Olivet Baptist Church

10/18/2026

Join us today Pastor Matt will bring Part 5 of our Sermon Series: Reestablishing God's Standard in the Church. Pastor Matt will be in 1 Timothy 2:8-15.

10/11/2026

Join us Live this Sunday as Pastor Andrew brings the 4th part of our sermon series: Reestablishing God's Standard in the Church. Today we will be in 1 Timothy 2.

10/10/2026

Saturday, October 10th
Day 5: Never Ashamed of the Gospel
Reading: Romans 1:16-17 — Paul declares that he is not ashamed of the gospel,
describing it as the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, and affirming that in it the righteousness of God is revealed.

Devotional: Paul ends his reminder to Timothy not with a warning but with a mission.
The gospel is not a private comfort to be kept to yourself. It is the power of God
released into the world through proclamation. You do not have to be a pastor or a
theologian to carry it. You only need to know what Christ has done in your own life and be willing to say so. The person sitting next to you at work, standing behind you in line, or living under your own roof may never hear the gospel from anyone else. You are not responsible for changing them. You are responsible for telling them. Go today knowing that the message you carry is not ordinary — it is the power of God unto salvation.

Reflection: When was the last time you told someone specifically what Christ has done in your life? What is holding you back from doing it more consistently?

Practical Application: Before this week ends, find one natural opportunity to share
your testimony with someone who does not yet know Christ. Keep it simple. Tell them who you were, what God did, and who you are now because of Jesus.

10/09/2026

Friday, October 9th
Day 4: Waging the Good Warfare
Reading: 1 Timothy 1:18-19 — Paul charges Timothy to fight the good fight, holding to
faith and a good conscience, warning that some who rejected their conscience have
suffered shipwreck in their faith.

Devotional: The Christian life is not passive. Paul uses military language deliberately.
There is a battle to be fought — not against people, but against the slow drift away from truth. A shipwreck rarely happens all at once. It begins with small compromises, a silenced conscience, a truth quietly reinterpreted to allow a behavior that God has
already addressed. The warning here is not meant to frighten you into despair but to
awaken you to vigilance. Faith and a good conscience must be held together. What you believe and how you live must align. When the Holy Spirit speaks through your
conscience, do not push that voice aside. That voice is part of God's gracious protection over your life.

Reflection: Is there an area of your life where your conscience has been speaking and
you have been choosing not to listen? What would it cost you to respond honestly to
that today?

Practical Application: Spend ten minutes in quiet prayer, asking the Holy Spirit to
reveal any area where your life and your beliefs have drifted apart. Write down what
comes to mind and bring it before God in honest confession.

10/08/2026

Thursday, October 8th
Day 3: A Living Example of Patient Mercy
Reading: 1 Timothy 1:16 — Paul explains that he received mercy so that Christ might
display his perfect patience through him as an example to all who would believe.

Devotional: Paul understood that his salvation was not only personal — it was also a
public demonstration. God was making a statement through his life. If the most
aggressive enemy of the early church could be transformed by the grace of Jesus, then no one could claim to be beyond reach. Your story works the same way. The people in your life who seem hardest, most resistant, or most hostile to the gospel are not outside the reach of God's patient mercy. You may be the very example God uses to convince someone else that change is possible. Do not grow weary in praying for the difficult people around you. God is patient, and his patience is purposeful.

Reflection: Is there someone in your life you have quietly given up on spiritually? What would it look like to trust God's patience for that person again?

Practical Application: Identify one person you have stopped praying for. Recommit to
praying for that person by name every day this week. Ask God to use your life as a
testimony that softens their heart.

10/07/2026

Wednesday, October 7th
Day 2: The Chief of Sinners and the Savior Who Came Anyway
Reading: 1 Timothy 1:15 — Paul declares that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, calling himself the foremost among them.

Devotional: Paul does not say he was once the chief of sinners. He says he is the chief
of sinners. Present tense. He never outgrew his awareness of his own need for grace.
This posture is not false humility — it is the honest recognition that apart from Christ,
there is nothing good in any of us. And yet the faithful saying stands: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Not to improve the already decent. Not to reward the religious. He came to save the lost, the broken, and the ones society had written off. If you have ever wondered whether you are too far gone, Paul's life is God's answer. The grace of Christ is not rationed. It overflows.

Reflection: Do you genuinely see yourself as someone who needed to be saved, or
has familiarity with the gospel dulled your sense of what Christ actually rescued you
from?

Practical Application: Read Luke 15:11-32, the parable of the prodigal son. Sit with
the image of the father running toward the returning son. Ask God to renew your sense of wonder at his pursuit of you.

10/06/2026

Tuesday, October 6th
Day 1: The Grace That Found You
Reading: 1 Timothy 1:12-14 — Paul describes how Christ considered him faithful,
appointed him to ministry, and poured out grace abundantly, despite his former life of
blasphemy and persecution.

Devotional: It is easy to rehearse your failures and conclude that God could never truly use you. Paul refused that conclusion. He looked back at who he was — a violent
opponent of Christ — and instead of drowning in shame, he overflowed with gratitude. The same grace that interrupted Paul on the road to Damascus is the grace that found you. It did not find you at your best. It found you exactly as you were. That is the nature of God's grace — it does not wait for you to become worthy. It arrives first and begins the transformation. Today, refuse to minimize what God has done in your life. Let the memory of where you came from fuel a deeper worship of the One who brought you out.

Reflection: What specific moment or season in your life most clearly shows you the
grace of God at work? Have you thanked him for it recently?

Practical Application: Write down three ways your life looks different because of the
grace of God. Share one of them with someone today as a testimony of what Christ has
done.

10/04/2026

Join us live as we continue our Sermon Series: Reestablishing God's Standard in His Church.

09/27/2026

09/26/2026

Saturday, September 26th
Day 5: Fellowship That Goes Beyond Gathering
Reading: Hebrews 10:24-25

Devotional: Showing up is not the same as being present. Hebrews 10 calls believers not only to gather consistently but to actively exhort one another — to stir up love and good works in each other. That kind of influence requires proximity, vulnerability, and genuine investment in the lives of fellow believers. You cannot exhort someone you do not know. You cannot stir up love in someone you never speak to.

The gathering is necessary, but it is the fellowship — the giving and receiving of spiritual life — that transforms a crowd of attenders into a true body. Identify one person in your church family this week and take one intentional step toward genuine fellowship with them.