, or in the community.
Ephesians · Week 37
Walk Worthy of the Calling
The pastor preached through Ephesians 4:1-16, tracing Paul's call to walk worthy, maintain unity, and use God's gifts to build up the body of Christ.
Ephesians · Week 36
Walk Worthy of the Calling
Ephesians 4 opens with a call to walk worthy of Christ, exploring unity, spiritual gifts, and what it means to grow up together as one body.
Ephesians · Week 35
According to the Riches of His Glory
Pastor William walks through Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3, showing why our inner being, faith, knowledge of Christ's love, and fullness in God matter more than anything outward.
Ephesians · Week 34
According to the Riches of His Glory
Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3 asks God to strengthen our inner being, grow our faith, deepen our knowledge of Christ's love, and fill us with His fullness.
Ephesians · Week 33
Eight Days That Changed the World
The pastor walks through Holy Week day by day, from Palm Sunday to the empty tomb, showing how ancient prophecy and the resurrection still matter today.
It Is Finished: Walking Through Holy Week
A Holy Week walk through scripture and art, tracing Christ's final days from Palm Sunday to resurrection, and the finished work that makes salvation possible.
Hosanna to Crucify Him: The Fickleness of the Crowd
Palm Sunday sermon on Jesus' triumphal entry from John 12, the fickleness of crowds, and Paul's vision of the gospel going out to all people in Ephesians 3.
By the Will of God
Pastor Ray opens Ephesians by sitting with just two verses, showing how Paul's identity, God's will, and the promise of grace and peace set the foundation for everything that follows.
Ephesians · Week 32
Save Us Now: Hosanna and the Fickle Crowd
Palm Sunday sermon exploring the crowd's "Hosanna" cry, human fickleness, and Paul's letter to the Ephesians on God's plan to bring the gospel to all people.
But God: Rich in Mercy
Ephesians 2 shows every person starts dead in sin, but God's mercy brings Jews and Gentiles alike into one body through Christ's blood, not our works.
Ephesians · Week 31
Be the Church God Wants to See in the World
Paul's prayer in Ephesians 1 covers past, present, and future: God's calling, our inheritance, and the power he gives his church to carry his mission forward.
Ephesians · Week 30
Be the Church God Wants to See in the World
The pastor walks through Ephesians 1:15-23, the second longest sentence in the New Testament, exploring what it means for the church to be the living body of Christ in the world.
Ephesians · Week 29
Outside the Envelope: Grace and Peace to You
Pastor Ray opens Ephesians 1, showing how God's grace and peace, given through Christ and sealed by the Holy Spirit, call the church into His will and purpose.
Ephesians · Week 28
Joel Chapter 3 - Pastor Van Jones
Felix shares how First Baptist Jackson loved his family through his wife Guadalupe's illness, while Van closes out Joel with a look at judgment, mercy, and the hope of Christ.
Joel · Week 4
Come to the Valley of Judgment
Felix and Guadalupe's testimony of healing and provision leads into Van's teaching from Joel 3 on God's judgment, mercy, and the hope found only in Christ.
Joel · Week 3
Yet Even Now: Return to Me
Joel's three chapters move from locust devastation to Pentecost hope, with Pastor Joel calling his church to genuine repentance and trust in God's mercy.
Joel · Week 2
Yet Even Now, Return to Me
Pastor Darren walks through the book of Joel, finding in its locust-ravaged landscape a call to return to God with a whole heart, not just outward grief.
Joel · Week 1
We Are All Gomer
Hosea 4-14 traced in one sermon: Israel's unfaithfulness, God's relentless mercy, and what it means to truly know God rather than just know about him.
Hosea · Week 3
All of Us Are Gomer
Ray walks through all 14 chapters of Hosea in one sermon, showing how God pursues a spiritually unfaithful people with mercy rather than religion, and what it means to truly know Him.
Hosea · Week 2
Me She Forgot, Says the Lord
Hosea's marriage to Gomer becomes a picture of God's relentless pursuit of people who keep turning away, and an invitation to return to the One who never stops coming after us.
Hosea · Week 1
Nothing Can Separate Us
Romans 8 shows that nothing can separate believers from God's love, even suffering, grief, and doubt. Pastor Ray walks through Romans 8:28-39.
Romans · Week 85
Rejoice in the Lord Always
Pastor Eric walks through Philippians 4:4-14, exploring what it means to choose joy, pray through anxiety, and fix your mind on what is true, noble, and pure.
Philippians · Week 38
Rejoice in the Lord Always
Philippians 4 shows how joy, prayer, and gratitude work together to overcome anxiety, and why context changes everything about the verses you thought you already knew.
Philippians · Week 37
Put No Confidence in the Flesh
Paul's letter to the Philippians challenges us to stop trusting our own credentials and find everything we need in knowing Christ Jesus as Lord.
Philippians · Week 36
Put No Confidence in the Flesh
A new pastor preaches from Philippians 3 on counting earthly achievements as loss compared to knowing Christ, and pressing on toward the eternal prize.
Philippians · Week 35
Seek the Prosperity of the City
A pastor reflects on 14 years of ministry and what Jeremiah's letter to the exiles teaches about seeking the good of the place where God has planted you.
Seek the Prosperity of the City
Jeremiah's letter to the exiles commands God's people to seek the good of the city where He places them, a message as alive today as it was in Babylon.
Awkward Is Better Than Silent
Pastor Brad walks through 1 Peter 3:13-17, showing why faith is personal but never private, and how to share it with gentleness, reason, and honest hope.
Share the Hope That Is in You
A First Baptist Jackson sermon on sharing your faith with gentleness, reason, and a personal testimony, rooted in 1 Peter 3:13-17.
Jesus Is Better Than All of These Things
Hebrews 13 calls Christians to hold fast to grace, resist strange teachings, and offer God the sacrifice of praise, generosity, and care for one another.
Hebrews · Week 69
Jesus Man
Pastor Adam preaches from Hebrews 13 on staying grounded in grace, not being carried away by false teaching, and offering God continual praise as the new year begins.
The Message Came Toward Them
Shepherds, Mary, and Joseph each heard a message from God and acted on it. A Christmas sermon on receiving what God says and responding in obedience.
What Do You Do With the Message?
A Wyoming pastor traces how Mary, Joseph, and the shepherds each heard a message from God and acted on it, asking what we will do with the same message.
Messianic Messages - Advent
Advent's third Sunday traces messianic prophecy from the minor prophets into Luke 1, where four hundred years of silence finally breaks with Gabriel's announcements to Zechariah and Mary.
Four Hundred Years of Silence
Advent sermon on the 400 years of silence between Malachi and Luke 1, and how God broke through with the births of John the Baptist and Jesus.
Minor Prophets · Week 10
But As For Me, I Will Watch for the Lord
Micah's ancient prophecies of judgment and hope point forward to Christ's birth in Bethlehem, showing that God delights in mercy and calls us to walk humbly with Him.
Minor Prophets · Week 9
Judgment and Hope in the Book of Micah
A Wyoming pastor walks through the book of Micah, showing how its alternating waves of judgment and hope all point forward to one coming Messiah who will be our peace.
Minor Prophets · Week 8
From Long Ago, From the Days of Eternity
Ray McDaniel walks through the book of Micah, tracing God's judgment on corrupt leaders and the hope of a coming Messiah born in Bethlehem, on the first Sunday of Advent.
Minor Prophets · Week 7
The Book of Nahum - The Minor Prophets
Pastor Ramon walks through the entire book of Nahum, showing how God's patience with proud nations runs out, and why the gospel is the only refuge from his judgment.
Minor Prophets · Week 6
Slow to Anger but Just
Pastor Ramon walks through the book of Nahum, showing how God's judgment on ancient Assyria reveals His justice, patience, and grace toward all who humble themselves before Him.
Minor Prophets · Week 5
Trust the Lord No Matter What
Habakkuk wrestled openly with God over violence and injustice, and God answered. This sermon traces that honest dialogue and what it means to trust God no matter what.
Minor Prophets · Week 4
Trust the Lord No Matter What
Habakkuk wrestled honestly with God over injustice and suffering. Pastor Jeff walks through this minor prophet's prayer to show why trusting God is the only solid ground.
Minor Prophets · Week 3
The Book of Obadiah - The Minor Prophets
A sermon on Obadiah, the Old Testament's shortest book, tracing God's judgment on prideful Edom and what it means for anyone who trusts in earthly strength.
Minor Prophets · Week 2
The Kingdom Will Be the Lord's
Obadiah's brief, pointed prophecy against Edom warns that pride invites God's judgment, while humility opens the door to grace and restoration.
Minor Prophets · Week 1
Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters
Amos warned a prosperous, self-satisfied Israel that comfort and religion without justice would bring judgment, but God's purpose was always to restore and redeem his people.
Amos · Week 6
Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters
Amos called God's people to justice and humility, not religious pride. The preacher's sermon traces the prophet's warnings, visions, and the hope waiting at the end of the book.
Amos · Week 5
Seek Me So That You May Live
Pastor Ray walks through the book of Amos, showing how God's call to seek justice and turn from sin speaks as clearly to us today as it did to ancient Israel.
Amos · Week 4
Seek Me So That You May Live
Ray preaches through Amos, showing how God's call for justice and sincere worship speaks as clearly to us today as it did to ancient Israel.
Amos · Week 3
The Book of Philippians - Guest Speaker John Hamon
A sermon on Philippians 2:5-11 exploring how Christ emptied himself of glory, went to the cross, and was exalted, and what that means for how we live.
Philippians · Week 34
The Hope of Israel in Chains
The pastor walks through Acts 28, the final chapter of Luke's account, weaving in a motorcycle accident, a snakebite on a mission trip, and what it means that the gospel moves forward unhindered.
Acts · Week 120
The Downward Path of Jesus
John Hammond teaches from Philippians 2:5-11, showing how Jesus traded heaven's glory for a servant's death, and what that means for how we live.
Philippians · Week 33
The Gospel Is Not Hindered
Pastor Ray walks through Acts 28, the final chapter, showing how the gospel moved forward unhindered despite shipwrecks, snakebites, imprisonment and rejection, and still does today.
Acts · Week 119
They All Were Brought Safely to Land
A sermon on Acts 27 traces Paul's shipwreck voyage to Rome and asks what it means to trust God when storms, delays, and loss of control pile up around you.
Acts · Week 118
We Must Run Aground on a Certain Island
Paul's storm-tossed voyage to Rome in Acts 27 shows what it looks like to trust God when you've lost control, hit despair, and can't see land.
Acts · Week 117
Keep On Telling Your Story
Paul stands before kings and governors in Acts 25-26, telling his story of meeting Jesus on the Damascus road. A sermon on sharing your faith without fear.
Acts · Week 116
Keep On Telling Your Story
Paul stands chained before kings and governors in Acts 25-26, yet boldly tells his story. A reminder that God uses ordinary people to carry the gospel anywhere.
Acts · Week 115
Rid, Run, Look
Hebrews 12 calls Christians to strip off sin, run with endurance, and fix their eyes on Jesus, the champion who finished his race so we could run ours.
Hebrews · Week 68
Examining the Cast of Characters
Paul stands trial before a new Roman governor while his accusers press false charges. A study in integrity, sovereignty, and the cost of following Christ.
Acts · Week 114
Examining the Cast of Characters
Paul stands trial before Festus in Acts 25. A Wyoming pastor draws out what integrity, God's sovereignty, and willingness to pay any price look like for followers of Jesus today.
Acts · Week 113
Rid, Run, Look
Hebrews 12 calls us to rid ourselves of every hindrance, run with endurance, and fix our eyes on Jesus, the champion who finished the race for us.
Rid, Run, Look
A sermon on Hebrews 12:1-2 calling Christians to rid themselves of sin, run their God-given race with endurance, and fix their eyes on Jesus.
With One Mind: A Word Study Through Acts
A word study through the book of Acts traces every use of "homothumedon," the Greek word for one accord, asking what true unity in Christ looks like.
Acts · Week 112
With One Mind
The pastor traces the Greek word homothumadon through Acts, showing how a church unified around Christ looks different from every other kind of unanimity.
Acts · Week 111
Unity Is Confusing for the World and Very Attractive
A Wyoming congregation studies the Greek word "homothymodon" through Acts, exploring what it means to pursue genuine unity rooted in Christ rather than mere agreement.
Acts · Week 110
Be Courageous: You Must Testify in Rome
The pastor walks through Acts 23, 24, where Paul faces conspiracy, Roman courts, and a governor who hears the gospel, grows frightened, and walks away.
Acts · Week 109
Paul the Prisoner
Paul stands trial before Felix, discusses faith, righteousness, and judgment, while Felix procrastinates on a decision that may never come again. From Acts 23-24.
Acts · Week 108
Cast Your Cares on the Lord and He Will Sustain You
Paul stands trial before Felix, facing a murder plot and smarmy lawyers, while God quietly moves through a nephew's courage and a governor's fear.
Acts · Week 107
Just as You Testified Here, So Also in Rome
Paul arrives in Jerusalem, faces a riot, Roman chains, and a mob trial, yet God promises he will testify in Rome. Acts 21, 23 sermon from First Baptist Jackson.
Acts · Week 106
Be Courageous: You Must Also Testify in Rome
Paul arrives in Jerusalem, faces a riot, chains, and a hostile council, yet Christ himself appears and says: you will testify in Rome.
Acts · Week 105
Be Courageous: You Must Also Testify in Rome
Paul is beaten, chained, and nearly torn apart, yet stands boldly on the temple stairs proclaiming Christ. God promises him: you will reach Rome.
Acts · Week 104
The Book of Jonah - Guest Speaker Van Jones
Jonah ran from God's call to love his enemies. A sermon from First Baptist Jackson on obedience, repentance, and the mercy we resist giving others.
God Calls Jonah to Do Hard Things
Van Jones walks through the entire book of Jonah, showing how God pursues stubborn people through hard things and calls us to obey, repent, and love our enemies.
No and Lord
Van Jones walks through the entire book of Jonah, showing how God patiently pursues a reluctant, angry prophet and calls us to love even the people we most want to see judged.
How Low You Stoop
A South African minister shares what 32 years of grassroots ministry taught him about servant leadership, love as a daily practice, and John 13.
Love Is Our Superpower
Missionary Mahindra from Durban, South Africa shares how John 13 calls every believer to servant-hearted love, the kind that transforms communities one ordinary moment at a time.
Sunday, August 10, 2025 - 9am Contemporary Service, Guest Speaker Mahendra Singh
Mahindra Singh of Crossroads Ministries shares from John 13 how Jesus washing his disciples' feet reveals what genuine, servant-hearted ministry looks like in ordinary daily life.
The Vicissitudes of Life
The pastor walks through Acts 21 as Paul pushes toward Jerusalem despite warnings, and draws honest parallels to a season of change at First Baptist Jackson.
Acts · Week 103
The Vicissitudes of Life
Acts 21 follows Paul pressing toward Jerusalem despite warnings, raising hard questions about hearing God's voice when the people around you disagree with where He is leading.
Acts · Week 102
I Entrust You to God and the Word of His Grace
Ray walks through Acts 20, tracing Paul's farewell journey, his midnight sermon in Troas, and his final words to the Ephesian elders as he pressed on toward Jerusalem.
Acts · Week 101
Acts 20: The Book of Acts
Paul races toward Jerusalem, says goodbye to the Ephesian elders at Miletus, and leaves them with a charge to guard the flock and trust God's grace.
Acts · Week 100
Innocent of the Blood of All People
Pastor Ray walks through Acts 20, where Paul says his goodbyes, raises a boy from the dead, and charges the Ephesian elders to guard God's flock with their lives.
Acts · Week 99
Who Are You
Acts 19: miracles, a mob, and a silversmith's riot in Ephesus. What happens when the gospel upends business, pride, and everything people thought they controlled.
Acts · Week 98
Who Are You
Acts 19 shows God's power prevailing through Paul in Ephesus, exposing those who claimed Christ's name without knowing Him, and a riot that could not stop the gospel.
Acts · Week 97
Who Are You
Acts 19: God's word grows in Ephesus through miracles, burning of magic books, and a silversmiths' riot that could not stop the gospel from prevailing.
Acts · Week 96
The Way of God More Accurately
Paul revisits closed doors, meets disciples who knew only John's baptism, and shows how humility opens us to understanding the gospel more accurately.
Acts · Week 95
In Him We Live and Move and Have Our Being
The pastor walks through Acts 18-19, tracing Paul's journey from Corinth to Ephesus and showing how God works through the ordinary details of life to spread the gospel.
Acts · Week 94
The Way of God More Accurately
Pastor Ray walks through Acts 18, showing how Paul, Apollos, and a handful of disciples in Ephesus were all taught the way of God more accurately, and what that means for us.
Acts · Week 93
That All of Them May Be One
Pastor Joseph Kamau Kabui of Tigone Baptist Church in Kenya preaches on John 17, calling believers to demonstrate their unity with God and one another.
That All of Them May Be One
Pastor Joseph Kamau from Kenya preaches on John 17, calling believers to unity that witnesses to the world and reflects our oneness with God.
That All of Them May Be One
Pastor Joseph Kamau Kabui of Togoni Baptist Church in Kenya preaches from John 17 on why Christian unity matters and what it tells the world about Jesus.
Start Where You Are
Paul arrives in Corinth alone, finds fellow workers in Aquila and Priscilla, and stays eighteen months sharing a gospel some received, some rejected, and some wanted to hear more.
Acts · Week 92
Start Where You Are
Paul stays longest in Corinth, finds coworkers, faces opposition, and hears God say "don't be afraid." A sermon on faithful presence and bold witness.
Acts · Week 91
Don't Be Afraid, Keep on Speaking
Pastor Ray walks through Acts 18, where Paul settles in Corinth, finds community, and is told by God to speak without fear because many people in the city are ready to hear.
Acts · Week 90
His Spirit Was Provoked Within Him
Paul walks Athens streets stirred by idol worship, then reasons graciously with philosophers on Mars Hill, showing how the unknown God is the one true God.
Acts · Week 89
His Spirit Was Provoked
Paul walks into Athens full of idols, finds an altar to an unknown god, and uses it to introduce the one who made everything and raised a man from the dead.
Acts · Week 88
His Spirit Was Provoked
The pastor walks through Acts 17 as Paul reasons with Epicurean and Stoic philosophers in Athens, showing how to present the gospel to people who worship everything but God.
Acts · Week 87
More Noble Minded
Paul reasons from Scripture in Thessalonica and Berea, showing that Christ had to suffer and rise. A sermon on noble-minded faith, humility, and the gospel's power to persuade.
Acts · Week 86
Examine It Anew: The Bereans and the Light of Christ
Paul reasoned from Scripture in Thessalonica and Berea, showing that Christ had to suffer and rise. Are we open, like the Bereans, to letting God correct our assumptions?
Acts · Week 85
Grace, Faith, Works
Brad Yates walks through Ephesians 2:8-10, showing why grace comes first, faith follows, and good works flow from both rather than earning what God freely gives.
Ephesians · Week 27
Grace Through Faith: It Is a Gift
Brad Yates opens Ephesians 2:8-10 to show that salvation comes by grace through faith alone, and that good works flow from that gift, never the other way around.
By Grace, Through Faith
A Wyoming pastor walks through Ephesians 2:8-10, showing why salvation comes by grace through faith alone and how genuine good works flow from that gift.
Send the Light
Paul and Silas cross into Macedonia, where God opens hearts in Philippi through a wealthy merchant, a slave girl, and a jailer shaken by earthquake and grace.
Acts · Week 84
Sensitive, Humble, and Obedient to His Direction
Acts 16 traces Paul's journey into Europe, three life-changing encounters in Philippi, and what it looks like to follow God's Spirit through closed and open doors.
Acts · Week 83
Sensitive, Humble, and Obedient
In Acts 16, Paul and Silas reach Philippi and three lives are changed, showing that God saves real people in the real world through ordinary, obedient believers.
Acts · Week 82
Keep the Gospel the Main Topic
Paul and Barnabas split, Timothy gets circumcised: a Wyoming pastor explores how the early church navigated sharp disagreements while keeping the gospel moving forward.
Hmm, that breaks the rules. Let me redo this.
Paul and Barnabas split over John Mark, and Paul circumcises Timothy. A sermon from Acts 15-16 on unity, cultural sensitivity, and keeping the gospel the main thing.
Acts · Week 81
Two Issues
Acts 15 shows Paul and Barnabas splitting over John Mark, and Timothy being circumcised despite the Jerusalem Council. Two hard lessons on unity, rights, and the gospel.
Acts · Week 80
Two Issues, One Mission
Paul and Barnabas split over John Mark, Timothy gets circumcised for mission's sake: a study in disagreement, grace, and carrying the gospel forward together.
Acts · Week 79
This weeks Sermon May 11th @ First B Jackson
Acts 15 traces the Jerusalem Council's debate over grace and law, showing how early believers settled a defining question about how anyone, Jew or Gentile, is saved.
Acts · Week 78
Sunday May 11th 11am Service ( Mother's Day)
Acts 15 sermon on the Jerusalem Council: how the early church settled whether Gentiles must follow Jewish law, and what it means for Christian unity today.
Acts · Week 77
Sunday May 11th 9am Service (Mother's Day)
Acts 15's Jerusalem Council shows how the early church resolved a major dispute over salvation, landing on one answer: grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone.
Acts · Week 76
A Tale of Three Cities
Paul and Barnabas pressed on through beatings, rejection and stoning to preach the gospel. A study in Acts 14 on faithful, reliant, unstoppable mission.
Acts · Week 75
A Tale of Three Cities
Paul and Barnabas face rejection, worship, and stoning across three cities, yet keep returning to preach the gospel and strengthen the believers they leave behind.
Acts · Week 74
Continually Filled with Joy and the Holy Spirit
Pastor Mark traces Acts 13 from Paul's synagogue sermon in Pisidian Antioch to the resurrection promise, weaving in lessons from a recent mission trip to Uganda.
Acts · Week 73
He Is Not Here: The Tomb Is Empty
A Wyoming pastor walks through John 20 on Easter Sunday, tracing Mary Magdalene's grief and joy at the empty tomb and explaining why the resurrection matters for everyone.
He Is Not Here, He Is Risen
Carl walks through John 20:1-18 on Resurrection Sunday, showing what the empty tomb, the grave cloths, and Mary hearing her name meant for those first witnesses and means for us.
Palm Sunday Sermon @ First B Jackson April 13th 2025
Palm Sunday sermon on the Psalms of Ascent, exploring God's steadfast love in Psalms 117, 118, and 136 as a love meant for all nations, not just a chosen few.
This weeks Sermon @ First B Jackson April 6th 2025
The pastor traces Paul's first missionary journey in Acts 13 while sharing firsthand stories from a recent mission trip to South Africa, where the gospel is still advancing today.
Acts · Week 72
The Word of the Lord Continued to Grow
Acts 12 traces James's death, Peter's miraculous rescue, and Herod's end to show that no matter what opposes God's people, his word keeps growing.
Acts · Week 71
Love Your Neighbor As Yourself
Jesus defines neighbor as anyone in your path, and calls us to costly, sacrificial love for every person made in God's image, both inside and outside the church.
His Steadfast Love Endures Forever
Palm Sunday sermon on God's steadfast love from Psalms 117, 118, and 136: a love reaching every nation, enduring forever, worthy of our praise and proclamation.
Set Apart by the Holy Spirit
The pastor walks through Acts 13, tracing the Spirit-sent mission from Antioch to Cyprus, woven together with firsthand stories from a recent ministry trip to South Africa.
Acts · Week 70
The Word of God Keeps Going Forward
Pastor Ray walks through Acts 13, tracing the first missionary journey, then shares firsthand stories from a recent trip to South Africa where the gospel is still changing lives.
Acts · Week 69
His Truth Abideth Still
When a king kills an apostle, frees another, and dies in pride, Acts 12 shows that God's word advances on His terms, not ours.
Acts · Week 68
The Word of the Lord Continued to Grow
Acts 12 shows God's power over kings and prison cells. A Wyoming church sends missionaries to Zambia as the word of the Lord continues to grow and multiply.
Acts · Week 67
Sunday, March 23, 2025 - 11am Traditional Service - Guest Speaker Dustin Flueckiger - Psalm 86
Psalm 86 shows us that bringing our needs honestly to God is not weakness but the very thing we were designed for, and how He meets us there.
The Neediness of Man and the Faithfulness of God
Psalm 86 shows us that bringing our honest needs to God is not weakness but the very thing that draws us into deeper relationship with Him.
Barefoot in the Bush
Missionaries Anders and Brooke share how God is changing lives in Zambia through camps, schools, and village Bible studies, and call their home church to deeper surrender.
Surrender to the Current
Missionaries Anders and Brooke share stories from Zambia and challenge their home church to surrender fully to God and go deeper in faith.
There Are No Ordinary People
Brad explores what it means to love your neighbor, from sacrificial agape love for strangers to the honest, burden-sharing relationships God calls us to inside the church.
There Are No Ordinary People
Brad walks through the parable of the Good Samaritan to explore what it truly means to love your neighbor, from strangers on the street to brothers and sisters in Christ.
This week's Sermon @ First B Jackson -March 2nd
A Wyoming pastor explores what it means to be made in God's image, why love is more than a feeling, and how knowing you are God's child changes everything.
Gospel Carriers in Word and Deed
Acts 11 traces how scattered believers carried the gospel to Antioch. Pastor Carl walks through what that early church moment means for how we live and give today.
Acts · Week 66
Made for Relationship with God
Brad explores what it means to be made in God's image, why love is more than a feeling, and how to move from knowing about God to truly knowing Him.
Made for Relationship: Loving God
Brad explores what it means to love God with all your heart, soul and mind, and why a right view of God's love must move from your head to your heart.
Gospel Carriers in Word and Deed
Acts 11 shows a young church carrying the gospel outward through scattering, sacrifice, and ordinary witnesses. A sermon on staying true to the Lord and joining what God is already doing.
Acts · Week 65
Stay True to the Lord
A sermon from Acts 11 on how ordinary believers carried the gospel outward, and what it looks like to take, remember, rely on, encourage, and participate today.
Acts · Week 64
This week's Sermon from First B Jackson- February 16th 2025
Peter defends taking the gospel to Gentiles, and a Wyoming congregation hears how God removes barriers so that anyone can repent and receive eternal life.
Acts · Week 63
No Distinction
Peter's vision and Cornelius's angel encounter show how God breaks down barriers between people to bring the gospel to everyone, Gentile and Jew alike.
Acts · Week 62
Who Was I to Stand in God's Way?
Peter defends taking the gospel to Gentiles, and a Wyoming congregation reflects on breaking barriers, divine appointments, and carrying good news to everyone.
Acts · Week 61
Who Was I to Stand in God's Way?
Peter defends the Gentile mission in Acts 11, and a Wyoming congregation hears how God tears down barriers so the gospel can reach everyone.
Acts · Week 60
No Favoritism With God
Peter enters a Roman soldier's home and the Holy Spirit falls on Gentiles. A modern miracle from Gaza shows God still works the same way today.
Acts · Week 59
God Shows No Favoritism
Peter visits Cornelius in Acts 10, and Pastor shows how God breaks down every barrier we build between ourselves and people we consider outsiders.
Acts · Week 58
This week's Sermon @ First B Jackson February 2nd 2025
Acts 9 traces Saul's escape from Damascus, his cautious welcome in Jerusalem, and Peter's healings in Lydda and Joppa as the early church grows bold and outward.
Acts · Week 57
This week's Sermon @ First B Jackson January 26th
A Jackson Hole pastor traces the conversion of Saul in Acts 9, showing how God humbled a zealous persecutor and transformed him into a chosen instrument.
Acts · Week 56
Transformation Is Possible
Acts 9: Saul's conversion shakes Jerusalem, Peter heals the paralyzed and raises the dead. God transforms the hardest hearts and builds His church through ordinary people.
Acts · Week 55
God Is On the Move Ahead of You
Acts 9: Saul's conversion stuns Damascus, Barnabas vouches for him in Jerusalem, and Peter heals Aeneas and raises Tabitha as the early church spreads.
Acts · Week 54
All Things, These Things, All These Things
Romans 8:28 is on coffee mugs for a reason, but Pastor Ray walks through the full passage to show what it actually promises and why it holds.
Saul, Why Are You Persecuting Me?
Paul's dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus shows how God humbles the proud, hears prayer, and transforms even the fiercest enemy of the church into His chosen instrument.
Acts · Week 53
Saul Is My Chosen Instrument
Acts 9 traces Saul's dramatic encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus and his sudden transformation from persecutor of the church to proclaimer of Christ.
Acts · Week 52
Here Is Water, What Hinders You
Acts 8:26-40: Philip follows God's lead on a desert road and shares the gospel with an Ethiopian official, showing how ordinary obedience fuels the spread of the good news.
Acts · Week 51
This week's Sermon from First B Jackson January 19th
Philip dropped everything when God said go, and ended up baptizing an Ethiopian official on a desert road. What happens when you actually want the ball?
Acts · Week 50
This weeks Sermon from First B Jackson January 12th
Philip preaches in Samaria, crowds believe, and Simon the sorcerer tries to buy the Holy Spirit. A sermon on what it really means to trust Jesus.
Acts · Week 49
Philip Wants the Ball
Philip runs alongside an Ethiopian official's chariot and shares the gospel from Isaiah 53, leading to baptism. A study of obedience, readiness, and the Great Commission.
Acts · Week 48
Whatever Gain I Had, I Counted as Loss
Van preaches Philippians 3 on counting earthly gains as loss, finding true worth in knowing Christ, and pressing on toward the goal He sets before us.
Philippians · Week 32
Scattered to Spread the Good News
Philip preaches in Samaria, a sorcerer believes but reveals a corrupt heart, and Peter confronts the sin of seeking God's power for personal gain.
Acts · Week 47
Elevation of Self vs. Elevation of Jesus
Acts 8 traces the gospel spreading into Samaria through Philip, and warns against seeking God's gifts for personal gain through the story of Simon Magus.
Acts · Week 46
Seek the Prosperity of the City
Jeremiah 29 calls God's people to seek the good of the city where He has planted them, even in exile. A timely word on faithfulness, prayer, and blooming where you are.
You Stubborn People
Stephen's sermon in Acts 7 traces Israel's history of rejecting God's messengers, leading to his death and the scattering of the early church.
Acts · Week 45
God Keeps Making a Way
Stephen's defense before the Sanhedrin reveals a pattern: God keeps making a way, and His people keep rejecting it. A sermon on Acts 6-8 and faithful witness.
Acts · Week 44
God Is Bigger Than the Box You Put Him In
Stephen's longest sermon in Acts traces God's faithfulness through Abraham, Joseph and Moses to show that God is bigger than any temple, tradition or religious system.
Acts · Week 43
We're on a Mission from God
Acts 6 traces how the early church handled internal division over food distribution, and what it meant that Stephen's face shone like an angel before his accusers.
Acts · Week 42
We Are On a Mission from God
A Wyoming pastor walks through Acts 6, showing how the early church handled internal division and kept the gospel moving forward no matter the opposition.
Acts · Week 41
We Are on a Mission from God
Acts 6 shows a church on mission facing murmuring and division. See how the apostles trusted the Holy Spirit to keep the gospel moving forward.
Acts · Week 40
To Sigma or Not to Sigma
A Wyoming pastor traces the Greek word for "goodwill" through the Christmas angel's song to show what God's favor means and what we do with it.
Peace on Earth, Goodwill Toward Men
Pastor Ray explores the angels' Christmas declaration in Luke 2:14, tracing God's goodwill toward humanity through Greek grammar, scripture, and the tension between God's sovereignty and human responsibility.
Goodwill Toward Men
Pastor Joel explores "goodwill toward men" from Luke 2:14, tracing God's purpose and desire for all people to receive peace through faith in Jesus Christ.
Advent · Week 4
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