First Baptist Church of Hartville MO

First Baptist Church of Hartville MO A mix of hymns and contemporary music prior to a life changing message every Sunday. Founded on September 24 1907.

06/14/2026

Join us this morning as we continue the series Ready or Not, Here HE Comes.

The OverflowIn ancient times, oil represented blessing. Not the kind you cook with. The kind that was sacred. Expensive....
06/14/2026

The Overflow

In ancient times, oil represented blessing. Not the kind you cook with. The kind that was sacred. Expensive. Rare. When a king was crowned, oil was poured on his head. Not a drop. A generous amount. It ran down his face, into his beard, soaking into his robes until the whole person was marked by it. That anointing said, "This person is set apart. This person is chosen. This person is blessed by God." It was a visible, tangible, olfactory declaration.

Psalm 133:2 "It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron's robes."

Aaron was the high priest. The one who represented all of Israel to God. And when he was anointed with precious oil, it wasn't a private ceremony. Everyone saw it. Everyone smelled it. The fragrance marked him. He carried it with him. It wasn't just on his head where it started. It soaked through to his beard, to his robes, to his whole presence. Wherever he went, people knew he'd been anointed.

When the psalmist compares unity to this anointing oil, he's saying something radical. When God's people live together in unity, it's like being marked with blessing. The goodness of it doesn't stay on one person. It overflows. It soaks down. It spreads to everyone in the community. The blessing isn't consumed when it's shared. It's multiplied.

That's the opposite of how most of us consider blessing. We think blessing is something you get and keep. If I'm blessed with success, that's mine. If I'm blessed with a good marriage, that's my family's. We guard the blessing. We protect it. We're careful who we let near it because we're afraid it will diminish if we share it. That's the scarcity mindset.

But precious oil doesn't work that way. It's not diminished by overflow. It's fulfilled by it. The whole point of the anointing is that it marks everyone around the person. The oil on Aaron's head is worthless if it doesn't soak down to his beard and robes. It reaches its purpose in the overflow. The blessing is only complete when it's spreading.

Picture a community where one person is genuinely blessed. They're at peace. They're secure. That peace is contagious. Their rest becomes permission for others to rest. Their confidence gives permission to stop performing. The blessing overflows.

In a marriage, when one spouse experiences God's faithfulness deeply, it changes the whole relationship. They stop needing the other person to prove they're worthy. They can love without conditions because they've been loved unconditionally. That overflow transforms the marriage. Not because the other person changed. But because blessing soaked through. The oil ran down.

Contrast that with scarcity thinking. If blessing is limited, then your blessing takes something from me. Your success threatens mine. Your peace makes me anxious because I don't have it. Instead of overflow, there's competition. Instead of anointing that spreads, there's hoarding that protects. People guard their wins and hide their goods because they're operating under the assumption that there's not enough.

James was describing this exact dynamic in those early chapters. The rich person guards what they have. They exploit. They take. Because in a scarcity system, your gain is my loss. But the psalmist is describing a different system. An abundance system. Where blessing overflows. Where everyone gets marked by it. Where one person's anointing becomes the whole community's fragrance.

Hebrews 6:10 says, "God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them." The work you do, the kindness you show, it's marked by blessing. It soaks into your robes, your reputation, your character. And it marks the people you help too. The oil overflows from you to them. Generosity creates a fragrance.

When you serve someone in a unified community, you're not depleting yourself. You're overflowing. The precious oil is running down. Your blessing becomes their blessing. Not because you had less to give, but because blessing multiplies when it's shared. That's the economy of God's kingdom. Shortage thinking doesn't apply. The more you pour, the more you have.

Maybe you're in a season where you're overwhelmed. You're giving and giving and you feel like you have nothing left. That's scarcity thinking. That's treating blessing as finite. But the psalmist is saying when God's people live together in unity, the blessing isn't diminished by overflow. It's amplified. The more it flows, the more it multiplies. The depletion you feel comes from not being in community, not from being too generous.

Picture the anointing oil pouring down Aaron's head. Running through his beard. Soaking into his robes. Every surface gets marked by it. That's what happens in unity. Every person in the community gets marked by blessing. Not because they all achieved the same thing. But because they're in community together. The blessing overflows from person to person. One person's peace becomes the room's atmosphere.

The oil was precious. Expensive. Rare. But it was poured generously. That's the message. God doesn't anoint people stingily. He pours. And the pouring is the point. If the oil stayed on the head, it would accomplish nothing. It would just sit there, wasting. Its beauty is in the overflow. In how it marks the whole person. In how everyone in the room can see and smell that this person is blessed.

You want people to know you're blessed? Stop guarding the blessing. Let it overflow. Invite someone into your peace. Share what you're learning from God. Welcome someone into your community. The overflow is how the world knows that God is real. Not your words. The transformed people around you. The community that loves each other without competition. That's the smell of precious oil soaking through everything.

Apply
Identify something you've been guarding as your own. A skill. A friendship. A spiritual truth. Share it this week. Let it overflow to someone else. Notice what happens to the blessing.

Pray
God, I've been guarding my blessings like they'll run out if I share them. But you've anointed me – not to keep it but to overflow it. Help me trust that the blessing multiplies when I pour it out. Let me mark others with the same generosity you've shown me. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Join  us with family and friends this Sunday at 10 am with Children's Church at 10:30.Connect Classes are at 9 am for al...
06/13/2026

Join us with family and friends this Sunday at 10 am with Children's Church at 10:30.

Connect Classes are at 9 am for all ages.

When They Live TogetherWatch children who've just met at a park. No hierarchy. No jockeying for position. One child has ...
06/13/2026

When They Live Together

Watch children who've just met at a park. No hierarchy. No jockeying for position. One child has a bucket. The other has a shovel. They're not comparing whose is nicer. They're filling and pouring together. There's a simplicity to how they move. A rhythm. They don't have to negotiate who goes first or who matters more. They just. Work. Together. And somewhere in the movement, joy shows up. Not manufactured. Just there. Like breathing.

Psalm 133:1 "How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity!"

That's what the psalmist is describing. How good and pleasant it is. Not difficult. Not virtuous. Not the hard work of forcing harmony. Good. Pleasant. Natural. When God's people live together in unity, something right settles into place. Something the human heart recognizes immediately as correct. Your body knows it before your mind understands it. Your shoulders drop. Your breathing slows. You feel like you've come home.

Unity doesn't mean sameness. The psalmist isn't saying everyone likes the same things or looks the same way. Look at the church that James was writing to. Rich and poor. Different backgrounds. Different perspectives. Different struggles. That's not uniform. That's diversity. But there's one thing that holds it together. They belong to the same God. They're moving toward the same direction. Their ultimate loyalty is identical.

When that happens, when people stop competing and start belonging, something shifts in the room. You can feel it. The tension drops. The conversation deepens. People take risks they wouldn't take alone. Someone shares a struggle they've been hiding. Someone else says, "Me too." And suddenly you realize you're not the only one. You've been alone in a room full of people. But now you're together. That's the magic of unity. It transforms isolation into communion.

Unity, in the way the psalmist means it, isn't about agreement on every detail. It's about agreement on what matters most. The church might disagree about how to do ministry. But if they agree that God matters most, the disagreement becomes smaller. A couple might see finances completely differently. But if they agree that the marriage matters most, the money issue becomes something they solve together instead of something that divides them.

What makes unity pleasant isn't the absence of difference. It's the presence of mutual value. You're different from the person next to you. But you value them anyway. Not because they earn it. Because you've decided they matter. Because your identity is tied to theirs. You're in this together. And together matters more than proving who's right. That's the decision that creates unity. Not that everyone thinks alike. But that everyone thinks together.

The psalmist says it's “good.” That word carries weight. Good isn't just nice. It's right. It's aligned with how things should be. Isolation is easy. You don't have to negotiate with yourself. You don't have to make space for someone else's perspective. But it's not good. It's lonely. It's incomplete. Unity is harder logistically but easier existentially. Your soul recognizes it as what it was made for.

When did you last experience real unity? Not forced agreement. Not surface harmony. But genuine belonging where everyone's different and everyone's valued? That feeling the psalmist is describing. How good. How pleasant. Do you remember it? Do you remember how your shoulders relaxed? How your guard dropped? That's the measuring stick for whether you're living in true unity.

Ephesians 4:3 says, "Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace." Make every effort. It's not automatic. You have to choose it. You have to protect it. But once you've chosen it, once you've committed to treating someone as belonging regardless of disagreement, something shifts. The hard part is the choosing. The living it out becomes natural. The effort required isn't suffering. It's the investment of someone who's found something precious.

A team of musicians makes no sense on paper. The cellist and violinist play different notes. Different ranges. Different purposes. But they agreed to play the same song. So discord becomes harmony. Different notes, same song. Each contributes their unique voice. No one's instrument is wrong. They're just different parts of the same composition.

Many of us rank people automatically. Smarter or dumber. More successful or less. It's like breathing. But unity asks you to stop ranking. To sit beside someone different and say, "We're the same kind of important." Not because they deserve it. Because together matters more than your ranking system.

The goodness and pleasantness the psalmist describes isn't the absence of work. It's the presence of purpose. Yes, unity requires effort. You have to listen to someone else's perspective even when yours is different. You have to make space. You have to forgive when someone disappoints you. You have to choose to stay even when leaving would be easier. But all that effort has the most important outcome. People matter to each other instead of just living near each other.

Loneliness in a crowd is one of the sharpest pains humans experience. You're surrounded by people and still feel entirely alone. That's what happens when unity is absent. People are there but not together. They're occupying the same space but not belonging to each other. It's the difference between being in a room and being in a community.

When unity shows up, the weight shifts. You're not carrying your own story alone anymore. Other people know it. They carry it with you. And you carry theirs. The burden becomes distributed. The joy becomes multiplied. How good and pleasant it is. Because finally, you're not alone. That's the promise of unity. Not that problems disappear. But that you face them with witnesses.

Apply
Who are the people you genuinely belong with? Not in surface way but deep. Write their names. Then reach out to one today and say, "I'm grateful we're in this together."

Pray
God, I was made for unity. But I've been living alone even in crowds. Bring me into community where I'm known and valued. Not for what I produce or achieve but for who I am. Show me what it means to live together with your people in real unity. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Mercy Speaks LouderYou're being watched. Not in the paranoid sense where you should be afraid. But in the sense that mat...
06/12/2026

Mercy Speaks Louder

You're being watched. Not in the paranoid sense where you should be afraid. But in the sense that matters most. The one with authority is paying attention to how you're treating people. He's noticing the moment you show favoritism. He's seeing the tone you use with the man in filthy clothes. He's watching. And the lens through which he'll judge isn't the law of condemnation. It's the law of freedom.

James 2:12-13 "Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law of freedom. For judgment without mercy will be shown to a person who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment."

That phrase changes everything. The law of freedom. Not the law of perfection. Not the law of sinlessness. Not the law of never messing up. Freedom. That means God is looking for whether you're operating in a system of freedom or captivity. Are you enslaved to what people think? Enslaved to status seeking? Enslaved to fear of the poor and adulation of the rich? Or are you free? Free to treat everyone equally. Free to love without calculating return. Free to honor what God honors instead of what the world honors.

When James says you're going to be judged by this law, he's not threatening. He's inviting. He's saying there's a standard, and it's a generous one. It's a standard of freedom, not perfection. The question isn't whether you've achieved some impossible standard of never showing preference. The question is whether you're moving toward freedom or away from it. Whether you're becoming less enslaved to status or more enslaved.

Then he delivers the hardest line. Judgment without mercy will be shown to a person who has not been merciful. That's not God being harsh. That's cause and effect. Mercy is something you practice. It's something you build. Every time you show it, you become more merciful. Every time you withhold it, you become harder. You're sculpting yourself into either a merciful person or a judgmental one. And the final judgment will reveal what you've been building toward.

If you've spent your life withholding mercy, by the time judgment comes, you won't recognize mercy when you see it. You'll see judgment as justice. You'll see condemnation as fairness. You'll have trained yourself to see the world that way. But if you've spent your life practicing mercy, if you've spent it honoring the dishonored and including the excluded, then when God's judgment comes, it will look like mercy to you. Because that's what you've become familiar with.

A therapist works with someone who's been hurt so deeply they can't trust. She shows up week after week with patience that makes no logical sense. She extends grace when the person deserves nothing. She models what it looks like to be merciful with someone who's earned judgment. And slowly, the person's walls crack. They begin to believe that mercy is possible. They begin to become merciful themselves.

That's what God is doing with you. He's showing you mercy constantly. Extending grace you don't deserve. Honoring you even when you've dishonored others. And his mercy isn't theoretical. It's being lived out in front of you daily. The question is whether you're paying attention. Whether you're learning from it. Whether you're becoming the kind of person who practices what you've been shown.

Mercy triumphs over judgment. Not because judgment isn't real. But because mercy is more powerful. Judgment is the end of things. Mercy is the beginning. Judgment says no. Mercy says there's still time, still hope, still a way forward. And because you live in time, because you're still breathing, mercy triumphs. For now. For today. The opportunity to show mercy instead of judgment is still available.

Hebrews 4:16 says, "Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." You've been invited into mercy. That's not something you earned. That's something God offered. Freely. And he's asking you to pass it on. To be the person who shows mercy, not because the person deserves it, but because you've been shown mercy you didn't deserve.

In the gathering James is talking about, the poor man is going to face judgment. Maybe from you. Maybe from others. Maybe from himself. He's going to feel smaller because he is small in the eyes of the world. But mercy can reframe that. A word. An invitation. A seat. These tiny acts of mercy become louder than every judgment he's heard about his worth.

Matthew 5:7 says, "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy." Blessed. Happy. At peace. The merciful person isn't wrung out by judgment. They're not constantly evaluating whether someone deserves their kindness. They're free. They're practicing freedom. And they're training themselves to be the kind of person who can receive the ultimate mercy from God without feeling like they're getting away with something they don't deserve.

The law of freedom isn't an escape clause. It's not permission to do whatever you want. It's a different operating system. You're free from the need to prove your worth through status. Free from the fear of falling. Free from the requirement that everyone earn the basic dignity you give them. That freedom is what God is judging. That freedom is what mercy produces.

Mercy doesn't ignore wrongdoing. But it holds wrongdoing in hope. The poor man didn't do anything wrong, so mercy comes easily. But when someone has wronged you? Mercy still speaks first. It says, "There's still a way forward." Every time you practice mercy, you become more free. Every time you withhold it, you become more bound. By judgment, you'll be whatever you've been practicing.

Apply
Before you judge someone this week, offer mercy first. Give them the benefit of the doubt. Assume the best. Notice how it changes the interaction and how it changes you.

Pray
God, I want to receive mercy from you. The kind that triumphs over every judgment I deserve. But I can't ask for it while withholding it from others. Make me merciful. Not because they deserve it. Because you've made me merciful by being merciful to me. Transform me into the kind of person who sees mercy as powerful, not weakness. In Jesus' name. Amen.

The Law That Holds EverythingSomewhere in your house there's a moment when everything changes. One nail holds the weight...
06/11/2026

The Law That Holds Everything

Somewhere in your house there's a moment when everything changes. One nail holds the weight of the picture frame. One hinge holds the weight of the door. One chord holds the structure of the song. Remove it and everything collapses. That one element was structural. It was carrying more weight than you realized until it was gone.

James 2:8-11 "If you really fulfill the royal law found in Scripture, 'Love your neighbor as yourself,' you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. For he who said, 'you shall not commit adultery,”'also said, 'you shall not murder.' If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker."

James is saying the royal law is that nail. The hinge. The chord. “Love your neighbor as yourself.” It's called royal because a king made it law. Not a human king. The King. Jesus said it twice. When asked what the greatest commandment was, he said first that you love God with everything you have, and then, immediately, "And the second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments" (Matthew 22:37-40). Hang. Everything else is suspended from this one principle.

“If you really fulfill it,” James says. The “really” matters. When you actually live it out. When you treat someone the way you'd want to be treated. When you give them dignity because you claim to follow the one who died for everyone. You're walking in the way God designed. You're aligned with how the universe is supposed to work.

But favoritism breaks it. The moment you start treating people differently based on appearance, you've broken the law. Not a rule. The law. The foundational principle that holds everything together. You can't love your neighbor as yourself if you're assigning different worth to them based on what they're wearing. You've decided they're not equal to you. You've decided some neighbors matter more than others. That's not love. That's preference. And preference is the opposite of the royal law.

Then James makes a statement that sounds almost nonsensical until you consider it. Whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. You could follow every other rule perfectly. You could be kind, generous, honest, faithful. But if you fail at one point, you've violated the entire system. That doesn't make sense in a works-based system. But it makes perfect sense in a love-based system.

Because the law isn't a checklist. It's not nine hundred things you're supposed to do and one thing doesn't matter. The law is an expression of one thing. Love. All of it flows from that one spring. Murder violates it. Theft violates it. Adultery violates it. Favoritism violates it. They're not separate violations. They're different expressions of the same root problem. You've stopped loving.

James illustrates it with murder and adultery. Two enormous commandments. Surely keeping those while breaking others wouldn't matter. But his point is that a lawbreaker is a lawbreaker. You can't keep some laws and break others. Not because God is petty and counts infractions. But because the law is unified. It's all expressing the same principle. The moment you violate one part, you've shown that you don't actually operate from love. You operate from self-interest.

Consider the man with the gold ring who you flatter even though you know he's been exploiting people. You haven't murdered him. You haven't slept with him. But you've honored what he values over what God values. You've positioned yourself to gain from his approval instead of to give him love. That's adultery with the world's values. That's murdering his worth by reducing him to his net worth. The specific laws aren't the point. The operating system is.

Galatians 3:10 says, "All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written. 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.'" You can't compartmentalize. You can't say you love God and then treat his image-bearers as less. You can't claim the royal law and then practice partiality. The law reveals whether love is actually your organizing principle.

Here's what's insidious about favoritism. It feels like a small thing. It's not theft. It's not violence. It's just giving someone a better seat. It's just being a little warmer to the successful person. It's just protecting your own interests. Small moves. But James is saying those small moves are the entire system manifesting in a different form. If the royal law is love, and you're practicing favoritism, then you're revealing what actually rules your life. It's not love. It's preference. Safety. Status.

The convicting part is that you're convicted by the law itself. Not by a person judging you. The law itself shows what you've done. When you show favoritism, the law of love looks back at you and says, "You've broken me." You feel the inconsistency because there is an inconsistency. You know you've betrayed your own stated commitment. The guilt isn't imposed. It's natural. It's the system reasserting itself.

Matthew 5:43-48 expands this. Jesus says, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Even the love you're giving your neighbors is being given to the wrong people with the wrong heart. You're loving the people who can help you. You're ignoring the people who can't. That's not the royal law. That's the law of preference.

If favoritism seems like a small thing to you, that means the royal law hasn't taken root in your heart yet. Because if love really ruled you, you couldn't honor the one who's harming you and dismiss the one who's worshiping with you. The law holds everything together. Break it at one point, and everything fractures. Not because God is keeping score. But because you've revealed that love isn't actually running the system. Something else is.

Apply
Name one way you're showing favoritism and write it down. Then ask yourself: If love were actually my operating system, what would I do differently? Then do it. This week. Even if it costs you something.

Pray
God, the royal law reveals me. I show favoritism and the law of love looks back at me and says, "I'm broken." I can't keep one rule perfectly while breaking it in another form. Either love rules or it doesn't. Either I treat everyone as your image-bearer or I've broken the whole system. Make love my operating system. Not partially. Really. In Jesus' name. Amen.

The Inverted KingdomListen. That's how James starts. Like he's been watching you make a category mistake and he finally ...
06/10/2026

The Inverted Kingdom

Listen. That's how James starts. Like he's been watching you make a category mistake and he finally can't stay quiet anymore. He's not angry. He's urgent. Because what you're about to hear doesn't align with anything you've been taught about how God works.

James 2:5-7 "Listen, my dear brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?"

God chose the poor. Chose them. Not tolerated them. Not accommodated them. Chose them deliberately. “In the eyes of the world” means by the world's measurement system. By the standard of money and status and appearance. That's the measurement that says the poor don't matter. That they're less than. That they're people you can safely ignore or mistreat. But God looked at that measurement and disagreed completely.

He chose them to be rich in faith. Not to become rich financially. Rich in faith. That means the poor person in your gathering, the one you put on the floor, might have a faith that makes the man with the gold ring look spiritually bankrupt. They have access to God that can't be purchased. They have a kind of richness that wealth actually obscures sometimes. They've had to trust God about things the wealthy person has never needed to trust him about. Their faith has been tested in ways that produce something worth more than gold.

And they're the ones who inherit the kingdom. The kingdom God promised. The eternal prize. The final word. The place where everything that seemed valuable here becomes worthless and everything that was invisible here becomes obvious. The poor you dishonored? They're inheriting the place where their faithfulness will be vindicated. They're inheriting the kingdom. This is not a small thing.

But you've dishonored them. Past tense. Already. By treating them as less. By seating them on the floor. By reading their poverty as an indication of their character. You've taken the people God chose and made them smaller. You've done the opposite of what God did. He looked at poverty and chose it as precious. You looked at poverty and chose to diminish it further.

And then James asks a question that lands hard. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? These are the people you're giving the good seats to. The ones you're trying to impress. Are they the ones being kind to you? No. They're exploiting you. Using you. Dragging you into court. These are people who have no allegiance to you and no interest in your welfare. They want something from you. And your response is to honor them.

There's a logic problem here that James is pointing out. You're afraid of the rich so you flatter them. You're dismissive of the poor so you ignore them. But the rich are the ones who are actually harming you. They're the ones without loyalty. The poor are the ones in the same gathering as you, in the same church, part of the same body. If you're going to give honor based on who actually cares about you, you've got it backward. Completely backward.

The final insult is that the rich are blaspheming the name of Jesus. They're taking his name, the one you claim belongs to you, and dragging it through the mud. They're disrespecting your Lord. And your response to this disrespect is to honor them. To give them the good seat. To treat them like they matter most. Meanwhile, as the rich are mocking your God, the poor are worshiping with you.

Psalm 109:16 says about the wicked, "They loved to curse and it came upon them. They did not delight to bless, so it was far from them." There's a principle buried there. The direction of blessing matters. You bless what you value. You honor what you believe matters. The rich are showing you what they value, and it's not your God. The poor are showing you what they value by being in your gathering, and it's community, faith, belonging.

Luke 6:20-21 echoes James' point: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied." Jesus is making the same declaration James is making. The poor aren't blessed because poverty is virtuous. They're blessed because they know how to trust. Because they've had to depend on God in ways the wealthy don't. Because the kingdom of God is theirs in a way it can only be to those who have nothing else to hold on to.

You want the blessing of God. You want to inherit the kingdom. You want to be the one who ends up on the winning side. James is telling you the winning side is already identified. It's the poor living by faith. It's the broken who still believe. It's the people you've put on the floor. If you want the kingdom, you need to be on their side, not against them.

This is what Jesus meant when he said it's harder for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. It's not that wealth is sin. It's that wealth creates an illusion of self-sufficiency. The wealthy person looks around and thinks they don't need God. The poor person looks around and knows they do. And in a kingdom run by faith, that's everything.

What James is doing here is radical reframing. You've been measuring by the world's ruler. But God's ruler is different. It measures faith, access to the kingdom, who actually matters to the one you claim to follow. The people you're dismissing have the highest value. The people you're impressing have blasphemed your king. You've got the categories inside out.

Apply
Identify one person you've unconsciously ranked as lesser based on appearance or status. This week, treat them as someone God chose, someone with faith you can learn from. Ask them about their faith. Listen.

Pray
God, I've been measuring by the world's ruler. I've been dishonoring the people you chose and honoring the ones who mock you. Flip my vision. Help me see the rich faith in people I dismiss. Help me stop courting the approval of people who aren't loyal to you. Make me brave enough to honor the ones you honor. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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