First Missionary Baptist Church of Tuscumbia

First Missionary Baptist Church of Tuscumbia Welcome! We are located at 611 S. Hight St. Tuscumbia, AL. Phone number: 256-383-8818. Sunday school begins at 9:30 & Morning worship at 11:00 a.m. Join Us

The First Baptist Church of Tuscumbia welcomes all generations into God's house. We invite you to enter prayerfully, worship devoutly, leave gratefully, and serve Christ faithfully. Remember that our pastor, Reverend Jimmy Davis Shaw Jr., and our church family are here to guide and inspire you. Come and join our community to experience the uplifting power of faith.

09/16/2026

Wednesday night Bible Study will be at FMBC tonight at 6:00 & not the Willie Green Center. Come join us!

You Are ChosenThe world has many ways of telling you that you do not measure up. Rejection comes in many forms; through ...
09/16/2026

You Are Chosen

The world has many ways of telling you that you do not measure up. Rejection comes in many forms; through relationships, careers, failures, and seasons of isolation. But Peter writes to a people who are being persecuted and marginalized, and he opens with a stunning declaration: "But you." Not despite who you are, but because of whose God is. Ephesians 1:4 reminds us that God chose us before the foundation of the world, not because of our credentials, but because of His grace. Your identity was settled in eternity before your insecurities ever formed in time.

As the sermon reminds us: "You may be rejected down there, but you have been chosen up there. People may refuse to recognize your worth, but heaven has already declared your value."

Reflection: Where are you currently seeking validation that God has already given you? In what area of your life do you need to stop begging for human approval and rest in divine selection?

Application: Write down one area of your life where you have allowed rejection to define you. Then write beside it what God's Word says about who you are. Return to that list whenever rejection speaks louder than truth.

1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”

Ephesians 1:4 “even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love”

09/16/2026

There has been a change of plans for tonight regarding Wednesday Night Bible Study. Wednesday night Bible Study for Wednesday, September 16, 2026, will be at 6:00 pm at the church, not the Willie Green Center.

09/13/2026

First Missionary Baptist Church, Tuscumbia, AL

The Sacrifice That Pleases God Many people think of sacrifice as what they drop in an offering plate. But the New Testam...
09/11/2026

The Sacrifice That Pleases God

Many people think of sacrifice as what they drop in an offering plate. But the New Testament paints a far broader and more demanding picture. Paul urges believers to present their entire bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God. This is described as reasonable service, the logical response to the mercy God has shown. The sermon reminds us that spiritual sacrifice includes praise, generosity, service, obedience, and genuine repentance. None of these can be offered acceptably apart from Jesus Christ. He is not one pathway among many. He is the only way our imperfect offerings become acceptable before a perfect God.

Reflection Question: What area of your life have you been withholding from God as a living sacrifice?

Practical Application: Identify one specific and concrete way you can offer your body, time, or resources to God this week, not to earn His love, but because you have already received it.

Romans 12:1-2 “Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”

Built Together, Not Alone A single brick cannot be a house. It can be a doorstop, a stumbling block, or a projectile, bu...
09/10/2026

Built Together, Not Alone

A single brick cannot be a house. It can be a doorstop, a stumbling block, or a projectile, but it cannot fulfill its full purpose alone. Peter's image of living stones being built together into a spiritual house is a direct challenge to the individualism that quietly dominates so much of modern faith. Paul echoes this truth in Ephesians, describing believers as fellow citizens, members of God's household, fitted together and growing into a holy dwelling place. God is not saving isolated individuals to live disconnected spiritual lives. He is building a community. A believer separated from the body is a stone out of place.

Reflection Question: In what ways have you been trying to live out your faith independently of Christian community?

Practical Application: Reach out this week to one person in your church community with whom you have lost meaningful connection. Commit to one intentional act of building that relationship back up.

Reading: Ephesians 2:19-22 “So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.”

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611 South High Street
Tuscumbia, AL
35674

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+12563838818

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