• Jeb Barr: What Consumes Your Mind Controls Your Life

  06/15/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Jeb Barr, pastor of First Baptist Church in Elm Mott, likens the danger of target fixation to desires other than God that occupy our mind. (2 Samuel 13)

• Jody Hickman: The Joy of Your Salvation

  06/08/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Jody Hickman, pastor of First Baptist Church in Rosebud, compares the world to a person who seeks God. (Psalm 51)

• Jorge Vásquez: Confiado en lo que Dios cumple /Trusting in what God Accomplishes

  06/03/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Jorge Vásquez, pastor de la Iglesia Bautista Ágape, inicia el mensaje con una gran ayuda visual de una silla y cómo tenemos confianza en la silla para evitar que caigamos al suelo./ Jorge Vásquez, pastor of Agape Baptist Church, starts the message with a great visual aid of a chair and how we are confident in the chair to keep us from falling to the ground. (Filipenses/Philippians 1)

• Joe Bailey: Entrance Talk

  06/01/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Joe Bailey, pastor of Speegleville Baptist Church, asked his congregation to imagine two scenarios: a party they weren’t invited to, and a party they invited many people to but to which only a few came. (Luke 13:22-30)

• Darin Wood: I Am Forgiven and Redeemed

  05/26/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Darin Wood, pastor of First Baptist Church in Midland, expressed disappointment in Christians identifying themselves in ways outside Christ, citing this as the reason for his sermon series on identity. (Romans 5:6-8)

• Bobby Bressman: Falling in Love with Jesus

  05/18/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Bobby Bressman, pastor of First Baptist Church in Center, opened with a vulnerable story about his health. Given the unpredictability of life, he wants to give gifts to his children that will last longer than traditional kinds of gifts. (Luke 7:36-50)

• Autumn Seacat: Up or Out

  05/11/2021 - By Staff

  Autumn Seacat, associate college minister at Highland Baptist Church in Waco and student at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary, asks if Christians are building towers or blessing nations. (Genesis 11:1-9, 12:1-4a; Acts 2:14-21)

• Josh Vaughan: Time for Healing

  05/05/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Josh Vaughan, senior pastor of Columbus Avenue Baptist Church in Waco, used a painting by French artist James Jacques Tissot to help his congregation visualize and think through Jesus’ healing of a woman on the Sabbath. (Luke 13:10-17)

• Rev. Dr. Darrin Moore: Coping with Spiritual Plateaus

  04/27/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Rev. Dr. Darrin Moore, senior pastor of Truevine Missionary Baptist Church in Spring, finds spiritual significance in understanding the natural geologic formation known as a plateau. (2 Corinthians 3:18)

• Rev. Oliver Martinez: Why Do You Need to be Part of the Family of God? / ¿Por Qué Necesitas Ser Parte de la Familia de Dios?

  04/20/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Rev. Oliver Martinez, pastor of Iglesia Bautista Getsemani in Fort Worth asserted God hates prejudice and listed four reasons. / El reverendo Oliver Martínez, pastor de la Iglesia Bautista Getsemani en Fort Worth afirmó que Dios odia los prejuicios y enumeró cuatro razones.

• Scott Venable: Indescribable Compassion

  04/13/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Scott Venable, lead pastor of Northwood Church in Keller, examines Episode 6 of the TV series “The Chosen.” (Mark 2:1-12)

• Duane Brooks: Our Reason to Live

  04/06/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Duane Brooks, the senior pastor of Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston, supposes Saul of Tarsus was as surprised as anyone to see Jesus resurrected. (1 Corinthians 15:1-8, 2 Corinthians 5:14-17)