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First Lubbock SermonsThe High Priestly PrayerJohn 17:1-8 - Evan Henson | First Baptist Church Lubbock- Recorded September 7, 2025
2025-09-1128 minFirst Lubbock SermonsWhen You Pray... Forgive as you've been forgivenDeuteronomy 15:12-18 - Dr. Jason Burden | First Baptist Church Lubbock- Recorded August 31, 2025
2025-09-0433 minFirst Lubbock SermonsWhen You Pray... Pray for Daily BreadPhilippians 4:10-13 - Dr. Jason Burden | First Baptist Church Lubbock- Recorded August 24, 2025
2025-08-291h 00First Lubbock SermonsWhen You Pray... Thy Will Be DoneHebrews 13:20-21 - Dr. Jason Burden | First Baptist Church Lubbock- Recorded August 17, 2025
2025-08-2130 minFirst Lubbock SermonsWhen You Pray... Thy Kingdom ComeMatthew 20:20-28 - Dr. Jason Burden | First Baptist Church Lubbock - Recorded August 10, 2025
2025-08-1628 min2024-08-2924 min2024-08-2021 min2024-08-1524 min2024-08-0721 min2024-08-0121 min2024-07-2423 min2024-07-1622 min2024-07-1122 minFirst Lubbock SermonsSIMPLIFYING CHURCH - Colossians 1:25-29Because they are so attuned to their own biased preferences, many have no awareness of the biblical principles that define the church.
#SimplifyingChurch
2024-06-2639 minFirst Lubbock SermonsIMAGINE THE CHURCH - Acts 2:42-47Imagine the church in a way that people take notice of her in a way that is positive. It’s possible, but it takes imagination with application.
#ImagineChurch
2024-06-1931 minFirst Lubbock SermonsWHY GO TO CHURCH? - Hebrews 10:19-25God’s faithful are the company of the committed and have a historical legacy that in stark contrast to the legacy of the disobedient.
#WhyChurch
2024-06-1237 minFirst Lubbock SermonsKEEP THE SON IN YOUR EYES - Hebrews 12:1-3The month of June and the final five sermons as pastor will be direct challenges to the church for the days ahead and the future God has in store.
#SonLight
2024-06-0440 minFirst Lubbock SermonsKeep in Step with the Spirit - Galatians 5:25-6:10We welcome Dr. Todd Still as our pulpit guest. Dr. Still is the Dean of Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary.
2024-05-301h 09First Lubbock SermonsIF ONLY HE HAD WAITED - Matthew 27:3-5The last message of the Haunted Faith series deals with the most haunting subject of all.
#JustWait
2024-05-2232 minFirst Lubbock SermonsA FATE WORSE THAN DEATH - 2 Timothy 4For a death denying culture, haunted by death, there is a far more tragic fate.
#WastingLife
2024-05-1638 minFirst Lubbock SermonsHAUNTED BY ETERNITY - Revelation 21:1-8It’s actually healthy to think about the end of life. In so doing, we are more likely to better spend the time we have today.
#HauntedByEternity
2024-05-0940 minFirst Lubbock SermonsFACING NECESSARY CONFLICTS - Galatians 2:11-21
While no one enjoys conflict, it is sometimes necessary for a healthy resolution.
#FacingConflict
2024-05-0138 minFirst Lubbock SermonsLOST OPPORTUNITY - Hebrews 3:7-19An alarming text that isn’t so much about falling away from the faith as it is failed opportunity.
#LostOpportunity
2024-04-2433 minFirst Lubbock SermonsHAUNTED BY THE PERMANENT RECORD - 1 Timothy 1:12-16Understanding what was accomplished on the cross is the only escape from living under the shadow of condemnation.
#MovingOn
2024-04-1833 minFirst Lubbock SermonsA Good Forgetter - Matthew 18:21-35Dr. Howard Batson
Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church Amarillo
2024-04-1135 minFirst Lubbock SermonsA HAUNTING RESURRECTION - 1 Corinthians 15Looking for God? Look no further than the resurrection. God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead.
#HauntingResurrection
2024-04-0230 minFirst Lubbock SermonsA HAUNTING ABSENCE - John 11Have we not all, at one time or another, been haunted by the thought that God was absent when we needed him most.
#FuneralCrasher
2024-03-2738 minFirst Lubbock SermonsHAUNTED BY UNFINISHED WORK - Luke 17:7-10
What should be a constant and energizing reality of the Christian life is that there is never a point where one can say, “I have fully arrived and I am satisfied with where I am in serving the Lord.”
#NeverFinished
2024-03-2131 min2024-03-1424 min2024-03-0733 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHE PULL OF LIFE’S UNDERTOW - Isaiah 43:1-19While life is filled with swirling waters the ever present undertow need not pull you under.
#UndertowWarnings
2024-02-2937 minFirst Lubbock SermonsCAN THE CHURCH MAKE A DIFFERENCE? - Ephesians 3:1-13The church has a unique identity, and only when it understands itself as such will it make difference in the world.
#TheChurchInTheWorld
2024-02-2237 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHAT HAUNTING DAY - Job 1:1-12Every person will experience being haunted by one particular day that forever impacts their life.
#ThatDay
2024-02-1543 minFirst Lubbock SermonsFAILING SUCCESSFULLY - Luke 22:31-34Because failure is endemic to the human experience, of greater import is our response to it.
#FailingSuccessfully
2024-02-0634 minFirst Lubbock SermonsRECKLESS KNOWLEDGE - Luke 7:36-50The familiarity of the gospel is something easily taken for granted; a knowledge that can result in it being both missed and misunderstood.#RecklessKnowledge
2024-01-2841 min2024-01-2143 minFirst Lubbock SermonsREALIZING YOUR HIGHEST POTENTIAL - Matthew 14:22-33Perhaps there is no more haunting thought than unrealized potential; what might have been if I had only tried.
#RealizedPotential
2024-01-1438 minFirst Lubbock SermonsGETTING SATISFACTION OUT OF OUR HEADS - John 16:16-33While satisfaction is what the masses seek, in the life of faith its something you don’t really want.
#RollingStonesFrustration
2024-01-0737 min2023-12-1733 minFirst Lubbock SermonsIMPERATIVES FOR PEACE - Philippians 4:4-9In the most adverse of circumstances, Paul offers imperatives resulting in a peace that surpasses all understanding.
#PeaceImperatives
2023-12-1038 minFirst Lubbock SermonsBEHOLDING HOPE - Jeremiah 32Throughout the entirety of scripture the word “behold” is held forth as an assurance of hope for the people of God
#BeholdHope
2023-12-0338 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHE PUNCHLINE OF FORGIVENESS - Matthew 18:21-35The punchline of forgiveness is no laughing matter.
#AHauntingDestruction
2023-11-1936 minFirst Lubbock SermonsLIVING UP TO EXPECTATIONS - Matthew 13:1-23Though many have sought to reduce faith down to nothing more than the intellectual belief of certain truth claims, we hauntingly aware of the expectations of true belief.
#Expectations
2023-11-1238 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHE HIGH PRICE OF WORRY - Luke 12:22-30Some are so haunted by constant worry, it’s as if all of life is about waiting for bad things to happen.
#ExpensiveWorries
2023-11-0534 minFirst Lubbock SermonsFAITHING YOUR FEARS - 1 Samuel 17What are the giants that haunt your fears? There is another reality in which your life can exist.
#FaithYourFears
2023-10-2939 minFirst Lubbock SermonsSALVATION WITH CERTAINTY - 1 John 5:6-13Of this you can be certain, the salvation God offers is eternal life, not temporary, momentary, or conditional life.
#SavedAndCertain
2023-10-2240 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHREE STRIKES AND YOU’RE… - John 13:31-38; 18:15-17, 25-27; 21:12, 15-22, 25Whether the baseball diamond or Federal court, one maxim remains constant, “Three strikes and you’re out.”
#Graceball
2023-10-1535 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHE COMPANY OF THE DENIED - Mark 14:32-36The disappointment that God often says “No” to our prayers, can easily cloud the miracle that he answers at all.
#RequestDenied
2023-10-0840 minFirst Lubbock SermonsCOMPETING WITH A COMPLEX - Jeremiah 1:1-19What could you possibly have in common with a prophet like Jeremiah? At one time or another, we have all been riddled with feelings of inferiority.
#ANewSelfPerception
2023-10-0138 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHE OTHER SIDE OF “IF ONLY” - Acts 12:12,25; 13:5,13; 15:36-39If it were possible to move beyond the regrets of the past, would you be interested? And all the people said, “Amen!”
#FlippingTheScript
2023-09-2435 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHERE’S A WAR ON - 2 Timothy 2:3-4Christianity is not a religion of sanctuary decorum but a warfare for the soul of every person in the trenches of life.
#BootCampMentality
2023-09-1739 min2023-09-1033 minFirst Lubbock SermonsLIFE’S ULTIMATE QUESTION - Matthew 16:13-18Out of all the major questions you may anticipate having to answer in the course of your lifetime, there is only one that carries the weight of eternal consequence.
#TheUltimateQuestion
2023-09-0330 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHE HIGHEST SPEECH FORM - James 5:12-20After mentioning in every chapter various patterns of destructive speech, James closes his letter by holding forth the one redeeming form of speech that is practiced exclusively by the church.
#AboveAllElse
2023-08-2735 minFirst Lubbock SermonsWHY WAIT? - James 5:7-11In dealing with adversities of this present life, James offers an answer no one wants to hear: Patience.
#WhyWait?
2023-08-2036 minFirst Lubbock SermonsLIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND INFAMOUS James 5:1-6In and of itself, wealth is neutral. The determination of whether it is good or evil rests upon the one who has acquired it.
#RichAndInfamous
2023-08-1339 min2023-08-0635 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHE BUSI-NESS OF LIVING - James 4:13-17If we imagined life as a business to be built, is yours being built to last? Or does it represent the flavor-of-the-day fads and trends that seek to capture the moment?
#BuiltToLast
2023-07-3033 minFirst Lubbock SermonsWORDS BETTER LEFT UNSAID - James 4:11-12While Homer wrote, “Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid, ” James argue for even more words that are better left unsaid.
#WordsBetterUnsaid
2023-07-2332 minFirst Lubbock SermonsSPIRITUAL SITUS INVERSUS - James 4:1-10What happens when the heart is in the wrong place?
#SitusInversus
2023-07-1638 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHE WISDOM WE NEED - James 3:13-18If intelligence is the acquisition and assimilation of information, wisdom is its application for a greater good.
#WiseUp
2023-07-0936 minFirst Lubbock SermonsMARSHMALLOWS, WAFERS, AND BEETHOVEN -Galatians 5:1The journey of faith has freed us to experience more, know more, and want more, than could have ever been realized under the restraints of the “present evil age.”
#WantMore
2023-07-0223 min2023-06-2532 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHE OFFICE YOU HOLD BUT DON’T WANT - James 3:1-12Though James speaks directly regarding the office of teachers, the fact is, by our words and actions, every confessing believer is teaching a watching world something about what it is to be a follower of Christ.
#AStricterJudgment
2023-06-1838 minFirst Lubbock SermonsEVIDENCE THAT DEMANDS A VERDICT - James 2:14-26Claims of faith are not left to their own subjectivity. When real, it will bear forth, objective, observable evidence.
#InnocentOrGuilty
2023-06-1137 minFirst Lubbock SermonsPLAYING FAVORITES - James 2:1-13Within a secular society, and under any given political ideology, equality is an impossible ideal. In the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, however, it is a non-negotiable expectation.
#PlayingFavorites
2023-06-0439 minFirst Lubbock SermonsA FAITH THAT SHOWS - James 1:26-27James makes clear the difference between a religious show and a faith that shows
#Showtime
2023-05-2835 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHE ERGONOMICS OF FAITH - James 1:22-25Faith isn’t so much a cognitive exercise of belief as it is the active exercise of what you believe.
#ErgonomicFaith
2023-05-2143 minFirst Lubbock SermonsKNOWLEDGEABLE INFLUENCERS - James 1:19-21Knowing what we know regarding the Gospel, places us in a position of immeasurable influence.
#WordPower
2023-05-1438 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTEMPTATION IS TEMPTING - James 1:13-18Most people do well in resisting everything except temptation.
#ResistanceTraining
2023-05-0735 min2023-04-3029 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHE CONDITIONS OF UNCONDITIONAL - James 1:12While God’s love for all is unconditional, there is one condition in particular that proves out eternal life.
#EnduringProof
2023-04-2334 minFirst Lubbock SermonsWHAT HAVE YOU GOT WHEN YOU’VE GOT IT - James 1:9-11When you catch what you’re chasing, what will you have when you’ve got it?
#LifePursuit
2023-04-1637 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHEREFORE: What Easter Means For Monday - 1 Corinthians 15:58As the church, we best bear witness to the reality of the resurrection not in our Easter Sunday participation but our every day manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit.
#EasterTherefore
2023-04-0933 minFirst Lubbock SermonsAN ETHICAL MATRIX FOR WISDOM - James 1:5-8James offers the keys to acquiring a wisdom that exemplifies practical righteousness in everyday living.
#JustAsk
2023-04-0229 minFirst Lubbock SermonsAN ETHIC FOR THE TRIALS OF LIFE - James 1:1-4In the growing reality of secularity, our task is not to look less like the church that the masses might find us attractive. On the contrary, it’s only as we reflect the witness of a living hope, even in our hardships, that we become the Real Presence we are called to be.
#AnEthicalMatrix
2023-03-2633 minFirst Lubbock SermonsFOR YOUR SKEPTIC FRIEND - John 1:45-51For our friends that are skeptics of the faith, Nathanael is a refreshing testimony of willing and thoughtful inquiry.
#LookBeforeYouLeap
2023-03-1934 min2023-03-1216 minFirst Lubbock SermonsDOES JESUS BEING MESSIAH MATTER? - Luke 20:1-8Does it even matter that Jesus is the Messiah? Does it matter to you?
#AsAMatterOfFact
2023-03-0531 minFirst Lubbock SermonsA NEVER-ENDING GOSPEL WORK -Romans 16When is an ending never-ending? When it comes to the work of the gospel.
#ToBeContinued
2023-02-2638 minFirst Lubbock SermonsA HEART THAT DRIVES MISSIONAL FEET - Romans 15:14-33By examining the heart of, arguably, the greatest missionary to have every lived, we discover heart necessary to being a missional people.
#HeartDrive
2023-02-1935 minFirst Lubbock SermonsA SALVATION BIGGER THAN YOURS - Romans 14:1-15-13Scripture challenges us to envision a salvation so much larger than how you have chosen to define it. We don’t dictate to God how his salvation is to be defined.
#UnityIsn'tUniformity
2023-02-1237 minFirst Lubbock SermonsA SALVATION BIGGER THAN YOURS - Romans 14:1-15-13Scripture challenges us to envision a salvation so much larger than how you have chosen to define it. We don’t dictate to God how his salvation is to be defined.
#UnityIsn'tUniformity
2023-02-0541 minFirst Lubbock SermonsSAINTS IN THE POLITICAL CROSSHAIRS - Romans 13Whether it is a full engagement of the political processes that govern a nation, or a fearful withdrawal from the established structures of society, either is a departure from the biblical and strategic intent for the people of God.
#SubversiveIntent
2023-01-2935 min2023-01-2231 minFirst Lubbock SermonsON YOUR WAY TO NOT KNOWING - Hebrews 11:8-11; Joshua 4:20-24Comfortable, manageable, predictable; these are words that most frighten me in the life of faith, because it’s only in the discomforting, unfamiliar situations, and unpredictable ends, that we grow in life and faith.
#OnTheWayToNotKnowing
2023-01-1535 minFirst Lubbock SermonsGETTING COMFORTABLE BEING UNCOMFORTABLE - Luke 10:1-12Don’t get comfortable! Being a commissioned people means we have been sent out from a place from which we were never intended to stay.
#GoInDiscomfort
2023-01-0835 minFirst Lubbock SermonsRESOLVING WHAT MATTERS - Philippians 3:4-17It defines you, it determines everything you do, it is how everyone sees you and perceives you to be, it is the one thing that must be resolved in your life.
#ResolvingIt
2023-01-0134 minFirst Lubbock SermonsWANTING MORE THAN WHAT YOU WANT - Matthew 16:24Only by wanting more than you want right now is it possible to be a follower of Christ.
#WantMore
2022-04-0332 min2022-03-2035 minFirst Lubbock SermonsCOMMUNION: Not A Good Time To Be Alone - Genesis 2:18; Luke 22:15Only the misinformed, or deliberately disobedient, would ever make the statement, “The only thing that really matters is being part of the church universal.” In the New Testament, and in real time, however, ecclesia, church is played out in local communities of believers.
#Participate
2022-03-1325 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTHE SECRET ESCAPE FROM CIRCUMSTANTIAL JAIL - Philippians 4:11-12While life seeks to imprison all humanity to a cell of negative emotions, Paul reveals a secret escape.
#SecretEscape
2022-03-0634 minFirst Lubbock SermonsPEACE: The Talking Listening Self - Philippians 4:5-9Peace is what we want but anxiety is what we experience. How do we flip the script?
#PeaceTalks
2022-02-2705 min2022-02-2027 minFirst Lubbock SermonsA SALVATION BIGGER THAN YOURS - Romans 14:1-15-13Scripture challenges us to envision a salvation so much larger than how you have chosen to define it. We don’t dictate to God how his salvation is to be defined.
#UnityIsn'tUniformity
2022-02-1342 minFirst Lubbock SermonsA DISTRESSED FAITH - 1 Peter 1:3-9It seems contradictory to boldly confess of one’s faith, while at the same time having distress and great anxiety. However, it is something altogether different.
#DistressedFaith
2022-02-0637 minFirst Lubbock SermonsDIAGNOSTICS OF SPIRITUAL DEPRESSION - 2 Peter 1:4-11Are you depressed? Discouraged? Filled with doubt? You’re in good company. The roll call of church history is filled with those who have battled through such seasons of life.
#DisciplinedDeliverance
2022-01-3037 minFirst Lubbock SermonsAN UNEXPECTED DEPRESSION- Galatians 6:9While not surprised by those despondent over a world gone bad, what’s unexpected is those depressed by doing all things good.
#UnexpectedDepression
2022-01-2346 minFirst Lubbock SermonsTRANSFORMING YOUR SELF-IDENTITY - Romans 8:15-17A corrupted self-identity can steal away the wellness God desires for you.
#IdentityDefined
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