First Baptist Church Las Colinas

A Good Friday message from Hebrews 2. Pastor Robert Rohlin traces the necessity of the cross through three movements - the suffering that secured salvation, the humiliation and substitution of Christ, and His exaltation. Christ was not concerned with angels but with the descendants of Abraham, and so He took on flesh to taste death for every man. Set against the Passover lamb in Exodus and the vei...

Part one of Your Faith on Trial. Pastor Robert Rohlin opens Numbers 13-14, where twelve men scout the land God had already promised and ten come back convinced the giants are bigger than God. Borrowing Dave Ramsey's line - when you do stupid, you reap desperate - the message anatomizes little faith: a limited perspective that makes obstacles look decisive, murmuring and inaction, a longing for the...

Pastor Robert Rohlin looks at the tragedy of the Champlin Towers collapse in 2021 in Miami Beach Florida. He compares that situation to where our nation is now and how we need to restore the discipline of prayer for our nation.

Pastor Robert Rohlin preaches on prayer from 1 Timothy 2:1-3, where Paul says the first thing a church ought to do is pray, and names four kinds of praying: supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks. The picture that holds the message together is the collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, in 2021. Small cracks in the concrete let in salt water, the salt rusted t...

Part one of a study on perfect peace from Isaiah 26:3-4. Judah was in real danger from Assyria when Isaiah wrote this song, and the promise still stood: God keeps in perfect peace the person whose mind is stayed on Him. Pastor Robert Rohlin sets the song in its own history and in its future, because it is also the song the redeemed will sing when the Messiah reigns. He works through the reversal I...

Part one of a two-part message on perfect peace. Pastor Robert Rohlin walks through Genesis 14 - the first recorded war in Scripture - where four eastern kings sweep down the King's Highway, the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fall into the slimepits of the Valley of Siddim, and Lot is carried off. Abram arms his household, rescues his nephew, is blessed by Melchizedek, and then refuses every reward S...

A fresh treatment of 2 Peter 3, preached in 2026 - the same ground as the 2020 series message, revisited. Pastor Robert Rohlin reads all thirteen verses and works through Peter's answer to the scoffers who ask where the promise of His coming is. Believers remember the Lord's return, scoffers laugh at it, God guarantees it, and our behavior is changed by it. The world that once perished by water is...

Part one of a two-part study in Psalm 32. Pastor Robert Rohlin traces David's psalm of confession back to the rooftop of the palace and asks what guilt is actually for - not a weight to be carried, but a mercy that drives a believer to confession. Drawing on Bill Crowder, Psalm 1 and Proverbs 28:13, the message distinguishes happiness built on temporal things from the blessedness of the man whose...

A year-end message from Colossians 1:3-8, asking a plain question: are you a better Christian than you were a year ago? Pastor Robert Rohlin opens with why most New Year's resolutions fail by about the tenth day, and tells how his mother picked one new subject to learn every year and stayed with it until she was good at it. That is the pattern he applies to the Christian life, and he starts with t...

Pastor Rohlin shows that most Christians have believed too many Christmas movies without understanding what the Bible says about Christmas. This is part 2 of 2 parts to help you appreciate the wonder of God providing His Son through the miracle of incarnation.

A Christmas message that takes apart the nativity scene most of us picture. Pastor Robert Rohlin points out what Scripture actually says and does not say. There is no donkey, no innkeeper offering a stable, and the wise men came to a house rather than to the manger. From there he asks the question most Christmas sermons skip: why this particular manger, and why did the birth have to happen exactly...

Pastor Rohlin shows that most Christians have believed too many Christmas movies without understanding what the Bible says about Christmas. This is part 1 of 2 parts to help you appreciate the wonder of God providing His Son through the miracle of incarnation.

The opening message in a study of Amos. Amos was not a professional prophet and never claimed to be one. He was a sheep breeder from Tekoa who also gathered sycamore figs, work that meant piercing each piece of fruit by hand so the rest would ripen sweet. Pastor Robert Rohlin uses that background to make the point the whole book keeps making, that God often picks the least likely person to carry H...

A study of 2 Samuel 9. Years after Jonathan's death, King David asks whether anyone is left of Saul's house that he can show kindness to for Jonathan's sake. The answer is Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son, crippled in both feet since the day he was dropped at age five, living in a place called Lo Debar, a name that means nothing. Pastor Robert Rohlin walks through the covenant David and Jonathan made...

The turkey isn't necessary, but Thanksgiving is! We all meet for food, fellowship, feasting, and football on Thanksgiving Day. But if that is all we do, we miss the real benefit. Maybe it is because we do not understand that when we thank God, it brings six distinct benefits to us. You might call this sermon, "Thanksgiving: What's in it for me?" Pastor Robert Rohlin covers the benefits of Thanksgi...

The second message in a study of Haggai. The exiles had come home after seventy years to a ruined Jerusalem, and when work on the temple finally resumed, the older men who remembered Solomon's temple looked at the new foundation and saw nothing worth celebrating. Pastor Robert Rohlin works through God's answer in Haggai 2, which is not a better blueprint but a command repeated three times: be stro...

The opening message in a study of Haggai. The people had come back from exile and then left the house of God unfinished while they finished their own paneled houses. Pastor Robert Rohlin traces the four problems that came with those misplaced priorities, which were never enough supply, never any satisfaction, no eye for anyone else's needs, and constant squabbling. Then he turns to the cure in Hag...

A message on praying for other people, drawn from Paul's prayer in Colossians 1:9-12. Pastor Robert Rohlin points out that most of us pray for others only when there is an emergency, an accident, an illness, or a lost job, while Scripture calls for steady intercession all the time. He walks through the four kinds of prayer named in 1 Timothy 2:1, then through what Paul actually asked God to give t...

Part one of a message on standing firm under pressure, from 1 Thessalonians 3:2-4. Paul had warned the Thessalonians in advance that affliction was coming, so that when it came no one would be shaken by it. Pastor Robert Rohlin makes the point that most American Christians have not yet faced serious opposition, which is exactly why the decision has to be settled before the test arrives. He points...

A message on what suffering for Christ actually produces in a believer. Pastor Robert Rohlin begins with our natural reaction to being attacked for our faith, which is anger and the urge to hit back, and sets it beside how the early Christians answered the same treatment. They took suffering as something granted to them, exactly as Paul told the Philippians it was. From there he walks the side eff...

Paul told the Thessalonians plainly that they were destined for affliction, and he sent Timothy so that no one would be shaken when it came. Pastor Robert Rohlin uses that as the frame for a message about getting ready before the fire arrives. He lays out three preparations: decide now to stand for the truth, expect the peer pressure that demands compromise, and have your testimony ready to give w...

A message defining what Christian persecution actually is and how it builds. Pastor Robert Rohlin begins with Paul's flat statement that everyone who wants to live in a godly manner in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, then separates real persecution from ordinary hardship, because suffering for righteousness' sake is not the same as trouble we brought on ourselves. He walks through the numbers, in...

Lesson one in a study of Haggai. Pastor Robert Rohlin opens with the danger of apathy, citing the observation that nineteen of twenty-one civilizations died from within, quietly, with no bands playing and no flags waving. He sets the history in place: Jerusalem destroyed in 586 BC, Cyrus decreeing the return in 539, and the temple foundation laid in Ezra 3 amid both shouting and weeping. Then the...

The Christian life is a worthwhile but difficult one. Sin can suck the life out of our joy and energy. Years ago the Shell Oil Company published inserts that came inside the Reader's Digest magazine and provided useful tips to drivers. One of these booklets was about things you could do to get better gas mileage. Pastor Robert Rohlin reads each of these insights to show how their spiritual applica...