Sharon First Baptist Church

04/24/2026

Join us tomorrow for our monthly Women's Brunch!

04/21/2026

Community Night of Worship May 3rd! Check out this special message from Grant Adams

04/20/2026

Monday Lookback: Take a look back and explore a verse from this week's sermon.

Nehemiah 6:19
“These nobles kept mentioning Tobiah’s good deeds to me, and they reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.”

There’s a saying that there is a rotten apple in every bunch. I can’t help but feel that teachers know this better than anyone else. As a teacher, my wife may have a class of perfect children: sweet and smart and eager to learn and follow the rules in every way…except for one. Okay, in some cases a handful. But it is these few who can be intimidating. It is these few that can bring on the headaches, that can affect those around them, that can infect an otherwise healthy and happy environment.

Nehemiah experienced this first hand. As he and the people of Israel celebrated rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem in an incredible 52 days – a feat only accomplished by the will and grace of God – there were still a rotten few bent on claiming power, and these had ties to the enemies that the people just thwarted with Nehemiah and God’s help.

How do Nehemiah, teachers, and all of us who have to deal with rotten apples in our environments, endure? Because many times it is not as easy as just throwing the apple away. For Nehemiah, his enemy Tobiah was embedded into Judean society through high profile marriages of relatives. For grade school teachers, they cannot simply choose to have only the angels in their classrooms, as is the case for most of us in our work and home and social environments.

The good news? We can learn from and act on the example from Nehemiah and from our Lord Jesus Christ, both who could not be deterred from their godly missions. How did they do this? By staying focused and depending on God. Earlier in the chapter of today’s text, Nehemiah stays focused on the work that the Lord laid on his heart, and does not allow the rotten apples to distract him from it. Jesus did the same as he entered Jerusalem during Holy Week. As both Jesus and Nehemiah neared completion of their goals, they prayed to God and relied on His awesome power to strengthen them and fill them with peaceful composure to endure all the way across the finish line.

No matter your situation, your hardship, or the rotten applies in your path, TODAY you can stand firm by remembering who God is and placing your full trust in Him.

-Pastor Steve Perkins

04/20/2026

Check out this week's sermon on YouTube and discover the godly way to resist opposition.

Series: Nehemiah - April 12, 2026 - "Channeling God’s Compassion"

04/17/2026

Join us tomorrow morning for our monthly Men's Breakfast starting at 8:00am. Bible study and co****le tournament to follow!

04/14/2026

New to First Baptist Sharon? Join us tomorrow night at 6:00 PM to learn more about the church and take a step toward discovering if SFBC is right for you and your family. Can't wait to see you there!

04/13/2026

https://youtu.be/bUPkIVCNgy0?si=cGcC7GTNHrEY_eIM

Thank you for worshipping with us! Text: Nehemiah 5:1-19Movie Clip Office Space ©1999 Twentieth Century FoxMovie Clip Aladdin ©1992 Walt Disney

04/10/2026

When is anger righteous? We'll touch on this as we return to our series in Nehemiah chapter 5 this Sunday.

04/05/2026

Follow this link to view our Easter Service from today. He has risen!

Thank you for worshipping with us! He has risen!Text: John 20:19-31"King of Kings" audio track credit to The Worship Portal at: https://youtu.be/lOaYKDodvhE...

04/05/2026

04/04/2026

We had an awesome morning celebrating our Lord! Thank you for all who helped and attended the Easter Festival! Always a joy seeing the families enjoying this time together! We invite you to come celebrate the resurrected Savior tomorrow morning with us. Sunday school starts at 10am. Church Service begins at 11am. Come on!

04/03/2026

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This changed everything.

"It is finished." (John 19:30)

But before those final words were spoken, Jesus endured what no words can ever fully capture.

He was betrayed by a close friend.

Disowned three times by another.

Abandoned by nearly all who had followed Him.

He stood silent before His accusers as false charges were hurled and crowds demanded His death.

A crown of thorns was mockingly pressed into His skull. Soldiers beat Him nearly to death with dozens of brutal lashes.

Then He carried the heavy cross through the crowded streets of Jerusalem, the wood pressing into His open wounds.

At Golgotha, overlooking Jerusalem, the soldiers drove nails through His hands and feet and lifted Him on a cross between two criminals.

For hours, the weight of all of humanity’s sin hung on His shoulders.

The Son of God, who had never known sin.

He could have called upon angels.

He could have come down from the cross.

But He didn’t.

The sky went dark. The earth shook.

The veil of the temple was torn in two.

And Jesus gave up His spirit.

It was finished.

But this death did not mean defeat, as many people thought.

It was part of God’s rescue mission to save humanity from all of their mistakes.

Somehow, the darkest day in human history is called Good Friday.

Because it wasn’t the end of the story.

The resurrection was coming.