First Baptist Church, Milton, LA

Pastor Matt preaches from John 15:4-11. In this sermon, we focus in on the incredible truth that bearing spiritual fruit brings glory to God and joy to us.

Pastor Matt preaches from John 15:1-4. In this sermon, we return to our verse-by-verse series through the Gospel of John by looking at the 7th "I Am" Statement, "I am the true vine and my Father the vinedresser." What does it mean for Jesus to be the True Vine? And what does it mean to be in vital union with Him as a branch?

Pastor Matt preaches from Revelation 21. This is the last sermon in our Everyday Faithfulness series. In it, we see a picture of Heaven, make sure we are going to Heaven, and see how we light in light of Heaven.

Pastor Matt preaches from Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 and other Scriptures on how to glorify God with our recreation. In this sermon, we see how God has released us to play, how the Gospel gives us reason to play, and how there is freedom to our play within a few Biblical boundaries. We hope you'll listen in and be freed to be play to the glory of God.

Pastor Matt preaches from Acts 2:37-47, drawing from that text three ways the church glorifies God, both as a corporate body and as individuals within the church. The key word is devotion. A God-glorifying church is a church that is devoted Jesus, devoted to corporate worship, and devoted to one another.

Pastor Matt preaches from 1 Corinthians 10:31 and talks about glorifying God with our food. We spend the first half of the sermon understanding the sin of gluttony, then we apply the Gospel to that sin and see from various Scriptures how we can glorify God with our eating habits.

Pastor Matt preaches today on glorifying God with our time. This begins with having a biblical perspective on time, namely God's eternal nature and man's finite nature. Once we have those in perspective, we're much better able to "make the best use of the time" we do have.

*Due to technical difficulties, the recording starts a couple of minutes in to the sermon.* Pastor Matt preaches on glorifying God in our work. Drawing from Genesis 1-2, Colossians 3, and several other Scriptures, Pastor Matt gives a brief theology of work and then outlines how we glorify God in our work.

Pastor Matt preaches from 1 Timothy 6:6-10, 17-19. In this sermon, we look at how to glorify God with our finances - the money and income that God has given us to meet our needs, to manage well, and to share with those in need.

Disclaimer: Our normal mic was popping, so tune in for the chaos of switching to a handheld around 10 mins 30 secs in. The audio does level out and get much better by minute 13. Pastor Matt preaches the next sermon in our Everyday Faithfulness series, focusing on the family. Drawing from various texts of Scripture, he lays out the biblical foundation of the family and three basic/beginning charact...

Pastor Matt preaches from 1 Peter 3:1-7, Malachi 2:10-15, and James 4:1-2 and gives three principles for how to have a God-glorifying, Gospel-proclaiming marriage.

In today's sermon, Luke Arsement continues our Everyday Faithfulness series, focusing on evangelism. Luke preaches from Isaiah 12 and other passages defines evangelism, gives a model for evangelism, and then shows how all those who are redeemed by Christ are called to be evangelists. We'll hope you'll listen in and see how evangelism really is an act of obedience and worship to our Lor...

Pastor Matt preaches from Hebrews 12:1-2, identifying our past as one of the weights that can keep us from living faithfully in the here and now. In this sermon, we apply the Gospel to various aspects of our past - the sinful stuff that happened to us and the sinful things we did when we didn't know better and when we did know better. We hope you'll listening and learn to find healing and...

Pastor Matt preaches from Hebrews 12:1-2. We're continuing our summer series, "Everyday Faithfulness." In this sermon, we see the kind of faith that leads to a life of everyday faithfulness.

Greg Thomas, one of our lay elders, preaches from Psalm 46. In this sermon, Greg reminds us that our Sovereign God is our place of refuge and help.

Pastor Matt kicks off our summer sermon series, "Everyday Faithfulness" by looking at 1 Corinthians 10:31 and seeing how the big truth of God's glory moves His people to live faithfully in the everyday stuff of life.

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:25-26. In this sermon, we see how it is the Holy Spirit who helps have the Scriptures, understand the Scriptures, and obey the Scriptures.

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:29-31. In this sermon, we look at how the Holy Spirit helps us fight spiritual battles against sin and unbelief. "The same Spirit that empowered Christ to endure the cross and raised Him in victory empowers us to endure temptation and come out victorious."

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:28. In this sermon, we look at Jesus's (mild) rebuke of the disciples for being more sorrowful than joyful at his leaving. Looking at their example, we're able to see that it is the Holy Spirit who helps us have the right perspective on things - the perspective of faith in our Sovereign Lord who is working all things for His glory and our good.

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:27.  The Holy Spirit helps us to experience for ourselves and to extend to others the peace of God, which is ours by faith in Christ. 

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:15-26. In this sermon, we begin to look at what the Holy Spirit does in the life of the believer. This begins with the Spirit's primary role of glorifying the Father and the Son (John 16:14), which is what He leads us to do through making the personal presence of Christ within us real to us, and working in us and through us to love Christ and keep His commandm...

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:16-25 a sermon titled, "The Promise of the Spirit (Pt. 1)." Pastor Matt focuses on verses 16 and 17 and answers the following questions from them, "Who is the Holy Spirit?", "Who receives the Holy Spirit?", and "What is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit?"

Pastor Matt preaches from John 14:15-17. In this sermon, we look at how our obedience to Christ flows out of our love for Christ and is empowered by the Holy Spirit. We also see that the Ten Commandments are the content of our obedience. Pastor Matt closes with a practical plan for growing in our knowledge of those commandments.

Greg Thomas, one of our elders, preaches this week from Luke 7:1-10. The story of the centurion shows us what it means to have faith that amazes Jesus. In this sermon, Greg unpacks what it means to trust the word of Jesus and to be a model of faith to others.

Pastor Matt preaches on the two uses of justification from Romans 4 and 6, both of which are connected to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Resurrection frees us from the penalty of sin and the power of sin.