First Baptist Church of Orange Park - Sermon Audio

Brian Borden, one of our ministers serving at our Oak Harbor campus preaches at the FBC Orange Park campus on this day, focusing on the teachings of Christ from Matthew 24.

Jesus addresses the religious leaders with the final of the "seven woes." The Pharisees and scribes attest that had they lived centuries prior, they would not have killed prophets as their ancestors did. This 20/20 hindsight partnered with pride often leads people to presume they're smarter, more enlightened, wiser, nicer, than those who came before. Yet, Christ affirms that the hearts of man are...

Jesus turns his attention to the religious leaders in this passage, calling them hypocrites. He expresses seven "woes" to them (six covered in this message). While applicable to the religiously pious of the day, they resonate as well with Christians today.

An expert in religious law came to Jesus with what he deemed to be an unanswerable question regarding the greatest of all commandments. Jesus responded with a quote from Deuteronomy and expressed the great commandment, and the second, as unto it. Love God. Love people.

The stories Christ told caused people to marvel and feel astonished. Yet, these marvelous and astonishing stories did not leave all as followers of Christ. In fact, many today marvel and are astonished, but far from God. What transforms the heart of a person is the gospel followed by the surrender of the individual. That's the most marvelous and astonishing story of all.

Jesus tells three stories - each unique, but with similar themes. Each story has a father and a son and each reveals that those who mistreat or ignore the son will be dealt with harshly. These are stories about the Kingdom of God. They're stories about human sin and the rejection of God and His Son. The stories are interesting at a minimum, and convictional when realized that the stories represent...

The religious leaders confronted Jesus with a question about his authority. He never shied away from acknowledging that his authority as the Son of God and Messiah came from the Father, but he turns the question back onto the questioners here. Perhaps the question is not so much to Jesus "Who do you think you are?" but to us. Who do we think we are? As Christians?

The Gilded Age of America describes a time following the Civil War where things looked good from the outside looking in, but was deemed "gilded" (wrapped in gold leaf or paint) which meant looks were deceiving. On the inside, just beneath the surface, there were things that were wrong, unfair, ungodly, and broken. Jesus curses a fig tree in Matthew 21. The tree was full of leaves, but no figs. It...

The ladies (Mary and Mary) arrive at Jesus' tomb early on that Resurrection Sunday, not expecting to find it empty. They definitely did not expect to be met by an angel in a scene too amazing to be imagined. Yet, at this moment, it became clear, and verified by Christ himself when he appeared to the ladies, that Jesus was not dead, but rose from the dead as he said he would. That message of life a...

Seven of our pastors and campus ministers preached in this special Good Friday service. Each pastor spoke on one of the seven last sayings of Christ on the cross. Josh Dryer - Matthew 27:46 Brian Hoffman - Luke 23:34 Brian Borden - Luke 23:43 Stan Rivers - Luke 23:46 Jon Wood - John 19:26-27 Andres Lavanderos - John 19:28 David Tarkington - John 19:30

If Palm Sunday is about the palm fronds, it's likely we have missed the point of Christ's triumphal entry. More tragically than missing the point of a special Sunday is the potential of missing the most important thing in life.

Leading the next generation well requires that we be responsible and holy members of our own.

Christians are to be imitators of God, as little children. This spiritual game of "Simon Says" is more than an encouragement. It's a command. As parents follow Christ, it is wise to remember that our children (and for those who are not parents - all whom we influence) are watching and imitating us as well. We'd be wise to be as Paul when he told the church to "Imitate me as I follow Christ."

A proverb is not a promise, but sometimes as believers we try to make it so. This leads to a form of prosperity gospel that exchanges an itemized "faith" for healing and wealth (a false gospel that is popular in the world) for an itemized "obedience" that seeks to make God do things for us. Parents have struggled with the proverb focused on training up a child, hoping that it is a promise. Wise wo...

The third in our Equipping for Life series focusing on the passing on of spiritual stories and the greatness of our God to the next generation.

The second sermon in our "Equipping for Life" series focusing on the Shema and the command to love God and teach the next generation well.

This sermon begins our series titled "Equipping for Life" and was preached by Pastor David Tarkington at the FBC Orange Park Campus. This message introduces the Family Equipping Model of discipleship we are implementing at all First Family Network churches and campuses.

Dave Paxton preaches on the cleansing of the Temple at our FBC Orange Park campus.

James and John's mother comes to Jesus, with her boys, seeking good seats for them when he was to bring his kingdom. Yet, she had no idea what she had asked and Jesus made sure she knew that. This passage also shows how division occurs within families, churches, and other groups.

Most of us have been reading the gospel accounts in scripture the wrong way. We've been reading these accounts as we read the epistles, and in doing so, we miss the deeper themes of the gospel. This section of chapter 20 is part of an overarching theme of perceived fairness that we carry with us. Christ here shares the most unfair story to remind us of His grace and mercy.

Everyone holds to a fairness doctrine, and this one has nothing to do with politics, radio, or the FCC. We all live by a set of rules of what we deem to be fair or unfair and while many claim that people should be treated fairly, it often doesn't really seem to matter until one is perceived to be treated unfairly personally. Yet, God's has a different take on fairness.

God's promise to his children is eternal presence where all has been made new.

The promise to God's people through his prophet Isaiah was that a virgin would give birth to a son and his name would be Immanuel. Matthew addressed this ancient prophecy regarding the birth of Christ, cementing the truth that Jesus is "God with us" - the Son of God and God the Son.

When Joshua was given the leadership role of the Israelites, following the death of Moses, God continually instructed and and encouraged him to "be strong and courageous." Living for God is not passive and requires strength. it requires more than confidence. It requires courage. Alone, we never have enough, but God alone provides that which we lack. All for his glory and our good.

Fear of the future can be debilitating. We are all just wanting more information. Yet, we live in an information-saturated world. We have more accessible data than any previous generation and fear still seems to reign. What is the Christian response to personal fear and worry? In this message, Pastor David looks to God's promise of presence for his people in the Old Testament and the promise made...