First Baptist Decatur Podcast

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FBC Decatur is a vibrant and progressive community of faith located in the heart of Decatur, GA. Here you will find people who are:

It’s our hope that your story intersects with our story at FBCD, and that with God’s help, we might write something new and meaningful together.

Visit our website

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FBC Decatur is a vibrant and progressive community of faith located in the heart of Decatur, GA. Here you will find people who are:

It’s our hope that your story intersects with our story at FBCD, and that with God’s help, we might write something new and meaningful together.

Visit our website

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FBC Decatur is a vibrant and progressive community of faith located in the heart of Decatur, GA. Here you will find people who are:

It’s our hope that your story intersects with our story at FBCD, and that with God’s help, we might write something new and meaningful together.

Visit our website

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FBC Decatur is a vibrant and progressive community of faith located in the heart of Decatur, GA. Here you will find people who are:

It’s our hope that your story intersects with our story at FBCD, and that with God’s help, we might write something new and meaningful together.

Visit our website

In this message, David Jordan concludes his Vision 2020 series by looking at Romans 12:9-13 and helping us understand how our love and mutual affection for one another enables us to better discern God’s good, acceptable, and “whole” will for the world.

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FBC Decatur is a vibrant and progressive community of faith located in the heart of Decatur, GA. Here you will find people who are:

It’s our hope that your story intersects with our story at FBCD, and that with God’s help, we might write something new and meaningful together.

Visit our website

We live in a complicated world. So did those early Christians in Rome. Like them, we are recognizing the necessity of passing on our faith to the next generation. Like them, we must learn and grow in our discipleship. And like them, we are challenged to utilize the resources God provides in the best and most responsible ways we can. Let us discover our calling to Enhance Our Sustainability; let us be “Living Sacrifices” sharing in the exciting “Spiritual Worship” of everyday life (Romans 12:1).

FBC Decatur is a vibrant and progressive community of faith located in the heart of Decatur, GA. Here you will find people who are:

It’s our hope that your story intersects with our story at FBCD, and that with God’s help, we might write something new and meaningful together.

Visit our website

The first few lines from Paul’s letter to the Roman church in Romans 12 resonate with broad clarity for our day. Dr. Jordan takes us from the empty tomb on Easter to that energetic and expanding church in Rome to the streets and homes of our own Decatur community. Join us on the journey!

**Vision 2020: **

Our Deacons began interacting with this Vision 2020 draft back at our Deacon’s retreat in January 2019. Every church faces key challenges. We need to hear the gospel clearly; learn and grow in our own faith; translate growth into our everyday lives; and integrate that faith into our faith community in a coordinated, meaningful way.

We hope the Vision 2020 begins to be that good and healthy balance. As Christians, we are called to take seriously Jesus’ concerns about the world that surrounds us; and we are to be discerning about the community in front of us.

We need to balance deepening our own discipleship so that we have the tools and the inspiration to reach out to others without burning out ourselves. We must take seriously our personal stewardship of time, talent and resources. While at the same time, we must be conscientious contributors to this community of faith seeking to impact the broader community. Therefore, these three imperatives offer a vital balance.

We at First Baptist Decatur are called to:

The next two weeks, David will share more about each imperative and how our Deacons and all of us can live into these callings most effectively. Already, we have been hard at work discerning new initiatives, supporting ongoing needs, addressing energy efficiency and green energy opportunities and seeking to be creative and redemptive in the ways that we as a staff, deacons and congregation hear more clearing God’s calling for our ministry in this time and place.

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It’s our hope that your story intersects with our story at FBCD, and that with God’s help, we might write something new and meaningful together.

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God redeems lost causes. Dr. Jordan begins our journey with Psalm 118, at the very center of our Bible. This powerful passage offers us vital clues for the Resurrection Day we celebrate. “The stone the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone …” Meanwhile, a group of Jesus’ followers make their way to the tomb in a garden just outside of Jerusalem. What they discover confounds them. What they share with the broader group of disciples seems like nothing more than an “idle tale.” And yet, on further reflection, they wonder…

Join us in hearing the power of this foundational theme of our faith from the Easter hope in Jesus!

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It’s our hope that your story intersects with our story at FBCD, and that with God’s help, we might write something new and meaningful together.

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Passover and the deep memory of God’s deliverance from Egypt was not the only dynamic woven into the psyche of the people the Gospel of Luke describes as Jesus entered Jerusalem. His entrance into that holy city created “ambiguous complexity” then, just as his presence in our lives still does today. Choices are required. Hear with us his sacred movement into and along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem that day … and now.

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FBC Decatur is a vibrant and progressive community of faith located in the heart of Decatur, GA. Here you will find people who are:

It’s our hope that your story intersects with our story at FBCD, and that with God’s help, we might write something new and meaningful together.

Visit our website

In preparation for Palm Sunday and Holy Week, we experience a fascinating story of Jesus’ encounter with a man in a tree. Humility is hard. Hypocrisy is easy and common. Tough love might not be what we want, but it is often what we need. From this passage that many of us heard about as children, Dr. Jordan offers some new and valuable insights about Jesus and the different kind of love he shares when necessary.

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FBC Decatur is a vibrant and progressive community of faith located in the heart of Decatur, GA. Here you will find people who are:

It’s our hope that your story intersects with our story at FBCD, and that with God’s help, we might write something new and meaningful together.

Visit our website

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