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Glenn Anthony Baptist NXT LVL Ministry

NXT LVL is the college age ministry at Glenn Anthony Baptist Church in Columbus, Ga.

We’re here to help you grow in faith, build frienships and live your purpose. Whether you’re in college, working, or figuring it all out, there’s a place for you here.

05/18/2026

Sometimes the hardest part of faith is trusting God before the answer comes. Hannah’s story in 1 Samuel reminds us that faith is not just believing God after things work out — it’s trusting Him while we wait, while we hurt, and while we don’t understand what He’s doing.

Instead of becoming bitter, Hannah brought her pain honestly to God: “Hannah was in deep anguish, crying bitterly as she prayed to the Lord.” — 1 Samuel 1:10 (NLT)

Too often we try to force outcomes, control timing, or compare our lives to everyone else’s. But real obedience says: “God, I trust You even when I don’t understand the process.”
Sometimes God is doing His deepest work in the waiting season.

05/12/2026

Have you ever wished for a do-over? Maybe you’ve wanted to turn back time and start over. Regret is one of the worst feelings in the world, and if we were honest, most of us have regrets about past choices or mistakes. But regret isn’t the end of our story.

Paul explained it like this: “The old has gone, and the new has come.” What is the “old” he talked about? The “old” life is a life separated from God. A life marked with guilt, shame, pride, selfishness, and condemnation. But this old life passes once we are born again in Christ. The old life is gone, and the new life has come. When we accept Christ, we don’t receive an old, recycled life. Instead, we receive a completely new, fresh life!

This is a reminder of the powerful newness we have in Christ. God’s grace is bigger than any of our regrets. And even though the consequences of past mistakes may linger, in Christ, we have the ultimate do-over. There is no reason to be weighed down with regret. Each day is a gift. It’s a new opportunity to live a life that pleases God, relying on His strength, not our own.

05/09/2026

Such a fun night with the best people. A simple time of music, a few games, food and great conversation. Hope to see y’all next time!

04/20/2026

When you think of the word “tired,” what do you think of? I’m sure one of the first things that comes to my mind is that feeling at the end of the day when you’re just ready to curl up in bed and call it a day. Physically, we get tired. But, as I’m sure we’ve all experienced, there are several sources of our tiredness. There are multiple things in our lives that use and steal our energy. We can become emotionally, relationally, occupationally, and spiritually tired. Do any of these sound familiar to you?

All throughout Scripture, God asks us to give Him our exhaustion in exchange for strength; He asks us to give Him our anxiety for His peace. He says that those who hope in Him will soar like eagles, and will not grow weary (Isaiah 40:31). He says if we will simply come to Him, He will give us rest and an easy burden to carry (Matthew 11:28-29). My normal, human tendency wants to press through exhaustion, just trying to finish the task at hand. But God says to come to Him—to stop, to pause and take time to rest in order to be better used by Him. God cares more about you than your to-do lists. He cares about your rest more than your productivity.

I promise, if you regularly check in with yourself on these questions, and find time to spend with God in His Scripture, in worship, and in prayer, even when you feel overwhelmed with weariness, even when you feel too discouraged to press on, even when you think you can’t keep up with the fast-paced movements, you will find rest in the comfort of your Heavenly Father.

04/11/2026

Don’t miss a night of fun and fellowship!

04/05/2026

Sometimes it is hard for us to recognize the blessings God has placed before us. Look back at your life and take stock of the time God has come through for you. Many times, he did so by bringing you to the end of yourself. And though this process was painful, it was good. You wouldn’t have it any other way. Every Easter, God presents us with a life-changing opportunity. The chance to surrender our lives to him so that he can have free reign to unleash his love upon us.

Love is a choice. It is a choice to give our lives away for the benefit of another. Upon the cross, Jesus willingly surrendered his life for us. He lived the sinless life we could never live and then he died a sacrificial death in our place. Because of his great love for us, Jesus gave his life away.

The question is: How will we respond to this great gift? It is not easy to surrender. It runs counter to our culture’s ideals of pride and self-sufficiency. But if we are honest with ourselves, we know the danger of living the self-serving life. We know the guilt of unforgiven sin. We can taste the bitterness of our past regrets.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. God has laid an eternal opportunity before us all. He has laid down his life for us. Will we respond in faith by laying our lives down for him?

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world, but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? – Matthew 16:24-26

God could not love you any more than he already does. And he has proven his love upon the cross. Jesus gave his life for you. This Easter, respond by giving your life right back to him!

04/03/2026

Friday is the day Jesus was crucified. It’s known as Good Friday – not because what happened to Jesus was good. Some think “good” here means “pious,” “holy,” or “special” –and that’s true. But perhaps even more powerful is this: despite the awful evil Jesus willingly faced and suffered, He brought unlimited goodness to us.

The Gospels describe very little detail about the crucifixion itself. For a first-century listener, those details weren’t necessary. (Movies like The Passion of the Christ or any number of books on the subject can help show you its horror in detail.) For the New Testament writers the mere mention of the word was enough. People knew what it meant when they said they crucified him.

HUMILIATION, DEGRADATION, DEHYDRATION, SHOCK, LOSS OF BLOOD, ASPHYXIATION, EXPOSURE, INFECTION, FATIGUE… This is Good Friday in its horrendous detail. This is what Jesus endured on Good Friday for us. This is how Jesus died.

But Good Friday is not about the horrendous details for their own sake. It’s that Jesus endured this to take our sins away. On the cross he took our punishment for us. On Good Friday Jesus made us right with God by his perfect sacrifice.

By his death, God’s justice was met.
By his death, our punishment has been turned away.
By his death, we are forgiven.
By his death, we are reconciled to God.
By his death, we can become God’s children.
By his death, evil and the dark powers are struck down.
By his death, the world is saved.
By his death, we have victory over sin.
By his death, we have new life.
By his death, we see God’s love through sacrifice.
By his death, Jesus is exalted.
By his death, love wins.
By his death.

This is what Jesus did. This is the price he paid because of the love he has for us and his Father. This is peace – peace that lasts, peace that endures, true peace between God and humanity. This is Good Friday. “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to those on whom His favor rests.”

03/30/2026

God does not work randomly.

Everything is filtered through purpose. And you need to know and walk in this reality.

“But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive. Gen 50:20”

Faith matures when you stop asking God to explain everything and start trusting His wisdom.

Nothing is beyond Him.

Nothing interrupts His plan.

Nothing overrides His authority.

You must come to terms with this, with God, purpose governs process.

When and once you understand this, frustration gives way to surrender. God is not reacting to your life — He is directing it.

And His purpose cannot fail.

03/28/2026

David learned to trust in God as he tended sheep. Because God had faithfully delivered him from evil in the fields, David never doubted that God would help him defeat the giant on the battlefield. David understood that the power to defeat the enemy came from God, not his own smarts. His job was to humbly obey God and stay faithful to the task.
Whether he was tending sheep, running errands for his father, or facing a giant, David’s desire was to please God, not to gain applause.

Right now, you may feel insignificant in the world’s eyes, but God sees your willing heart. Ordinary acts of obedience like David’s can make an extraordinary difference. As we choose to trust God and obey in small ways, God is pleased with our sacrifice and often multiplies our impact.

03/22/2026

Every day, we spend a lot of time thinking about ourselves. We think about what we want to wear, what others are thinking about us, how we are feeling, and what we do and don’t have. Because we think about ourselves so much, it’s natural to want to put ourselves first and make sure that we are taken care of before we want to think about someone else.

When Jesus was on earth, He lived in the completely opposite way. Jesus was constantly putting other people above Himself, and thinking about them before He thought about His own needs. Jesus thought about other people above Himself so much that it was the reason He died for us - because He loved us that much and wanted to put us first.

When we serve someone else, it is the opportunity to follow Jesus’ example and put someone else above ourselves, filling their needs first and then our own. By doing so, we are truly serving someone else and obeying the way that Jesus told us to live and serve others.

03/05/2026

A creek flows through the woods. A group of kids discover it and decide to build a dam, just to see what will happen. The creek flows over, around, and through their collection of sticks, bringing other debris with it to make the dam bigger and bigger. Eventually the water stops flowing. A pool forms above the dam, and the ground downstream becomes a muddy mire. One of two things is going to happen: either the force of the gathering water will break the makeshift dam, or it will hold and eventually everything below it will die.

Conflicts are inevitable, but a dead relationship doesn’t have to be. Like the kids removing their dam to allow the water to flow, we can offer forgiveness to the people in our lives, and ask them to forgive us, as well.

If you are a follower of Christ, you have been forgiven. God has wiped away all of your sin. But as long as we live on this earth, we will make mistakes, hurt people unintentionally, and, sometimes, be in conflict. Forgiveness will allow the love of God to flow in us and through us in a world that desperately needs it.

Is there anyone you need to forgive today? Or is there someone you need to ask forgiveness from?

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