Lighthouse Baptist Church

09/15/2026

"Something or someone will have first place in your heart. But when you find the one that created you, it will change your whole perspective!"
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07/02/2026

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My heart is heavy for my church today. Our Sunday Service and Wednesday night crowd has gone down so much in the last 6 months to a year. This morning I read an article that a Pastor from a different church wrote that was so true and I would like to share it. If you are a Christian, you should be an active member of a local church. If you are already a member of a local Bible believing, preaching church, please read the upcoming article and examine your heart and mind.

The Empty Pew

It is hard to imagine a time when churches did not have air conditioning, running water, cushioned chairs or pews. A church where there was a bucket of water in the corner with a dipper that everyone shared. The windows would be opened in the heat and people would crowd together for warmth in the winter. If you had to use the bathroom, you would have to make the long journey to the outhouse. Yet with all of these inconveniences, Sundays use to be a time when people gathered at the church house to hear God’s Word. Many churches didn’t have Sunday School or youth programs and everyone was in the sanctuary to worship, hear God’s Word, and be together. Pews were filled and I heard a lady this past weekend say she remembered when there was no more room in the church, people gathered outside by the windows and doors to hear the preacher preach the Word. God was a priority. Family was a priority.

People will say, “It was a simpler time back then.” Was it? People worked hard from sun up to sun down, most families were fortunate to have one car, and most items were handmade. Yet with everything they had to do on any given day, they made time for God and church.

Unfortunately today, it seems God and church is no longer a priority in too many families. The empty pew is becoming more common in churches throughout our nation. I have heard it said the church needs to change with the times, the church needs to cater to the people, the church needs more programs, the church......

Whatever happened to the thought of the church raising disciples and ministering to the community? Whatever happened to the church being a place where people came to greet one another to share the Word of God and to encourage one another in a life of holiness and righteousness? Whatever happened to people wanting to serve instead of being served?

The empty pew breaks my heart. Are people just too busy for God or do they just not care anymore? Either way, as more and more churches close their doors and people begin to remember when there use to be a place where God’s people would gather, one day when all the church doors are closed, maybe then, just maybe, people will once again rediscover their thirst to know who God is and to be with one another for worship and prayer.
~Calvary Baptist Church, Sulphur, LA

05/24/2026

04/19/2026

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The last words Jesus spoke before He died were a cry so agonizing that the people standing at the foot of the cross could not even understand what He was saying.

Most Christians know that.

Here is what most Christians have never been told.

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me" is not a cry of despair. It is a direct quotation. The opening line of Psalm 22. A psalm written by King David roughly a thousand years before Jesus was born.

Jesus was not losing His faith on the cross. He was quoting Scripture.

And in ancient Jewish tradition, when a rabbi quoted the first line of a psalm, He was invoking the entire psalm. Every person standing at Golgotha who knew the Torah would have recognized exactly what He was doing.

He was not crying out in defeat. He was pointing them to a prophecy.

Now here is what makes that staggering.

Psalm 22 was written approximately one thousand years before the Roman Empire invented crucifixion. Yet look at what David wrote.

"They pierced my hands and my feet."

Crucifixion did not exist when those words were written. David had no framework for it. No historical reference. And yet there it is, written into the Jewish Scriptures a millennium before the method of ex*****on that would fulfill it had ever been conceived.

But that is not all.

"They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing."

The Roman soldiers standing beneath the cross did exactly that. They gambled for the robe of a dying man, fulfilling a line of poetry written by a Hebrew king who had been dead for a thousand years.

"I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me."

Crucifixion dislocated nearly every major joint in the body. The victim hung suspended while the weight of their own frame pulled their skeleton apart. Every bone became visible beneath the skin.

David described it. A thousand years early. In a song.

And most Christians who have heard "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me" their entire lives have absolutely no idea that those words are the opening line of the most detailed prophecy of crucifixion ever written.

But here is the part that changes everything.

Psalm 22 does not end in agony.

Most Christians assume that Jesus died in despair because they only know the first verse. They hear the cry and feel the anguish and believe that the cross ends in darkness.

It does not.

The final verses of Psalm 22 are a declaration of total, absolute, cosmic victory.

"All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before Him."

"Future generations will be told about the Lord. They will proclaim His righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn: He has done it."

He has done it.

The Hebrew word is a single, thundering declaration that scholars translate as the equivalent of one word.

Finished.

The same word Jesus spoke as His final breath on the cross.

"It is finished."

Jesus did not die quoting the beginning of Psalm 22. He died fulfilling the end of it. And by quoting the opening line, He was telling every person who knew the Scriptures exactly how the story would end.

Not in defeat. In victory.

04/04/2026

Today is Saturday…
and heaven is silent

Not peaceful silence
but the kind that aches
the kind that makes you wonder
if anything will ever feel alive again

Because yesterday
hope was buried

The stone was rolled
the tomb was sealed

And all the promises
felt like they were buried with Him

This is the day in between

Between what was
and what will be

Between heartbreak
and redemption

And no one knew yet

No one felt victory coming

All they felt
was loss

Confusion
Fear
Silence

The kind of silence
where prayers feel like they hit the ceiling

The kind of waiting
that makes you question everything

Did we misunderstand?
Did we hope too much?
Was it all… for nothing?

This is the day
where faith doesn’t feel strong

It feels like holding on
with trembling hands

This is the day
where God feels quiet

But quiet
does not mean absent

Because even in the silence

Even in the dark

Even in the sealed tomb

God was still working

Even when no one could see it
Even when no one could feel it

Something was shifting

Because Saturday
is not the end

It’s the space
where miracles are preparing to breathe

So if today feels quiet
if it feels heavy
if it feels like nothing is happening

You are not alone

This day has existed before

The day where everything feels over

right before
everything changes

Today is Saturday

And even when it feels like nothing

God is still moving

Even here

Even now

03/17/2026

They say that most Christians are saved just enough to be miserable. Because once you’re saved, you can’t go back to what you used to be. Because all of a sudden what used to make you happy doesn’t make you happy anymore. You can’t go to church and enjoy God because you’ve back slidden and you’re not where you’re supposed to be. The most miserable people in the world are people that are not right with God! But God has His Holy Spirit to offer you another chance! He’s dealing with you because he loves you and He wants you to come and not only get to where you were but to get where you were and be more effective than you’ve ever been for the honor and the glory of God.

~Dr. Phil Kidd~

02/15/2026

You are not just singers.
‎You are not just musicians.
‎You are not background sound.
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‎You are carriers of atmosphere.
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‎When you lift your voice, walls can fall.
‎When you strike the strings, heavy hearts can break free.
‎When you worship in spirit and in truth, heaven responds.
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‎Your ministry is not performance.
‎It is warfare.
‎It is intercession wrapped in melody.
‎It is preaching without a pulpit.
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‎But hear this clearly,
‎God is not looking for perfect vocals—
‎He is looking for surrendered vessels.
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‎The anointing does not rest on talent.
‎It rests on intimacy.
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‎Practice your scales, yes.
‎Sharpen your skills, yes.
‎But guard your altar more than your instrument.
‎Because what you carry in private
‎is what will flow in public.
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‎Music ministry is not about being seen.
‎It is about making Jesus seen.
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‎So sing like heaven is listening.
‎Play like chains are breaking.
‎Lead like souls are depending on your obedience.
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‎Stay humble. Stay pure.
‎Stay hungry for His presence.
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‎Because when worship rises from a surrendered heart,
‎God does more than fill a room—‎He transforms lives. 🩶