First Baptist Church Cola

Teaching by Andrew Wunderlich

Life is About Bearing Fruit | Luke 13:1-9 by First Baptist Church Cola

Worry? | Luke 12:13-26 by First Baptist Church Cola

Forgiveness | Matthew 18:21-35 by First Baptist Church Cola

Speaker: Marcus Finney

Let Jesus Rule | Matt 13:31-33 and 44-46 by First Baptist Church Cola

"As long as we think we are better guides for our life we will not let God guide our life."

God's Heart for People, Your Heart for People | Luke 15 1:10 by First Baptist Church Cola

You Are the Light of the World | Matt 5:14-16 by First Baptist Church Cola

Resting Consistently | Exodus 20:8-11; Deut. 5:12-15 by First Baptist Church Cola

Time with God | Psalm 119:6-19 by First Baptist Church Cola

Spiritual Community | Acts 2:42-47 by First Baptist Church Cola

Stewardship | Matt 25:14-30 by First Baptist Church Cola

How Are We Supposed to Live? | Micah 6:8 by First Baptist Church Cola

Holiness is something that we think God is, but struggle to see ourselves as anything other than positionally Holy. Paul's words in Romans 6 challenges us to consider our lives as new and transformed, and that we need to learn to walk in this new life toward the image of Holiness that is conformity with Jesus.

Assurance of Relationship | 1 John 5:12 by First Baptist Church Cola

A testimony of faith is a person sharing what God has done in their life. It is a first-hand account of who God is. Knowing this, it is also common for that testimony to be devoid of the unmistakable supernatural work of the Holy Spirit in that person's life. That is something that needs to be corrected. We need to highlight the supernaturalness of "being born again." This would be much more helpful in our understanding of participating in God's salvation and would help others understand what God wants to do in them. Paul's testimony in Acts 22 is prescriptive for us as we consider how to share our own testimony better.

We are either urgent or complacent. If we are urgent are we urgent for the right things? Paul testifies that his life is about participating in the gospel and making known the gospel so that others can participate in what God is doing in the world. Most people I know aren't urgent for this, and we need to be. We need to be challenged to be urgent about what God is urgent about...and if we are then God can use us to proclaim His name and mobilize others for His mission.

Practical Life is hard and we need better instruction to listen to. How does Proverbs speak into our everyday lives and how can I learn better about living God's life with skill, expertise and competence? In other words, how do I live God's beautiful life wisely? Emotions are a huge part of our lives. We are emotional creatures. Circumstances, relationships and personal makeup are usually drivers of emotions, but the biblical authors seek to teach us that negative emotions should not be drivers of our actions. We do not have to respond to emotions as our habits dictate. It is possible to feel one way and act another. This is such an important lesson that God seeks to teach us as we seek to be obedient to God's commands.

Practical Life is hard and we need better instruction to listen to. How does Proverbs speak into our everyday lives and how can I learn better about living God's life with skill, expertise and competence? In other words, how do I live God's beautiful life wisely? Sin is a word we use a lot, but don't spend a ton of time thinking about sinning verses not. Sin is missing the mark that God has designed and created us to hit. So we can sin by doing, just like we can sin by not doing. This conversation will hopefully help you situate and think about sin better. We don't simply need to continue to fall into it but need to understand that it is something that Jesus died to free us from and we need to consider ourselves dead to it and kill it.