First Baptist Church, Mount Gilead NC

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08/30/2026

Exodus 18: 19-21
1 Cor. 12:12-21

08/28/2026

For Sunday, August 30th:

Sermon Title: Doing Our Part
Choral Anthem: "Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy" (Hart)

Exodus 18:19-21
[Jethro said to Moses,] “Now listen to me. I will give you counsel, and God be with you! You should represent the people before God and bring their cases to God. Teach them the statutes and instructions and make known to them the way they are to go and the things they are to do. You should also look for able men among all the people, men who fear God, are trustworthy, and hate dishonest gain; set them as officers over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.”

1 Corinthians 12:12-21
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many members yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

08/28/2026

Pastor’s Article

The summer is ending. I know this because the kids are back in school and the Halloween candy is for sale at Walmart.

At First Baptist Mt. Gilead we are also moving out of the summer mode. The choir will start practicing our Christmas cantata next week. We will be restarting Kids Create soon, and a new regular bell choir will also begin. This is alongside the WMU and Wednesday Bible study. Nominating Committee is meeting to help flesh out our leadership for next year.

After almost three and half years as your pastor, I am finally getting a feel for this rhythm. Every church has its unique traditions and style. It’s nice to have those feel natural to me now that I have lived it for these past years. I hope you are feeling some excitement with me at the coming fall and holiday season, along with our 2027 year.

As you read these words, I hope you will ask yourself how you want to participate in ways that are meaningful to you. This includes connecting and serving with others. Perhaps it is time to try playing bells or helping with Kids Create, or joining a committee or ministry team. Who knows – you may try out ushering, or running the soundboard and video stream, and realize that you really enjoy it!

We are all part of this church family, and together we “do church” – growing spiritually, connecting with others and God, serving others, doing all the little things that make our church successful, and along the way inviting folks to “do church” with us.

08/21/2026

Pastor’s Column

So, here we are, 66 sermons later. We have completed my ambitious, zany project of preaching the whole Bible. We started January 12, 2025, and are finishing August 23, 2026. It’s been 20 months of sermons that went straight through the scriptures with a book a week. It took more than 66 weeks because we missed some Sundays with holidays, cantatas, and my being away, but it always came back to this immense project.

It was hardly fair to some of the books of the Bible. Genesis is 50 chapters with a LOT of material, as are Exodus and 1 Samuel. The historical books have many events and layers. Other books we could have almost skipped – I’m looking at you, 3 John. But a deal is a deal so I stuck to the plan. I’m so glad I did. Not only can I puff out my chest with preacherly pride, but I also can say I’ve lived with and pondered the immensity of the Bible for almost 2 years.

The Bible is so rich with so many moments in time, so many styles and different voices – prophets, priests, scribes, letters, visions, poems, wisdom sayings, stories, parables, and songs. From the Ancient Near East to the Holy Land to the Roman Empire. It is a staggering group of writings that speak of faithfully living with God (and sometimes living without, in its negative examples of false prophets, kings, and others).

What is amazing to me is how it preserves those many voices and times. It doesn’t erase or remove. So many people want THE ANSWER and want everything to fit neatly. The Bible rejects that, and instead it layers and preserves all the varieties of religious experience. It is symphonic and improvisational. It is a great “AND” to life and history and experience. We who inherit it today get to return again and again to its depths, learning and growing beside it as we consider our own stories woven into this great, grand story.

08/21/2026

Hello friends, we've had technical issues the past 2 Sundays with our worship service broadcast (and off and on in the past). We appreciate your patience with this.

We have a plan to replace our computer network and soundboard, which should fix the problem and improve our broadcast immensely.

The network problem is particularly frustrating because it is unpredictable and intermittent. We can test it and have it working just fine, and then suddenly have issues 5 minutes into the service. It has led us to misdiagnose some things, but we are fairly confident that our network is the culprit. (The computer connects to the cameras via the network, which is why that connection can suddenly just fail on us.)

It will take a few weeks to get the funds approved, and the new equipment purchased and installed. Know that we are disappointed and frustrated too, and we are working to fix it as soon as we can. We love and appreciate you and your dedication to our church family.

08/21/2026

For Sunday

Sermon Title: "The End"
Choral Anthem: "Grace" (Hamlin)

Isaiah 55:8-12

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there until they have watered the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose
and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
For you shall go out in joy
and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall burst into song,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Revelation 10:1-7

And I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun and his legs like pillars of fire. He held a little scroll open in his hand. Setting his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, he gave a great shout, like a lion roaring. And when he shouted, the seven thunders sounded. And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.” Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and the land

raised his right hand to heaven
and swore by him who lives forever and ever,

who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it: “There will be no more delay, but in the days when the seventh angel is to blow his trumpet, the mystery of God will be fulfilled, as he announced to his servants the prophets.”

08/16/2026

Jude 1:17-21

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133 S Main Street
Mount Gilead, NC
27306

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Wednesday 1pm - 5pm
Friday 8am - 12pm
Sunday 10am - 12pm

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