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FBC Gallatin, I preached the Philippians 4 sermon “Pray When Anxious” at the beginning of May because there were so many moving parts in our church and in my family that we all needed help from God’s Word to navigate the uncertainty and change. And a lot has changed since my April 2026 Newsletter update, and God is still in control with all the moving parts! Please know that none of this is a surprise to God, and we can pray about all our anxieties in the uncertainties of li

FBC Gallatin, The Lord Jesus Christ is risen and we celebrate that every Lord’s Day during our weekly gatherings, but this coming Resurrection Day Easter Sunday is going to be a glorious opportunity to put the death, burial, and resurrection front and center in song and prayer and preaching! Come expectant to worship God and proclaim the Lord’s death and resurrection until he returns again in the future! We will have breakfast together before service at 9:30, and

FBC Gallatin, We have a lot of significant church activity the next two months ahead! First, the new pastor/elder nomination candidates will be announced at our members meeting this month in March, then second, the elder vote will be on April 12 th after service, and lastly, the elder installation service will Lord willing be held on Sunday April 26 th if there is an affirmative vote! Our DOM Keith Corrick has already confirmed that he can be there with us to celebrate t

FBC Gallatin, We’ve started the year diving into the topic of pastors of all things. And I decided to preach this series because we are in the process of nominating a plurality of pastor/elders to consider their life and qualifications, and then to vote to affirm together a plurality of men to pastor us for the first time in FBC Gallatin’s history (all this was decided of course in our December members meeting at the end of 2025)! To be clear, we have had seasons where there

FBC Gallatin, Happy New Year FBC! With a new year comes another fresh opportunity to make plans to connect with God’s Word and read Scripture intentionally throughout the year. For over half a decade now, I have been encouraging us all in the January Newsletter to take up God’s Word and read because I know how much we need it, even if we sometimes forget. Remember that Jesus tells us that the Bible is the spiritual food and nourishment (Matthew 4:4) that we need to give us

First Baptist Church of Gallatin (Presented 01-4-26) Pastor’s Report ( Ministry Year End Report 2025): #1 The Word was Preached: 2 Timothy 4:1-2 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. · Sunday Morning Worship Service: o 1 Timothy: “Healthy Church

FBC Gallatin, I want to talk to you about what matters most this year for Christmas! And I don’t just want to talk to you; I want to prepare sermons to preach to you about what matters most. And I don’t just want to talk and preach about what matters most in a shallow and manufactured way that we might be used to during this season, but I want to take us deeper into the things of what matters most. And it’s for that reason that we will be starting a new 3-part series about

FBC Gallatin, One of the important lessons I have been reminded of in my study and preparation in preaching through the Olivet Discourse is the great variety of different positions that good and faithful Christians take on the end times. I think it bears repeating here what I shared from my college pastor in a recent sermon about the non-negotiables when it comes to the end times, to ensure that we are able to separate the very clear convictions that all believers share, and

FBC Gallatin, There is indeed mystery when we think about the future, but the Bible pulls back the curtain of the unknown and provides us a vision of the future set forth by a sovereign God who knows and holds the future in His hands. And this vision is exactly what we are going to be seeing at FBC Gallatin starting in October and continuing through the holidays as we turn from Matthew 23 and the showdown with Jesus and the religious hard hearts, to his Mount Oliv

FBC Gallatin, I write this as I prepare to go on vacation with my family, and I mark this month of August 2025 moving into September 2025 as a joyful “full circle” season for the life of our church, because it is about a year after a very difficult time at FBC Gallatin. The Lord has preserved us and instructed us well, and kept us together, and we are in so many ways a different church than we were just one year ago. And I have seen the kind providence and clear hand of God’

FBC Gallatin, You’ve heard the phrase: “so and so is the… real deal” haven’t you? Well, the only truly real deal that we...

FBC Gallatin, We’re looking forward to our annual VBS coming up at the end of the month! The Answers in Genesis curriculum this year is focused on the person and work of Jesus Christ with a western theme titled Wonder Junction! Please be praying for our ministry to the kiddos and that the Word of God would impact many lives with good news Gospel truth! Also be praying for our new mobile pantry ministry where we serve food through the Second Harvest organization out of our p

FBC Gallatin, The Gospel, by its very nature is the good news that makes people new! If the message hasn’t produced newness in a professing Christian; they aren’t yet a true believer, because true believers are new… They aren’t perfect, but they aren’t what they once were. They have changed… Their change isn’t what saved them, but it’s evidence that they were in fact saved by grace through faith as we have seen the last few weeks. And our series titled: Gospel Newness , has

FBC Gallatin, With the 1 st Timothy series coming to a close, I want to further consider one major area of very helpful discovery and insight that I have found in the last chapter of the book. I hope you have also been impacted by this vision through the preaching of the Word. One of the most polarizing topics of the bible is related to the topic of money. For instance, there are passages that seem to warn about money as if it’s the plague, and other passages that seem to le

FBC Gallatin, Our Healthy Church series in 1 st Timothy has introduced a variety of important biblical topics like church discipline, a...

FBC Gallatin, Our 1 st Timothy series has been so enlightening and encouraging for me to study and preach with a lot of discovery...

FBC Gallatin, The importance of teaching and discipling our children is fresh on my mind with the recent sermon from Deuteronomy 6:1-9...

FBC Gallatin, It’s that time of year again for your annual reminder to read more Scripture this next year for you good and upbuilding!...

First Baptist Church of Gallatin (Presented 12-29-24) Pastor’s Report ( Ministry Year End Report 2024): #1 The Word was Preached: 2 Timothy 4:1-2 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. Sunday Morning Worship Services: o Glorifying God: Three sermons on t

FBC Gallatin, Jesus Christ is the most significant person who ever lived because he is the solution to all mankind’s biggest...

FBC Gallatin, The apostle Paul wrote Timothy in Ephesus to give direction about right behavior in the church while also correcting wrong behavior. One area Paul spent considerable time in the letter explaining is the qualifications of both pastor/elders and deacons. It is noteworthy that though churches normally have a plurality of deacons, oftentimes there is only one pastor or elder, however, we have been seeing that a plurality of both pastors/elders and deacons i

FBC Gallatin, Starting in October, we're coming back to our 1st Timothy series titled; "Healthy Church" and picking back up in chapter 2 since we paused the series after completing chapter 1 several months ago. Every church must look to God’s Word for the Lord’s marching orders regarding what it should be doing to glorify Him and not simply making it up as they go. The sooner churches submit to God and His plan for the church the better for her health and witness. Churche

FBC Gallatin, The last month of sermons and our members meeting in August, marks a significant renewed way forward at FBC....

FBC Gallatin, The summers are busy around here at FBC Gallatin, from camp, to the brotherhood men’s ministry baseball outing, to VBS, to a church picnic at the lake coming up on top of all the other activities we all have going on. And due to the busyness, I think it is so good to have the biblical worldview upon all of our minds to keep us rooted in the big picture storyline of the bible. And for many us to be able to spend 6 straight days going over the 7 C’s of Biblical H