Today I celebrate my 8th Anniversary as Pastor at First Baptist Church, and I couldn’t count myself more blessed. Much has changed since I first came to First Baptist at 27-years-old, and God has been faithful throughout. During my time here, the Lord has led our congregation through many victories and many trials, all whileContinue reading “Time Flies…”
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Pray for the success God wills for you to have.
Proverbs 30:8-9 says, Keep deception and lies far from me, give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is my portion, that I not be full and deny You and say, “Who is the Lord?” Or that I not be in want and steal, and profane the name of my God.Continue reading “Pray for the success God wills for you to have.”
How Are We To Live?
Darrell B. Harrison recently tweeted (or is it “posted” now?) a challenge to read Colossians 3:1-17 daily. I didn’t see the original post, but rather a follow-up post he made, but since then I have been doing this. It’s a challenge I recommend you take up as I’ve already seen its benefit in my life.Continue reading “How Are We To Live?”
Using a Prayer Journal
For years I’ve regretted not keeping a journal. I wish I could look back on journal entries that recall events and activities in my life with the freshness of having just experienced those moments. I’ve even had people bring things up, events that took place in the past ten years, that I do not rememberContinue reading “Using a Prayer Journal”
God’s Word is our Spiritual Nourishment
But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God’” (Matthew 4:4 NASB 1995). Here, Jesus quotes Deuteronomy 8:3 in response to satan’s temptation to command stones to become bread. Jesus knew the Scriptures, He had applied themContinue reading “God’s Word is our Spiritual Nourishment”
Some delays in my posts
I’m currently in the process of trying to complete my doctorate, which has been a very stressful season. I was accepted into the doctoral program in January 2020, little did I know that a worldwide pandemic would happen that would dramatically and permanently change the course of our lives and the life of our church.Continue reading “Some delays in my posts”
Do you memorize Bible verses? I just started and it’s great!
As Christians, God’s will for our lives is our sanctification (1 Thessalonians 4:3a). We are called to put away our sins, keep sober in spirit, fix our hope on the grace to be brought to us when Christ comes again, and to be holy as God is holy (1 Peter 1:13-16). It is my heart’sContinue reading “Do you memorize Bible verses? I just started and it’s great!”
Wake up and get dressed (Part 4: Put on the Lord Jesus Christ!)
We’ve been examining Romans 13:11-14 (I apologize for being so delayed in writing this last piece), and today we look at the final verse in the passage: “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.” In this passage we’re called to wake up, recognizingContinue reading “Wake up and get dressed (Part 4: Put on the Lord Jesus Christ!)”
Why was it necessary that Christ die for our sins?
I’ve always found Galatians 2:21 to be a powerful verse. It says, “I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die” (NLT). I preached a series through Galatians back in 2017; when we read Galatians weContinue reading “Why was it necessary that Christ die for our sins?”
How often do we consider our lives?
Today I was reading Acts 24, where Paul gives his defense before Felix. And in vv.14-16 he says, “But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is writtenContinue reading “How often do we consider our lives?”
Chase Thompson 