Boone's Creek Baptist Church

In this sermon, Pastor Tim Wade considers Jesus' famous story of the foolish man who built his house on the sand and the wise man who built his house upon the rock. In this new look, we see some surprising details come to light. What was the real difference in the two men and their homes? How do we build our lives on the rock? Join us as we consider this rich and wonderful text!

The most awful thing that could ever happen to any human soul would be to hear these words from Jesus, "I never knew you, depart from me." These words mean utter condemnation, they mean hell. Yet Jesus tells us that many will hear them, many who believed they were in fact Christians, who even called Jesus "Lord." So how can we be sure that we never hear these terrifying words?...

In this message delivered on Sunday Evening of Memorial Day weekend, Pastor Tim discusses how Christians can be good citizens who love their country well by loving God first. We consider instructions from Romans 13, 1 Peter 2:13-17, and how Augustine's idea of "ordered loves" provides a framework for Christian citizenship.

Jesus warns us to beware the false prophets because of the very real. danger they pose. How can we spot these false prophets? And more importantly, how can we discern true shepherds from wolves?

Jesus is exclusive in his instructions. The narrow way is only found and entered by few, and it is hard path. Which means that as Christians, we will experience loneliness and difficulty, and it is only by much striving that we will gain the promised reward. Let us be encouraged to press on to the reward!

In this interactive seminar, Pastor Tim Wade and Chris Ratliff engage families on the important discipline of family worship and discipleship. The Seminar follows the framework; 1. Family Worship: What? 2. Family Worship: Why? 3. Family Worship: How? Due to conversations with the audience that were not recorded, and scripture readings by the participants that were also not recorded, the audio is e...

God provides a perfect, "Golden" standard by which we are to live and treat others, not only by instructing us how to live, but also in demonstrating what that standard looks like though Jesus Christ. Join us as we consider how the Golden Rule is a summation of the entire law, how we can apply it in our lives today, and most importantly, how it drives us to Christ.

We are often wary of prosperity preachers who twist God's word to make it sound like we can have anything we want if we are sincere in our asking (and if we accompany our asking with exorbitant gifts to their ministries). But what kinds of things did Jesus actually promise us that we would get if we simply asked? There is no denying that he makes us unequivocal promises in Matthew 7, so how ca...

Having considered the prohibition against judging hyper-critcally and hypocritically, we now turn to the positive exhortation to judge rightly, detecting our own plank, differentiating our process (between those who need help removing a speck and those who are swine-like), and defending our pearls.

We have all heard those famous two words from the sermon on the mount, "Judge not!" Usually, they are deployed as a shield against any form of criticism, but is this what Jesus meant when he told us not to judge, or is it more nuanced than that? Today, we look at what Jesus is actually prohibiting, the hypercritical judge and the hypocritical judge.

In this sermon, we consider 5 more practical steps we can take to begin overcoming worry in our lives. Some of these come directly from Jesus' words in the Sermon on the Mount, some are drawn from additional scripture. All are invaluable in combatting the plague of anxiety that affects so many believers today.

Our Easter Sermon focuses on Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. In this poignant act, Jesus reveals that the love of God permits our sorrow, the love of God participates in our sorrow, and the love of God prevails over our sorrow.

From time to time we are all wrecked by worry, and understandably so. Our world is cursed, our bodies and minds marred by sin. But God does not leave us in our despair, he gives us divine help to be free from worry. In this sermon, Pastor Tim Wade provides 5 helpful ways to overcome worry, with 5 more to follow in a subsequent sermon.

Worry is a constant companion for many believers, yet Christ commands us to not worry. What is the basis of this freedom from worry? Join us as we build the theological foundation for why we should be free from worry.

In this sermon, we consider Jesus' warning to not store up treasures on the earth, but in heaven. How do we do that? And how might we inadvertently store up treasures on the earth?

Fasting is an underrated spiritual discipline that promises great reward for those who practice it regularly. However, fasting is now widely practiced by most American Christians today, and that is revealing in more ways than one. Join us as we study what Jesus has to say about this important discipline in the Sermon on the Mount. 

In this, the last message on the Lord's Prayer within our larger study of the Sermon on the Mount, we examine Jesus' post-script explanation of forgiveness. Why does he make it seem like our ultimate forgiveness before God is contingent upon our forgiveness of others? Is this salvation by works? How are we able to forgive those that never seek our forgiveness? All of this and more as we conclude t...

How are we to ask for God's help in avoiding temptation? With Jesus' last request in the Lord's prayer, he reveals our strategy in fighting against the flesh. 

God delights to meet our needs, we need only ask. But what all is entailed in the simple request for Our. Daily. Bread.? Join us as we consider this simple, but poignant request for God to sustain us through meeting our physical needs. 

When it comes to Jesus' requests in the Lord's Prayer, what does he teach us to ask for? What are we asking for when we ask for God's kingdom to come? In what ways is the kingdom already here, and in what ways are we still awaiting its arrival? 

Even though Thanksgiving was not necessarily part of the Lord's Prayer, it was certainly a prominent pattern in Jesus' own prayer life and in the apostle's instructions on how we should pray. Given it's significance, we need to understand how and why we should offer thanksgiving in our prayers, even when we find ourselves with supposedly little to be thankful for. 

Why should we confess our sin when we pray? Why does Jesus lead in corporate confession, even though he was innocent of all sin? Join us as we consider this important aspect of prayer, as demonstrated in the Lord's Prayer. 

Here we begin to examine the components of prayer found within the Lord's Prayer, beginning with Adoration. What does it mean that God is our Father in Heaven? How do we hallow his name? Join us as we begin to shape our own prayers after the Lord, Jesus' instructions. 

What does it mean that God is "Our Father?" What is the significance of Jesus' use of plural pronouns like our, us, and we throughout the prayer instead of individual pronouns? Join us as we begin to unpack the glorious truths of the Lord's Prayer. 

As we start considering the Lord's teaching on prayer, we need to understand the fundamental postures we should bring to prayer before ever considering the content of our prayers. The fact that God invites and expects us to pray regularly, pray humbly, pray sincerely, and pray expectantly is astounding!