1st Baptist, Joplin TX

10/05/2025

10/04/2025

October is Pastor Appreciation Month.
Please do not forget the Pastor's wife - as she is most often the only support your Pastor ever gets.

09/13/2025

When Jesus began His ministry, the very 1st word He spoke was "repent". When Peter was asked what they could do at the day of Pentacost, the very 1st word he said was "repent".
Any church that fails to preach repentance is NOT a church, its a feel-good indoctrination center of false convenient Christianity. Preachers should know better!
Jesus said without repentance you will perish.
Feeling good now is not worth that.
Find another church.

09/07/2025

You're not covered with God's promises because you cling to Christ. You're covered because Christ clings to you.
You may think you walked away, but you'll find if you just turn around, He's right there, always.

08/02/2025

Please join us here live at 11 am today as our pastor & his wife bring special music to the Freewill Baptist Pastor's Conference in Bowie today, followed by a powerful message from our pastor to the Conference. It's such an honor & privilege for Rev Butler to be asked to speak at this event, but it's also like a homecoming or reunion as he was once a member of that church and played guitar in the bad, but it is also the place he & his lovely wife were married over 2 decades ago. Be sure to tune in!

07/18/2025

The great miracle of redemption is not that we accept Christ, but that Christ accepts us

07/15/2025

This is my complete salvation prayer:

Almighty God, I believe you died on the cross for my sins, were resurrected from the dead to defeat death, & ascended to the right hand of the Father to reign forever.
I humbly come to you broken; a sinner in need of your mercy and grace. Knowing, Holy God, that Jesus Christ alone is my savior and Lord. I confess my sins and lay them at your feet O Lord and repent of every transgression. Lord I embrace the promise of redemption and the hope for eternal life in Christ and humbly ask that you cleanse my heart so that your Spirit will forever indwell in me, and transform me, Holy God, into a new creation in the Spirit. I commit myself to live by your grace & follow after you as my Lord & Savior. I pray Almighty God to be Baptized by the Spirit in the name of the Father, the Son, & the Holy Spirit.
Amen