First Baptist Family of Asheboro, NC

Today we are in the only place in the Bible where we learn what Jesus was like as a child.  We know lots about Jesus' birth, but we have little about Jesus as a child.  We learn a lot in a few verses in this passage.   Have you ever wondered what your parents were like as children?  Children, ask your parents what their favorite toy was as a child.  It's helpful to know what was formed in us as children.  Jesus and his family took a trip to the Temple in Jerusalem and Jesus stays behind after his family left to return to Nazareth.  God's goal is to make us more like Jesus.  What can God do in my life?  God begins this in our early stages in life.  Jesus and his family worshipped together. Worship together.  Jesus and his family had a habit of worshipping together.                         41 Now his p...

We need to be connected to God.  Let's think for a moment about what it means to be in the presence of God.   Merry Christmas!  If you say Merry Christmas in April you better have a backstory, right?!  Today we read a backstory in Mary's life when she was carrying Jesus in the womb.  Why do we celebrate Christmas in December?  It's probably because there was a Roman holiday in December so the early church chose to celebrate Christmas on December 25.  Jesus was probably born in the springtime because the shepherds were in the fields at night and they wouldn't have been in the fields in the wintertime.  It's cold in the winter there just like it is here.  Here in Luke 1 we have the backstory.  We have all these announcements: Mary will give birth to the Messiah.  We don't know all that happened but we know God came for us.  God gave guidance and the people carried it out.  We don't know what hap...

  We continue in Colossians and today we look at the heart and what’s good for our hearts.   There’s a heart symbol on the oatmeal I eat.   It tells me it’s good for my heart to eat oatmeal. How good would it be if we had symbols that indicated to us who and what is good for our hearts?   How do we care for our hearts?   Our hearts have been tossed around so much lately.   Today the question is before us: how do we care for our hearts?   Colossians 3: 16-17 is our focus today.   It’s about a new heart.   The heart we’re talking about today isn’t our physical heart but the spiritual heart, the core of our being.   The heart is the center-most part of us, the deepest part of us.   Sometimes the deepest part of us can get tossed around.     Make Jesus your home.   Have you ever played hide and seek?   In this game there’s a home base where you’re safe if you can make it to home base.   Jesus is our home...