Sermons – Wichita Falls Baptist Church

Just as Jesus’ love is sacrificial, unconditional, and sanctifying so a husband's love for his wife should be too. A husband has the joy of reflecting Christ in nourishing and cherishing his bride. Pastor Jeremy fleshes out the great responsibility of husbands to love their wives.

Jesus calls all his disciples not not live a life of fretful worry, but rather that they live a life of firm faith fixed on God. In His well known words, Jesus highlights lessons from nature and from God’s character to remind us of our rock in the midst of life's storms.

God made men and women in His image, equal in worth but differing in roles. Sin has distorted and twisted the marriage relationship, but God’s salvation should restore husband and wife to both joyfully fulfill their roles, leading and submitting, loving and respecting, and showing how Christ and the church relate to each other. Pastor Mollenkopf guides us through God's good purpose and plan in Eph...

Marriage is one of God’s greatest gifts, but one that now many are choosing to not pursue. God’s word reminds of what He intended for marriage and how rightly understood marriage will bless one’s life. Pastor Mollenkopf opens up Ephesians 5 for us this morning.

2 Corinthians 4:7 is a verse known by many Christians, but what is this treasure of which Paul speaks? And why does he describe this treasure as being in jars of clay? To be described as little more than a clay pot might sound insulting, but Keith Pond explains this morning why it is actually a good thing and a blessing to our souls.

Being filled with the Spirit is not some mystical, esoteric, uncontrollable experience. Rather, we are given three ways of living under the influence (and being filled by) the Spirit: singing to one another and to God, giving thanks, and submitting to one another. Really? That's it? Pastor Mollenkopf leads us through Paul's encouragement to the Ephesians.

The Ephesian culture was known for their drunken, wild “worship” of Bacchus. Paul wants them no longer to be controlled by alcohol which has led to the debauched living of their previous lives. Now, instead, they should be filled with the Holy Spirit.

God had given us great freedom to decide many options in life. Our role is to pursue God first, search his word, pray, and with godly counsel act. Pastor Mollenkopf provides some nuts-and-bolts application to God's word.

To honor God we must know what He wishes us to do. Sadly, Christians are often very confused by this topic, but God’s word shows us how to live so that we can know His will. Pastor Mollenkopf guides us into God's word.

Paul calls us to walk carefully, and then he gives three areas in which to do this. First, we are to walk wisely in regard to our time. We only have one life here on this earth, and we must be wise in the use of the time God gives us. Jeremy Mollenkopf walks us through this passage.

Apart from God's word, man has no way to understand his place in the cosmos. In God's word, man's significance is made clear. God declares that he has created us all--each one--in his image, and beyond that, and to his glory, God has created each one male or female. This morning, Keith Pond highlights the importance of this truth as an anchor point for the believer today and then examines seven qu...

Jesus saved us out of darkness and called us into His marvelous light. We should then live in that light and delight in that light. Our former activities in the darkness have no place in the lives of believers. Pastor Mollenkopf explains.

Paul turns from the self-sacrificing love we are to have for one another and calls us to put off self-focused sexual sins and greed. The way to do this is not just will power though, but rather through gratitude for all God has given us (and not given us). Pastor Mollenkopf expounds on God's good purpose and plan for our lives

Doing what is right is not tied to some abstract moral code. Rather, it is learning to know and live like God. We do this not to become the children of God, but as children of God. This sweet reality is opened up by Pastor Mollenkopf.

Who am I? If I am created by the living God, I cannot know or even begin to remotely fathom who I am unless he makes it plain to me. The world is ripping itself apart seeking to satisfy its every whim and desire in a desperate search be authentic to themselves. You-be-you is sending millions to Hell. Into this, God speaks. He makes plain the extraordinary entity that is man in the first chapter of...

In this life under the sun, everything upon which we might set our hope will fail us. Money. Friends. Spouse. Job. Health. We have no certainty that any of these will come through in our hour of desperate need. Only one Person provides sure and certain hope: our Lord Jesus Christ. Today, Dr. Ben Dunson guides us through Romans 5:1-5 to highlight the glories of the hope that we have in Christ, a ho...

Most folks would really love the other people in their lives to be forgiving, but when it comes to their own conduct, those same folks find it really hard to truly forgive another person. Then when we do consider forgiveness, most of us have some skewed ideas about what forgiving really means. Pastor Mollenkopf takes a deep dive this morning on what God's word says about his forgiveness for us and...

How is it that God's justice and that he has justified us in Christ Jesus serve as an anchor point to sustain us in this life? Our sin and the sin all around us become overwhelming at times; when will it be made right? In today's passage, we see that God cares. He cares about sin and he cares about injustice. As the penalty of sin was paid in full by the blood of Jesus Christ, God not only proved...

Paul continues his ethical instructions and dives into the ugly specifics of our anger: bitterness, clamor, and malice. He turns though to show the beauty of living like Christ with kindness, compassion, and forgiveness.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and God has saved us and is re-creating us to speak like Him. When we do, we build up the church, the very entity that the Spirit works to build. Pastor Mollenkopf expounds on the importance of being purposed in our speech.

We often see our sinful anger as caused by others. Yet, we see from God’s word that the interrupting of our own desires leads us to anger. To overcome, we must recognize the roots of our anger, we must replace ourselves as ruler letting God be God, and we must repent of our pride. Pastor Jeremy Mollenkopf guides us through these waters.

God is perfectly holy and good, and yet, God is said to have anger. We see times of anger in the life of Jesus. Thus, there are times when anger is right, good, and appropriate. At other times, among God's fallen creatures, anger can bring disaster. This sermon examines, what anger is, how it can be good, and what makes it so destructive.

One of the first ways the new creations of God seek to live outh this new life is by putting off falsehood and speaking truth to one another. Pastor Mollenkopf walks us through the darkness of the vice of deceit, the beauty of the virtue of truth, and concludes looking at the three unexpected victims of falsehood.

God’s saving us should cause us to seek to end our old, sinful lifestyle and instead, live a new, godly lifestyle. This isn't a living-well/living-right philosophy as though Christianity was some therapeutic salve to apply to your life, but it's a love response to the love God has lavished on us in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Still, to be a Christian does demand a response. If the saint does not c...

Sin. How bad is it really? It's REALLY bad. For the soul apart from Christ, it's an issue of eternity in Hell or not. But even for the saint, the battle of sin still rages. Keith Pond explains the toxic nature of sin, but he doesn't leave it there. He examines the provision God has made for us that we might escape from the temptations of sin that beset us this side of glory.