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Fredericktowne Baptist Church (FBC) is a community of born again believers in Jesus Christ who desire

Fredericktowne Baptist Church (FBC) is a community of born again believers in Jesus Christ who desire to become more like their risen Lord and Savior. We desire to glorify God by obeying him and his commission to the church. Therefore we place a great emphasis on preaching the life-changing good news of Jesus Christ and invite men and women to come and follow him in complete obedience.

03/16/2026

March 15, 2026
"Christ's Disciple is a Fisher"
Mark 1:16-20

03/16/2026

Weekly Devotional:

“A New Commandment”
Monday, March 16, 2026

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another.”
(John 13:34-35 ESV)

It’s not just that we are to love, but that we are to love as Jesus loved us. This commandment is new, yet very old. The greatest commandment according to Jesus, is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength” (Deuteronomy 6:5), and the Second is like it, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Leviticus 19:18). This is a very old commandment, but Jesus makes it very new because, “Love your neighbor as yourself” becomes “Love one another as Jesus loved you.” It’s not only that Jesus commands us to love him, but that he also points out that he has loved us. It’s also that Jesus, in effect, calls us his neighbors and he wants each of us in Christ to see one another as neighbors in him.

So, this old commandment is new in that there is new spiritual significance to it. It’s no longer just a stipulation of the law (Leviticus 19:18), but is a precept guided by the example of Christ (“…just as I have loved you.”). It’s not just a mandate to treat your brother with fairness and honesty, but to sit down at the table in communion with all those who trust Jesus in his death, burial, and resurrection – whether Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female. In that sense, this commandment is radically new!

03/09/2026

March 8, 2026
"Christ's Disciple is Resilient"
Acts 17:10-14
Pastor Tim Allen

03/09/2026

Weekly Devotional:

“Going Away”
Monday, March 9, 2026

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews,
so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’
(John 13:33 ESV)

When a husband and wife can’t overcome their differences, they oftentimes prove their love to each other by staying and working out those differences. But Jesus proves his love by going away. Not simply for the sake of separation, but for the sake of glorification. Jesus knows that the best thing human beings can ever experience is the glory of God. We’ve fallen so short of that glory we can’t possibly experience it on our own. But if glorification means Jesus has to go away, then that’s what he’s going to have to do. So there’s a pain in this separation – Jesus must leave his disciples for a period of time. Jesus, however, doesn’t do this in a calloused way. He doesn’t allow his disciples to experience anything he’s not willing to go through, for he too allows himself to experience the pain of separation, leaving his Father to dwell on earth with common, sinful man.

But there’s a glory in Jesus’ departure from his followers, for in the Son’s crucifixion, burial, and resurrection, he would pave the way for the coming of the Holy Spirit to earth to dwell in God’s people. Jesus says, “It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you” (John 16:7). Jesus is about to die, but he wants them to keep on living. He doesn’t want them to throw themselves on his grave – that’s not love. He doesn’t want Peter at that time to lay his life down for Christ (see v. 37); he simply wants him to go on living…and in living, he wants his disciples to love one another; love in keeping with Christ’s new commandment. In coming to earth, Jesus demonstrated incarnate love. In dying on the cross, he demonstrated sacrificial love. In ascending back to his Father, he demonstrated resurrection love – a love that will never die.

03/02/2026

March 1, 2026
"The End of Days"
Daniel 12:4-13

03/02/2026

Weekly Devotional:

“Glory through Betrayal”

Monday, March 2, 2026

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.”

(John 13:31-32 ESV)

Jesus is about to be glorified, and that glory will come through a betrayal. The glorification Jesus speaks of here is his crucifixion. Jesus is about to be lifted up, and that lifting up, though humiliating and embarrassing to the world, is pure glory to God. It will be the culmination of God’s divine purpose in sending Jesus to earth. It will be the thing that is going to so brilliantly express all the divine attributes of God – His omnipotence, His omniscience, His omnipresence, His sovereignty, His mercy, grace, holiness, eternality, immutability, and love. All of these will be magnified on the Cross. This would glorify the Father, but it would also glorify the Son. Jesus’ death would exalt him to a position of honor. He would be elevated to the position of Savior – a new role for him.

But, before he does this however, Jesus eats dinner. He eats dinner with a man who will betray him, and men who will deny him. He eats dinner to fulfill Scripture: “He who ate my bread has lifted his heal against me” (John 13:18b). In doing so God and Jesus both would be glorified. They would be glorified through the obedience of Jesus going to the cross. That glorification would lead to excruciating pain for Jesus, but it would also lead to the pain of seeing one of his chosen friends betray him to his face. He said, “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” (Luke 22:48). Jesus was about to experience the pain of betrayal, but it was a necessary avenue to that glory.

02/23/2026

Weekly Devotional:

“A Painful Glory”
Monday, February 23, 2026

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified,
and God is glorified in him.”
(John 13:31 ESV)

In these next six weeks leading to Good Friday and Easter, we in the Church universal enter a time of reflection and repentance. We consider the cross of Jesus Christ, its meaning and significance, and we reflect on our own sin for which Christ died. When we consider the crucifixion of our Lord, we must not forget that this was Christ’s pathway to glory.

The Apostle Paul called the night Jesus spent in communion with his disciples prior to his crucifixion the night in which Jesus was betrayed. It was the culmination of 3½ years of discipleship, during which time Jesus showed his disciples his power and authority, his zeal, his ability to forgive, his relationship with the Father, his mercy, his compassion. That night, Jesus showed his disciples what love looks like.

Love is expressed, according to Jesus, in humble service, and the disciples get that; they understand that. But there’s a dimension to this kind of love that the disciples haven’t experienced yet, and that they don’t yet understand; that love has consequences – love is costly. It often comes at the cost of pain and suffering. The pain of betrayal and the pain of denial. Jesus said, “One of you will betray me,” and later he said in effect, “One of you will deny me.”

Singer/songwriter Michael Card shows us this kind of pain when he writes in his song simply entitled “Why”: “Only a friend can betray a friend, a stranger has nothing to gain / and only a friend comes close enough to ever cause so much pain.” Jesus is about to experience pain and suffering, and paradoxically, Jesus calls this glorification. This Easter season, when you think of glorification do you consider how much it cost? Jesus did and he was willing to pay it.

02/16/2026

February 15, 2026
"The Great Conflict, Part 3"
Daniel 1:21-35
Pastor Tim Allen

02/16/2026

Weekly Devotional:

“God’s Powerful Purity”
Monday, February 16, 2026

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors
and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.
He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net;
he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.
(Habakkuk 1:13-15 ESV)

God is a powerful God, but he’s also a pure God (v. 13). His nature is never adulterated by sin. Habakkuk didn’t understand this truth about God. He assumed that God could not remain pure and still look at sin. The profit didn’t completely learn his lesson from God’s last conversation with him because he asks the same question he asked previously: “Why do you idly look at traitors…?” Habakkuk still has a lot to learn. He can’t figure out how a righteous God can use an unrighteous nation to meet his own ends. Therefore, he says, “You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong.” (v. 13). Habakkuk still struggles to understand God’s heart and plan. It’s not that a holy God cannot stand before sin, it’s that sin cannot stand before a holy God.

So, Habakkuk must draw some conclusions about who God is: Eternal, Powerful, Pure. But in the same breath, he paints a word picture of wickedness – putting an image in our minds using words. Habakkuk uses the image of a fisherman’s net to describe the way the wicked Babylonians will sweep through the land, capturing lives in their web (v. 15). These Chaldeans are powerful! But not as powerful as God. For God does the same thing with his people. He pulls them out of the sea like a fisherman catching fish, not to destroy, but to save.

When we look at the wickedness in our world, do we wonder why God does not appear to be acting? Or do we understand that God in his powerful purity is using wicked circumstances and people to sanctify his people? Habakkuk needed to learn that. Don’t we?

02/09/2026

February 8, 2026
"The Great Conflict, Part 2"
Daniel 11:1-20
Pastor Tim Allen

02/09/2026

Weekly Devotional:

“The Flood of God’s Sustaining Grace”
Monday, February 9, 2026

Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
(Habakkuk 1:12 ESV)

If you’ve ever experienced a flood before, you know the anxious feeling of watching helplessly as the water level rises and creeps closer. You know the feeling of panic as the water starts seeping under the door, through cracks in the wall, and begins making its way across the floor. You rush to move furniture and other valuables to “higher ground” and hope and pray that the rising water reaches a crest sooner rather than later.
We might experience a similar panic as we see godlessness creeping and seeping into our world, our homes, and even the church. The culture of Christianity that we once thought was immune to the corruption of sin, we come to find is susceptible to infiltration. We even see evidence inside the church of the waters of secularism beginning to rise.

Habakkuk may have felt the same way. Josiah the king of Judah had made great strides in reviving the Kingdom of Judah and bringing them back to faithfulness to the Lord, but his sons and grandsons had neither Josiah’s piety and zeal, nor his regard for the Word of God. In their day, the waters of wickedness not only seeped in; they poured in like a flash flood. The levee was about to break as the Babylonians were beating against their door. As Habakkuk watches hopelessly, he finds he still needs to learn more of God’s nature and purposes, but in the end resolves to live by faith.

When we see the floodwaters of wickedness, secularization, confusion, discouragement, and apathy rising around us, let’s remember who God is. God is the everlasting and holy One who sustains us in all circumstances. He floods us with his sustaining grace so that even contrary events and wicked people turn out for our sanctification and our good.

Address

8645 Biggs Ford Road
Walkersville, MD
21793

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 2pm
Tuesday	9am - 2pm
Wednesday	9am - 2pm
Thursday	9am - 2pm

Telephone

+13018458700

Website

http://www.FBCFamily.org/

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