First Baptist Church Wimberley

Send us Fan Mail Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from th...

Send us Fan Mail 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 9 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus’ teaching in Luke 21:5–38 comes during Passion Week as He prepares His followers for what’s ahead. He warns against a false sense of security—even the temple, as impressive as it was, would not last. Our safety isn’t found in what feels stable in this world, but in Christ. Jesus also tells us not to be fooled or terrified by end-times talk. Many will claim to know the timeli...

Send us Fan Mail Luke 21:5-38

Send us Fan Mail 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

Send us Fan Mail 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Send us Fan Mail 10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11 for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,     and every tongue shall confess to God.” 12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Send us Fan Mail 19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Send us Fan Mail In “The Condemned vs. The Commended” (Luke 20:45–21:4) , Jesus contrasts the fake righteousness of the scribes —who love status and public recognition—with the pure devotion of a poor widow who gives everything she has. Jesus warns against practicing faith “to be seen,” and He reminds us that rejecting Him leaves a person under real judgment and condemnation—while in Christ there...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

Send us Fan Mail 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?” 4 Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.

Send us Fan Mail 21 But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. 22 Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning, 23 and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. 24 Some of those...

Send us Fan Mail 12 But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

Send us Fan Mail In this message from Obadiah 5–14 , we see a warning against deceptive faith, false hope, and counterfeit love —and a call to humble, Christlike repentance. The outline highlights three heart-level issues: pride (a deceptive faith, vv. 1–4), idolatry (a false hope, vv. 5–9), and uncharitableness (a counterfeit love, vv. 10–14). Each section points us to Jesus’ example of humility...

Send us Fan Mail 13 Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity; do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity.  14 Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives; do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress.

Send us Fan Mail 12 When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

Send us Fan Mail 15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Send us Fan Mail 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in y...

Send us Fan Mail I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.  2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Send us Fan Mail This message from Luke 3:12–16 asks how Sunday worship shapes Monday mission —because we don’t swap a “church hat” for a “work hat”; it’s the same identity lived out all week. John the Baptist tells tax collectors and soldiers not to abandon their jobs, but to do their work with integrity and God-honoring faithfulness , reminding us that God often calls us not to a new assignment...

Send us Fan Mail 27 So God created man in his own image,     in the image of God he created him;     male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Send us Fan Mail 22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands.

Send us Fan Mail 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Send us Fan Mail 9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.

Send us Fan Mail 17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness. 21 They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22 They shall not build and another...