Faith Baptist Church Freeport Tx

01/01/2025

Therefore good is not to be determined by feeling, but by faith.

The afflicted see more in the scripture than others do; the secure and fortunate read them as they do Ovid’s verses.

If God write his law upon our hearts by his stripes on our backs, so light a trouble should not be grudged at

Manton, Thomas. An Exposition of Psalm 119

01/01/2025

God permitted the lapse and fall of mankind, that they may come to him as needy creatures, and take all out of his hands. Man’s great error, which occasioned his fall, was that he would live alone apart from God, be sufficient to his own happiness. We greedily caught at that word, Ye shall be as gods,’ Gen. iii. 5. The meaning was, not in a blessed conformity, but a cursed self-sufficiency. Man would be his own god, desired to have his stock in his own hands, and would be no more at God’s finding: Gen. iii. 22, The man is become as one of us,’ to live as an independent being. Well, then, to cure this, God would reduce him to an utter necessity, that he might bring him to an entire dependence, and might come as a beggarly indigent creature, expecting all from God, putting no confidence in his own righteousness for his justification, nor natural power and strength for sanctification:

Manton, Thomas. An Exposition of Psalm 119 (p. 1216). Titus Books. Kindle Edition.

09/01/2024

When we stand for the faith, the faith helps us stand!

08/14/2024

He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
Proverbs 14:2

How we live declares our disposition toward the LORD.

10/29/2023

10/10/2023

How shall they hear without a preacher?

02/09/2023

The response of a sincere creationist!

If I believe the heavens were made by the word of the LORD.
If I believe the universe was spread out by the breath of his mouth.
If I believe he, by his power, gathered the waters and the seas came into existence.

Then:
I should fear him
I should stand in awe of him

Why? Because I believe he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast!

If this belief does not orient my view of God and my response to him then just maybe my belief in creation is nothing more than an intellectual position rather than a relational one!

01/27/2023

How shall they hear without a preacher?

Really, if eternity is on the minds of so many, there's nothing to fear when you strike up a conversation with someone. You have the truth that can set them free. And you'll likely be respected for caring about their souls.

"That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost," (Romans 15:16)