First Baptist Church Naples

Baptism is important because it identifies us with Christ, illustrates our salvation, and declares the gospel.

Romans 1 gives us both clues for God's existence and the causes for unbelief.

What would it take for you to truly believe in Jesus and surrender your life to Him? In Matthew 12, Jesus will be challenged by his skeptics, and He is going to point them to a strange sign that points back to Him as the Savior of the World.

The Cross of Jesus gives us the final word, “It is finished,” which gives us strength for today and hope for tomorrow.

In Chapter 4, we see Jonah's rage is met by God's response that is both painful and loving for Jonah.

In Chapter 3, we see that God can use and save anyone because He has a heart for everyone, even if we do not.

Chapter 2 shows us how God's gracious plan gave Jonah a new perspective to get him where he needed to be.

Is there something in your life that you know God wants you to do, but you don't want to do? Chapter one teaches us that Jonah, a prophet God's called to go to a people he loved, had a problem that caused him to disobey and yet God pursued him by His grace even though Jonah did not deserve it.

In John 3:16, we see the greatest love story ever told: the origination, the motivation, the demonstration, the invitation, the qualification, and the ultimate glorification.

What's on James' heart at the end of his letter is, “How are the people? How is their relationship with God?”

James teaches us about the delusion of living like we are God and the delight of submitting our lives to God.

James wants us to understand the cause and core of our conflict with others so that we can find the cure we need in the grace of God.

James tells us what Godly wisdom is, why we need it, and how to get it.

Real faith in Jesus should change how we speak to and about other people. James teaches us that what we say is powerful, it points to the condition of our hearts and it pushes us to our need for Jesus to be healed.

James teaches us that there is a difference between fake faith and real faith. James teaches us that fake faith is dead and demonic, and that real faith is dynamic.

How are we going to reach our community for Jesus if we mistreat people at church? James is teaching us that the proof that we have been transformed by the Gospel is seen in how we treat other people, especially people who are unlike us and people that we do not like.

Spiritual blessings and lasting freedom come to those who receive and obey the truth of God's Word.

We can trust God in our temptations because He is not the cause of them, but is the only cure for overcoming them.

When trials come, we can joyfully trust God to give us what we need because He is good and is using them to make us more like Jesus.

Because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever more, we have no reason to doubt His divinity, trust in our fallen identity, or fear our eternity.

The message of Christmas is that Jesus became a human to save humanity by defeating the devil and delivering us from the fear of death.

Ultimately, Christmas means that God keeps His promises. In Hebrews 8, we see that there were old promises we could not keep, and there are new promises that we cannot beat found in Jesus.

Hebrews 4 teaches us that we can have confidence to get mercy and help despite our sinfulness because we have a great High Priest, who is God, to advocate for us, and Man, to sympathize with us.

Hebrews 2 teaches us that we do not need to fear because our sovereign King entered our broken world to fix what we have broken.

Hebrews begins by telling us that Jesus is the exact, exalted, and exclusive Word of God and that no other voice should be louder in our lives than His.

At the end of the Psalm, David calls us to meditate on God's goodness despite the chaos and His mercy that will eternally sustain us.

David teaches us that we can becalm in life when we let go of the shadows and look to our Shepherd.

“If you don't learn to metabolize stress well, you will be vulnerable for an emotional escape.” We will only ask the LORD to lead us when we see that His leadership is better than the lies that we believe about ourselves.

The first step to being calm is to consider who your shepherd is: He is powerful and personal, sustaining and satisfying.

In John 11, we see that in the face of death, we can turn to and trust in Jesus because He has forever defeated death for us.

Trust in Jesus John 9:1-11

In John 6, we learn that Jesus knows our biggest need, uses our smallest gift, and satisfies our deepest hunger.

In John 5, we learn that Jesus sees people we often look past and has the power to heal our brokenness.

In John 4, there is a contrast between superficial and saving faith. Superficial faith is a faith that Jesus does not believe in. Saving faith is a faith that believes in Jesus.

This first miracle tells us a lot about Jesus and why He came: He came to give abundant joy now and eternal joy forever. John 2 teaches us we can have joy despite our disasters, joy because of our dependence, and joy out of His death. 

John deliberately tells the Jesus story through the lens of 8 miracles with the last miracle being the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. John is calling us to believe in miracles, but trust in Jesus.

Live For Him 2 Peter 1:3-15 “helping people love Jesus to live for Him every day.”

“Helping people love Jesus to live for Him every day. Jesus teaches us that to follow Him we must deny ourselves and to live for Him we must die to the world."

Our mission is to help people love Jesus to live for Him every day. In John 1, we learn how we can help people love Jesus by pointing and bringing people to Jesus and leaving the rest to Him.

“Helping people love Jesus to live for Him everyday.”

Each miracle was a call, not just to believe in miracles, but to trust in Jesus. Worry and fear flee from our lives when we turn to the power of Jesus and trust in the love of Jesus for us.

Don't Blow Off, What God Has Breathed On 2 Timothy 3:14-17

Prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. Let your request be made known to God.

Life is best lived when we know who God is and who we are in light of who He is. In Psalm 8, we see God's magnificence, our significance, and God's amazing grace.

How's your Master treating you? Romans 6:15-23

The rest we need is only found in Jesus.

God will give us the sleep we need when we trust in His sovereign work over us and special love for us.

The Sabbath is a pattern woven into creation and a practice that we should keep for our good.

For those who would be followers of Jesus, Jesus offers a gracious invitation that exchanges our restlessness for His rest.

The hope of forgiveness is reconciliation that leads to restoration. The three ingredients for reconciliation are truth, repentance, and forgiveness.

We can learn how to forgive others when we see that forgiveness is a decision that refuses to seek revenge and remembers that we forgave.