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Jan 19, 2022
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This week's midweek message answers the question "why is truly forgiving so hard?" Christianity proclaims it is all about forgiveness. Forgiveness by God and forgiveness like God. Since forgiveness is central to our faith we must identify and confront all barriers to forgiveness. This message will give you a brief overview of the work to do in us and through us.
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Jan 14, 2022
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Are you a whiner? This midweek message explores how to break out of your toxic echo chamber of whining and turn into a witness of grace.
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Jan 7, 2022
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Jan 5, 2022
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Purpose This week's mid-week video explains the two things Jesus calls his followers to in order of importance. Understanding God's purpose for you fills your life with meaning.
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Dec 29, 2021
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What On Earth Are You Here For? As we move into a new year, this week's Midweek Message helps you to consider the meaning and purpose of your life on earth.
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Dec 22, 2021
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Dec 22, 2021
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Christmas Eve Pastor Joe shares a Christmas Eve message about the light of the gospel.
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Dec 22, 2021
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The Love of Christmas This week, Pastor Mike shares with us how we can experience the love of God in our lives and share that love with those around us.
Topics: TFBC, Toledo First Baptist Church, Weekend Message, Mike Stavig
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Dec 15, 2021
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The Joy of Christmas This week, Pastor Danny talks with us about how to experience the Joy of Christmas this year.
Topics: TFBC, Toledo First Baptist Church, Weekend Message, Danny Brown
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Dec 15, 2021
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The Love of Christmas This week, Tara Cooper shares with us the love she experienced while going through a difficult health crisis.
Topics: TFBC, Toledo First Baptist Church, Tara Cooper, Mike Stavig
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Dec 8, 2021
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Danny Brown
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The Joy of Christmas This week, Christopher Van Vleck shares with us a story from his life about the joy that comes from trusting Jesus.
Topics: TFBC, Toledo First Baptist Church, Danny Brown, Christopher Van Vleck
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Dec 5, 2021
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The Peace of Christmas Pastor Mike talks with us about how to have peace in the holiday season.
Topics: TFBC, Toledo First Baptist Church, Weekend Message, Christmas, Mike Stavig
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Dec 5, 2021
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Dec 5, 2021
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Danny Brown
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The HOPE of Christmas This week, Pastor Danny shares with us what the Bible has to say about hope and how we can experience hope this holiday season.
Topics: TFBC, Toledo First Baptist Church, Weekend Message, Christmas, Danny Brown
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Peace This week, our friends Jody and Shannon Caskey share a message about peace.
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Nov 24, 2021
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The HOPE of Christmas This week, our friend Dorothy Nollan shares a scripture and story about hope.
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Nov 19, 2021
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Nov 18, 2021
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Bad Faith This week's Cabin Talk explains the damage and dangers of bad faith. This message gives seven symptoms of bad religion
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Nov 12, 2021
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Nov 10, 2021
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REST This week's Mid-week Message explores how you can find soul rest. You have a part and are not in any way passive. To find rest for your soul, you must take up some things that may bring significant changes to your current plans.
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Nov 5, 2021
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Nov 3, 2021
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Don't Live in the Past In times of trouble, we often resist change and retreat into an imagined good-old-days nostalgia. God works all things together for good for those who love him (Romans 8:28). For us to join God, we must live presently in His presence. You can't live in the past and grow at the same time.
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Oct 29, 2021
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Oct 27, 2021
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THE MYTH OF STABILITY We all want stability and certainty. We often create a fantasy in our minds that we have everything and everyone figured out. We even believe that we can reduce God to a formula. When this happens, anxiety or boredom sets in. This week, Pastor Joe teaches us how to avoid this type of mental idolatry.
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Oct 22, 2021
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Jesus + Nothing = Godly Relationships Relationships with others are our greatest joy, but can also create our deepest pain. Together we will learn through Colossians 3 and 4 how we can have the best family and work relationships possible. Please read these two chapters to prepare for our time together.
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Oct 22, 2021
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“Friends and Forgiveness” This weekend I will continue our series on The History of Jesus from Luke. I will share from the book of Luke chapter 5. My sermon title is “Friends and Forgiveness” - The Five Qualities of Love.” One quality of love we will explore is that love is inconvenient and hard. TFBC, let’s keep being willing to do even the hard thing for the good of others. Joe Martin
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Oct 20, 2021
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Oct 15, 2021
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LOSING YOUR RELIGION TO FIND JESUS In this message we will explore what following Jesus looks like as we seek to walk in His steps
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Oct 13, 2021
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The Need for More "Christian" Christians What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus? This week, Pastor Joe shares with us what the Bible says about this important question and how that should impact the way we live our everyday lives.
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Oct 8, 2021
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Try Again This weekend I will preach a message I had prepared in 2020, the week before the pandemic changed our lives. I was preaching through the book of Luke but changed course to deal with the crises at hand. After 18 months the Lord has said it's time to try again. This weekend’s message is for anyone who needs God’s direction in times of crisis. This message is for all who love TFBC, and who need to hear Jesus say “Try Again.”
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Oct 6, 2021
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Spiritual Hearing This week, Pastor Joe talks with us about the importance of hearing Jesus. The Bible has much to say about the importance of developing our ability to hear the voice of Jesus as we navigate through this life.
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Sep 27, 2021
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Jesus + Nothing = A Holy Life In our world today we can get distracted so easily. We are bombarded by so much through social media, the news, entertainment, sports, etc. that we can lose our focus on what is truly important. In chapter 3 Paul helps us to know where our attention needs to be. We must be alert and fight to keep our heart and mind set totally on Jesus.
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Sep 21, 2021
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Jesus + Nothing = Everything (Colossians 2) The Sufficiency of Jesus Difficult times are a part of our human existence here. Anyone who has lived even a short time has experienced disappointment, pain, and difficulty. During these times, we have a tendency to feel that we are weak, empty, and trapped. I want to remind you that feelings are not facts. And while feelings are often helpful to us as we navigate different situations and circumstances, it is crucial for us to base our response on the...
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Sep 14, 2021
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Getting Through It This week, Pastor Danny talks about a story in Mark 4 where Jesus is in a boat in the middle of a storm with His disciples. What is interesting is that they are not alone...
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Sep 13, 2021
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Jesus + Nothing = Everything (Colossians 1:1-23) This week, Pastor Danny begins a series on the book of Colossians. He shares with us what Paul wrote to the church in Colosse about the supremacy of Jesus in life of the believer.
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Sep 10, 2021
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Change Pastor Scott preaches one final message before he retires. In this message, he discusses a biblical perspective on change in the life of a follower of Jesus.
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Sep 8, 2021
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I Will… This week, Pastor Danny introduces the upcoming sermon series “Jesus + Nothing = Everything” by sharing with us the great hope we have in Jesus. We look at a passage from the gospel of Mark chapter one where, by the declaration of his word, Jesus restores a man stricken with leprosy. Danny encourages us to look to Jesus in the areas of our lives where restoration is needed.
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Sep 1, 2021
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Change Change can be exciting and/or scary. One thing is for sure, change is a constant. This week, Pastor Joe talks with us about what the Bible says is the kind of change that God is looking for in our lives.
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Aug 25, 2021
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Aug 25, 2021
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Relearning Patience How’s your patience? With all that has been happening, a lot of people, patience is showing itself as pretty thin. Patience is the fruit of the Spirit that God plants in us and then we cooperate in its growth. We are warned by some "do not pray for patience." I think this is terrible advice. It assumes God is a sadistic being who will throw all kinds of problems on you just because you sought to reflect an attribute of his love. In case you failed to notice we,...
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Aug 24, 2021
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Patience Patience is something we all need but all seem to lack, especially in these trying times. This week, Pastor Joe talks about how the Bible teaches us that patience is the proof of your growth as a person and as a follower of Jesus.
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Aug 20, 2021
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Radical Forgiveness It is hard to love people when you are angry at them. Since love is our goal, learning to forgive and have our ability to love restored is important. The Bible says love never fails but if that’s true why do the people we try to love make us so mad? We say, “I am being so loving, and look how I am being treated.” It feels like love fails at such times. As I thought about 1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never fails, I realized for most of my life I had God’s idea of love all...
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Aug 18, 2021
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The Three Phrases of Forgiveness. This week, Pastor Joe talks with us about three key phrases that are essential to living a life of forgiveness.
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Aug 13, 2021
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Relearning church means relearning love. Love is the one thing that is to set us apart from all fakers and frauds. John 13:34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." Love is hard work. In fact, it could be said that it only becomes love when it gets hard. True love always has selfless sacrifice in its practice. This...
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Aug 11, 2021
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Love Our cultural idea of love and the biblical definition of love are not the same. Pastor Joe talks with us this week about the biblical principle of love and the reality of love that we, as followers of Jesus, must pattern our lives after.
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Aug 6, 2021
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Equipped and Equipping Saints As we relearn church, we must relearn our purpose. What are we here to do? We are here to be equipped and equip others for this awesome adventure in following Christ. This weekend I will teach the what, why and, how of equipping.
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Aug 4, 2021
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Equipping Equipping others is the responsibility and privilege of every follower of Jesus. God gives each of His followers certain gifts and responsibilities. This week, Pastor Joe talks with us about how God gives us these gifts and responsibilities for the "equipping of the saints", that is, the church.
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Jul 31, 2021
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Holders of Faith We are called to be more, have lives of faith. We are called to live by faith. As the church, we together are to live by faith as the living holders of the faith. This weekend I will be preaching on faith. It will be important for you to take time to listen and think deeply about this message.
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Jul 28, 2021
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Faith How do we walk by faith and live by faith? It helps to understand what the meaning of faith is. Pastor Joe takes time this week to help us understand what faith is and how we can learn to live lives of faith that lead to the grace of God.
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Jul 23, 2021
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Relearning Compassion the Art of Caring There is a drought in the land not only of water but compassion. We seem to have lost the ability to listen and seek understanding. There is a rush to judgement and instant impulse to condemn without compassion and consideration. Jesus was the friend of sinners. He was full of compassion and that’s why people loved Him and still do. This weekend I will teach on the art of caring. How compassion can free us from the rigid cruel grip of pride, bitterness...
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Jul 21, 2021
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Compassion This week, Pastor Joe talks with us about the lack of compassion in people's lives. He then shares with us the example of Jesus and how He taught and practiced compassion for others, even His enemies.
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Jul 16, 2021
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Encouragement We all need encouragers. Troubles and people can drain you. We need to be encouraged so we can become encouragers. This becomes a circle of encouraging each other like scripture says. Hebrews 3:13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. When we do not do this for each other we get hardened in the heart because sin fools us into thinking we are justified to indulge...
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Jul 14, 2021
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Encouragement Many people are discouraged. After a year of being socially distant, we feel the need to have positive, encouraging interaction with other people. Pastor Joe talks about how the Bible affirms that need and shares with us how we can be an encouragement to each other.
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Jul 10, 2021
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Re-Learning Church: Hope of the Gospel With all that is coming at you, it is easy to forget what you need to remember. This weekend's message is on remembering the hope of the gospel. Problems are behind and before you, but the gospel has an explanation and the solution.
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Jul 7, 2021
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Solving the Problems of Life The world's solution to the problems of life is to change your environment. If you could only surround yourself with people and places and things that enhance your life, you would be truly happy. Pastor Joe shows us the fallacy of that worldly logic and shares with us that the heart of the problem is a problem of the heart. Once we understand this, we can see how the Bible teaches God's plan for fixing the problems of life.
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Jul 2, 2021
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Citizenship The word citizenship has fallen out of style. I can remember when I was once graded on citizenship in public school. Citizenship comes from the Greek word of being in a shared community with others. The word also means to be in a conversation with others. It means when you are a citizen you are in a community that has learned how to live and talk with each other. In our country recently the word citizenship has turned into another topic for people to argue and stop talking with each...
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Jun 30, 2021
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Jun 30, 2021
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Being a Citizen As Independence Day approaches, Pastor Joe talks with us about what the Bible says about what it means to be a good citizen of our country.
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Jun 26, 2021
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Relearning What Churches Do... PRAY What is a church supposed to do? Some will say we are to be like Jesus and act like Jesus. That is true, but how? What do we do? One thing we do is we pray. In fact, learning to pray has more to do with being like Jesus than anything. This message is on the three ways to pray. You will learn how one way of prayer prepares you for the others. How is your prayer life? Let’s learn to do this together.
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Jun 23, 2021
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Prayer - Asking God Pastor Joe talks with us about what the Bible says about prayer and its place and purpose in the life of the follower of Jesus.
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Jun 16, 2021
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Three Ways of Fathering Families are complicated and can be so different. The expectations we put on parents and fathers can be crushing and discouraging. The pressure fathers feel can create practices that hurt relationships and Godly influence. This weekend’s message will explore the power and limits of earthly fathers and the great power of our heavenly Father to finish the work of maturity in us.
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Jun 16, 2021
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The Three Perils of Parenting (Father's Edition) Pastor Joe shares some of the struggles we can have as parents raising kids and what the Bible says about how our relationship with God and dependence on Him can help us to be better parents.
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Jun 11, 2021
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Church As a Kingdom of Priests
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Jun 9, 2021
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The Priesthood of All Believers Pastor Joe helps us to understand what it means to be a part of a "Holy Priesthood" as a follower of Jesus.
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Jun 3, 2021
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Church As a Spiritual Temple This weekend's message is on you knowing your place in God’s temple God calls us living stones in his spiritual temple. With all the problems and stresses coming nonstop these days a lot of people are simply trying to escape reality one way or another. Jesus however calls us to do something different. We are to be living stones not living stoned. We are not to escape but to engage the world as a living temple of the Holy Spirit. We are to experience and express...
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Jun 2, 2021
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Living Stones Pastor Joe gives us a preview of this weekend's message as he shares what the Bible says about being "living stones" in the world we live in.
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May 28, 2021
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Re-Learning Church: Church As a Fiel d This weekend as we are “RELEARNING CHURCH”, we will learn about what it means to be a part of God’s field.
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May 26, 2021
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Good Seed and Bad Seed This week, Pastor Joe reminds us of the Good Seed of the Gospel. While there is often bad seed mixed in with the good, the Good Seed of the gospel will always overcome and bring a powerful harvest that never disappoints. We have a role to play in bringing forth this harvest. We proclaim the Good Seed, water it with love, and stay faithful and do not lose heart.
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May 20, 2021
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Church As Fellowship Fellowship is a word that is used a lot in church circles. It is often used as a replacement for the word church. Fellowship is routinely used as a code word for free pie and ice cream. People complain sometimes about how much they need some “fellowship.” What is fellowship as the bible describes it? What does this vital descriptor tell us about relearning church? Is it very common for someone to attend church services their whole life and never know or experience...
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May 19, 2021
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Are You a Commoner? Jesus chose to live a common life. As we chose to follow Him, we must learn to live a common life of fellowship together. Pastor Joe encourages us to see the example of Jesus in scripture as we look to live in the way Jesus lived.
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Relearning Church: Being a Flock Relearning church takes just that, relearning. Relearning takes an effort to remember what has been lost and restore what was important. This week we will relearn what it means to be a flock. In this weekend’s message we can learn three important truths about living in a flock. No follower of Jesus can be healthy, happy, and holy without a relationship to the flock the Shepherd put them in. Luke 12:32 "Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father...
Topics: TFBC, Toledo First Baptist Church, Joe Martin
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Being Sheep Pastor Joe talks this week about what it means to be a sheep in the flock of our Good Shepherd, Jesus.
Topics: TFBC, Toledo First Baptist Church, Joe Martin
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May 8, 2021
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May 8, 2021
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Re-Learning Church: Mother's Day This weekend we will be remembering how relationships are central to relearning church. Mother’s Day is an opportunity to reflect on our responsibilities to mothers but also the need for the role of mothers to be expanded into the life of a church.
Topics: TFBC, Toledo First Baptist Church, Joe Martin
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May 5, 2021
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May 5, 2021
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Learn to Affirm There's almost never enough positive affirmation in our world today. The Bible teaches us the importance of affirming one another as the need arises. This week, Pastor Joe talks to us about this essential truth and the effect it can have on a church.
Topics: TFBC, Toledo First Baptist Church, Joe Martin
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Apr 30, 2021
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Apr 30, 2021
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Re-Learning Church: Church as Family People sometimes refer to their church family. This can reflect a deeper understanding of what church is. It may also reflect the health of their idea of what family is. The word family means different things to people. For some families, it’s founded on a deep bond of loving faithfulness. For other families it’s distant and loyalty is conditional on whether expectations are met. When God pictures church as family he is inviting us to learn what His idea...
Topics: TFBC, Toledo First Baptist Church, Joe Martin
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Apr 28, 2021
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Apr 28, 2021
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The Power of the Gospel The power of God is in the gospel. When we get our focus off of that truth, we have nothing left to focus on but the works of men. The power is in the message, not the messenger. This week, Pastor Joe talks about the power of the gospel in the lives of the people God loves. Far too often we look to lesser things like programs, personalities, and places as a replacement for the power of the gospel in our lives.
Topics: TFBC, Toledo First Baptist Church, Joe Martin
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Apr 23, 2021
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Apr 23, 2021
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This weekend's message will show you how your relationship to your church is to be as part of a body. When you see this clearly, your Christian customer days will be over, and your disciple days can begin.
Topics: TFBC, Joe Martin, Toledo First Baptist Church
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Apr 21, 2021
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Apr 21, 2021
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We were created to be together and to feel a connection to each other. This past year, this has been enormously hard. Church, at it's root, is a relationship. This week, Pastor Joe talks with us about what the Bible says about that relationship.
Topics: Joe Martin, TFBC, Midweek Message, Toledo First Baptist Church
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Apr 19, 2021
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Apr 19, 2021
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After over a year of adjusting to the pandemic, we have had to relearn what being a church really means and why God put us together in Lewis County. As always, the case relearning usually starts with unlearning some false ideas and bad habits. The covid crises have provided a God-sized opportunity to go back to what all the Godly teachers in TFBC’s history tried to show us “being comes before doing.” As Henry Blackaby once told me “if you will focus on what Jesus Christ wants you to be...
Topics: TFBC, Pastor Joe, Joe Martin, Toledo First Baptist
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Apr 15, 2021
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Apr 15, 2021
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Returning Pastor Joe shares with us what the Bible teaches us about what it means to return back to God in a new and authentic faith and be restored in our relationship with Him. Links Below: Website: https://tfbc.church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toledofirstbaptist Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toledofirstbaptist Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/toledofirstbapt
Topics: TFBC, Midweek, Joe Martin
Dear Friends, Wow, it’s 2018! What’s next for us? What does God want me to do this year? Does God care about my life? What is God’s plan and how can I know it? When it comes to doing the next thing how can we know what God wants? Jesus said knowing and doing Gods will is essential for being recognized as part of his family. Mat 12:50 “For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.” This week’s lessons on what we should pay attention...
Topics: Next, Pastor Joe, Sermon
Dear Friends, We live in the middle of history. Someone said history is His-story. I suppose that means we are to live in the light of the great events of HIS story. The scripture we will talk about in the preaching time and small groups highlights two historical mountains in God’s plan for this world.
Topics: Christmas, Pastor Joe, Sermon
Dear Friends, The church is called to be an unexplainable community. The way we take care to love each other is unexplainable except for the presence of God. Jesus said it: “By this, all men will know that you are My disciples if you have love for one another. “ -John 13:35
Topics: Change, Pastor Joe, Sermon
Dear Friends, The next two weeks will conclude our talks on change and transition toward Christmas. December 3rds lesson is on how Gods way of change includes others. The life we live in Christ is a life lived out as a body. We are to live and think as a living functioning part of a community. This is hard for us modern Americans to think like this. We [...]
Topics: Change, Pastor Joe, Sermon
Pastor Joe continues his series on Change with part two of "Change that Gets Noticed."
Topics: Change, Pastor Joe, Sermon
Dear Friends, What is the change that gets noticed? Wither its losing weight or stopping smoking, being kind where you used to be impatient and harsh. these are the changes that get noticed. Jesus said… Mat 7:20 “So then, you will know them by their fruits."
Topics: Change, Pastor Joe, Sermon
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Jan 4, 2018
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The next two weeks will be on changing in the way most people really care about, ACTION.We can talk all about changing thoughts and feelings, but changing what we do is what really matters.
Topics: Change, Compassion Sunday, Guest Speaker, Toledo First Baptist
Dear Friends, The Bible tells us that real change will involve your mind and your heart. Just knowing things will do little until you deeply feel your need to the point of moving your will. We are called to have pure hearts. To guard our hearts and to love with all our heart.
Topics: Change, Pastor Joe, Sermon
Dear Friends, Fall is here with its beautiful colors and cool weather. Some like this change but others do not because they love the summer heat and sun. As we journey through life, one of the main constants we have is change. Some love and invite change while others dread it. No matter how you feel about it, change is something we all need to face.
Topics: Change, Pastor Scott, Sermon
Change begins with a change of mind. We have many examples in the Gospel of religious people being closed minded. It is a terrible grief to God when we are close-minded to Jesus .
Topics: Change, Pastor Joe, Sermon
We all know we have areas where we need to change for the good. These changes are almost always in our best interest. The changes God moves us toward always bring Him the most glory. So, why do we ignore and often resist the need to change? This Sunday, we will explore what gets in the way and why we get stuck and stay stuck.
Topics: Change, Pastor Joe, Sermon
This Sunday I will begin a series of messages titled CHANGE.In these messages, we will explore what the bible says about change. I will teach about how it happens and what gets in the way. The gospel is about positive change and God will not stop until that change is complete. In these messages, we will explore what the bible says about change. I will teach about how it happens and what gets in the way. The gospel is about positive change and God will not stop until that change is complete.1 Th...
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Pastor Joe continues with his series "Back to the Mountain" with a new message titled: Working on the Building
Topics: Back to the Mountain, Pastor Joe, Sermon
Pastor Joe continues his series on Back to the Mountain with a new sermon titled "Which Way to Heaven"
Topics: Back to the Mountain, Pastor Joe, Sermon
One of the most popular Christian themes in our culture is the Golden Rule or “Do unto others as you would want them to do to you.”. This idea is actually found in most religious teachings and is a main teaching in Humanism as well. With all the emphasis on this idea, one would think the world would be a pretty kind place. Often it is not.
Topics: Back to the Mountain, Pastor Scott, Sermon, TFBC
Kids Camp Celebration Service
Topics: Kids Camp, Sermon, TFBC, Pastor Joe
We all want to see our friends and family know and experience the hope of the gospel. For this to happen they must be told about Christ in a clear and powerful way. Why is it that so few people effectively share Christ? in fact, many who claim to share Christ seem to do more damage than they do convincingly.
Topics: Back to the Mountain, Pastor Joe, Sermon
The hardest command from the sermon on the mount is also the most important, “DON’T JUDGE!” The tendency to proudly compare and condescend to others is a destructive and witness destroying sin. Jesus and the apostles condemned it repeatedly and severely. As Religious people, we are especially vulnerable to this tendency because we know the truth of God and speak for God it is easy to begin to play God. This is the most common form of Idolatry. We can do it all under the excuse of I am...
Topics: Back to the Mountain, Pastor Joe, Sermon
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” This is great advice but hard to do. Worry steals the joy out of our lives and stunts our souls. This Sunday I will show you what Jesus taught about moving into a life of no worries. I really pray you come. Remember we have the VBS picnic at the Toledo City Park after the 11 A.M. service. Please pray for me and for the services and classes.
Topics: Back to the Mountain, Pastor Joe, Sermon
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” This is great advice but hard to do. Worry steals the joy out of our lives and stunts our souls. This Sunday I will show you what Jesus taught about moving into a life of no worries. I really pray you come. Remember we have the VBS picnic at the Toledo City Park after the 11 A.M. service. Please pray for me and for the services and classes.
Topics: Back to the Mountain, Sermon, Pastor Joe
It’s so easy to get distracted from God. It happens so gradually we often don’t realize how far of we are until we are in crises. Like driving distracted you are often in great danger when you don’t realize it. Sometimes the more comfortable we are the more likely we are to take our eyes off the road or God. There is nothing that can distract us faster than money and stuff. Jesus warned us against this repeatedly. Mar 4:19 but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches,...
Topics: Back to the Mountain, Sermon, Father's Day, Father, Pastor Joe
