A Solid Foundation

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

Following on the heels of His teaching about possessions is Jesus' teaching about worry. The two go hand-in-hand: if we have set up our possessions as god, and placed our heart there, then we will be in constant fear of their failure because of their fragility and inability to satisfy. We thus set up another idol: worry. Jesus has words of comfort to replace our worry.

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Nixon, TX

Stuff can get in the way of our relationship with God. People, like our family, can, too. And these often do. But we must be determined not to let that happen. Only the good we do in obedience to the Father will last. Everything else goes away.

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Nixon, TX

Once we have placed our faith Jesus Christ for salvation, we are then told to follow in obedience by being baptized. Why? What does it do? Why is it important? This passage from Romans helps explain why we are Baptists.

Michael Linton, Pastor

FBC Nixon, TX