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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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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
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.
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.
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
From the Cradle to the Cross in Five Days
Luke traces five moments where Jesus says "today", from the manger to the cross, showing that Jesus is still actively saving, seeking, and rescuing people right now.
From the Cradle to the Cross in Five Days
Pastor Tim traces Luke's five emphatic uses of "today" from the manger to the cross, showing that Jesus is still actively saving people right now.
From the Cradle to the Cross in Five Days
Luke's five "today" moments trace Jesus from cradle to cross, showing that the age of grace is still open and Jesus is still seeking and saving the lost.
Sunday, December 8, 2024 - 9 a.m. Contemporary Service - The Acts of the Apostles
Peter and the apostles are jailed, freed by an angel, and hauled before the Sanhedrin again. Acts 5 shows why the gospel could not be silenced.
Acts · Week 39
If It Is of God, You Cannot Overthrow It
Peter and the apostles face arrest again in Acts 5, yet keep preaching Jesus as Messiah. A study in boldness, suffering, and the unstoppable advance of the gospel.
Acts · Week 38
One of Heart and Soul
A sermon from Acts 4:32-5:11 on the early church's unity, generosity, and faith, with lessons from Barnabas and the sobering story of Ananias and Sapphira.
Acts · Week 37
Barnabas, Ananias, and the Fear of the Lord
Acts 4-5 traces the early church's unity, generosity, and the contrasting stories of Barnabas and Ananias and Sapphira, with a call to encourage, stay alert, and fear God.
Acts · Week 36
One of Heart and Soul
Carl walks through Acts 4:32-5:11, showing what a Spirit-filled church looks like through the examples of Barnabas, Ananias, and Sapphira.
Acts · Week 35
By What Power Have You Done This
Peter and John before the Sanhedrin: how two ordinary fishermen answered threats with bold prayer, and why the gospel cannot be contained by any human authority.
Acts · Week 34
There Is Salvation in No One Else
Peter and John face the Sanhedrin after healing a lame man, boldly declaring salvation through Jesus alone while the early church prays for courage to keep preaching.
Acts · Week 33
There Is Salvation in No One Else
Peter and John face the Sanhedrin after healing a lame man, boldly declaring salvation through Jesus alone, then praying for courage rather than safety.
Acts · Week 32
Silver and Gold Have I None
A lame man healed at the temple gate opens a question every believer faces: are we trying to be Peter, or do we need to see ourselves as the one who was lifted up?
Acts · Week 30
Nov 3rd Service with Guest Speaker Brad Yates
Brad walks through James 1:19-20, showing why being quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger is a command of the heart, not just good advice.
James · Week 23
Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak, Slow to Anger
James 1:19 calls us to be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger. Brad explores why this is heart change, not willpower, and why it matters.
James · Week 22
Women's Bible Study - October 23rd, 2024 - Living Ready for Christ's Return (Matthew 24)
Deborah walks through Matthew 24 and the signs of the end times, calling the church at First Baptist Jackson to stay ready, faithful, and known by God.
Women's Bible Study - October 9th, 2024 - Declaring Our Faith: Who Do You Say I Am?
Natalie teaches Matthew 16 and 19 at a women's Bible study, asking the question Jesus asked his disciples: who do you say He is, and what does your answer cost you?
Matthew · Week 12
Good News for the Sinners in This Room
Step 10 of the 12 steps: continuing daily inventory and promptly admitting wrong. A Wyoming pastor connects recovery principles to Paul, James, and communion.
The 12 Steps · Week 5
Women's Bible Study - September 25th, 2024 - Called to Follow: Worship and Discipleship
Natalie teaches on discipleship as apprenticeship, exploring what it means to be with Jesus, become like Him, and do as He did in everyday life.
Women's Bible Study - September 18th, 2024 - Let Go and Trust God
Deborah walks through the Beatitudes from Matthew 5, showing how Jesus invites us into a life of blessing when we humbly bring our needs, grief, and weakness to Him.
Matthew · Week 11
Women's Bible Study - September 11th, 2024 - Overcoming Temptation Through God’s Strength
Natalie Yates teaches on Matthew 4, tracing how Jesus faced the lust of the flesh, pride of life, and lust of the eyes, and how we can follow His example.
Love Is an Action
Dave Hatfield shares how loving outcasts in a Kenyan dumpsite community led to a daily Bible church, and calls Christians to love neighbors into faith.
Love People Into a Relationship With Christ
A former stockbroker shares how God sent him to a Kenya dump site, where loving outcasts and preaching the Bible daily is changing lives one neighbor at a time.
The Ones Who Looked Lived
A Wyoming pastor walks through Steps 6 and 7 of the 12 steps, grounding them in Numbers 21 and John 3: sin, sorrow, and the salvation God makes possible by looking up.
Anyone Who Looked, Lived
A Wyoming pastor walks through steps six and seven of recovery, connecting Moses lifting up the bronze snake in Numbers 21 to Jesus and the new birth in John 3.
The 12 Steps · Week 3
Normal, But Not Natural
Brad explores why Christians suffer, what Scripture says about evil, and why God's presence in our pain is the only answer that holds up when life falls apart.
Search Me and Know My Heart
A Wyoming pastor walks through Step 4 of the 12 Steps, showing how a fearless moral inventory of ourselves is deeply rooted in Scripture and leads to healing.
12 Steps · Week 1
Turn Over Your Will
A Wyoming pastor walks through Step 3 of the 12 steps alongside 1 Thessalonians 5, showing how surrendering your will to God is at the heart of both recovery and faith.
Steady As We Go
A Wyoming pastor shares how the 12 steps align with Scripture and the Roman Road, showing why admitting powerlessness is where real change begins.
Submit for the Lord's Sake
A sermon on 1 Peter 2 exploring why Christians submit to governing authorities, not for personal gain or national outcomes, but for the sake of Christ and His kingdom.
1 Peter · Week 25
Submit for the Lord's Sake
A sermon on Christian submission to authority, politics, and where our true hope lies, drawn from 1 Peter 2 and grounded in the gospel.
A Polished Shaft Hidden in His Quiver
A Wyoming pastor traces Isaiah's servant songs through Scripture, showing how Christ fulfilled Israel's calling to be a light to all nations, even through suffering.
A Light to the Gentiles
Ray McDaniel walks through Isaiah 49 to show how God's servant, Jesus, became a light to all nations and why trusting God through suffering leads to certain hope.
No Condemnation for Those in Christ Jesus
Romans 8 shows that because of Christ, believers are free from condemnation and empowered by the Spirit to love God and love people as God designed.
Romans · Week 84
Sunday, June 9th, 2024 - 11am Service - Comfort in Christ: Sharing His Peace Through Suffering
A pastor walks through 2 Corinthians 1 to show how God's comfort in our deepest suffering equips us to carry that same comfort to others.
2 Corinthians · Week 28
Comforted So We Can Comfort
Pastor Ray walks through 2 Corinthians 1, showing how God's comfort in suffering equips believers to sit with others in their pain and point them to hope in Christ.
2 Corinthians · Week 27
Sunday, June 2nd, 2024 - 11am Service - From Comfort to Commitment: Living as True Disciples
Jackson Hole youth pastor Michael Demetrius opens Colossians 3 to ask whether we are chasing temporary comfort or living with eternity in view.
Wonder Working Power in the Precious Blood
Pastor Ray walks through Mark 16:9-20, explaining why some Bibles bracket these verses and what the passage teaches about the resurrection, the Great Commission, and communion.
Mark · Week 26
Nothing Has Been Wasted
Pastor Carl walks through the disputed ending of Mark 16, textual criticism, and what Scripture says about belief, baptism, and the signs that followed the early church.
Mark · Week 25
Humble Before the Word
Ray traces the Bible's journey from Jerome's Latin Vulgate to modern translations, making the case that God's word belongs in the hands of ordinary people who approach it with humility.
God Is Light and in Him There Is No Darkness at All
Pastor Ray walks through 1 John 1:5, 2:2, showing how honest agreement with God about our sin is the path to forgiveness, fellowship, and walking in genuine victory.
God Is Light and in Him There Is No Darkness at All
Pastor Ray walks through 1 John 1, showing how confessing sin, walking in the light, and trusting Christ's forgiveness lead to real fellowship and freedom.
Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead
Luke 24 traces the risen Jesus from an empty tomb to the Emmaus road, showing confused disciples how Scripture always pointed to a suffering and risen Christ.
Luke · Week 34
Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead
Luke 24 sermon on the resurrection and the road to Emmaus: why the disciples struggled to believe the good news, and what it means to be witnesses today.
Luke · Week 33
He Is Not Here, He Has Risen
Pastor Mark walks through Matthew's resurrection account, examining the women at the tomb, the guards' bribe, the Great Commission, and what it means when believers still doubt.
Harmony of the Gospels · Week 36
He Is Risen: The Map to Get You Home
Brad Yates preaches on 1 Corinthians 15 at Easter, making the case that the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of Christian faith and the source of real, unshakable hope.
Christ Is Risen: The Map to Get Home
Brad Yates opens God's Word on Easter Sunday to show why the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of Christian hope, not just a seasonal celebration.
Innocent or Guilty
Palm Sunday sermon examining eight declarations of Jesus' innocence across the Gospels, and what His undeserved death means for those who know they are guilty.
Now Is the Time
A verse-by-verse walk through the Last Supper, Gethsemane, and Jesus' arrest, tracing how faith, love for one another, and humble surrender to God's will carry us through our own failures.
Your Grief Will Be Turned to Joy
In the upper room and Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prepares his disciples for his arrest, showing how love, faith, and community carry us through our darkest hours.
Surely Not I, Lord
Judas made his choice knowingly. The eleven asked, "Surely not I, Lord." A verse-by-verse walk through Holy Week asks which camp we are in.
Harmony of the Gospels · Week 34
See to It That No One Misleads You
Ray walks through the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24-25, drawing out Jesus's core commands: stay alert, don't be misled, endure, and keep serving those around you.
Be On Alert: Commands from the Olivet Discourse
Ray walks through the Olivet Discourse in Matthew, pulling out Jesus's practical commands: don't be misled, don't be alarmed, endure, stay alert, and love others well.
It Is Good to Give Thanks to the Lord
Pastor Ray preaches Psalm 92, calling the congregation to tireless praise of God each morning and faithful trust in His goodness through every hard circumstance.
Joy in the Lord, Whatever Comes
Pastor Carl and Ray walk through Philippians, showing how Paul's joy, humility, and peace in prison point believers toward trusting God over anxiety.
Philippians · Week 29
God Saved Me and He Gave Me Peace
Pastor Carl walks through Philippians, tracing Paul's call to unity, humility, and the peace that comes through faith in Christ rather than through anything the world offers.
A Practical Prayer from Paul's Prison Cell
Paul prays from prison that believers would know God's will and walk it out. A study of Colossians and Philemon on grace, good works, and reconciliation.
Filled with the Knowledge of His Will
Paul's prison prayer in Colossians asks that we walk worthy of God, bear fruit in every good work, and grow in the knowledge of His will.
Colossians · Week 23
Women's Bible Study - January 31st, 2024 - Walking in the Holy Spirit
James 2 shows that real faith changes how we think, speak, and treat people. No favoritism, genuine mercy, and love that actually moves us to act.
James · Week 18
To Sum Up, All of Y'all
Peter calls all believers to be harmonious, sympathetic, and humble, not repaying evil for evil, but blessing others as Christ did, even under unjust authority.
To Sum Up, All of Y'all
Pastor Carl walks through 1 Peter 2-3, calling believers to harmony, humility, and blessing others rather than returning evil for evil, following Christ's example.
If You Are Saved, Act Like It
Peter calls scattered, persecuted believers to hope fully, live holy, fear God, love deeply, and crave God's word, all grounded in the mercy of Christ.
1 Peter · Week 24
His Mercy Is More
Pastor Peter walks through 1 Peter 1, calling believers to hope fully, live holy, fear God, love deeply, renounce sin, and grow in God's Word.
Godly Sorrow Produces Repentance
Pastor Russ unpacks 2 Corinthians 7:8-13 to show why godly sorrow leads to repentance and restored relationships, while worldly sorrow leads only to death.
Godly Sorrow Versus Worldly Sorrow
A New Year's Eve sermon from 2 Corinthians on how godly sorrow leads to repentance and restored relationships, while worldly sorrow leads only to death.
Born of a Woman at Just the Right Time
A Christmas message from Paul's letters on grace, freedom in Christ, and seizing the moments God sets before us in the fullness of time.
Near to the Heart of God
Psalm 145 points to a God who is near to all who call on Him. Pastor Ray traces that thread from David's praise through Advent, communion, and stories of God's surprising provision.
You Are a Chosen People
Brad Yates teaches First Peter 2:9-10, showing how God calls believers out of darkness into a shared identity as a chosen people, royal priesthood, and holy nation.
You Are God's Own Possession
Brad Yates opens 1 Peter 2:9-10 to show what it means to be chosen, holy, and God's own people, and why that identity calls us to proclaim Christ together.
Wonderful Words of Woe
Jesus delivers seven warnings to religious leaders in Matthew 23. The pastor unpacks how hypocrisy, hollow zeal, and missed scripture still speak to us today.
Matthew · Week 9
Relational Wisdom That Leads to Peace
Carl preaches through Philippians 4:1-9, showing how joy, prayer, gratitude, and right thinking lead to God's peace even in the middle of conflict.
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Mark 2-3 shows Jesus challenging religious rules to reveal God's true intent: mercy over sacrifice, people over tradition, and open hearts over rigid religion.
Mark · Week 23
Jesus Purifies
Jesus clears the temple, curses a fig tree, and calls his people to be a house of prayer for all nations, not a barrier between the world and God.
Harmony of the Gospels · Week 32
Jesus Purifies
The pastor walks through Holy Monday, when Jesus cleansed the temple, asking what He might need to drive out of our own lives as His temple today.
Harmony of the Gospels · Week 31
The Melancholy Entry
Jesus rides into Jerusalem not as a conquering king but as a weeping one. Pastor explores what his lament over the city means for us today.
Harmony of the Gospels · Week 29
Women's Bible Study - October 18th, 2023
Deborah teaches on revival, repentance, and staying on fire for Jesus, sharing personal stories of answered prayer and what it means to live a life that matters.
Do Business With This Until I Come Back
Luke 19 parable of the minas, set against the brutal history of the Herodian dynasty, calls us to faithfully use what God has given us until Christ returns.
Harmony of the Gospels · Week 28
Do Business With This Until I Come Back
A Wyoming pastor walks through the brutal history behind Jesus's parable of the minas, asking what believers do with the grace they've been given.
Luke · Week 32
Women's Bible Study - October 11th, 2023
A Wyoming pastor teaches why Israel matters to Christians, what the Bible says about the remnant, and what the story of Esther means for believers today.
Come to Me Unhindered
Two people seek Jesus near Jericho: a blind beggar who cries out and a tax collector who climbs a tree. Both find mercy. Neither lets anything stop them.
Use the Senses You Have and Call Out for the Rest
Two people seek Jesus near Jericho: a blind beggar who cries out and a wealthy tax collector who climbs a tree. Both find what they were looking for.
Luke · Week 31
Suffer the Children to Come
Pastor Ray walks through Matthew 19, Mark 10, and Luke 18 to show why Jesus welcomed children and what it means to receive God's kingdom like a child.
Harmony of the Gospels · Week 27
Confidence to Enter, Boldness to Go
A pastor shares a story of a Muslim man praying for God to reveal truth, then walks through Hebrews 10 on drawing near to God through Christ's sacrifice.
Luke · Week 30
Draw Near With Confidence
A Moroccan taxi driver, a prayer hip-to-hip, and Hebrews 10: The preacher's message on humility, grace, and what it means to draw near to God together.
Hebrews · Week 67
Blessed to Be a Blessing
Brad Yates preaches on the parable of the talents, showing why faithful stewardship of God's gifts matters as believers wait for Christ's return.
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