Fellowship Baptist Church

06/17/2026

06/17/2026

"No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary."
-Charles Spurgeon

06/16/2026

Thought For The Day

"Be strong and courageous today. God is with you, and He will never leave or forsake you."

06/16/2026

Courage

1 Samuel 17:45-47 "Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands."

When you are confronted with what seems to be an overwhelming problem, how do you react? Do you cower in fear and look for a different way to reach your goal, or do you charge ahead, confident in what God has called you to do? It is impossible for us to win the victory apart from courage.

Famed World War II tank commander General George Patton said, “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” If you give in to your fears, you are on the path to defeat. If instead you stand strong in spite of your fears, you are on the path to victory. And we must never forget that we are not in the battle alone. With the power of God on our side, we cannot be defeated.

When David went out to fight Goliath, the Bible says he "hasted, and ran…to meet the Philistine" (1 Samuel 17:48). Even though Goliath was huge and heavily armed and David had only a sling, David’s faith gave him the courage to face and defeat his foe—and faith will do the same for you.

06/16/2026

"May I never forget, On my best day, that I still need God as desperately as I did on my worst day."

06/16/2026

“What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.”
-- Vance Havner

06/15/2026

Thought For The Day

"Take time today to invest in things that matter for eternity, and your day will not be wasted."

06/15/2026

Invest in Your Children
Joshua 4:5-7 "And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever."

Charles Francis Adams, son of President John Quincy Adams and grandson of President John Adams, kept a diary. One day this busy political leader entered this description: "Went fishing with my son today—a day wasted." His son, Brooks Adams, also kept a diary, which is still in existence. On that same day, Brooks Adams made this entry: "Went fishing with my father—the most wonderful day of my life!"

God has given fathers a special responsibility to make a meaningful investment of time in the lives of their children. This is His pattern for continuing faith through the generations of a family. There need to be memorials in our lives—signposts that we can point out to our children to show them that the God they read about in the Bible is still active in our world today. This does not happen accidentally or without the investment of serious time.

Many believe it to be wise and proper to make financial preparation for our children’s future, and it is. But far more important are the spiritual investments we make through spending time with them talking about the things God has done in our own lives.