First Baptist Owasso

Chris Wall • Genesis 2:18-24 NIV “God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. A biblical family is brought together by marriage, blood, or adoption.” In this series “Asking for a Friend” I hear many friends asking questions around the idea of humanity, marriage, gender, and family. Of course, none of us have to look real hard to see how our culture is redefining family and gender roles. At our church, we embrace the authority of Scripture...

Chris Wall • Genesis 38:1-6 NIV All Christians are under obligation to seek to make the will of Christ supreme in our own lives and in human society. means and methods used for the improvement of society and the establishment of righteousness among men can be truly and permanently helpful only when they are rooted in the regeneration of the individual by the saving grace of God in Jesus Christ...

Chris Wall • Jude 1:1-4 NIV A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ through democratic processes...

Chad Balthrop • 1 Timothy 2:1-4 God alone is Lord of the conscience, and He has left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are contrary to His Word or not contained in it. Church and state should be separate. The state owes to every church protection and full freedom in the pursuit of its spiritual ends. In providing for such freedom no ecclesiastical group or denomination should be favored by the state more than others...

Chris Wall • Matthew 24:3-8 ESV “God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord...