Baptists Preaching
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Cody Favor: Answering the Question
10/13/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Cody Favor, pastor of First Baptist Church in Cisco, Texas, acknowledges he’s been a Christian for a long time and that he has considered if he wanted to remain a Christian. (Matthew 16:13-20)
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Steven Parker: Psalms of Praise, Pain and Possibility: Praying Together through the Pandemic
10/06/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Steven Parker, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Weslaco, Texas, turns to the psalms to find strength and comfort during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Psalm 8, 13 and 30)
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Cary Killough: Causes and Cures for Backsliding
09/28/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Cary Killough, senior pastor of Meadowbrook Baptist Church in Robinson, Texas tells a story about the discomfort of backsliding, a word that appears most often in Jeremiah. (Galatians 3:1-14)
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Dana Moore: We Live the Greatest Virtues
09/23/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Dana Moore, pastor of Second Baptist Church in Corpus Christi, Texas, shares a story from the TV show “American Pickers” in which a Hollywood cowboy wanted his name to go with his stuff. He wanted to be remembered.
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Jake Maxwell: Even Better
09/14/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Jake Maxwell, senior pastor of Second Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas, begins with a twist, pointing back to Herod having John the Baptist beheaded, as background to Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000. (Matthew 14:13-21)
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Pastor Eric Tarver: The Kind of Church God Uses
09/09/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Eric Tarver, the pastor of Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church in Beeville, Texas, charges his hearers to be like the church in biblical Philadelphia (Revelation 3:10-13).
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Phil Christopher: A Declaration of Interdependence
08/31/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Phil Christopher, the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Abilene, Texas, asks his hearers if they ever feel like new sailors who have lost their bearings. (Matthew 5:21-24, 41-48; 6:22-23)
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Rev. Rosalind Spencer: The Unforgiving Servant
08/26/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Rev. Rosalind Spencer, children’s pastor at Westside Baptist Church in Lewisville, continues the story she began teaching the previous week, reading the parable about the unforgiving servant recorded in Matthew 18:23-34.
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Rev. Byron Stevenson: A Proper Perspective in a Troubled World
08/18/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Rev. Byron Stevenson, founding pastor of The Fort Bend Church in Sugar Land, focuses on 1 Peter 1:7 as he speaks to the reality of some amount of trouble in every person’s life. (1 Peter 1:1-9)
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Dr. Delvin Atchison: A Prophetic Response to ‘I Can’t Breathe’
08/10/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Dr. Delvin Atchison, the senior pastor of Westside Baptist Church in Lewisville, Texas, addresses race head-on, saying he “will stop preaching about it when it stops being an issue.” (Ezekiel 37:1-14)
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Dr. Ira Antoine Jr.: Praying Through a Pandemic of Prejudice
08/04/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Dr. Ira Antoine Jr., the pastor of Minnehulla Baptist Church in Goliad, Texas, and the director of bivocational pastors ministry for the Baptist General Convention of Texas, draws his congregation to a part of the Old Testament infrequently visited. (Habakkuk 3)
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Dan Wooldridge: Six Life-Changing Promises
07/27/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Dan Wooldridge, the senior pastor of Crestview Baptist Church in Georgetown, Texas, was drawn to reconsider John 10 after hearing Sanj Kalra, Ravi Zacharias’ “walking stick,” testify to how that passage changed his life. (John 10:1-10)