First Baptist Church - Mayville, NY

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06/07/2026

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Do you ever feel defeated by the struggles, temptations, and pressures of life?As Christians, we know we're supposed to ...
06/06/2026

Do you ever feel defeated by the struggles, temptations, and pressures of life?

As Christians, we know we're supposed to be overcomers, but if we're honest, many days we don't feel very victorious.

This Sunday, we'll continue our Authentic Faith/Authentic Love series as we study 1 John 5:1-5 and discover what John means when he says that every child of God overcomes the world. We'll see how authentic faith believes the right things, behaves the right way, and experiences the victory that comes through faith in Jesus Christ.

Join us this Sunday morning at FBC Mayville as we discover why authentic faith is overcoming faith.

This Sunday we continue our study of authentic faith and authentic love in the book of 1 John. In this week's text, John...
05/29/2026

This Sunday we continue our study of authentic faith and authentic love in the book of 1 John. In this week's text, John brings his teaching on true love to a very practical and searching conclusion. As we abide in Christ, God’s perfect love is brought to maturity in our lives, replacing fear with confidence before him. We no longer stand before God in fear of condemnation, but in the assurance of what Christ has done for us.

And that same transforming love doesn’t stay private - it reshapes how we live and how we treat the people around us, showing that genuine love for God will always be revealed in love for others.

We would love for you to join us this Sunday as we open God’s Word together and consider what it means to live with this kind of fearless, authentic love!

One of the strongest warnings in 1 John comes in 1 John 4:8:“Anyone who does not love does not know God…”John is not tal...
05/11/2026

One of the strongest warnings in 1 John comes in 1 John 4:8:
“Anyone who does not love does not know God…”

John is not talking about loving perfectly but about a consistent pattern of withholding love while claiming to know Christ.

Throughout this letter, John repeatedly reminds us that authentic faith changes how we live. Our actions reveal the truth of our claims.

That means we cannot continually excuse a lack of love with:
• personality
• bitterness
• inconvenience
• preference
• hurt

The question we are left with is not simply whether we can define that kind of love, but whether that love has actually defined us. If we have truly been born of God, then the love we have received from him will be seen in the way we love others.

Love is one of the most talked about subjects in our world and yet it is also one of the most confusing. Our culture con...
05/08/2026

Love is one of the most talked about subjects in our world and yet it is also one of the most confusing. Our culture constantly tries to redefine love through emotions, preferences, and personal experience. The problem is that when we define love on these terms, the definition keeps changing. What one person calls love, another person rejects; what feels like love one moment, may disappear as soon as life gets difficult.

This week’s text in 1 John 4 takes us in a completely different direction. Instead of allowing us to define love for ourselves, John points us to the cross and shows us that authentic love is defined in the cross. In these verses, John reminds us that authentic love reflects God’s very nature and is displayed most clearly in Christ coming to earth for sinners.

As we walk through this text together, we will see once again that John refuses to separate belief from behavior. Authentic faith produces authentic evidence and one of the clearest evidences of truly knowing God is the presence of authentic love in the life of the believer.

This passage challenges us in a very personal way because John is not merely talking about emotional feelings or sentimental words. He is describing a love that is active, sacrificial, initiating, and enduring. It is the kind of love that moves toward others even when it is difficult - a love that reflects the character of Christ.

At the heart of the message is the gospel. John points us directly to Christ and reminds us that God revealed his love for us by sending Jesus into the world and offering us life through him. We will see how the cross defines real love and why the death and resurrection of Christ remain central to understanding both salvation and the Christian life.

This is a text that will both challenge us and comfort us. We will be challenged in how our claims line up with our actions with the reminder that we will look like who we belong to. But we will also find comfort in being reminded that God’s love is real, life-giving, and unchanging. As followers of Christ, we cannot settle for empty claims of faith that are disconnected from the transforming life of Christ.

I hope you are already making plans to be with us Sunday as we remember God’s great love for us and worship together.

See you Sunday!

Sunday Sermon Highlight – John begins chapter 4 with a direct and personal command: do not believe every spirit or teach...
05/04/2026

Sunday Sermon Highlight – John begins chapter 4 with a direct and personal command: do not believe every spirit or teacher that comes along, but test them to see whether they are really from God. He reminds the church that not every voice claiming to speak for God actually does.

We live in a world filled with men and women who are persuasive and convincing and often have the sound of truth, yet they are not from God – they tickle the ear without ever convicting the heart!

That’s why believers are called to more than just passive listening… we are called to actively test what we hear, measuring it against the truth God has revealed. Authentic faith doesn’t accept every message at face value; it carefully discerns what is truly from God and what is not.

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59 S Erie Street
Mayville, NY
14757

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