First Baptist Church, Milton, LA

Pastor Matt preaches from Hebrews 12:1-2, identifying our past as one of the weights that can keep us from living faithfully in the here and now. In this sermon, we apply the Gospel to various aspects of our past - the sinful stuff that happened to us and the sinful things we did when we didn't know better and when we did know better. We hope you'll listening and learn to find healing and...

Pastor Matt preaches from Hebrews 12:1-2. We're continuing our summer series, "Everyday Faithfulness." In this sermon, we see the kind of faith that leads to a life of everyday faithfulness.

Greg Thomas, one of our lay elders, preaches from Psalm 46. In this sermon, Greg reminds us that our Sovereign God is our place of refuge and help.

Pastor Matt kicks off our summer sermon series, "Everyday Faithfulness" by looking at 1 Corinthians 10:31 and seeing how the big truth of God's glory moves His people to live faithfully in the everyday stuff of life.

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:25-26. In this sermon, we see how it is the Holy Spirit who helps have the Scriptures, understand the Scriptures, and obey the Scriptures.

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:29-31. In this sermon, we look at how the Holy Spirit helps us fight spiritual battles against sin and unbelief. "The same Spirit that empowered Christ to endure the cross and raised Him in victory empowers us to endure temptation and come out victorious."

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:28. In this sermon, we look at Jesus's (mild) rebuke of the disciples for being more sorrowful than joyful at his leaving. Looking at their example, we're able to see that it is the Holy Spirit who helps us have the right perspective on things - the perspective of faith in our Sovereign Lord who is working all things for His glory and our good.

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:27.  The Holy Spirit helps us to experience for ourselves and to extend to others the peace of God, which is ours by faith in Christ. 

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:15-26. In this sermon, we begin to look at what the Holy Spirit does in the life of the believer. This begins with the Spirit's primary role of glorifying the Father and the Son (John 16:14), which is what He leads us to do through making the personal presence of Christ within us real to us, and working in us and through us to love Christ and keep His commandm...

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:16-25 a sermon titled, "The Promise of the Spirit (Pt. 1)." Pastor Matt focuses on verses 16 and 17 and answers the following questions from them, "Who is the Holy Spirit?", "Who receives the Holy Spirit?", and "What is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit?"

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:15-17. In this sermon, we look at how our obedience to Christ flows out of our love for Christ and is empowered by the Holy Spirit. We also see that the Ten Commandments are the content of our obedience. Pastor Matt closes with a practical plan for growing in our knowledge of those commandments.

Greg Thomas, one of our elders, preaches this week from Luke 7:1-10. The story of the centurion shows us what it means to have faith that amazes Jesus. In this sermon, Greg unpacks what it means to trust the word of Jesus and to be a model of faith to others.

Pastor Matt preaches on the two uses of justification from Romans 4 and 6, both of which are connected to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Resurrection frees us from the penalty of sin and the power of sin.

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:7-14. In this sermon, we look at how Jesus encourages the disciples' faith on the night before His crucifixion. He reminds them that He is One with the Father and He gives them two big promises - that believers will do greater works than Him and that He will answer our prayers.

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:6. This is the 6th of 7 "I am" statements in John's Gospel. In this one, Jesus declares Himself to be the only way of salvation. Pastor Matt looks at this verse from several angles to show why Jesus is the only way of salvation and why we need Jesus to be our only way.

Pastor Matt preaches from John 13:36-14:4. In this sermon, we see that the disciples' are troubled in their hearts about Jesus "going where they cannot come." But Jesus offers them, and us, hope for our troubled hearts. In this sermon, we see that anxiety is often rooted ins in, that we are not slaves to our emotions, that Christ offers us Himself as our great hope, and that He gives...

Pastor Matt preaches from John 13:31-35. The church is the new community of faith , and it is: 1) A cleansed community,  2) A worshipping community, and 3) a loving community. 

Pastor Matt preaches from John 13:18-30. In this sermon, we how Jesus, in His grace, prepares the disciples to face what's coming over the next hours and days, and how he prepares us too, we look at the revealing of Judas as the Betrayer, and then from the text and from Judas's life, we see four characteristics of those who turn away from Christ. We hope the Spirit uses this sermon to keep...

Pastor Matt preaches from John 13:1-17. This is the story of Jesus washing the disciples' feet. In this sermon, Pastor Matt encourages us to see the love of Christ, receive the love of Christ, and show the love of Christ.

Luke Arsement, one of our elders, preaches from Ephesians 5:1-2. In this sermon, Luke encourages us to follow Christ's example of love, showing how His example of humble, self-sacrifice love is the model for how we ought to love one another.

Pastor Matt preaches from Colossians 3:1-17. In this sermon, Pastor Matt shows how the believer's union with Christ is his fundamental identity, how it is "our most powerful weapon" against sin, and how it the source of all of our obedience to Christ.

Pastor Matt preaches from John 12:37-50. In these verses, John summarizes both the results of Jesus's public ministry and Jesus's public teaching, and in it, forces us to reckon with both God's sovereignty and man's responsibility when it comes to belief.

Pastor Matt preaches from John 12:27-26 a sermon titled, "An Eye Towards the Cross." In this sermon, we look at some of Jesus's last words in his public ministry - words which focus on his cross. As we focus on the cross with Jesus, we look at the anguish of the cross (vs. 27-30), the accomplishments of the cross (vs. 31-32), and the appeal of the cross (vs. 33-36).

Pastor Matt preaches "To See Jesus" from John 12:20-26.

Luke Arsement, one of our elders, preaches "Jeremiah's Hope" from Luke 3:22-24. Sermon originally preached on January 11, 2026