"We've started to say 'What would Jesus do? Well, Jesus would do what I am doing!' Instead of 'What would Jesus do?' and asking ourselves 'How does that go against my flesh?' we've kind of twisted it up...We're not humbling ourselves. We're actually lifting ourselves up and attacking people with the very gospel name of Jesus."

 

Pastor David Baxley continues our series taking us through the book of Philippians by starting us into the first eleven verses of the second chapter.

"If we say we love God but hate our enemies, and we rejoice when they fall, where's the fruit of love? If we say that we have all the knowledge and discernment, but we cannot speak and reflect the heart of God to each other in conflict and differences, where is the fruit?"

 

Our series in the book of Philippians continues this week with Pastor David talking about why love is the most important thing, especially when it comes to using our knowledge and discernment.

"Even as he (King David) was going through the dark valley, he could say with confidence that it wasn't by accident because the shepherd had led him there. He doesn't have to carry on his own shoulders how he got there, or what he needs to do to fix the situation, or what he needs to do to correct it and change it. He doesn't have to try to take control of it. He knows the shepherd led him there, and the shepherd will lead him out."

 

Pastor David begins our mini-series in the Psalms by starting us arguably the most well-known psalm: Psalm 23.

"When we begin to suffer, our minds become the battleground for discouragement and lies. That's when the enemy wants to come in: when we are discouraged, when we might be weak, or when we might be going through something, even if it's something where God is working and doing something in our lives, which he promises he is, the enemy still sees our vulnerability, and he comes in."

 

Pastor David Baxley takes us deeper into chapter 5 of 1 Peter; this week going into what it means to be sober-minded and alert to our enemy.

"Our City needs us, our country needs us, our world needs us, because we have something that should radically transform how we respond to this. It can't radically fix the virus, but it can transform how they see it and how they respond to that."

 

Pastor David Baxley continues our series, Chosen To Be Set Apart, taking us through the book of 1 Peter. This week, we focused on Chapter 4, verses 7-11, which deals with love, serving one another, with what God has given us, and true hospitality.

"The beauty and sacredness of marriage means that as we give ourselves more to that person, as the two become one flesh, when that oneness is violated, when that oneness is robbed, when that oneness is hurt, that hurts us like nothing else does. God wants us to recognize that in light of the hurt, we can get this painfully wrong."

 

Pastor David Baxley continues us through our series "Chosen to be Set Apart" going through the book of 1 Peter. This week, we started going through 1 Peter 3:1-7 by giving important context to the verses, and we continue next week by diving in deeper with that context in mind.

"God wants us to see that not only did he pay the ransom for us, but that before we were ever created, God knew we would rebel, he knew we would run away from our Father, he knew we would resist the calling he has on our lives. Before he ever created us, he said 'Jesus, I choose you to be the one that's going to eventually pay the ransom, in your blood, so they can be restored to relationship with me.' And Jesus willingly submitted to the plan of the Father."

 

Pastor David Baxley preaches to us from Gods Word on what it means to be set apart to obey God.