First Baptist Church of Jena

"Jesus is the only solution to our broken systems of authority! The answer to 'bad authority' is not 'no authority,' but 'good authority'!" | Micah | Series: Book of Micah

"When we remove the restraint of God's Word in our lives, we don't just become arrogant or ignorant, but we become indulgent in things that our submission to God might otherwise protect us from." | Micah | Series: Book of Micah, Christmas Season 2023

"Failure to acknowledge our sin is like begging for misery... because it's unacknowledged, it won't be confessed. Because it won't be confessed, it won't be abandoned. And because it won't be abandoned, it'll keep producing rotten fruit and decay." | Micah | Series: Book of Micah, Christmas Season 2023

"Do you know what happens when God's people praise Him regardless of their circumstances? God is even more magnified than he might have otherwise been... God isn't only awesome when things go your way! He's awesome and worthy of praise simply because of Who He is!" | Psalms | Series: Thanksgiving

Session 12 of our series "What is a Baptist?" We are exploring the Baptist Faith and Message and the biblical teaching that it articulates in order to better understand what is means to be a baptist. | Series: What is a Baptist?

"The cross of Jesus Christ is the perfect picture of our bad intentions and God's good intentions being revealed. What we meant for evil, God meant for good." | Genesis | Series: Book of Genesis

"Many times, we are not okay with how God chooses to provide for us. We dwell on what He HASN'T provided instead of what He HAS provided. Do you know why? It is the sin of discontentment. We must learn to be content with what God provides, when He provides." | Genesis | Series: Book of Genesis

"Failure to own our sin is what keeps us trapped in it." | Genesis | Series: Book of Genesis

"The seriousness of [sin] isn't in the harm done to others or the level of maliciousness one must feel to commit [it]. The seriousness of [sin] is in the fact that God says, 'Don't,' we KNOW it, and we DO IT ANYWAYS." | Genesis | Series: Book of Genesis

Session 11 of our series "What is a Baptist?" We are exploring the Baptist Faith and Message and the biblical teaching that it articulates in order to better understand what is means to be a baptist. | Series: What is a Baptist?

"Abram's relationship with God wouldn't depend on Abram's faithfulness, but God's faithfulness!" | Genesis | Series: Book of Genesis

Session 10 of our series "What is a Baptist?" We are exploring the Baptist Faith and Message and the biblical teaching that it articulates in order to better understand what is means to be a baptist. | Series: What is a Baptist?

"Our use of time and money reveals what it is that we truly worship." | 1 Corinthians | Series: Book of 1 Corinthians

Session 9 of our series "What is a Baptist?" We are exploring the Baptist Faith and Message and the biblical teaching that it articulates in order to better understand what is means to be a baptist. | Series: What is a Baptist?

"Only belief in the gospel can free us from the intoxication of the world! We will only abandon worldly attractions by the beauty of Christ! And the beauty of Christ is that He came to die to free us from our bondage to sin and to save us from the wrath of God against it!" | 1 Corinthians | Series: Book of 1 Corinthians

Session 8 of our series "What is a Baptist?" We are exploring the Baptist Faith and Message and the biblical teaching that it articulates in order to better understand what is means to be a baptist. | Series: What is a Baptist?

"When we come to faith, we proclaim the gospel: 'I can do nothing. Jesus has done everything for me.' And so we proclaim every day of our lives AFTER we are saved: 'I can do nothing. Jesus does everything through me.'" | 1 Corinthians | Series: Book of 1 Corinthians

Session 7 of our series "What is a Baptist?" We are exploring the Baptist Faith and Message and the biblical teaching that it articulates in order to better understand what is means to be a baptist. | Series: What is a Baptist?

"We shouldn't be surprised when life gets chaotic if, at the same time, we are not conforming to God's character and nature. In fact, it's the grace of God that life works that way. If it wasn't for the chaos, we would never wake up to the reality that something is deeply wrong. We would never come to see our sin as inherently sinful. We would never cast ourselves upon the mercy of God for salvati...

Session 6 of our series "What is a Baptist?" We are exploring the Baptist Faith and Message and the biblical teaching that it articulates in order to better understand what it means to be a baptist. | Series: What is a Baptist?

"When we function properly as a church, not only will the world HEAR [the gospel] in our gatherings, but they'll SEE it being lived out in our midst." | 1 Corinthians | Series: Book of 1 Corinthians

Session 5 of our series "What is a Baptist?" We are exploring the Baptist Faith and Message and the biblical teaching that it articulates in order to better understand what it means to be a baptist. | Series: What is a Baptist?

Session 4 of our series "What is a Baptist?" We are exploring the Baptist Faith and Message and the biblical teaching that it articulates in order to better understand what it means to be a baptist. | Series: What is a Baptist?