First Baptist Church of Middleville

Your Work and Callings

Making it Through the Wilderness

Lessons from Numbers & Deuteronomy

Moving Out and On - Numbers 1-10
Complaining People - Numbers 11
Moses' Black Wife - Numbers 12
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory - Numbers 13-14
The Rebellion of Korah - Numbers 16
The Danger of Reacting in Anger - Numbers 20
The Bronze Serpent - Numbers 21
Divination and a Donkey - Numbers 22
Balaam's Oracles - Numbers 23-24
Israelites Behaving Badly - Numbers 25
Love the Lord - Deuteronomy 6:1-5
That the Next Generation Would Know - Deuteronomy 6:6-25
A Chosen People - Deuteronomy 7
Lest You Forget - Deuteronomy 8
Prophets and False Prophets - Deuteronomy 13 & 18
Gender Assigned By God - Deuteronomy 22
Secret Things and Things Revealed - Deuteronomy 29
Choosing Life or Death - Deuteronomy 30
Moses at the Finish Line - Deuteronomy 31-34

Perseverance

Quitting Is Not an Option

May 17 - Perseverance: Quitting Is Not an Option
May 24 - Perseverance: God's Grace Keeps Us Going
May 31 - Perseverance: Fight to Finish Well

The Passion of Christ

in the Gospel of Luke

Luke vol. 3

By What Authority? - Luke 20:1-8
Murder in the Vineyard - Luke 20:9-18
God and Caesar - Luke 20:19-26
Realities of the Age to Come - Luke 20:27-44
Money, Status, & Jesus - Luke 20:45-21:4
Things to Come: The Fall of Jerusalem - Luke 21:5-24
Things to Come: The Second Coming - Luke 21:24-28
Things to Come: The Kingdom is Near - Luke 21:29-38
The Last Supper - Luke 22:1-30
Thy Will Be Done - Luke 22:31-46
The Hour and the Power of Darkness - Luke 22:47-71
The Sentence of Death - Luke 23:1-25
The Crucifixion and Death of Christ - Luke 23:26-56
He is Not Here, He Has Risen! - Luke 24:1-12 - Easter Sunday
On the Open Road With the Risen Lord - Luke 24:13-35
Witness This - Luke 24:36-49
Up and Away - Luke 24:50-53
[Bonus] God Reigns Over All - Psalm 22

The Trinity

Delighting in the Three-in-One God

The Trinity is hard to understand because there is nothing else exactly like God. Yet, everything important depends on the fact that God is three-in-one.

The Trinity Revealed
One God in Three Persons
The Love of the Trinity
The Trinity, Prayer, and the Christian Life (PM Service - Audio Only)
God Sent Forth His Son

Martyrs & the

Persecuted Church

Jesus Warned Us - Nate Archer

What God Does Through Persecution - Nick Boonstra

Christian Hope in a Multi-Religious World - Rex Rogers

How to Stand When Persecution Comes - Nate Archer

God Like None Other

The Incommunicable Attributes of the Living God

Seeing Stars - A Message on God's Greatness
None Like You - The Uniqueness and Incomprehensibility of God
Who Made God? - The Aseity of God
God Without Parts - The Simplicity of God
Out of Time - The Timeless Eternity of God
All There Everywhere - The Immensity of God
He Changes Not - The Immutability and Impassibility of God
Without Limit or Flaw - The Infinity and Perfection of God

Fire Alarm

A Mini-Series on Evangelism

Being Holy to a Holy God

The Book of Leviticus

Sacrifices - Lev. 1-7
Fire and Glory - Lev. 8-9
Strange Fire - Lev. 10
What to Eat? - Lev. 11
Uncleanness and Cleansing - Lev. 12-15 (PM Service - Audio Only)
The Day of Atonement - Lev. 16
Holiness and Blood - Lev. 17
What Leviticus Teaches About Sex - Lev. 18:1-30 & 20:10-21
Be Holy and Love Your Neighbor - Lev. 19:1-18
Keep My Statutes - Lev. 19:19-37 & 20:1-9
[Bonus] One Human Race - VBS Sunday
Sacrificing to Molech - Lev. 20:1-5
Without Blemish - Lev. 21-22 (PM Service - Audio Only)
The Appointed Feasts - Lev. 23 (PM Service - Audio Only)
Final Instructions - Lev. 24-27 (PM Service - Audio Only)

Union With Christ

“Union with Christ is the greatest, most honourable, and glorious of all graces that we are made partakers of.” –John Owen

Journey with Jesus

in the Gospel of Luke

Luke vol. 2

Believe in Something - Luke 10:1-24
The Unbelievably Good Samaritan - Luke 10:25-37
Two Sisters, Two Choices - Luke 10:38-42
Teach Us to Pray - part 1 - Luke 11:1-4
Teach Us to Pray - part 2 - Luke 11:1-4
The Power of Asking - Luke 11:5-13 & 18:1-8
Rejecting or Receiving the Light - Luke 11:14-36
Jesus Hates Legalism - Luke 11:37-54
Have No Fear - Luke 12:1-12
The Mirage of Riches - Luke 12:13-21
Overcoming Anxiety - Luke 12:22-34
You Be Ready - Luke 12:35-59
Why Do Bad Things Happen to People? - Luke 13:1-9
Straightening Priorities - Luke 13:10-17 & 14:1-6
A Wide Offer and Narrow Door - Luke 13:18-35
The Invitation - Luke 14:7-24
Counting The Cost - Luke 14:25-35
The Joy of Finding the Lost - Luke 15:1-10
The Father or His Stuff?: The Prodigal Son - part 1 - Luke 15:11-20
A Tale of Two Hearts: The Prodigal Son - part 2 - Luke 15:20-32
How to Spend Someone Else's Money - Luke 16:1-18
The Great Chasm - Luke 16:19-31
Five Attitudes of Our Age - Luke 17:1-19
The Coming of the Kingdom - Luke 17:20-37
Going Home Justified - Luke 18:9-14
Children and Camels - Luke 18:15-30
Opening Blind Eyes to See Jesus - Luke 18:31-43
Saving Zacchaeus - Luke 19:1-10
The Return and Your Investment - Luke 19:11-27
The Triumph Before the Tragedy - Luke 19:28-48

God Delivers - The Book of Exodus

A Long Time in Egypt - Exodus 1-2
The Burning Bush - Exodus 3
God is Greater than Our Excuses - Exodus 4-6
The First Nine Plagues - Exodus 7-10
Surviving the Final Plague - Exodus 11-12
Against the Red Sea - Exodus 13-14
Pause to Praise - Exodus 15:1-21
People Grumble; God Provides - Exodus 15:22-17:7
Not Able to Do It Alone - Exodus 17:7-18:27
Thunder on Mount Sinai - Exodus 19-20
Laws for Loving God and Others - Exodus 21-24
[Bonus] Yesterday, Today, and Forever - VBS Sunday
God Dwells With Us - Exodus 25-31
But Moses - Exodus 32
Longing for the Lord's Presence - Exodus 33-34
All That the Lord Had Commanded - Exodus 35-40

Living the Christian Life Together

Romans 12

Living as Sacrifices - Rm. 12:1
Living in Transformation - Rm. 12:2
Living in Humility - Rm. 12:3
Living in One Body - Rm. 12:4-5
Living in Service - part 1 - Rm. 12:6-8
Living in Service - part 2 - Rm. 12:6-8
Living in Love - Rm. 12:9-10
Living in Hope - Rm. 12:11-12
Living in Generosity - Rm. 12:13
[Bonus] The Humility of Jesus - Mark 10:45
[Bonus] Fool or No Fool - 1 Cor. 15:16-26
Living as a Blessing - Rm. 12:14-17
Living as Peacemakers - part 1 - Rm. 12:18
Living as Peacemakers - part 2 - Rm. 12:18
Living as Peacemakers - part 3 - Rm. 12:18
Living for Good - Rm. 12:19-21
[Bonus] The Goal of Childbirth - Gal. 4:19

Five Friends of the Five Solas

This series examines five Biblical topics that are incredibly important and good when used as intended. (See below for the previous series on the "Five Solas" of the Reformation.)