Zion Primitive Baptist Church

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on January 11, 2026) As we continue in the twelfth chapter of Romans, we are learning more and more about presenting our bodies as living sacrifices. Not only does that mean we must change the way we think, but also that we must change the way we love! Today...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on January 4, 2026) As we began to see yesterday, one aspect of living sacrificially is changing the way we think. We need to think like children of God! When we paused the message last time, we were examining how we ought to think about ourselves. Today, we continue...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on January 4, 2026) As we continue exploring the idea of “sacrificial living,” as set forth in Romans Chapter 12, we find that one area we need to reform is in our thinking. We ought to think like children of God! We begin today by looking at how we...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 28, 2025) In Romans 12, Paul commands us to present our bodies as “living sacrifices”. Up to this point, Paul has laid a doctrinal foundation, but now he begins to teach us our duty as disciples. There is a logical progression to Scriptural teaching, particularly in the...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 28, 2025) In our series on the Book of Romans, we have come to chapter 12. But before we begin to look at Paul’s instructions on godly living and presenting our bodies a living sacrifice, we decided to do a quick review of what we have learned...

by Elder Luke Hagler (preached on June 23, 2013) In the second half of this powerful sermon by Elder Luke Hagler, we continue to see the warning by the writer of Hebrews about neglecting the great salvation that we have in Christ. This certainly is not referring to our eternal salvation, for we can never...

by Elder Luke Hagler (preached on June 23, 2013) The sermon today is by Elder Luke Hagler, who visited us here at Zion Primitive Baptist Church back in 2013. He takes us over to the book of Hebrews, where the writer warns us against neglecting the great salvation that we have in Christ. Join us...

by Elder Neil Honea (preached on January 18, 2026) In this powerful sermon, preached by Elder Neil Honea recently for us here at Zion Primitive Baptist Church, we learn about submitting ourselves one to another. Paul tells us in Ephesians that this “submission” is really “service” one to another. As we began to see in...

by Elder Neil Honea (preached on January 18, 2026) Elder Neil Honea recently preached for us at Zion Primitive Baptist Church, and his message was a powerful reminder about our duty to submit to one another as children of God. This “submission” looks like “service,” and Paul in Ephesians Chapter Five tells us about how...

by Elder Tim McCool (preached on January 27, 2013) In the first half of this sermon, preached at Zion back in 2013 by Elder Tim McCool, we learned that while there are many things in life that will inevitably deteriorate and break, the Scripture cannot be broken. The word of God is permanent, and has...

by Elder Tim McCool (preached on January 27, 2013) We have lately been revisiting some older sermons that have been preached over the years here at Zion Primitive Baptist Church. Today we are posting the first half of a sermon preached by Elder Tim McCool back in 2013 on the topic of the word of...

by Elder John Morgan Owens (preached on September 21, 2025) In this powerful sermon, Elder John Morgan Owens reminds us from Scripture that we must guard our hearts diligently. The issues of our hearts affect everything in our lives! We must work on the inward man, guarding what we put in our hearts, in order...

by Elder Kenneth Nowell (preached on December 28, 2025) As we closed out the year 2025, we were blessed to have Elder Kenneth Nowell, Pastor of Piedmont Primitive Baptist Church in South Georgia, to visit with us. He reminded us from Malachi 3:6 that it is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed,...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 21, 2025) When Christ came the first time, the Jews by and large were unsuspecting and unprepared. But if they had studied the Book of Daniel, they should have known the general timeframe of the Messiah’s arrival on the scene. In Daniel 9, God gave them a...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 14, 2025) As we began to see yesterday, God turned from the Jews to the Gentiles by grace, and not because of some inherent superiority of the Gentiles. In the same way the Jews were not better than the Gentiles, neither were the Gentiles better than the...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 14, 2025) In the last sermon we posted, we dealt with the Jews and jealousy. Today, we turn to the Gentiles and grace. We saw that, because of their unbelief, God turned from the Jews to the Gentiles in His primary dealings under the gospel age. However,...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 7, 2026) As we began to see yesterday, when the Jews as a nation rejected Christ as the Messiah, God “judicially blinded” them, and turned His focus on the Gentiles to spread the gospel message. This “judicial blindness” was not an arbitrary act based on some secret...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 7, 2025) In Romans Chapter Eleven, we have learned that the Jews of Jesus’ day were “judicially blinded” by God due to their persistent rejection of the gospel message. We learned that this was a timely chastening, and not an eternal punishment, for Paul is speaking about...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on November 30, 2026) As we began to see yesterday, “judicial blindness” is a specific chastening judgment meted out by God upon His people the Jews due to their persistent unbelief of the gospel message. We learned that this sort of blindness is a spiritual condition where individuals or...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on November 30, 2025) In Romans 11, we read about the “judicial blinding” of Israel. This “judicial blindness” is a chastening judgment upon His people – in this case the Jews – who continually reject the clear preaching of the gospel message. These are NOT reprobate, non-elect persons; rather,...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on November 16, 2025) We return today to the question of whether there are any of God’s children who, through their actions, will be “cast away” from God. As we were beginning to see in the first half of this sermon, the answer is an emphatic “No!” Paul uses...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on November 16, 2025) As we return to our exposition of the Book of Romans, we are beginning today in Chapter Eleven. In this chapter, Paul is still dealing with the disobedience of God’s elect children, particularly in rejecting the gospel message. He uses Elijah as an example of...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 14, 2025) As we bring our study of the Book of Nehemiah to a close, we are examining the leadership of Nehemiah. Remember, Nehemiah was not a prophet or a priest, but a lay member of Israel’s congregation. He didn’t have a special calling on his life,...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 14, 2025) In our study of the Book of Nehemiah, we have seen how the leadership of just one man can make such a difference in the Kingdom of God! In the final sermon of our exposition of this book, we will review the leadership of Nehemiah....

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 7, 2025) As we saw in the first half of this sermon from our exposition of Nehemiah, the zeal of the Jews in Judah had subsided after the initial fervor of the revival. Those who had rededicated themselves to the worship and support of the Temple had...