New Life Baptist Church

This week we have a topical vision message for us as we get ready to kick off another school year. We'll be covering Colossians 1:15-29. We learned that to make mature disciples of all nations, we must proclaim Christ in the power of God.

This Sunday we wrapped up our summer series in 1-3 John with the third inspired letter of John. The message will cover all of 3 John and is called, "Fellow Workers for the Truth." We see a contrast between two church leaders – one who...

Foundations are really important - if you don't have a solid foundation, everything you build on top of it will crumble. Jesus taught us to build on a firm foundation in his life and ministry, but many people are building their lives on shifting...

Editors Note: This is a re-recording of the sermon from 7/29/18 Seven different times in the passage, John will use the word "know." He wants his readers to know what is true, so they will believe what is true. But even more than that...

Because God is love, and Christians abide in God, we must also abide in love. However, every single one of us struggles to love other believers. It’s only when we surrender to God’s love for us that we begin to be free to walk in love toward other...

As has been stated in previous sermons, 1 John has a spiraling structure—revisiting the same themes over and over, each time amplifying them further. In this epistle John has given us moral tests (e.g., Are we obedient to God's word?), social...

Last week, John refuted “antichrists” and their teaching, and helped ensure that his readers - and you and me - would continue to abide in Christ. This week, we will see that John appeals to 3 aspects of God’s relationship to His People to make his...

Last week, John warned us that the world is passing away, along with its desires. Now, John tells us that we aren't just living in the last days, but the last hour. And in the last hour, opposition has come in the form of false teachers who...

We saw last week that the identifying mark of a true disciple of Jesus is a person who not only follows Christ's commands, but loves his/her brother or sister. This week, John gives a very strong warning to Christ's disciples not to love the...

We saw last week that we know we are Jesus' disciples if we obey his commands. John will continue to press the issue of assurance of salvation this week, this time connecting following Jesus and love for others. We learned that our love for...

So far, we've learned that God is light, and has no darkness in him. Further, we saw that Jesus’ blood is sufficient to cleanse all those who confess their sins to God. It becomes clear from the outset of the letter that Jesus is the Savior –...

We are continuing our new sermon series "Walk this Way" with 1 John 1:5-10 in a sermon called "Walk in the Light." The Apostle John is responding to the false claims that a believer can live without sin in their lives. We will see...

This week we started our new series through the letters of John called, "Walk this Way." On Sunday, we will covered 1 John 1:1-4 in a sermon called, "The Joy of Fellowship." Because of our sin, we are alienated from God and each...

This Sunday we had the pleasure of commissioning one short-term team and two families to the mission field. This sermon goes through the relationship Paul had with the church in Philipi. From this text we see what it means to be a faithful goer and...

In this final chapter, Paul is driving home the point that if we have been saved by the grace of God, we must lead different lives - ones that are clearly marked by devotion to good works - especially so that the lost see them and come to faith in...

Paul has been connecting belief and behavior all throughout his letter to Titus, and that theme continues in this chapter. He will help Titus understand that the grace of God transforms us to be men, women, pastors, and servants whose lives accurately...

This week we contrasted the faithful pastors we learned about last week with the false teachers, who are upsetting families with their false teaching on circumcision and other "Jewish myths." Because of all the damage they were causing...

In this passage, Paul is going to instruct Titus to finish what he left undone, namely appointing elders in every town. Then Paul will go on to help Titus understand who is qualified to serve as an elder, focusing primarily on character, and...

This week we continued our Pastoral Epistles series with the last book in the series, Titus. Paul sees himself as God’s servant and the servant of the church, so he is determined to spend his life serving both God and his people. We struggle to live...

There is hope for the hopeless.

We read Paul's final words to Timothy (and likely his final written words), where he begs him to come to him soon. Paul knows he doesn't have much time left, he's lonely, and he's cold - but he wants to continue his ministry from...

In the face of false teaching that continually assaults the Church, Paul reminds us of whom our Justification rests upon. While the Judaizers would attempt to add to Christ's perfect work upon the Cross, Paul encourages the Church at Philippi to...

Paul is wrapping up his final letter to Timothy - in fact, his final letter that we know of - and wants to impress upon him the necessity of a faithful life and ministry. As Christians, our motivation for proclaiming the Gospel is not only the great...

In this passage, Paul will call Timothy to live a very different life than the false teachers who opposed the truth and created problems for people who wanted to live faithfully. Following Jesus in a broken world is very hard. For us to do it, we...