Tabernacle Baptist Church

God shows us in Psalm 1 that the person who delights in the Lord will be given a life of joy, delight, happiness, and a full soul. The life of blessing is the life lived in the Word of God and in the Presence of God. Trust God and delight in the Word and you will have His blessings lavished on your life. Trust yourself and the council of the wicked and you will receive the punishment and wrath of...

This morning, Carlos Oliveira talked about Heaven: 1. What is Heaven?2. What will life be like in Heaven?3. What happens next? 

Many Christians don’t exercise the spiritual discipline of reading God’s word, so what can you do to have such a hunger for the Word of God to the point that you couldn’t imagine living a day without feeding on it? In 1 Peter 2:1-3, the Apostle Peter is equating a hunger or longing for the Word of God with a newborn infant hungering for milk. Using that analogy, if you want to hunger for the Word...

Would you wish your life in Christ on anyone else? In other words, is your life in Christ so exhilarating and fulfilling to the point where you would want EVERYONE to know about it and have the opportunity to experience it? Or do you see your Christian life as a burden, to where you wouldn’t wish it on ANYONE? Consistency and persistence are two crucial characteristics we need to have when we pray...

Some people are hopeless all the time, more than hopeless, they are complainers. However, most people are not necessarily without hope all the time. Instead, when they go through some tough seasons in their lives, they feel hopeless and feel like nothing is ever going to change. Hopelessness is difficult especially because it is always related to pain and hardship. It is like a part of the package...

We wonder why the church is powerless in our day against society. It’s because we try to keep one foot in society and one foot in the Gospel, however, the Gospel is a radical call for commitment and selflessness. We are all full-time missionaries and stewards of the Gospel. Don’t fall asleep because that’s the reason why we were created, to live for God 24/7  and to be like Jesus Christ in our dai...

When it comes to the discipline of prayer, the conversation we find in Luke 11 is fascinating. Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." The disciples didn’t ask Jesus to show them how to perform miracles. They asked Him to show them how to pray. Why? They already KNEW how to pray. Every Jew...

In Matthew 11:28-30 we see the gentleness and kindness of Christ towards us. Jesus gives us the invitation to come to Him and the promise that if we come to Him, we will find rest.  In the kindness of Christ, our souls can find rest and enjoy the life God has set before us because we are no longer burdened by things we cannot control. Free from the anxious worry and burden of the eternal resting p...

The world operates on a principle of unforgiveness and retribution.  We see this play out constantly on the news where people are assaulted or killed for something they said or did.  Then follows the cycle of unforgiveness, hatred, and revenge. We see the devastating results of unforgiveness all the time.  One gang at war with another gang.  One race hating another race. Former friends who now can...

Have you ever picked up a cup filled with coffee expecting it to be hot, only to find it cold or lukewarm? What did you do or what were you tempted to do? Probably spit it out. Have you ever picked up a Coke or a Dr. Pepper, expecting it to be ice cold and bubbly, only to find it hot or lukewarm and flat? What did you do or what were you tempted to do? Probably spit it out. Why? Because lukewarm c...

God’s work is an unlikely work, and He chose unlikely people from unlikely places to accomplish His unlikely mission to save a lost and dying world.  The Samaritan woman did not have the Great Commission, but she had met a great Savior and she was compelled to bring people to meet her new Master. You may feel like you are too unlikely of a person for God to use. God changed the world through eleve...

If you are so bothered by the direction of this country that you are debilitated, depressed, and discouraged, then it may be that you are putting too much stock into THIS world instead of the next. Remember, this world is NOT our home. And our life is but a “vapor” and a DOT compared to eternity. We have a responsibility to our city and our state and our nation to be responsible citizens. But this...

When David faced the giant Goliath, this was an impossible problem for him to resolve by himself.  But David knew something about God. God is not someone that will save you using conventional weapons.  When God decides to deliver you from some situation, very often He will not do it the way you think. God is always going to do in a way where He will get the glory, and that is why so many people ge...

In this parable, there are two sons: the younger and the older. The younger son was the Rebellious son, and the older son was the Religious son. Which son are you? The truth is both sons were lost – yes, one left and one stayed at home. The younger was unrighteous and the older was self-righteous. Neither were right with God!  Both sons were in need of God’s grace, just like me and you. This grace...

Are you a part of the walking dead that has confessed Christ as Lord and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if you were to die in this instance you would spend eternity with God; yet you are simply going through the motions in a “zombie-like” state, not really “alive” in Christ? Don’t you long to “strengthen whatever it is that remains?” Are you ready for a reality check in your life? Repent fro...

Have you been seduced by Jezebel? Have you been sucked into a pseudo-Christian sub-culture that tells you to confine your religion to your personal life; keep your religion to yourself? Have you been compromising the truths of God and the practices of Christ-followers to keep from being rejected, ridiculed, or persecuted? Are you being seduced into tolerating sin and error and heresy? The storm of...

We all have guilt that haunts us of our failure, so, what do we do with it? In John 21 we are going to find Jesus’s love is greater than our failure.  The only way to lay the persistent ghosts of your sin on our conscience to rest is knowing the same love that saved you through Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection has paid for every sin of our past, present, and future.  Walk in freedom today....

What would you do if faith was illegal? Daniel was going into a circumstance like that, and just like him, we are called to live for God even when circumstances are not in our favor.

How can you experience resurrection today? In the book of Acts, shortly after the Apostles Peter and John were used by God to heal a man who was lame from birth, Peter told the crowd that they were guilty of crucifying Jesus, the One who had come to bring. “Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away. Then times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lor...

Jesus' atonement on the cross. He paid the debt from mankind to God. He tore the veil and gave us direct access to the presence of God. That work was finished completely on the cross. But God is not done yet. You and I live in a world filled with fallenness. Sorrow. Suffering. Loss. Real pain and disappointment. The good news on this Good Friday is that Jesus finished the work on the cross, but he...

Maybe you are not on fire for Christ because you have compromised your faith with things from this world. You need to quit trying to live in both the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of this world. Your happiness will not come from being able to live in both worlds. TRUE joy is found in surrender and submission to Jesus Christ. Live in freedom and not compromise. What next step can you take TODAY...

There is this growing intolerance of the truths of God’s Word, and growing persecution of those who cling to these truths. It was in this type of culture and conflict that Jesus is addressing the church at Smyrna. The motto of the Marine Corps is “Semper Fi”, short for Semper Fidelis. It’s a Latin phrase for Always Faithful, or Faithful to the End. It signifies the dedication and faithfulness that...

The question “Can anything separate us from God’s love once we are saved?” is answered by Paul in this text to the Romans.  Nothing can separate us from God’s love, so we are to live a life connected to His love. To live a life connected to God’s love is to learn to walk in intimacy daily with the God of our salvation.  Romans 8 is a chapter that should make you walk away in awe and star-struck at...

Do you live your life to refresh others? In this sermon, Dennis Swanberg talks about how we can be a refresher to people around us. Watch this sermon and share it with your family and friends!

Do you believe in Jesus? Do you believe He resurrected from the dead? Do you believe He can save you from sin and guilt and shame? Do you believe He can give you eternal life? Do you believe it?