Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
December 1, 2025
By Josh SinquefieldPastor • First Baptist Church • MilanFocal Passage: Matthew 3:13-4:11 Before Jesus ever preached a sermon, healed a disease, or called a disciple, the Father affirmed who He was. Matthew shows us that salvation doesn’t begin with human effort, rather it begins with the Son whom the Father sent. In this section of […]
December 1, 2025
By Brandon JohnsPastor • First Baptist Church • Soddy DaisyFocal Passage: Matthew 17:14-20 September 2018 I found out that the only option was open heart surgery. I prayed for another way. I asked God to supernaturally fix my heart valve. That was not His plan. I needed the surgery. I wish I could say I […]
November 24, 2025
By Josh Sinquefield Pastor • First Baptist Church • MilanFocal Passage: Deuteronomy 33:1-5, 26-29 As Moses prepared to leave this world, he didn’t gather Israel to draw attention to himself. He gathered them to lift their eyes to the greatness of their God. After a lifetime of leading, interceding, teaching, and shepherding, Moses wanted Israel […]
November 24, 2025
By Kevin ShrumPastor • Inglewood Baptist Church • Nashville Focal Passage: Isaiah 38:9-20 In the shadow of death, Hezekiah, King of Judah, penned a lament that became a hymn of deliverance. Stricken by a mortal illness, he faced the abyss with raw honesty, his words a mirror for every soul teetering between despair and hope. […]
November 17, 2025
By Josh SinquefieldPastor • First Baptist Church • MilanFocal Passage: Deuteronomy 30:11-20 There are often times in my life (too many to count) when I can’t find something in the refrigerator. I’ll get frustrated, tell my wife we’re out, and start adding it to the grocery list — only for her to walk over, open […]
November 17, 2025
By Kevin ShrumPastor • Inglewood Baptist Church • Nashville Focal Passage: Acts 16:4-15 God has a myriad of ways of getting us to where He wants us to go. As God He has all the resources at His disposal needed to accomplish His divine purposes in our lives. What appear to us as interruptions are […]
November 10, 2025
By Josh SinquefieldPastor • First Baptist Church • MilanFocal Passage: Deuteronomy 28:1-6, 15-19 A covenant is not a term used often today. We’ve replaced it with agreements or contracts. Contracts are legal agreements between two parties that can be broken if one side doesn’t hold up their side. Agreements are mutual understandings based on a […]
November 10, 2025
By Kevin ShrumPastor • Inglewood Baptist Church • Nashville Focal Passage: Acts 1:4-8, 12-14; 2:1-4 Recent events have given many hope that a revival at some level may be upon us. With the assassination of Charlie Kirk (and what it spiritually sparked in some), the increase in Bible sales, and a renewed interest by younger […]
November 3, 2025
By Josh SinquefieldPastor • First Baptist Church • MilanFocal Passage: Deuteronomy 12:1-11, 29-32 In today’s culture, everything is vying for our attention. We have highlights, clips, pictures, advertisements in our face all the time. Every time we turn on a TV, open our computer, or look at our phone we are giving our attention to […]
November 3, 2025
By Kevin ShrumPastor • Inglewood Baptist Church • Nashville Focal Passage: Luke 8:40-50; 54-56 Have you ever heard the saying, “God is never early, He’s never late, He is always on time”? We are time-bound creatures, subservient to calendars and time schedules. God is not. While we serve a God who is “in time,” we […]
October 27, 2025
By Josh SinquefieldPastor • First Baptist Church • MilanFocal Passage: Deuteronomy 6:1-9, 20-25 On the day I’m writing this article, my wife and I are celebrating our 14th wedding anniversary. The idea of love is fresh on my mind. On significant days like this, we often pause to reflect — looking back on what has […]
October 27, 2025
By Kevin ShrumPastor • Inglewood Baptist Church • Nashville Focal Passage: Exodus 2:11-22; 3:5-10 Our lives are a mixture of tragedies and triumphs. We are, to use a Latin phrase, “Simul Justus et Peccator,” — simultaneously saint and sinner. Moses’s life was a case in point. He was a chosen and gifted leader; and he […]