The holiday season is in full swing! With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas ahead, it is a time for gratitude and giving. But as we fill up on pie and search for all the Black Friday deals, it’s important that we don’t get lost in the...

We live in a world of celebrities and social media where people’s lives are often lived out in public. We can know a lot about a person without ever even having a real conversation with him or her. But is that really a relationship? Where is the...

At First Church, we have a long history of being a sending church. We take the Great Commission seriously and recognize that we are called to make disciples among all the earth. Sometimes, however, as individuals it can be easy to allow the...

As we read through Proverbs there are some very stark contrasts between the life God desires for us and the way of the world. This theme is consistent all through scripture, and yet, we often see little difference today between the church and our...

We see pride everywhere. Muhammad Ali famously claimed, “I am the greatest!” Yet we have phrases like “pride comes before the fall,” and there is something in us all that roots for the underdog. How is it that our culture both teaches...

We see pride everywhere. Muhammad Ali famously clamed, “I am the greatest!” Yet we have phrases like “pride comes before the fall,” and there is something in us all that roots for the underdog. How is it that our culture both teaches...

We live in a world of contrast. We are confronted it seems with ever-increasing polarities. Religious or atheist? Conservative or liberal? Cowboys or Sooners? QT or Kum and Go? In the Bible we find contrasting themes as well, such as light and dark,...

Mother Theresa. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Martin Luther King Jr. All of these names are well known for their faith and the great impact they made. But they are almost universally applauded and admired because of their lives of service. Each of these...

Throughout this series, we have taken a close look at grace. Over and over again, we have emphasized the main point - God’s Grace is Greater Than...EVERYTHING. As we wrap up this series, we are going to discuss one of the most challenging feelings...

So far we have been looking at the amazing grace of our Father. His grace is greater than all of the things that we have done. And not only that, but last week we talked about how His grace is greater than anything that has been done to us, and that...