Fellowship Baptist Church Podcast

There are two choices on the shelf — pleasing God, and pleasing self. It sounds simple, but Austin Brownlee knows how quietly the second one wins. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 5:14–15, he traces three reasons Paul did what he did — and lands hard on the one that changes everything: the love of Christ  constrains . From a mechanical faith survived on caffeine and checklists, to William Borden writing...

Your freedom might be costing someone everything. In 1 Corinthians 8, Paul doesn't question whether the Corinthians were  right  — they were. But being right wasn't enough. Knowledge without love was leaving a trail of casualties: relapsed consciences, ruined lives, and sin charged to the account of those who thought they were simply exercising liberty. On Memorial Day weekend, Pastor Bosl...

A dying fire doesn't mean the fire is gone — it means it needs fuel. Charlie Lacy opens 2 Timothy 1:6–7 with a challenge as urgent as it is personal: the gifts God has placed in you can smolder from neglect, fear, and apathy. Drawing on Paul's final words to Timothy, Lacy calls believers to get desperate with God, pour fuel on the flame, and trade fear-driven faith for Spirit-empowered liv...

Your flesh doesn't know how to balance your life — it just knows how to push. In this message from Galatians 5, Pastor Bobby Bosler unpacks the final cluster of the fruit of the Spirit: faith, meekness, and temperance. But these aren't disciplines to develop — they're surrenders to make. Discover how the Holy Spirit delivers you from pressured faith, activates a God-directed flexibilit...

You've heard John 3:16 a thousand times. But have you really  seen  it? Evangelist Tim Schmidt with the Ambassador Baptist College Ensemble preaches through the most famous verse in the Bible with fresh urgency — unpacking the holiness of God, the weight of sin, the staggering love that sent a Savior, and the question it leaves ringing:  does that love constrain you?  From a childhood plate to...

You can be right about everything and still leave a trail of wreckage behind you. That's the uncomfortable truth Paul lays out in 1 Corinthians 8. The Corinthians had the theology, they had the liberty — and they were doing real harm to the people around them. Pastor Bosler draws three sharp lines: don't defile the conscience, don't deify the issue, and don't dismiss a tripping haz...

Love and hate don't usually appear in the same sentence — but in Romans 12, Paul puts them in the same verse. In this message, Pastor Bobby Bosler tackles an uncomfortable truth: real love isn't naive, and genuine Christianity isn't toothless. To overcome evil in our relationships, we have to be willing to name it, hate it, and — here's the hard part — do it without becoming it. It's not outrage,...

You can grit your teeth and white-knuckle your way through patience — or you can surrender. In this episode, Pastor Bosler digs into Galatians 5 and the second cluster of the Spirit's fruit: long-suffering, gentleness, and goodness. These aren't virtues you manufacture; they're miracles God grows. A longer fuse. A softer edge. A bigger heart. And together, they make something the flesh...

You've probably stopped asking. Not because you forgot — because somewhere along the way, you decided the answer was already no. Pastor Bobby Bosler opens Matthew 7:7–8 and makes the case that God isn't stingy, reluctant, or selective. He is outrageously, almost embarrassingly generous — and he's waiting for his children to actually believe it. Ask audaciously. Seek unswervingly. Knock...

You can be completely right and still be completely wrong. The Corinthians had solid theology — one God, no real idols — and they used it to justify sitting at the table of false gods. In this message from 1 Corinthians 8, Pastor Bobby Bosler exposes what happens when true doctrine gets weaponized as cover for compromise. The idol may be nothing, but the idolatry is very much something. And the bo...

Everyone knows how to paste on a smile. But fake love always leaks — through tone, through silence, through what you say when no one's looking. In this opening message of  Overcome: The Fight for Peace , Pastor Bosler digs into Romans 12:9 and the single Greek word that starts it all:  anhypokritos  — love without a mask. The fight for peace in your relationships doesn't begin with the per...

You can't staple fruit onto a tree. Yet that's exactly what most Christians try to do — gluing on patience, slapping on joy, pinning on peace — and wondering why it never looks (or tastes) real. In this message from Galatians 5, Pastor Bosler draws a sharp contrast between the  works  of the flesh and the  fruit  of the Spirit — and the difference isn't just good versus bad. It's m...

You were taught not to judge. But did Jesus also warn you not to be a pushover? In Matthew 7:6, tucked between lessons on hypocrisy and hypercriticism, Jesus offers a startling word about naivety — and the damage it does. Using the vivid imagery of wild dogs and dangerous swine, Pastor Bosler unpacks a truth we rarely talk about: not everyone is ready for what you're carrying. Treasure what&#3...

Sodium looks harmless — until you drop it in water. Knowledge works the same way. In 1 Corinthians 8, Paul turns to a new controversy in Corinth: meat offered to idols. But the real issue isn't what's on the plate — it's what's missing from the heart. Knowledge without love inflates, deceives, and destroys. It makes you feel bigger while making everyone around you smaller. This wee...

Most people learn by hearing. But some things only click when you say them out loud. In the final stretch of the NET Casters evangelism training, Pastor Bobby does something unexpected — he clears the room, pairs everyone up, and makes them actually do it. No more lessons. No more theory. Just real people, real nerves, and a real gospel conversation. Week thirteen isn't a lecture — it's a...

You can sit through a whole sermon on the works of the flesh and walk out thinking,  "That's not me."  That's exactly the problem. In Galatians 5, Paul adds three words— "and such like" —that blow the list wide open. Pastor Bosler unpacks what's really rotting under the linoleum: self on the throne. And he tackles the sobering warning that believers who live that wa...

The person most convinced they can help you with your speck is usually the one who can't see the beam sticking out of their own face. In this message from Matthew 7:3–5, Pastor Bobby Bosler unpacks Jesus's deliberately absurd illustration of the mote and the beam — and the pride-fueled blindness behind hypercritical religion. Why do we see what's wrong with everyone else while missing...

Freedom can feel like a room where all the furniture has been removed. You know you're supposed to move — you just don't know how. In this message from 1 Corinthians 7:39-40, Pastor Bobby Bosler walks through Paul's final word to a congregation wrestling with marriage, loss, and remarriage. What are you legally bound to? What are you legitimately free to do? And when freedom arrives th...

What does sharing the gospel actually look like in real life? In this session of Netcasters, Pastor Bobby Bosler doesn't just talk about it — he does it. Watch a live, front-of-the-room demonstration of a complete gospel conversation, walking through sin, penalty, the finished work of Christ, and the call to believe. It's honest, a little unscripted, and exactly the kind of practical train...

You weren't just called out of the world — you were sent back into it. In this powerful message, Mark Gillmore challenges believers to stop waiting to leave this world and start living for the reason they're still here. Drawing from Isaiah's encounter with God and Paul's testimony before King Agrippa, Gillmore calls every church — no matter its size — to embrace its identity as a s...

What if the key to reaching the world starts with a three-legged stool? Mark Gillmore unpacks the heart of disciple-making — not as a program, but as a way of life. Drawing from Luke 10 and the Great Commission, he walks through how every believer is called to be both a learner and a leader. Through a Discovery Bible Study and a story from a remote village in Cameroon, this session shows that maki...

Most churches are full of people who've heard too many good sermons — and changed too little. Mark Gillmore challenges Fellowship Baptist to move beyond Sunday attendance into something far more demanding: actual disciple-making. Drawing on the pattern of Jesus himself, this message unpacks what a disciple really is, why relationships aren't optional, and how ordinary believers — not just pastors...

What if the real question isn't  what happens to those who never hear  — but what happens when God's people decide that's their problem to solve? In this Missions Conference session at Fellowship Baptist Church, Mark Gillmore traces the unstoppable advance of the gospel from Pentecost to the present — from scattered believers in Acts to a Hindu-born church planter with nearly a million...

Somewhere in the world right now, a man is dying having never once heard the name of Jesus. Is God unjust—or are we? In this opening session of Fellowship Baptist Church's Missions Conference, guest speaker Pastor Mark Gillmore tackles one of Christianity's most searching questions: what happens to those who never hear the gospel? Weaving together theology, Scripture, and vivid stories from Camero...

Winning someone to Christ is only the beginning. In this week's session, Pastor Bosler walks through Phase Four of the Netcasters evangelism training course — what happens  after  someone prays to receive Christ. Drawing from Galatians, Colossians, and Corinthians, he unpacks four life-changing realities every new believer needs to hear: a new position, a new power, a new practice, and a new p...