Tomball Bible Church

April 20, 2025

A lot of people know the saying, "I'll believe it when I see it." But faith in Christ doesn't work that way. None of us have ever seen Jesus, but many of us believe in Him, that Jesus is God's Son who died on the cross for our sins and rose from the dead. When we believe in Jesus, then, through God's help by His Spirit, we see Jesus for Who He really is: our Savior and our God! This is the way of faith. Faith precedes sight, and when we do believe, then our eyes are opened beyond what we could have ever envisioned or imagined. This Easter we will be reminded of the truth that believing is seeing.

John 20:19-31

April 13, 2025

Jesus is uniquely different from all of us. This is something we can universally agree on but when it comes to even how we understand concepts or culture it becomes even more apparent of just how unique and different he really is. Think about the idea of bringing justice to a circumstance, we typically think of a courtroom setting with lawyers, judges, bailiffs, and those accused. Justice is served via a gavel, arguments, opinions being heard, personalities taking shape. Yet, justice in the kingdom is done so by a servant who doesn’t raise his voice but instead serves the accused. Justice in the kingdom is accomplished no matter what the circumstances are because the servant doesn’t grow tired or weary. The greatest part of the servant is bringing justice to the weak is also the King of this kingdom. In a society where pomp and circumstance is given to the elite, the one who is actually elite among us chose to serve us so that we could enjoy him and his kingdom forever.

Isaiah 42:1-9

April 6, 2025

Every local church wants harmony and connection among its members. The local church is made up of redeemed yet flawed people, and, inevitably, our flaws surface through misunderstandings, missed expectations, or messy, sometimes sinful, circumstances.  How do we respond when our flaws disrupt our fellowship? Philemon contains the truths we need to walk in wholehearted fellowship with one another.

Philemon 1-25

March 30, 2025

Jack Arrington, the longest-serving Senior Pastor of Tomball Bible Church, returns to preach as TBC celebrates its 50th Anniversary. Reflecting on Paul's exhortations from Philippians 1, Jack encourages the church to continue in faith no matter the circumstance and trust God to complete the good work that he began.

Philippians 1:1-30

March 23, 2025

Paul concludes his letter to the Colossians with the most essential instructions for the Church: call on the Lord in prayer and walk in wisdom. We will look at the aspects of prayer and wisdom Paul calls out that will ensure that we live effectively as a church (a group of believers called out to represent Christ in the world). Ironically, devotion to prayer is one of our greatest difficulties in sustaining. We will find both a challenge and help in the concluding passage of Colossians if we heed Paul’s clarion call.

Colossians 4:2-18

March 16, 2025

The home is the first place where God’s will should be done on earth as it is in heaven. Paul gave instructions to every household member that reflect God’s perfect standard for family relationships. Love, submission, obedience, and fairness are the hallmarks of a godly household. This week we will look closely at clear definitions of these marks and make applications to help every TBC household walk in faithfulness.

Colossians 3:18-4:1

March 9, 2025

Colossians 3:12-17 calls us to put on the character of Christ. As God’s chosen people, we are to live with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, forgiveness, and love. When the peace of Christ rules our hearts and His Word fills our lives, we grow together in unity and gratitude. By the Grace of Jesus, we live out who we are in Christ for God’s glory.

March 2, 2025

Colossians chapter 3 calls the church to set our lives on Christ. Verses 1-11 call us to throw off sinful practices and verses 12-17 instruct us to “put on” the new self in Christ. Both actions, putting away sin and putting on Christ, take personal responsibility, reliance on the Holy Spirit, and encouragement from one another. If we do this, we will be sure to have lives set on Christ, resulting in us becoming more like Jesus and God glorified.
Colossians 3:1-11

February 23, 2025

Christ has filled us with himself. His identity is now ours, we are kept in Christ, and are to mature more into the image of Christ. Yet so often in our world we face the pressure of “performance Christianity" and can get caught up in things that have no value in helping us to become more like Christ but rather place value in how we appear to others. The easy thing is to care more about how we appear rather than caring about our hearts and yet what Christ knows about us is that from our hearts comes the external appearance. Paul is warning the church in Colossae and he is warning us to not give way to this thinking or allow someone else to have an influence on you to pull you away from what Christ has already said about you. Paul calls us to live our lives fully in Christ and trust more of what he says about us, that we are righteous, forgiven, and loved.

Clossians 2:16-23

February 16, 2025

In Colossians 2:6-15, we have Paul's first two of 27 commands in this letter. We are called to walk in Christ and not succumb to empty philosophy and deceitful ideologies. This passage also contains one of the clearest teachings on what Jesus did to secure our salvation and fill us completely. In Him, we lack nothing!

Colossians 2:6-15