First Baptist Church Las Colinas

Part 2 of "The Mind of Christ" picks up where Philippians 2:1-4 left off and moves to the model itself: "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" (2:5-6). Robert Rohlin reviews the four cords that bind believers together - consolation, comfort, communion, and compassion - then shows why church fights are almost never about doctrine. They are about me. He works through the Greek beh...

Part one of a two-part message on Philippians 2:1-6, and the tenth message in Pastor Robert Rohlin's study of Philippians. Epaphroditus has carried good news and hard news from Philippi to Paul's prison cell - a joyful church with a crack in it, and two faithful women, Euodia and Syntyche, who no longer get along. Rohlin works through the four cords Paul uses to hold a church together: consolation...

Part two of Walking Worthy, and the ninth message in Pastor Robert Rohlin's study of Philippians. Paul writes to a church 600 miles from Rome and tells it to behave like the citizens of heaven they already are (Philippians 1:27-30). Rohlin works through the conduct, the cohesion, the courage and the conflict of that walk, using the Roman shield wall as his picture of a church that closes ranks. He...

Message 6 in the "Be Joyful" series through Philippians. Paul turns from his own chains to the church's conduct, and the one word he chooses is "citizen": only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ (1:27). Philippi was a colony of retired Roman legionaries - Pastor Rohlin tells how the battles of 42 B.C. and 31 B.C. put them there, why Rome parked its old soldiers on the tra...

Paul writes from house arrest in Rome, chained to a guard and waiting on an appeal to Caesar that could end in his release or his execution. He does not know which is coming — and he says he cannot lose either way. This message walks verse by verse through Philippians 1:20-26, the passage that gives us the eight one-syllable words at its center: "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." A...

Paul wrote to Philippi from house arrest in Rome - not a dungeon, but chained at the wrist to a Roman guard whose shift changed around the clock - and the church was waiting on news of his trial. What he sent back was not a report on his case but a report on the gospel: the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel. This fourth message in the Be Joyful...

Paul does not pray for the Philippians' safety. In three verses - one long sentence in the Greek - he asks God for four specific things, and this message walks through each of them: the petition that their love would overflow, the precision of knowledge and discernment to keep it in its banks, the proof of a life that is transparent and trips no one, and the produce of fruit that only Christ can g...

Paul wrote these verses from a Roman prison, chained to a guard, 800 miles and ten years removed from the church he was thanking God for. Philippians 1:3-8 is one long sentence in the Greek, and it holds four reasons his joy never moved: the praise of joy, the partnership of joy, the promise of joy, and the passion of joy. The message walks back through Acts 16 - the riverside prayer meeting, the...

Message one in a study of Philippians. Pastor Robert Rohlin opens Paul's most joyful letter at the words most readers skip - the greeting. Writing from a Roman prison cell around AD 60, chained day and night to a rotating guard, Paul introduces himself not as an apostle pulling rank but as a bondservant: the Old Testament slave who could have walked away free and chose to stay, ear pierced at the...

Naaman was the second most powerful man in Syria, a decorated general with rank, wealth, and the ear of the king. He was also a leper, and nothing he owned could buy a cure. In this study of 2 Kings 5, Pastor Robert Rohlin traces how God used a captured slave girl whose name we never learn to point the great man toward the one prophet who could help him, and how Naaman had to be humbled before he...

The final message in a seven-part study of Titus. Paul closes his letter with the charge the whole book has been building toward. Those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. Pastor Robert Rohlin walks through four movements in these verses: the fruit grace grows, the foolish arguments grace forbids, the divisive man grace refuses, and the fellowship grace supplies. He...

Guest preacher Jack Blair works through the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 and starts with a question he asks about himself: why do I struggle to pray? His answer is that prayer is not about me. He shows that the prayer Jesus gave opens with three requests that never mention us at all, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, before it ever asks for daily bread, forgiveness, or del...

Psalm 130 is called a song of ascents, a climbing song the people sang on the way up to Jerusalem. Guest preacher Jack Blair points out the irony in that title. The psalmist begins at the very bottom, crying out of the depths, with no way to climb out except the mercy of God. He connects the psalm to Jonah praying from inside the fish, and then walks through what the psalm actually promises: forgi...

Message six in a study of Titus, preached the day after America marked 250 years. Paul tells Titus to remind the Cretans, a people known for riots and rebellion, to submit to rulers, to speak evil of no one, and to be gentle toward everyone. Pastor Robert Rohlin draws seven marks of a Christian citizen out of these verses and notes that not one of them happens inside a church service. They all liv...

A Father's Day message from 1 John 4:7-13. Pastor Robert Rohlin shows that love does not begin with us. It originates in God, whose very nature is love, and He proved it by sending His Son as the payment for our sins. The practical turn is aimed straight at fathers. If God tells us every day in His Word that He loves us, a father ought to say it out loud to his wife and children and then back it w...

The fourth message in the study through Titus, and the one where doctrine walks out the door and into the street. Paul tells Titus to speak the things that become sound doctrine, then works straight down the congregation - aged men, aged women, young women, young men - and gives each group a short, concrete list. Nothing abstract. Sober, grave, temperate. Teachers of good things. A pattern of good...

Message three in a study of Titus. After charging Titus to appoint elders who hold fast the faithful word, Paul explains why it matters so much. False teachers were already inside the churches on Crete, upsetting whole households and teaching things they had no business teaching, and doing it for money. Pastor Robert Rohlin works through Paul's blunt instruction that their mouths must be stopped,...

Message two in a study of Titus. Paul left Titus on the island of Crete to finish what was still unfinished and to appoint elders in every city. Pastor Robert Rohlin walks the qualifications one at a time and points out the thing that is easy to miss: nearly every one of them describes character, not talent. God looks first at what a leader is, and the proving ground is his own home. If you are ch...

Message one in a study of Titus. Pastor Robert Rohlin takes the four verses before Paul even says hello and shows how the gospel frames both a life and a letter. Four movements carry it: the Messenger (a servant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ), the Mission (the faith of God's elect and the acknowledging of the truth), the Message (eternal life promised before the world began), and the Mentee (...

Part two on the spiritual role of the father, from Genesis 19. Pastor Robert Rohlin walks the anatomy of backsliding through Lot: it begins with the eyes, follows a gradual decline, takes hold when we tolerate wrong, masks itself with outward piety, costs us spiritual awareness and a servant's heart, persuades us we can separate private morality from public life, puts our children in harm's way, a...

A Mother's Day message from 2 Kings 4:8-37 on the Shunammite woman - a mother the Bible never names, whose character is unforgettable. Pastor Robert Rohlin traces a godly mother's love as discerning, serving, tender, persistent, and anchored in the God who gives life. She made room for God's work, she served without being asked, and when her son died she would not let go until she had laid hold of...

Pastor Robert Rohlin opens Genesis 18-19 and asks how much the spiritual leadership of a father actually matters. Three visitors appear to Abraham - one recognized as the LORD - and Sarah is promised a son within the year. Then the men turn toward Sodom, and Abraham intercedes, a prayer he is often criticized for but which bears a closer look. Set against Abraham stands Lot, the backslidden father...

Part two of Keeping the Big Picture. Pastor Robert Rohlin picks up the theme - trade the immediate for the eternal - and works back through the people who narrowed their focus and paid for it: Eve, persuaded by a half-truth that never delivered what it promised; David, who protected Nabal's shepherds and then wanted payment, and who saw Bathsheba from the palace roof. Woven through are 45 years of...

Part one of a two-part message on focus. Pastor Robert Rohlin argues that sin works by narrowing our vision - Satan helps us zoom in on one thing to the exclusion of eternity, and a consequential life is traded for a momentary desire. Nine biblical examples carry the point: Peter guarding his reputation at Antioch, Martha stressed over being the perfect hostess, David wanting Bathsheba, Achan bury...

Resurrection Day 2026. Pastor Robert Rohlin walks the hours of the crucifixion - Gethsemane, the trials, the scourging, the medical reality of what killed Jesus - and then turns the corner on S. M. Lockridge's refrain: it's Friday, Pilate is washing his hands and Satan is dancing a jig, but it's only Friday, and Sunday's coming. The angel rolls the stone away and says He is not here, He is risen....