First Baptist New Orleans | Sermons

The Sin Cycle   Every generation needs to learn to follow and trust God.    God acts in the world, relating and responding to our actions.   God sometimes tests his people.

Why the book of Judges? What does God have to say to us through this Old Testament book? One of the key word to understand in all of the Bible, but especially in the Old Testament is the idea of covenant. From the very beginning, man was created to...

The Gospel Coalition is a nonprofit organization that puts together resources, hosts conferences, and has a podcast all for the purpose of helping Christians to grow in Christ. It is probably one of the most frequented websites that I go to. Many of...

We are concluding a series called “When Love Comes to Town.” We’ve looked at the transformations that happened in the lives of individuals and groups as they came face to face, quite literally, with the power of Jesus. We’ve also begun an emphasis...

A Reality When Jesus was telling of his ministry, he says this, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to...

How is your 4 the City Emphasis coming? Are you faithfully praying for your 4? We have posted a resource for you to read on the FBNO Facebook page. I have also included it on my personal twitter account as well.  I talked with a person just last week...

We continue our journey in our series, When Love Comes to Town, this morning. We are going to be looking at a familiar story of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Probably the most transformative account of an individual in all of scripture. Imagine...

Our text this morning is John 8:1-12. By way of introduction, I will read selected verses from John chapter 7.  Hear the word of the Lord, according to St. John: …Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were...

We are in a third week of our series entitled, When Love Comes to Town focusing on encounters that lead to transformation. Today we move away from the Gospels to look at a story in Acts 8:26-40.  Rely on the Spirit: "And the Spirit said to...

When Love comes to Town is a song by U2 and the great B. B. King. They collaborated together on this song first released in 1988. Here is an excerpt from the song: I was there when they crucified my Lord, I held the scabbard when the soldier drew...

When Taylor asked me a while back to preach this morning and I could select my text, I immediately thought of Matthew 2 since this is the Sunday after Christmas. I don’t know about you, but I have certain memories relating to different Bible stories...

I’ve had the privilege to lead 3 teams to Africa to partner with Reclaimed Project in Zimbabwe and Lesotho. Those trips are always amazing, but the travel there is just brutal. There’s no good way to get there, and we try to make these trips as cheap...

So much of Christmas surrounds family, friends, presents, parties, and Santa Claus. Without a doubt, many of our memories of Christmas’ past have all of these. Today is December 2nd, and before you know it December 25th will be here. Christmas is...