First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, LA

In this bonus "Song for the Journey" Pastor Greg Whaley takes us to the monumental passage of scripture found in Philippians 2:5-11.  Jesus is not just Lord because He is one with the Father.  He is that, but this passage tells us He is Lord because He is willing to lay aside the God nature in order to take up the form of man.  As a man, He follows the will of His Father perfectly to the point of an death on the cross so that all men may know eternal life.  There is no other Lord like that!  This teaching was presented on Sunday, August 23, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

To sing of a King of Kings seem to be an outdated song for modern ears.  We do not have kings, at least not in any real sense.  Yet our hearts know we are made for a kingdom.  And the only King worthy of our total allegiance is Jesus Christ.  He is the one who holds and offers immortality.  He, Himself, is the access to an unapproachable God of the cosmos.  When we sing the song of the King of Kings, we are declaring to the world our faith - that which holds us together in the brokenness of the worldly empire.  This teaching was presented on Sunday, August 23, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

What is good and pleasant in the world?  Psalm 133 says it is when brothers and sisters dwell together in precious unity.  In an age that celebrates polarization, a song of precious unity is sorely needed. Pastor Greg Whaley shows us how to sing its verses from Psalm 130.  Unity in the faith is a light to truth in a darkened world.  Unity is a picture of the abundance of God's love toward His children.  Unity is the fecundity of heaven on a barren world.  This teaching was preached on Sunday, August 9, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, LA.  Thank you for listening.

The next song we are learning from our study of the Psalms of Ascent is the song of pardon.  Using Psalm 130 as the focus text, Pastor Greg Whaley reminds us that rather than singing the empty virtues of our fallen selves, we are to be singing a song of the goodness of our forgiving God in Jesus Christ.  Forgiveness is available to all and those who know how greatly they are forgiven live deeply in the kingdom of God! This message was preached on Sunday, August 2, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, LA.  Thank you for listening.

In a world that almost demands one "make something of themselves" in order to be prosperous, Psalm 127 comes as a refreshing corrective.  Pastor Greg Whaley continues the Songs for the Journey series by reminding us from the scripture that apart from God, all our work is vanity.  God loves to give to His children and He measures prosperity in the world by our godly investments in our families.  This teaching was presented on Sunday, July 26, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

Psalm 126 is a joyful and exuberant song of praise to the Lord for His goodness.  In this teaching, Pastor Greg encourages us to learn the song of praise that we can always sing no matter what the circumstances are around us.  The follower of Jesus can always sing the song of praise for the great, overwhelming, cosmos-shaking, sin-rending, saving love of God toward us in Christ Jesus our Lord. It is too good not to be true!  This teaching was presented on Sunday, July 19, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening.

What is that makes the believer different from the world?  It is the Jesus who is present with them every moment of every day.  In this next sermon from the Songs for the Journey series, Pastor Greg Whaley explores Psalm 125 to teach us a song of presence to sing in the undulating world in which we live.  Jesus' presence is an anchor for the soul, a guide for righteousness, and the giver of full and free life.  This message was preached on Sunday, July 13, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

In this next sermon in the series, Songs for the Journey, Pastor Greg takes us to Psalm 124 in order that we might learn to sing the song of power.  The Lord is on our side!  When we doubt this, it is because we are looking to the wrong thing for our source of power.  Without Jesus, we would truly be undone.  So, we bless Him for His mighty hand in our lives.  This teaching was presented on Sunday, June 28, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, LA.  Thank you for listening!

We sing about what we believe is important.  During these difficult times, there are lots of thoughts and words that come from anxiety and fear.  In the psalms of ascent, we see songs of faith and trust.  In this message, Pastor Greg teaches from Psalm 123 to remind us that we are to be people of prayer for whom prayer is not an accident or a last resort, but rather is the chief way we hear and respond to the world around us.  And so, we pray for great things from our Great God. We pray in dependence upon Him in persistence.  We pray in the humility befitting our place and His holiness.  This message was taught on Sunday, June 21, 2020.  This podcast is a part of the teaching ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

What worries our hearts in times of great transition is often manifested by the words we speak or figuratively, the songs we sing to the world and to ourselves.  The ancient Israelites had a selection of songs they would sing as they made their way to Jerusalem for festival worship.  These psalms serve as the basis for a new sermon series from Pastor Greg entitled Songs for the Journey. In this teaching, Pastor Greg takes us to Psalm 121 to learn a song of God's provision for us in our time of need.  This teaching was presented at First Baptist Church on Sunday, June 7, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!