Mauldin First Baptist Church

Mauldin First Baptist is a loving, multigenerational family where the love of God leads us to share Jesus, serve others and make new disciples.

Time Is Running Out 10/13/2024

Time Is Running Out We’ve seen many going through horrible losses and suffering due to recent hurricanes. When times like this come, many wonder where God is and begin to turn to Him and ask questions like “Why?” /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/33437432

What Does Jesus Say About… Resources 09/22/2024

What Does Jesus Say About… Resources We have all been given resources by God… things like money, possessions, job titles, authority, power, certain abilities and talents… even time and relationships and connections… what are we supposed to do with all these resources? /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/33158272

What Does Jesus Say About...Worry 09/15/2024

What Does Jesus Say About...Worry Even when Jesus says “Do not worry”, we can think that this is not realistic because it seems like everyone worries about something. And we can think that we can’t control worrying. /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/33060517

What Does Jesus Say About...Money 09/08/2024

What Does Jesus Say About...Money Often, we come to Jesus, asking for something… but then Jesus diverts our attention to something else. Sometimes, we think something is important, but then Jesus says “No…THIS is what’s important… THIS is what you need to watch out for.” /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/32960532

To Trust You With The Future 09/01/2024

To Trust You With The Future Okay, quick informal survey… when following directions through Google Maps (or other platform/app), if there is a question/unsure… when it’s time to make a decision, MORE likely to follow Google Maps or more likely to go the way you think is best? /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/32853692

What Is Important 08/25/2024

What Is Important Lord Teach Us /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/32730512

About The Signs 08/18/2024

About The Signs Let’s read the first verse of our passage today…Luke 11:29. Now at first, read this and think “but they didn’t ask for a sign…” Actually they... /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/32627142

Who You Are 08/11/2024

Who You Are Are you afraid when it comes to demons? When you read about demons in the Bible, does it make you uncomfortable? Do you worry about demons and what they can do? As we read Luke 11:14-28, we’ll see Jesus interact with a demon, and what those around Him think of demons. But let’s go ahead and answer some common questions we still hear today about demons… /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/32532347

How to Pray 08/04/2024

How to Pray We may talk a lot about God, we may even talk a lot TO God… but how often do we ask God to teach us? We see in Luke 11 where Jesus’ disciples asked Him to teach them to pray. Through this, we receive important teachings from Jesus about prayer. /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/32431582

Why We Listen 07/28/2024

Why We Listen Have you ever noticed that when reading the scriptures (or practicing our faith for that matter), that the focus is often on what is right and what is wrong. And there is a place for that. This IS important. But... /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/32321417

Why We Give 07/21/2024

Why We Give I want to begin with a little exercise/experiment… requires you to speak, or at least would be helpful if you speak. I’ll say something and I want to see if you can guess what comes after it. Ready? “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty (had a great fall).” Next… /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/32232262

Special Message for Our Country 07/14/2024

Special Message for Our Country Special Message for Our Country /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/32128072

Being Godly Citizens 06/30/2024

Being Godly Citizens While one could make a strong argument that our country was founded as a “Christian” nation, one could make a stronger argument that our country was founded as a free nation. And many today, even in our government, are using that freedom to turn away from God. So what do we do as godly citizens? /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/31949377

We Are United in the Mission 06/23/2024

We Are United in the Mission Recent events within our Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) have led us to discussions about roles and titles for women in the church. But we all have roles in the church… and we all should be united in the mission of making disciples. /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/31855547

We Seek Discernment in Application 06/09/2024

We Seek Discernment in Application Quick review of last week… Talking about our roles in the church, current debate in SBC about roles for women, can women have word “pastor” in job title? Needs to be addressed, but good for all of us to try to better understand all our roles, scriptures tell us what to look for, what’s important… so last week, we began with saying... /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/31669852

We Begin With The Scriptures 06/02/2024

We Begin With The Scriptures Next week after worship, I’ll be flying to Indianapolis for annual Southern Baptist Convention. As usual, we will elect officers, commission missionaries and hear reports from our various institutions. This year, there will also be a vote to make a change to the SBC Constitution regarding the criteria for... /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/31567632

Communion Sunday 05/26/2024

Communion Sunday On Memorial Day, we take time to remember and honor those who gave their lives for us, the people of our country. Would you agree that those who gave their lives would want to see us enjoying our lives? Or do we honor them by living in misery? Sometimes we forget it’s our choice. Which is why some of the greatest teachings in scriptures are REMINDERS… things that we already know, but perhaps have forgotten or set aside. Psalm 103 encourages to not forget the benefits of Jesus’ sacrifice for us. /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/31470112

Jesus is The Answer 05/05/2024

Jesus is The Answer Even the most obedient disciples can struggle to answer common questions concerning our faith. “Where did the dinosaurs come from?” “How come there is so much evil in the world?” “How can you prove the Bible is the Word of God?” While there are many great proofs for our faith… it’s still a “faith”, a belief… it’s more than a set of facts. In fact, it really comes down to the person of Jesus. What do you do with Jesus? What is your decision about who He is? /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/31175832

Practice What We Preach 04/28/2024

Practice What We Preach We come to a time in the Gospel of Luke where Jesus no longer expects His disciples to just follow… they are now being called to DO the things they’ve seen Jesus do. And He gives them the power to do it! God still expects His disciples today to do the same things… yes, to go out and preach the word… but to also practice what we preach and demonstrate the gospel with our deeds. /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/31017493

Give to Those Who Ask 04/21/2024

Give to Those Who Ask We often think that when it comes to God, WE have to be the ones to find Him. But today’s story shows that while we may be looking for God, He’s come to look for us too! And He wants to be found. And He wants to give to those who ask Him for help. /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/30919288

Telling What God Has Done For Us 04/14/2024

Telling What God Has Done For Us If we believe God created everything and everyone, just by speaking, then is it reasonable to believe that God has ALL THE POWER THERE IS? If so, then we could also assume He doesn’t need our help. But we see in the scriptures when Jesus healed people, He didn’t just speak and heal everyone. He healed individuals. Because those individuals then went to tell others what God had done for them. /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/30815468

Even The Ones We Don’t See 03/31/2024

Even The Ones We Don’t See “He Is Risen!” “He is Risen Indeed!” This is a traditional Christian greeting goes back well over a thousand years, even quite possibly among the first generations of Christ followers. Today, we continue to proclaim this because this is THE foundation of our faith. /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/30613098

Even The Ones We’ve Rejected 03/24/2024

Even The Ones We’ve Rejected We all know that God loves everyone. But we can often find ourselves trying to add exceptions to God’s love, things like we’ve been seeing in the Gospel of Luke like “Yes, but not those with leprosy… not the tax collectors… not on the Sabbath… not those who hate us…” This week, we see a “sinful woman”, and how a religious man sees her and how God sees her. /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/30517188

More Than You Know 03/17/2024

More Than You Know We believe God loves us, even say “more than you know”… But God loves us differently than we love each other. Believe it or not, Luke 7:18-28 describes God’s love. /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/30408903

Even Gentiles 03/10/2024

Even Gentiles Last week in Luke 6, Jesus tells us to “love our enemies”. In Luke 7, we meet one of these “enemies”, a Roman centurion. But this man is more than an enemy… he is a man looking to Jesus for help. Help that we ALL need! /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/30308113

All People 03/03/2024

All People We all believe that God loves all people… and we all know that God expects us to love all people. We even know that we are supposed to love our enemies. But do we? Or do we have excuses to Jesus’ clear teaching about loving those who aren’t always so easy to love. /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/30206758

Religious People 02/25/2024

Religious People In Luke 6, we see once again how the “religious people” see Jesus, their Messiah, standing right in front of them, doing miracles… and all they can do is ask questions about what’s appropriate on the Sabbath. How do we religious people get this way? /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/30098818

Sinful People 02/18/2024

Sinful People We’ve heard of “blind spots” in our cars. But we can have spiritual blind spots in our walk with Jesus. Sometimes Jesus points these out to us, like He does in Luke 5:27-39. We can often think we are so safe in our beliefs… but then Jesus helps us to see what we have blinded ourselves from seeing, especially when it comes to how we see (or don’t see) sinful people. /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/30005193

Sick People 02/11/2024

Sick People While we love God and are thankful for all He has done and continues to do for us, we will all have those times when God does something we don’t expect… Did we do something wrong? Are we being punished? /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/29894113

The Disciples 02/04/2024

The Disciples Since God has chosen PEOPLE as His main instrument for sharing His good news with the world, some may think that those will have to be exceptional people. Were Jesus’ 12 disciples exceptional people? /episode/index/show/mauldinfirst/id/29790583

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