Central Baptist Church - Dunn, NC

What encourages you when you are facing a moment where you are not sure of the future? Pastor Tom shares promises from John 14:18-23 that Jesus shared with the disciples. The greatest encouragement to the disciples and to us are the promises of God in His Word. When you get a glimpse of Him, something is going to happen.

Besetting sins provoke God to anger. When the church has a besetting sin, it hurts the church, it harms the flock of God, and it hinders the work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. Pastor Cameron shares from Proverbs 6:16-19 seven sins that God hates, letting the Church know what the Word of God says about gossip.

What are you hungry for? What is it in your life that you feel so strongly about...if I just had this, I would be satisfied. Pastor Cameron shares three key thoughts from Matthew 14-16. In these chapters, we see it is not just about the things Christ gives to us that satisfies us, it is Christ Himself. He is the Bread of Life.

How do you respond when you hear the Scriptures? Anytime we hear the Word read, or preached, or taught, it is God speaking to us. Pastor Cameron Cloud shares from the parable of the soils in Matthew 13 four different ways Jesus describes and gives an interpretation of how we respond to the Word. God wants us to do more than hear the Word, He wants our obedience.

Jesus is the King. In His authority as the King, He is the One who is authorized to offer and invite. Pastor Cameron shares from Matthew 11, three commands that Jesus gives us to respond to. Each one is a special aspect of the rest that Jesus offers. This rest can only be found in Him!

God in His mercy and God in His grace gives us opportunity time after time to repent of our sins and to return to Him. Pastor Cameron gives a word of correction and a word of challenge from Amos 4. We can prepare to meet God in peace, or we can prepare to meet God in war. Get yourself ready because judgment is on its way.

Too often in our lives we get focused on the things of this world, and we forget that there is a deeper spiritual reality that is far more real than this shadowland that we live in. Pastor Cameron shares, from Matthew 5-7, five realities that Jesus talks about in the Sermon on the Mount, replacing false worldly perceptions with the reality of His spiritual kingdom.

Jesus is a sovereign King who perfectly submitted Himself to the Father’s will. He calls His followers to do the same. Pastor Cameron shares from Matthew 3-4 what it looks like to live the surrendered life; the same kind of submissive obedience that Jesus had for the Father.

The message of Jesus does not begin with polished perfection; it begins with a scandalous grace. Pastor Cameron shares from Matthew 1-2 several ways that Matthew wants us to see that this story is a royal story, but a scandalous story. Human failure never derails divine purpose. God brings grace into our messes.

The gospel is the power of God. Pastor Cameron Cloud shares truths from Paul in Romans 1:16-17 about the gospel. The greatest of all miracles is when you place your faith and trust in Jesus Christ and something extraordinary and powerful happens to you that will never end and never be taken away from you, the salvation of your soul.

The one thing that binds all believers together is the gospel. The gospel is not just something that we receive, it is something that we serve through. Pastor Cameron shares from Romans 1:7-15. Paul shows us that the gospel is something that we live out toward others with a self-sacrificing, others- focused, love of God.

What is the gospel? Pastor Cameron Cloud shares the basics of the gospel from Paul in Romans 1:1-7. The gospel is to shape our lives from the point of conversion to the time we get to heaven. It is a message to be believed, and it is provided for all.

Where is your faith? Is it just knowledge or is it something that you are putting into practice? Pastor Cameron Cloud shares truths, from John 11:17-27, of how Jesus works in the life of Martha, Lazarus’ sister. Jesus refocuses Martha’s faith from an event, and what God can do for her, to who Jesus is. No matter where you are in your faith journey, God is at work in your life.

Every life is shaped by the question, “Will I sit on the throne of my life, or will I kneel at the altar of God?” Pastor Cameron shares from 1 Kings 21-22 the contrast between the altar and the throne, between God’s way and our way. Is your life based on a fragile earthly throne, or is it based on an eternal heavenly altar?

The Bible is clear about the truth that God is everywhere. He is omnipresent. He is in all places at all times. Pastor Cameron Cloud shares from 1 Kings 20 this key truth that is emphasized and repeated in this passage giving two clear applications that should change the way we live.

Where are those who will step forward and say, “Just as Elisha was called to follow Elijah, I know that I am called to follow Christ.” God calls each one of us in some form or fashion to be an Elisha. Pastor Cameron Cloud shares, from 1 Kings 19:19-21, what being an Elisha requires. By God’s grace, we can take up the mantle and become an Elisha.

It is not uncommon in our Christian life, after we have great spiritual highs, for us to experience some of the lowest times of our lives. Pastor Cameron Cloud shares three things that Elijah experiences in 1 Kings 19, that we can experience when we are at our lowest. The God we see in the spiritual highs is also the God we see in the lows.

How burdened are you for the lost? Pastor Kevin Bell shares from Matthew 11:28-30 what needs to happen in our lives before our heart is broken enough to get revived to reach the lost. God will open our hearts and open our schedules to use us to tell others about Him.

We all need revival. Pastor Cameron Cloud preaches on the heart of revival from 1 Kings 18. There are three characters in this chapter, Ahab, Obadiah, and Elijah, and every individual is represented by one of them. Which one describes you? Where is your heart? Revival will only happen when we turn our hearts back to God.

We live in a time of darkness, but God is still at work. In 1 Kings 16-17, the nation of Israel was in a time of darkness, but God was still at work. Pastor Cameron Cloud shares the one spark of light that we see from Elijah and three things that are essential for us if we are going to be a light in a dark world today.

All of us are going to leave behind a legacy when we are gone. What kind of legacy will you leave? Pastor Cameron Cloud shares several truths, from 1 Kings 15:1-8, about a spiritual legacy. The greatest legacy we can leave behind is the evidence of God’s grace at work in our lives.

Often because our perspective is wrong, we can miss what God is doing, we can miss His work in our lives and in what is taking place around us. Pastor Cameron Cloud shares from 1 Kings 12-14, that even in the darkest of times, as was the case with Rehoboam, God is still at work. Trust Him!

We live in a time of great crisis. The greatest challenge in our nation is a spiritual crisis. Pastor Cameron Cloud shares from 1 Kings 11:4-10. Solomon’s reign began with great promise, but his final years are a cautionary tale to a nation, to a church, to a family, to an individual. Instead of having our hearts turned away from God like Solomon, we must have our hearts inclined toward Him and se...

People like to talk about who is the strongest, the wisest, the wealthiest, the greatest. When David passed the kingdom to his son, Solomon was the greatest that the world had to offer. Pastor Cameron Cloud shares from 1 Kings 3:5-15. Solomon points us to a greater King, Jesus Christ. The world will offer you many things, but Jesus is greater than anything the world has to offer!

There are few things in this life that balance blessing and burden more than parenting. Parenting is difficult. Pastor Cameron Cloud shares from the life of David, 1 Kings, 2:10-12. David was not a perfect parent, but his example as a father is a message to all of us. What we see imperfectly in David, we see perfectly in God.