First Naples Church Podcast

This week on Be The Church, Pastor Alan, Pastor Thomas Keys III, and Mark Herzlich sit down to discuss everything from Israel and the upcoming elections to holiday traditions—and so much more!

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The vision of First Naples is to glorify God by being a multigenerational, multiethnic, multiplying church, that raises up the next generation of disciple makers, church planters, missionaries, and world changers, to reach our Neighbors to the Nations.

Imitation starts in the heart before it ever shows up in the walk.

The gospel doesn’t just change our relationship with God, but our relationship with other people. We must put away self-centeredness, living for ourselves, and put on Christ-likeness, loving like Jesus.

This week on Be The Church, Pastor Alan, Pastor Thomas Keys, III and Anajah Bakker discuss Paul’s letter to the Ephesians to explore what it truly means to live out a public, unashamed faith rooted in Jesus. Join us as we unpack how embracing Jesus as Lord, resting in the gospel, and taking the step of believer’s baptism allow us to stand united as the Church in a divided world.

🗒️Additional resources from this week:

To Connect with us, please visit us at firstnaples.org

The vision of First Naples is to glorify God by being a multigenerational, multiethnic, multiplying church, that raises up the next generation of disciple makers, church planters, missionaries, and world changers, to reach our Neighbors to the Nations.

Baptism is a public declaration that Jesus is my Lord, the gospel is my confession, and I belong to His people.

This week on Be The Church, Pastor Alan, Mark Herzlich and Hunter Robinson discuss Ephesians 4 and why the way we think matters so much, especially in an age when AI is tempting us toward cognitive surrender instead of a whole-life surrender to Jesus. 

🗒️Additional resources from this week:

To Connect with us, please visit us at firstnaples.org

The vision of First Naples is to glorify God by being a multigenerational, multiethnic, multiplying church, that raises up the next generation of disciple makers, church planters, missionaries, and world changers, to reach our Neighbors to the Nations.

In Ephesians 4:17-24, Paul tells us that when you know who you are then you know what to think. If we are going to win the battle of our minds, we must put off the old way of thinking and put on the new way of thinking.

In Ephesians 2, Paul gives us our gospel identity in three movements: who we once were before Christ, who we now are because of Christ and what we are now called to do for Christ. We were dead in sin, but because of God’s great love towards us, we are now demonstrations of His grace and have been deployed for good works.

In today's episode, Pastor Alan, Pastor Thomas Keys, III and Mark Herzlich discuss the reality that we're not fighting against flesh and blood — instead we are fighting an enemy who wants us walking around with half our armor on and why "some of the armor" was never God's plan.  

🗒️Additional resources from this week:

To Connect with us, please visit us at firstnaples.org

The vision of First Naples is to glorify God by being a multigenerational, multiethnic, multiplying church, that raises up the next generation of disciple makers, church planters, missionaries, and world changers, to reach our Neighbors to the Nations.

Paul tells us that we stand firm by putting on the whole Armor of God: he tells us what the armor is and why it matters that we have it on.