First Presbyterian Church of Baton Rouge

First Presbyterian Church of Baton Rouge

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First Presbyterian Church of Baton Rouge episodes

  • I Live by His Name
    Welcome to Lent, a season of preparation for the celebration of Easter in six weeks. Our tradition at church has been to focus intently together on the person and work of Jesus Christ. We don’t talk so much about giving up pleasures in Lent as we do about adding practices that cause us to pray more, study more and reflect more on Jesus. This year, we’ll be taking up a different name of Jesus each day over the next 42 days. Our study will be called "Lord Jesus Christ: Living into His Name."
    "I Live by His Name"
    Gerrit Dawson
    24 min
  • What Is Your Heart's Desire?

    "Father, give me the desire to desire what you desire for me?”

    When we can honestly and wholly pray that prayer, we are praying with the mind and heart of Christ. We desire to glorify the Father with whom we are now in eternal relationship.

    What is at the top of your list?

    "What Is Your Heart's Desire?"
    John 17: 1-5

    22 min
  • What Is Your Heart's Desire?
    "Father, give me the desire to desire what you desire for me?”
    When we can honestly and wholly pray that prayer, we are praying with the mind and heart of Christ. We desire to glorify the Father with whom we are now in eternal relationship.
    What is at the top of your list?
    "What Is Your Heart's Desire?"
    John 17: 1-5
    22 min
  • Love's Triumph

    Jesus received the woman. He received her extravagant gift. He received her touch. He received her in that immediate moment despite her poor timing, out of control life and shameful behavior. Stopping her would have been declining to be her savior. He could save the appearances but he would lose this soul. Jesus made the choice he would always make no matter the cost. He did in this moment for her just what he would do on the cross for all of us. He took sin and returned forgiveness. Ordinary people would be defiled by a sinner’s touch. But our sin did not defile Jesus. Rather, he takes sin, absorbs it into his holiness, burns it up, and then offers forgiveness. He received the filthy touch in order to offer love’s peace. This woman’s sins were borne by Jesus. As she poured out her regret, her shame, her love, her hope, it was as if her very life was taken up in his. And so that life was returned cleansed, her sins were forgiven and her touch declared to be an act not of inappropriate impurity but faithful love.

    "Love's Triumph"
    Gerrit Dawson

    26 min
  • Love's Triumph
    Jesus received the woman. He received her extravagant gift. He received her touch. He received her in that immediate moment despite her poor timing, out of control life and shameful behavior. Stopping her would have been declining to be her savior. He could save the appearances but he would lose this soul. Jesus made the choice he would always make no matter the cost. He did in this moment for her just what he would do on the cross for all of us. He took sin and returned forgiveness. Ordinary people would be defiled by a sinner’s touch. But our sin did not defile Jesus. Rather, he takes sin, absorbs it into his holiness, burns it up, and then offers forgiveness. He received the filthy touch in order to offer love’s peace. This woman’s sins were borne by Jesus. As she poured out her regret, her shame, her love, her hope, it was as if her very life was taken up in his. And so that life was returned cleansed, her sins were forgiven and her touch declared to be an act not of inappropriate impurity but faithful love.
    "Love's Triumph"
    Gerrit Dawson
    26 min
  • Confronting the Crowds

    What do Pharisees and pagans have in common? They both think they are ok in themselves. They have both relied on their own rightness, their own decisions, their own path as being a sufficient way to live.

    Refusing the purposes of God occurs whenever I will not submit my will to the Father’s will. Whenever I decide that I own my life, not God. Whenever I determine that I know better than God what makes for flourishing. And I stubbornly choose my will and my way. Down that path lies perishing.

    Beloved, walk in the truth. Walk in the light. And so walk in the purposes of God.

    "Confronting the Crowds"
    Luke 7: 24-35
    Gerrit Dawson

    27 min
  • Confronting the Crowds
    What do Pharisees and pagans have in common? They both think they are ok in themselves. They have both relied on their own rightness, their own decisions, their own path as being a sufficient way to live.
    Refusing the purposes of God occurs whenever I will not submit my will to the Father’s will. Whenever I decide that I own my life, not God. Whenever I determine that I know better than God what makes for flourishing. And I stubbornly choose my will and my way. Down that path lies perishing.
    Beloved, walk in the truth. Walk in the light. And so walk in the purposes of God.
    "Confronting the Crowds"
    Luke 7: 24-35
    Gerrit Dawson
    27 min
  • Should We Look for Another?

    John the Baptist asks Jesus in Luke 7: 18, "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?"

    Jesus confronts a less visible but powerful foe in this passage: the power of fear. Fear that we are going wrong. Fear that we have wasted our lives. The antidote to such fear is faith. Faith in Jesus that he is the One we’ve been waiting for. Faith that enables us to trust him and give our lives to him.

    Most times we don’t talk about our faith in worship. We talk about Jesus and trust the Holy Spirit to create admiration in us for him. We proclaim Christ and trust the Spirit to create adoration in us for him. And he does. But sometimes we need to hear the encouragement. Blessed, happy, is the one who does not stumble over me. Jesus says, I am the One. I am the One who alone can fill your emptiness. I am the One who alone can cleanse your guilt. I am the One who alone has conquered your death. I am truly the One.

    "Should We Look for Another"
    Luke 7: 18-23.

    25 min
  • Should We Look for Another?
    John the Baptist asks Jesus in Luke 7: 18, "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?"
    Jesus confronts a less visible but powerful foe in this passage: the power of fear. Fear that we are going wrong. Fear that we have wasted our lives. The antidote to such fear is faith. Faith in Jesus that he is the One we’ve been waiting for. Faith that enables us to trust him and give our lives to him.
    Most times we don’t talk about our faith in worship. We talk about Jesus and trust the Holy Spirit to create admiration in us for him. We proclaim Christ and trust the Spirit to create adoration in us for him. And he does. But sometimes we need to hear the encouragement. Blessed, happy, is the one who does not stumble over me. Jesus says, I am the One. I am the One who alone can fill your emptiness. I am the One who alone can cleanse your guilt. I am the One who alone has conquered your death. I am truly the One.
    "Should We Look for Another"
    Luke 7: 18-23.
    25 min

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First Presbyterian Church Baton Rouge is a church passionately committed to Christ Jesus our Lord and ardently engaged in studying the Scriptures. We love reaching out to our city and world with the…