First Baptist Church, Abbeville, Alabama

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Zechariah

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180805pm.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Zechariah’s visions foster hope in the future promise of the messianic kingdom, and challenge Israel after the exile to remain faithful to God. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-b...

Haggai

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180805am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Haggai challenges Israel after the exile to remain faithful to their God and rebuild the temple. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-block li{border-bottom:1px solid #eee;margin-bot...

Ezekiel

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180729am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Phillip Weems grew up at First Baptist Church and has been our bivocational worship pastor since 2013. He works full-time as a Network Administrator at Wallace Community College. He and his wife, Jaci, have four children. Follow Follow Among the exiles in Babylon, Ezekiel shows that Israel deserved this judgment, and also that God’s justice creates hope for the future. .rpwe-b...

Joel

Watch Listen https://vimeo.com/282380540 http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180722pm.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Joel reflects on the “Day of the Lord” and how true repentance will bring about the great restoration hoped for in the other prophetic books. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;paddin...

Daniel

Watch Listen https://vimeo.com/282378455 http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180722am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Daniel becomes a high-ranking wise man in the Babylonian and Persian empires, and has prophetic visions concerning Israel’s future. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!i...

Obadiah

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180715pm.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Obadiah announces Edom’s downfall to Babylon, which is an image of how God will bring down all arrogant and violent nations. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-block li{border-bott...

Lamentations

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180708am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Jeremiah shows us that God is not afraid of our questions and reminds us where we can find hope when everything around us is falling apart. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-block...

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Jeremiah

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180708am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Jeremiah announces that God will judge Israel’s sins with an exile to Babylon. And then, he lives through the horror of his predictions. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-block li...

Is American Patriotism Incompatible with Biblical Christianity?

Is American Patriotism Incompatible with Biblical Christianity? Older and younger Christians are increasingly divided about patriotism and the church, but a middle ground does exist. In C.S. Lewis’ classic The Screwtape Letters, Screwtape writes to Wormwood saying, “your main task [is to make the man treat] Patriotism…as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part…Once you have made the World an end, & faith a ...

Zephaniah

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180701am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow God warns that He will judge Israel and the surrounding nations, but also that He will restore them in peace and justice. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-block li{border-bottom:...

Habakkuk

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180624am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Habakkuk struggles to understand God’s goodness in the midst of such evil and injustice in the world. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-block li{border-bottom:1px solid #eee;margi...

Nahum

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180617am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Nahum portrays the downfall of Nineveh and Assyria as an image of how God will confront and bring down all violent human empires. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-block li{border...

Micah

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180610am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Micah announces that God’s justice is coming in order to create a new future of love and faithfulness on the other side of Israel’s sin and exile. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpw...

Isaiah

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180603am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Isaiah announces that God’s judgment will purify Israel and prepare his people to the coming messianic king and new Jerusalem. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-block li{border-bo...

Hosea

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180527am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Hosea is told to marry a prostitute who leaves him, and he must bring her back: a picture of God’s relationship with Israel. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-block li{border-bott...

Senior Recognition 2018

Let the Boaster Boast

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180521am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Tanner Ethridge has been at First Baptist Church since 2014.  He and his wife, Kimberly, have four children and love Abbeville. Follow Follow In Jeremiah 9, God calls us to boast — not in our own efforts and accomplishments, but in His. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-block li{border-bottom:1px solid #eee;margin-...

Amos

Watch Listen   http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180513am.m4a     About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Amos accuses Israel of breaking their covenant with God, and highlights how their idolatry has led to injustice and the neglect of the poor. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}....

Jonah

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180506am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow A disobedient prophet runs from God, is swallowed by a great fish, and then preaches God’s message to the city of Nineveh. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-block li{border-bottom...

2 Kings

2 Kings 1-25 Pastor Ryan Johnson April 29, 2018 Purpose of miracles is that the glory of God might be revealed to those that see them. @PastorRyanJ — Ashley Carlisle (@c_lisle10) April 29, 2018 Some people ask why we don't see miracles today like they saw them in scripture. In that statement alone, we see […]

Why Does the Bible Talk about Sex?

With the conclusion of our journey through the Wisdom Literature of the Bible this past Sunday, I can truly say that I have throughly enjoyed looking at all 5 of the books, although this final message was a little more stressful because it contained mature themes.  Talking about sex in the context of a multi-generational group always proves challenging, but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t talk about it.  In fact, the way we train and equip our kids for the hyper-sexualized culture they ...

Song of Songs

Song of Songs 1-8 Pastor Ryan Johnson April 22, 2018 The song of songs is a celebration of God's design of intimacy in covenant marriage. @PastorRyanJ — Ashley Carlisle (@c_lisle10) April 22, 2018 Physical attraction is not unimportant but Ecclesiastes and Proverbbswould remind us that physical beauty fades over time and beauty is not simply […]

Three Applications for the Book of Ecclesiastes (that I didn’t have time for)

At the beginning of 2018 we set a lofty goal: to study through one book of the Bible each Sunday morning.  These messages have been well-received & our understanding of the Story of God has grown. My prayer as we study is that you would also grown in the understanding of how your story fits into what God is doing in our world today. Each week my preparation for these messages is intense.  From reading, watching & transcribing Bible Project videos, reading webpages, listening messages while...

Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes 1-12 Pastor Ryan Johnson April 15, 2018 The book of Ecclesiastes is worttien by someone who has embraced the world is a broken place. @PastorRyanJ — Ashley Carlisle (@c_lisle10) April 15, 2018 Even though the world is broken, wisodn is still key to pursue because it can bring us peace. @PastorRyanJ — Ashley Carlisle […]

Proverbs

Proverbs 1-31 Pastor Ryan Johnson April 8, 2018 Sermon Audio

Encountering the Resurrected Messiah

John 20 Pastor Ryan Johnson April 1, 2018 God has hardwired the human heart for devotion. We naturally seek what we value. @PastorRyanJ — Ashley Carlisle (@c_lisle10) April 1, 2018 You don't get broken emotionally unless you are invested in something. Mary Magdalene was broken because Jesus was her life. @PastorRyanJ — Ashley Carlisle (@c_lisle10) […]

1 Kings

1 Kings 1-22 Pastor Ryan Johnson March 25, 2018

Psalms

Psalm 1-150 Pastor Ryan Johnson March 18, 2018 What was meant for evilGod mercifully and faithfully turned for good. @PastorRyanJ — Ashley Carlisle (@c_lisle10) March 18, 2018 Prayer is connected with hope. Psalms teaches us how to pray and fix our eyes on hope when we pray. @PastorRyanJ — Ashley Carlisle (@c_lisle10) March 18, 2018 […]

2 Samuel

2 Samuel 1-24 Pastor Ryan Johnson March 11, 2018

1 Samuel

1 Samuel 1-31 Pastor Ryan Johnson March 4, 2018 The heart is the center of human life, the center of your personality and the control center for the intellect,emotions and will. @PastorRyanJ — Ashley Carlisle (@c_lisle10) March 4, 2018 Our hearts are already corrupted we are sinners separated from God.@PastorRyanJ — Ashley Carlisle (@c_lisle10) March […]

Ruth

Watch Listen http://www.fbcabbeville.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180225am.m4a About the Speaker Pastor Ryan Johnson has been at First Baptist Church since 2008.  He and his wife, Mandy, have four daughters and love Abbeville. Follow Follow Ruth is a story of love, devotion, and redemption set in the days of the Judges. .rpwe-block ul{list-style:none!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important;}.rpwe-block li{border-bottom:1px solid #eee;margin-bottom:10px;padding...

Judges

Judges 1-21 Pastor Ryan Johnson February 25, 2018 Two types of suffering in this world. Self-inflicted and God ordained. 1 Peter 4: 15-19 @PastorRyanJ — Ashley Carlisle (@c_lisle10) February 25, 2018 Your choices matter and the type of choices you make makes you who you are. They shape your life. @PastorRyanJ — Ashley Carlisle (@c_lisle10) […]

Discuss Joshua

Consider the message of the book of Joshua & compare it to the promise of God to Abraham in Genesis 15:16. What does this mean about God & about the events of this world? The Bible clearly declares God as the ultimate promise-keeper whose purposes will not be thwarted (Job 42:2).  All nations exist & have their boundaries because God allows them to (Acts 17:26). Therefore, God will not be kept from fulfilling His promises to His people.  He did not take Abraham into the Promised Land imme...

Does the Bible Endorse Violence?

Due to the nature of the biblical narrative recorded in the book of Joshua, many skeptics of the Bible ask why it is such a “violent” book.  Does God commend this kind of life upon His followers?  If not, how can we know?  If so, how is Christianity any better than religions like radical Islam?

Joshua

Joshua 1-24 Pastor Ryan Johnson February 18, 2018

Discuss Deuteronomy

If you are a Christian parent, how does Deuteronomy 6:7-9 & 11:18-21 shape the way you parent your children in the faith? It is interesting that these passages are found in Deuteronomy, but not Leviticus.  Leviticus was the initial giving of the Law & Deuteronomy is a re-telling of that same (somewhat expanded) Law to a new generation. After seeing a generation (including himself) fail, Moses wants to make even the basics explicitly clear.  If the older generation wants to see the younger...

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 1-34 Pastor Ryan Johnson February 11, 2018

Discuss Numbers

What two applications can be drawn from the arrangement of the tribes God prescribes in Numbers 2? First of all, it is helpful to remember that the Tabernacle represented the presence of God in Israel.  God’s first instruction was that the Tabernacle should be in the middle of the camp, with the tribes ordered on each side.  The presence of God was visible to the people as they stood outside of their tents.  So, at every moment, they had a visual reminder that the presence of God was to be...

Show Me Christ in the Old Testament (1)

Genesis – Numbers Pastor Ryan Johnson February 4, 2018

Numbers

Numbers 1-36 Pastor Ryan Johnson February 4, 2018 “You never know when the next moment will demand you to make a decision that determines the next decade of your life.” @PastorRyanJ — Raven McDonald (@RavenNicole) February 4, 2018 Our decisions have consequences @PastorRyanJ if you want different results make different choices — Raven McDonald (@RavenNicole) […]

Discuss Leviticus

How does the book of Leviticus prepare us for Jesus Christ?  How does it communicate the Gospel? Leviticus was written to answer the “problem” that we were left with at the end of Exodus, namely that Moses couldn’t enter the presence of God.  Human beings have been created for the presence of God, but our sinfulness prevents us from entering because of God’s holiness. The book of Leviticus is all about this “problem” of God’s holiness.  The “problem” is not with God, really, but with us &...

The Case for Life

Sanctity of Human Life Sunday Pastor Ryan Johnson January 28, 2018

Leviticus

Leviticus 1-27 Pastor Ryan Johnson January 28, 2018

Discuss Exodus

Read Genesis 15:13-16 & consider the fact that God spoke these words several hundred years before the Exodus.  Then consider Pharaoh’s enslavement of the Israelites, & even the slaughter of all the male Hebrew infants.  Was God on His throne during these horrific acts?  Why didn’t He do anything to prevent them?  What does it mean to say God was “sovereign” amid these events? The words of Genesis 15:13-16 are incredibly prophetic, all the way down to the timeframe that they would be there,...

The Plagues of Exodus

Exodus 7-12 Pastor Tanner Ethridge January 21, 2018

Exodus

Exodus 1-40 Pastor Tanner Ethridge January 21, 2017    

Who is “Satan” in the Book of Job?

This past week, as we walked through the story of Job, I noted that a common question people have while reading the very first chapter concerns the character named Satan. While never taking a position in the foreground during the rest of the book, this angelic being is active behind the scenes & definitely begs the question, “Who is he? Where does he come from? Why is he in the presence of God?” So, let’s start with the name. When scholars set out to translate the text of Scripture from th...