First Baptist Conroe Podcast

Walk Like Jesus - Pt 6 - Religion that is pleasing to God requires more than doctrinal correctness and ritualistic piety. Wouldn’t you want to know if our Sunday morning offering was offensive in His eyes? In this section, Jesus tells us what God actually wants from us in our worship. He does it mostly by telling us what NOT to do.

Walk Like Jesus - Pt 5 - Life would be easier without other people, wouldn’t it? But we were created for relationship with God and with others. Walking with Jesus means dealing with insults, annoyances, and enemies differently.

Walk Like Jesus - Pt 4 - In movies, we often see the trope of the “one good cop in a bad town.” When you exist in a corrupt system, it’s easier to compromise than to do what is right. To walk like Jesus, we must say no to four common compromises in a world structured toward evil.

Walk Like Jesus - Pt 3 - A Radical Standard - We may impress people in a variety of ways. But how we spend eternity depends on whether we live up the standard God has set for us. And as Jesus shows in this passage, His standard is much higher and harder than anything this world demands. The rest of the series is really commentary on this teaching.

Walk Like Jesus - Pt 2 - Why We're Here - When we’re younger, we strive to “find ourselves,” to learn the purpose of our lives. When we’re older, we give up on such idealistic ideas and settle for “life as usual.” But right here, Jesus shows us the purpose He made all of us for, young and old.

Walk Like Jesus - Pt 1 - God's New Math - Right from the start, we see that Jesus has something different in mind when He talks about the good life. His idea of who is “blessed” shows that we must change our thinking if we want to walk like Jesus.

The Simplest Way to Change the World - Pt 4 - We think of the Lord’s Supper as a religious ritual. It’s actually an act of hospitality from God to us. It is meant to draw us nearer to Him and to each other. But only if we do it the way it was intended.

The Simplest Way to Change the World - Pt 3 - Let’s talk about the blessings we miss when we fail to exercise hospitality.

The Simplest Way to Change the World - Pt 2 - No Limits - Why do we always want to limit who we have to love? This message will address the excuses we have for not being hospitable.

The Simplest Way to Change the World - Pt 1 - If we are the Temple where redemption happens, what is our plan to draw people to Him? The answer is to relearn an ancient, almost forgotten practice: Hospitality. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic, when few people know their neighbors, something as simple as a meal together can be the starting place for something beautiful to happen. We don’t k...

Resilient Faith - The Book of Hebrews - Chapter 13

It Happened at the Temple - Pt 11 -The Jerusalem Temple was destroyed in 70 AD, just as Jesus foretold. It has never been rebuilt. That’s because the permanent Temple is already here, in the Body of Christ. We are now the place where redemption happens. Will we reject the idols of this world, overcome our own insecurities, and draw people to Him?

Resilient Faith - The Book of Hebrews - Chapter 12 - Pt 2

It Happened at the Temple - Pt 10 - The last mention of the Temple in Scripture gives us a glimpse into our future with Christ. It’s so beautiful, it makes the darkest days here bearable.

Resilient Faith - The Book of Hebrews - Chapter 12

The sky was as black as night, and Jesus was gone. It looked like all hope was lost, and evil had won forever. Then two words changed everything. In Scripture, those same two words turned things around for Noah, Jacob, Joseph, and David. They can become the defining two words of your life, too.

Resilient Faith - Hebrews 11

It Happened at the Temple - Pt 9 - After Jesus was gone, His followers continued to meet in the Temple weekly, and pray there daily. This story shows what enabled that first group of disciples to turn the world upside down. Fortunately, the same ingredients are available to us.

It Happened at the Temple - Pt8 - The God of All Comfort - When Paul was beaten by a mob and arrested in the Temple, it showed the difference between mere religion and the Good News. How Paul responded, and how God was with him, teach us to trust the Gospel when the world is against us.

It Happened at the Temple - Pt 7 - This world is capable of so much evil. But God is able to take the worst this world throws at us and turn it to good.

It Happened at the Temple - Pt 6 - Signs of the End - When Jesus foretold the Temple’s destruction, His disciples were astonished. He also told them about the end of all things, and how to prepare. His words still stand for us to be ready for our final test.

It Happened at the Temple - Pt 5 - Jesus was confronted in the Temple during the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah). We’ll look at the story of the Temple from the time of its rebuilding to the time of Jesus. And we’ll look at His relationship to the Temple, including the time His parents found Him there at age 12. As His words in John 10 reveal, He had come to be the new and greater Temple (also see...

It Happened at the Temple - Pt 4 - Consider Your Ways - When the Temple was destroyed, most thought it would never be rebuilt. They thought God had given up on His people. He brought them home and gave them the resources to rebuild His house. Yet years passed with no action. Haggai’s challenge to the people, to consider their ways, resonates with us today. There will always be attractive alternati...

In Hebrews 7 we discuss what the Gospel really means. Do you believe that Jesus died for sinners, or do you think people need to clean up their act before they can come to Him?

It Happened in the Temple - Pt 3 - The Glory Departs - The Temple was always just a building. God’s presence was what made it important. But God’s people thought the building itself was what gave them power. They assumed that because God made His home in Jerusalem, they would always be safe, and didn’t need to repent. Jeremiah and the other prophets tried in vain to help them see that making a moc...