First Baptist Zachary: Recent Episodes
First Zachary
Using the unexpected and doing unexpected things as a tools to minister and show God's love to others
Despite difficult circumstances, God is still on the throne, He is still holy and He is still to be served.
Real Christians don’t just believe in God, they believe God.
With a culture that is in a steep moral decline, how do real Christians survive and even thrive?
God is powerful despite our weaknesses.
The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news. - RC Sproul
God's activity in our lives demands worship and obedience and requires tearing down some idols in our lives.
Jonah's encounter with the non-Israelites. The Lord manifesting His will and showing His sovereign rule over all things - over Jonah’s life, the sailor’s lives, the storm, the sea, the ship, the lots, and everything else.
What’s not loving is to look someone in the eye when God says they are in jeopardy of an eternity in hell and merely wink and nod at their sin because you’re afraid of being called names. -Voddie Baucham
Fear God and enjoy life. Life is temporary and frustrating. Ecclesiastes shows us our need for the gospel.
Love for God is possessed and passed on through family discipleship.
"Family discipleship is leading your home by doing whatever you can whenever you can to help your family become friends and followers of Jesus Christ." - Family Discipleship, Chandler & Griffin
The gospel always begins with God, always opposes sin, always places Christ at the center, and calls for a response.
Listen to the right voices, learn to repent daily, look at the judgment of the Lord, lament and cry out to God
God’s aim in saving you is that in your having been rescued, you might serve Him without fear and in justice.
If Jesus Christ is not born of a virgin, He is like every other man, and if He is like every other man, He cannot save us and there is no gospel.
The history of baptism The church comprises a covenant community of believers who have identified with Christ through baptism. - David Platt
The importance of baptism The meaning of baptism The mode of baptism The timing of baptism
"He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature, and He upholds the universe by the words of His power." Hebrews 1:3a
"Faith is the critical element that allows some churches to accomplish what others cannot."
"To believe the gospel, you must know the gospel, but if you know the gospel, you will proclaim the gospel, and you display the gospel."
"Nothing happens without God’s knowledge and He uses everything for His purpose and for His glory."
"Bad religion occurs when people have a greater affection for their man-made traditionalism than for God's Word."
"If you have emotional adrenaline with no spiritual foundation, when the high wears off, the bottom falls out."