Macedonia Baptist Church

05/28/2022

Tomorrow night, Sunday, May 29th at 6PM, join us at Macedonia Baptist Church as we welcome one of country Gospel's rising groups: Westward Road! Attendance is free and everyone is invited to attend! We will take up a love offering to help support the group in their ministry! See you then!

05/20/2022

Sometimes, we just need to slow down, take a deep breath, and celebrate we’ve made it through another day.
The Bible speaks volumes on joy, but there is no more joyous subject in all of scripture than the Gospel of Jesus.
Join us this Sunday, as our series in 1 Timothy continues and we slow down, breath in, and pronounce the greatest news to ever be told: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.”

05/13/2022

Join us this Sunday for the next step in our 1 Timothy Series.

05/02/2022

Want to join us in our challenge to read God’s Word in the next 90 days? Follow the link below, and get to work!

04/30/2022

Men, in anticipation of Mother’s Day being a week from tomorrow, why don’t we brag on our helpmeet a little. Go to the comments and tell us three things that you appreciate about your wife/fiancé.
(Then let’s put those things in practice: telling her everyday for the next 8 days these things, building her up to stand!)

04/17/2022

He got up! He is no longer in the grave! He is alive! 

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04/16/2022

Easter Egg Hunt 2022! We had a wonderful turnout and more eggs than the kids could carry! Hope to see everyone in the morning as we celebrate Resurrection Sunday!

04/16/2022

It was the Friday that would come to be called “Good”.

Jesus has been spat upon, slapped, scourged, mocked, rejected, and crucified. His body has been placed in a borrowed tomb. It is now the Sabbath. And from sundown tonight till sunup Sunday, Jesus’ disciples, his dearest friends and loved ones, are hidden away.

Can you imagine what tonight must have felt like for them?

They had only witnessed one man come back from the dead, a man named Lazarus. And it most definitely wasn’t by his own authority. Jesus had called him forth. And now Jesus was dead. And as far as they were concerned (they had yet to comprehend that part of Jesus teachings), death was permanent now. And shut up in the same tomb as the man they thought would deliver them was their hope and their inspiration. About this time 2000 years ago, the disciples and other followers of Jesus probably felt like their whole world was crashing in.

This week, I’ve had the privilege of helping one of our local funeral homes with two services that stood in need of a minister. And as I look back tonight, there is a difference between each of them. One was for a young person, a person whose life had just begun and then abruptly ended. The other for a elderly woman who had lived a happy, long life. One funeral was sorrowful. The other joyful. One was a difficult goodbye and the other a “going home” celebration. You might think the difference fell to the age, but that wasn’t it at all. The difference was Jesus.
One service was full of people that knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that death was not final. That Jesus is, as Corinthians says, the first fruit of resurrection.
One service was filled with an understanding that, “Precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of His saints.” (Psalm 116)
And the other, there was a lot of people who didn’t have an answer for what came next. Not all. But a fair many. People that were grasping for answers. People that just didn’t understand.

And so, we gave them the Gospel.

Friday night was bleak for Jesus’ dearest of followers, but Sunday….Sunday is going to change everything.
As you lay down to rest tonight, contemplate the fear and the hopelessness of the next 24 hours+, and thank Jesus that you know how the story ends and what that means for all of us when facing down the grave.


04/15/2022

Thursday was the last full day of Jesus’ life.

It was the day of the Last Supper.
In the Upper Room of a house owned by a man that Jesus told his disciples they would find carrying water in the city (Jesus showing his omnipresence again), Jesus and his friends sat down to eat the Passover meal…a symbolic plate of what can be generously called “snacks” as they are so small portioned. They commemorate the time before the Exodus…when a faithful God sent his angel to kill the first born of each home in Egypt as a judgement, but those that had their door posts marked with the blood of the lamb were spared. It is a meal that the Hebrew people took to honor a faithful God. And if you were present last year, it was a meal that we partook of during Holy Week in 2021. One that we hope we can do again next year.
But before the meal, before even one square of Matzah was taken, as the motley crew of fishermen and doctors and tax collectors and nobodies reclined around the table, the miracle worker they had followed proceeded to do something nobody expected. He began to wash their feet.

I think this is, perhaps, the part of that fateful evening that too many of us forget. Jesus, the Son of God, the Savior of the World, on the final night of his life, chose to serve those he came to save.

Can we take a moment to just appreciate how absolutely incomprehensible God’s love for us is?
Jesus knew tomorrow he was going to endure the greatest suffering. He knew that Judas was going to betray him. He knew his friends were going to desert him. He knew Peter was going to deny him. And HE KNEW EXACTLY WHO HE WAS! Jesus knew what he was worthy of….worship and praise! He knew that God could be just and good if he chose not to forgive man, to offer us a sin sacrifice that would forge a new covenant of blood. But he chose to serve his friends instead of insisting on being served on his final night.

What does that tell us, friends? First, I believe that most certainly we are supposed to understand that just learning God’s teachings isn’t enough. That the greatest blessing is when we live out what Jesus taught. If Jesus washed the feet of his friends despite all the things above, what keeps us from ”washing the feet” of every person that crosses our path? What keeps us from living out what we are learning?

Second, if we look at the interaction between Jesus and Peter in John 13:8, we come to understand that Jesus was teaching something even deeper. Jesus was teaching us that without him, without his sacrifice, his blood…without his death, his burial, his resurrection, then we are bound to be separated from God. We need a washing, because we aren’t clean. And nothing that you and I can do will ever make us clean. We are useless to save ourselves.

In the morning, the events of the Friday called “Good” will already be well on their way. But for the last fleeting moments of this day, let us consider the Last Supper. Let us consider the servitude of this man, Jesus. And let us thank God we can be washed cleans. Let us commit ourselves to serve one another.

04/14/2022

Wednesday was a day of silence. None of the Gospels record Jesus doing or saying anything on this day.

But it wasn’t a day without consequence.

You see, Wednesday was the day that Judas determined he would betray the man he had been following for so long now.

The price: 30 pieces of silver.

An old Hank Williams’ song called them, “30 shekels of shame,” and I can’t imagine a more accurate description. Nobody can be certain why Judas did it because the Gospels never say, but it certainly was a shameful act. Jesus had been good to Judas. He had welcomed Judas in to his most inner circle. He had traveled stride for stride with him. He had ate with him and slept in the same camps as him and even worshipped beside him. But still, Judas betrayed him.

I’ve seen a lot of posts recently, how Jesus knew on Thursday what Judas did on Wednesday, and yet how Judas sat in the Upper Room and ate too. It really is a powerful thought. However, I would add only that Jesus knew long before then. He knew from the time that Judas was in the womb that he would be the one to betray him and turn him over to be killed, he’s all-knowing after all. And even still, he welcomed Judas as one of his closest friends anyway. He walked right up to the final night of his life with Judas by his side. And why? Because Jesus came for Judas. Just like Jesus came for you and for me.

I often think how I’m not much better than the one called Iscariot. A betrayer of Christ. My entire life I lived as a Betrayer of Christ, an enemy of God, a sinner wandering in the darkness. And yet, Jesus extended grace to me anyway. He imparted forgiveness to me anyway.

Judas betrayed Jesus for the price of a slave. (See Zachariah 11 and Exodus 21.)Time and time again, in my life, I have pushed God to the side and declared with my actions and priorities that He wasn’t worth much to me. That other things were more valuable. More important. But yet, He’s been patient with me. Loving me every step of the way.

Wednesday was quiet. But boy, does it speak volumes to me.

04/13/2022

Tuesday was a day when Jesus found himself being challenged by the scribes and chief priests.

The rag-tag pack of religious hypocrites grilled Jesus with questions, each more cunningly designed than the last, in an effort to trip up the man from Galilee.
But with each question came an answer of pure wisdom, which only fueled the anger of those that sought to kill him.

Later that evening, on their way back to Bethany, Jesus and his disciples stopped by the wayside upon the Mount of Olives, and from there, Jesus gave to us what has come to be known as the Olivet Discourse, or an eschatological conversation between the Messiah and his closest friends.

All my life, I have witnessed those who have tried to predict when the world will end, when Christ will return. I’ve seen countless books published interpreting signs and using Biblical math. I’ve seen fellowship be broken between folks, simply cause they can’t agree on what this means and what that means.

But Jesus’ advice to his friends wasn’t to dwell and argue over the signs.

Instead, he taught them to be watchful using parables. In Matthew 24:42 - 25:30, Jesus’ return was either sooner than expected or much later. But it never failed that the message was the same. Be found faithful.

I know it’s easy to hit a wall…to experience “faith fatigue”, or that feeling where you just want to sit down and quit, after all, nobody is listening. Nobody is responding to the Gospel. Nobody is making the effort to respond to your invitations to come to church. I know how easy it is to say, “Come quick, Lord Jesus, I’m so tired.” Our world is getting darker. The conflict between what we believe and what the world embraces is getting harsher, and the divide between us and them is growing wider.

But Jesus encouraged his friends, his followers, to stay faithful. And today, on this Tuesday of Holy Week, I am encouraging you to do the same. Stay the course, friend. Preach the Word. Live out your faith so that it is the loudest thing about you.

Whether the Lord calls us home tonight or 100 years from now, be found faithful.