Eureka Baptist Church

Pastor Ray Ortlund writes, "The kind of God we really believe in is revealed in how we treat one another. The lovely gospel of Jesus positions us to treat one another like royalty, and every non-gospel positions us to treat one another like dirt. But we will follow through horizontally on whatever we…

“Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’? Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’? Does…

What’s the biggest misconception Christians have about giving? That when we give money away to a church or ministry, or to help the needy, it’s gone. they believe this is a one-sided benefit. Once it leaves their hands, they imagine, it has no connection to them, no future implications relevant to their…

No one finds God, he is not lost. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” No one seeks God. Why? Sin as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. Satan In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep…

Peter’s story is much like Simba’s in “The Lion King”. Simba feels responsible for his father’s death. Though he was tricked by Scar into the very act that instigated his father’s death he nevertheless felt its guilt. Scar’s words caused Simba to flee the pride; “The King is dead. And if it weren’t for…

He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, WORDS OF COMFORT I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world…

The urgency of eternity should motivate us to get up, get dressed, and get busy. GET UP Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off…

I’m speaking this morning on a subject about which I have almost no experience: Doing right when you’re wronged. I’ve had many instances where people did wrong things to me, of course, but rarely anything traumatic. However, some listening to me this very day have suffered traumatic wrongs such as; parental…

In October 2011 Gordon (94) and Norma (90) Yeager married 72 years died in the hospital holding hands one hour apart. The couple was hospitalized after a car accident just outside of Marshalltown, Iowa. They were given a shared room in the ICU where they held hands in adjacent beds. At 3:38 pm Gordon's…

Last week, we said that hospitality is a three-legged stool, with the first leg being our experience of God's gracious nature. Tonight we look at the second leg, hospitality as covenant union. Hospitality as Covenant Union Just as there is a real union between each believer and God, by virtue of covenant,…

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. There is a popular maxim that says Your actions speak so loud I can’t hear what you are saying. Our text today calls us to an action that not only speaks loud it gives validation to our message, that the God of heaven and earth seeks to reconcile…

It crucifies the flesh. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith…

Paul's letter to Roman believers teaches us the two fundamentals of Christianity; doctrine and duty. Paul spends eleven chapters rooting them in doctrine and five chapters rooting them on to duty. Doctrine roots us in the soil of God's rich mercy and these mercies root us on in our duty. Since arriving…

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Last Sunday we examine Paul’s call to generosity in our text. Our main point from last week’s sermon was The mercies of God take a person who is bent on getting and turns them into a person who is bent on giving . As recipients of such…

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. In Romans 12:9-21 Paul uses participles to help us understand and apply His opening imperative. I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which…

The Sovereignty of God is the fuel and fan not the excuse for a devoted prayer life. The longer I walk with him, the more comfort I find in passages like these from Isaiah: remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from…

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. IDENTITY CRISIS We all have a particular image of ourselves - beliefs about the kind of person we are. Book sales, podcasts, social media posts, and magazine articles reveal our desire for a strong sense of identity. Human beings spend…

God never means a storm to destroy us but to disciple us.

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city…