When we are faithless, God is faithful. When we break the covenant, God keeps the covenant. It is His character to do so, His character to forgive, but also His character to punish sin. God does not change, and His character is consistent even as we are so totally inconsistent.

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Sulphur, LA

This series through Jonah talks specifically about how today's churches act a lot like Jonah in our attempts at outreach, and our responses mirror his toward people that we deem 'undesirable' for our church. The doors must be open and the Gospel must be preached.

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Sulphur, LA

This message is a bit of a continuation of last week's. Here in 1 Peter, we see that the same description given of, and challenge to, the Jewish people newly rescued from Egypt is now given to the New Testament church. Not only that, but 6 different Old Testament descriptors for Israel are used for the Church. We see in clear instruction that the job for the people of God has not changed in over 3000 years. Our task is to proclaim the praises of God for His deliverance.

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Sulphur, LA

This series through Jonah talks specifically about how today's churches act a lot like Jonah in our attempts at outreach and our responses mirror his toward people that we deem 'undesirable' for our church. The doors must be open and the Gospel must be preached.

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Sulphur, LA

This message begins our series "Living Called Out: Being God's People In the World." In this message, we see that the mission of the church goes back further than Matthew 28 all the way to the Children of Israel immediately after they left Egypt. The mission hasn't changed: to take the message of a God who loves and saves to people who don't know the message.

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Sulphur, LA

This series through Jonah talks specifically about how today's churches act a lot like Jonah in our attempts at outreach and our responses mirror his toward people that we deem 'undesirable' for our church. The doors must be open and the Gospel must be preached.

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Sulphur, LA

The final message in this series looks at, specifically, weak preaching but, generally, at any faulty view of the power and priority of scripture. No church needs teaching that only encourages good behavior and happiness without the life-transforming power of the gospel. As a matter of fact, happiness and good behavior aren't even possible without the gospel. Paul wanted to make sure that Timothy understood that.

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Nixon, TX

Jesus died to reconcile people to God. He also died to reconcile people to each other. Paul, in his letter to the church in Ephesus, makes clear that there is now a singular race of Christian that is neither Jew nor Gentile, black nor white, male nor female. The church should reflect that unity and seek to achieve that unity with the lost, which can only be accomplished through personal salvation through Jesus Christ.

**This message was preached in view of a call to First Baptist Church, Sulphur, LA.**

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Sulphur, LA

The recording begins, about 21 minutes, with a special time of reflection, lament, and prayer for the lost lives of the men in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis and the police officers in Dallas, as well as for the divide in our country to be bridged and for the gospel to shine through.

This is the second message of this series. In it, we see that the church's focus is to be outward, toward the fields that are to be harvested. An inward focus is not only disobedient, but leads to the ultimate decay of the church.

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Nixon, TX

This is the first of a three message series looking at big-picture church fundamentals. We will take a negative view, as in what is not needed, and then show through the course of the message the positive, what is needed. This message rejects a weak gospel and shows why a strong, pure, well-presented gospel is exactly what all churches need.

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Nixon, TX