First Baptist Church of Jena

"This is one of the problems FOREVER facing the church: friendship with the world." | Judges | Series: Book of Judges

"If we want to become holy, we need to do more than just learn God's commands. We need to learn Who God is and what He is like, and then use His commands to become like that!" | Judges | Series: Book of Judges

Session 1 from our Sunday Night series: "Be the Church." | Series: Be the Church

"What we desire and attract can either lead us further and further AWAY from Jesus, or it can lead us TO Him. We must be careful and pay attention to who we surround ourselves with and what they tells us about ourselves." | Judges | Series: Book of Judges

Sunday Evening address to the church for the new year.

"[God's] 'soul grows short' because of wickedness, but it also grows short over [our] suffering!" | Judges | Series: Book of Judges

"The less convinced we are of the depth of our need for [Jesus], the less tightly we hold Him!" | Philippians

"The suddenness of Jesus' return ought to create some urgency within us to live for Jesus and give Jesus to as many people as possible." | Matthew | Series: Christmas Season 2025

"We know how loving God is because we know how unlovable we are... We are a people who only an all-loving God could love!" | Titus | Series: Christmas Season 2025

"The reason our joy moves us to declare God's greatness is because that very act of declaration 'completes the enjoyment!'" | Isaiah | Series: Christmas Season 2025

Brain Earley preaching in view of a call to be our Associate Pastor. | John

"When we hold fast to Jesus as our hope, the reason we endure and persevere until the end is because He holds fast to us!" | Hebrews | Series: Christmas Season 2025

"You don't have to be gifted to sing. You just have to have a reason to sing: Joy in Christ!" | Psalms | Series: Thanksgiving

"Put very simply, the reason idols rule in our lives is this: we make room for them." | Judges | Series: Book of Judges

"God's job is to deal with injustice and unfairness in life. Our job is to trust Him to do so in His own way and in His own timing." | Judges | Series: Book of Judges

"Our biggest hinderance to depending upon God is thinking we don't need Him." | Judges | Series: Book of Judges

"Repentance doesn't begin with us approaching God. It begins with God approaching us." | Judges | Series: Book of Judges

"When God's people fail, His plans don't suddenly fail! Instead, He uses other faithful servants to step in the gap until His chosen instruments step up to the plate!" | Judges | Series: Book of Judges

"With [the Bible], we have a perfect source of unity that transcends worldly preferences, keeps our faith grounded in Jesus, grants His followers spiritual wisdom, keeps His servants humbly dependent upon Him, and keeps His church from making itself about anything else but Jesus." | 1 Corinthians

"The church, as the people of God, will either be one of the most powerful tools for evangelism or one of the most powerful obstacles to the spread of the gospel." | 1 Peter

"The entirety of the Bible is intended to counteract the intoxicating effects of the world and of our flesh... [it] both cures our mental and spiritual intoxication and prevents it from cropping back up." | 2 Timothy

The 4th out of 8 total sermons in our 2025 joint service series on the "I Am" statements of Jesus from the book of John. | John

"God's plan is not to raise up more and more deliverers ad infinitum. It's to raise up ONE deliverer... the TRUE Messiah, to deliver His people once and for all, and His name is Jesus!" | Judges | Series: Book of Judges

"Faith is heart-deep, or it is not faith at all. It's a lie." | Judges | Series: Book of Judges

The 2nd out of 8 total sermons in our 2025 joint service series on the "I Am" statements of Jesus from the book of John. | John