Vieux Carré Baptist Church

What do you do when you're faced with big decisions?  Do you seek the leading of the Lord--and what if you don't find it?

Proverbs has a lot to say about raising children--blessed, beloved children.

Wisdom is hard to offend, slow to anger.  It abides conflict and difference all the while searching for ways to let love cover sin.

Some things we use every day, but if we're careless, or worse--cruel--they would be devastating.  Fire, knives--our words.  Words are both routine and powerful, so we have to take great care.

For centuries, the church widely believed and taught about fortune, the idea that not everything happens for a reason.  It's an idea we need to recover for the sake of the renewal of our churches today as we learn to be content in every circumstance and trust in the sufficiency and the goodness of God.

Proverbs 10 begins the "sentence literature" section of the book, and holds countless truths to point us toward walking in the way of wisdom and righteousness.

Pastor Phil on Proverbs 9, wisdom and foolishness both calling to come in and dine--a choice we make every day.

What is wisdom like?  Are you able to recognize it when you meet it, or when it calls to you?  Are you able to see its work in creation?  Proverbs 8.

Solomon imagines a conversation between a son and his parents about whom he should marry--but it's a choice, not just between two women, but between wisdom and death, itself.

How can you tell the nature of a man?  Can you see in his actions, in his body, his heart?

The god of death, in ancient Canaan, was depicted as an enormous creature, always devouring and yet still insatiably hungry. Yes, death consumes without ever leading to satisfaction, but we fool ourselves by thinking death is some creature lurking in the deep or in the shadows.  You know exactly which road leads to death, and he presents himself more like an enticing pleasure than a hideous c...

There are some things meant to be kept at the center of your life, and if you lose them, or if you allow the enemy to poison them, you may not be dead yet--but you're lost.

Imagine trying to find your way without any kind of map, compass, or road.  Life is this way.  How do you know where to go?  And how can you make sure you stay headed in the right direction?

My friend Andrew Wilson preaches on the value and worth of wisdom in our world today, and how to seek it.

We've got more answers than we can stand, or ever search through.  But do we know the questions?  We have so much information, and move so quickly, but do we know where we are going?

There are two histories of the world, vastly different.  Easter brings those two histories into collision.

My friend Roger Lipe preaches on the atonement.

The kingdom of God will surprise you, even if you grew up being told of it. It's just so different from anything we've ever known.

My friend and fellow pastor in New Orleans, Thomas Glover, shares a special word about the necessity of works to accompany our faith in Jesus.

Think about being in the streets of Jerusalem, celebrating, and then you get shoved back, to the side, to make way for a cross coming down your street, the meaning behind that symbol at the time.  If Jesus is able to take that fear, hurt, and shame and turn it into something glorious, what can he do in your life?

A day of celebration as Phil Wells preaches his first sermon as an ordained pastor.

One of the great mysteries of our faith is how it could be possible that the God who made the universe could possibly enter into time and humanity. In the garden of Gethsemane, we see just how human, just how like-us, Jesus became.

The people of God would have sung Psalm 118 ritually, every year at the passover, but the meaning of the Psalm would have changed through the ups and downs of their history. By the time Jesus arrives in Jerusalem for the passover, greeted by the words of this psalm, it would have been a confession and a plea for salvation. From it, we can learn, ourselves to confess and rejoice in our low estate,...

God's heart, meaning the core of his desires, is to gather people into families.  The Bible has words for this: adoption and redemption.  There is a spiritual reality of God desiring all people to be saved, a part of his family, but there is also a practical reality.  God desires his people in our families, and in our church families, to gather into family those who are without.

We've been talking about singleness and marriage in their most godly, healthiest forms.  But that's not where we live.  What do you do when something goes wrong in your singleness or in your marriage?  How should the church treat those who haven't done things perfectly?