Worship by the First Baptist community does not fit neatly into one of the two well-known and well-worn categories: "contemporary" or "traditional." Our worship is interactive, participatory and focused on God. In worship we celebrate the good news of Jesus and the presence of the Holy Spirit. We employ both ancient and modern forms that help us touch the transcendent as we seek a divine perspective on our lives in the world. Because our congregation is diverse in age, we use worship songs a ...
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http://fbcgso.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/01-28-2018_SermonEDIT.mp3 Mark 1:14-20 “And immediately they left their nets and followed him.” No matter how many times I read it, it still startles me: just how quickly Andrew and Simon, and then James and John, are swept up and off. How effortlessly it seems their hands release their familiar grasp. H…
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http://fbcgso.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/01-21-2018_Sermonedit.mp3 John 1:43-51 For Nathaniel, the journey of discipleship begins in the shade. He approaches Jesus for the first time, but finds to his astonishment that Jesus already knows him. “How do you know me?” Nathaniel asks, to which Jesus says, “I saw you when you were sitting under the …
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http://fbcgso.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/03-05-2017_Sermon.mp3 Genesis 2:15-17, Genesis 3:1-7, Matthew 4:1-11 Wednesday evening we began the 40 days of Lent bearing a symbol on our foreheads – a cross of ash, marking all of us as those who have remembered we are dust. A pastor friend of mine has an annual Ash Wednesday tradition. For some years…
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http://fbcgso.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/02-26-2017_Sermon.mp3 Matthew 17:1-9 This summer my family took a wonderful trip out west to spend time adventuring together. We visited the desert of Utah, the cool, calming forests of Yellowstone, and the snow-capped peaks of the Grand Teton mountain range. We climbed and rafted and biked and swam our …
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http://fbcgso.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/02-19-2017_Sermon.mp3 Matthew 5:38-48 You probably saw the popular series of commercials a few years back, based on the concept of “paying it forward.” (1) In this successful advertising campaign an insurance company appeals to the viewer to do the right thing, that others might do the same. So as the co…
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http://fbcgso.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/02-12-2017_Sermon.mp3 Matthew 5:17-37 Rev. Dr. Amy Butler is pastor of The Riverside Church in New York City – a large, historic, influential church, where my friend, Amy, preaches powerful sermons from an elevated pulpit in a grand gothic sanctuary. Except for just a week ago, when she decided that inst…
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http://fbcgso.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/02-05-2017_Sermon.mp3 Matthew 5:13-20 You couldn’t see anything. When the sun went down in the ancient world, it was completely dark. It might be hard for us to imagine, with our nightlights, bedside lamps or the glow of a phone close at hand, but nightfall in Galilee brought total darkness. Candles and …
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/01-29-2017_sermon.mp3 Matthew 5:1-12 On Tuesday of this week, I remembered what’s most important. I was getting ready to leave the church – rushing home to pick up Jack for basketball practice – when I heard that a woman had come to our front desk, asking if anyone had seen a little boy. A 2-yr-old had wan…
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/01-22-2017_sermon.mp3 Matthew 4:12-23 “Immediately they left their nets and followed Jesus.” It’s a jarring, almost fanciful moment – how quickly Andrew and Simon, then James and John – set down their nets. Because it’s not just the nets that drop, it’s a way of being and a whole set of motions rehearsed o…
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/01-15-2017_sermon.mp3 Matthew 3:13-17 “Is he going to drown her?” I thought to myself. I was in Romania a decade ago as part of a group of students from Wake Forest Divinity School on pilgrimage for a week, where we were attending a Sunday night baptism service. The large, zealous, imposing pastor was hold…
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/01-08-2016_sermon.mp3 Matthew 2:1-12 It was only a matter of time, but it turned out to be this year’s holiday road trip when the timeless question started to come from the back of the minivan: “How much farther?” This time last week we were getting packed to return from a week in Florida. Thanks again to …
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/01-01-2017_sermon.mp3 Ecclesiastes 3.1-13 Before we look into our scripture today I would like to take a moment to introduce myself if we have not met yet. My name is Courtney Stamey and I am the second pastoral resident at First Baptist Church. The pastoral residency program is a two-year transition into …
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/12-25-2016_sermon.mp3 Luke 2:25-35 Last night – Christmas Eve – we gathered beneath the star. As I shared a homily, I held my 5 month old baby, Elizabeth Bea, because at first, that’s what the story is about: holding a baby. My friend Ashley-Anne recalled this a few years back when she was standing in a gr…
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/12-18-2016_sermon.mp3 We know the Messiah of which Handel’s oratorio speaks. It’s Jesus. The Christ. Born to Mary, in Bethlehem. Yet in the whole work – 53 movements, and roughly 3 hours in its entirety, we never hear Jesus’ voice. The text tells us of the promise of the Messiah and the coming of the Messi…
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/12-11-2016_sermon.mp3 Isaiah 35:1-10 and Matthew 11:2-11 It was December 1943 and another Advent season had come for the Lutheran pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer loved Advent. “ The joy of God goes through the poverty of the manger and the agony of the cross” he once wrote. “That is …
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/12-04-2016_sermon.mp3 Isaiah 2:1-5 and Matthew 24:36-44 In Greensboro, we give you a week, but then the endless rush of seasonal traditions begins. Just this weekend there was the Candle Tea, the Festival of Lights, Parades, Concerts, countless Breakfasts with the Big Guy, and the list continues. On the li…
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/11-27-2016_sermon.mp3 Isaiah 11:1-10 and Matthew 3:1-12 Dr. Benjamin Wall is a professor at Greensboro College, an Anglican priest, and a new friend of mine. As we sat one morning over coffee downtown, I learned that he is also our Westerwood neighbor, living only a block or so from our church. He loves wh…
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November is Commitment Season at First Baptist Church Greensboro, as we remember again who we are and pledge our gifts to the life and ministry we share as a community of faith. Our Commitment theme this year is “As We Go,” based on the benediction we share at the end of each service. This week’s sermon was the last of three sermons on this theme, …
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November is Commitment Season at First Baptist Church Greensboro, as we remember again who we are and pledge our gifts to the life and ministry we share as a community of faith. Our Commitment theme this year is “As We Go,” based on the benediction we share at the end of each service. This week’s sermon is the second of three sermons on the theme, …
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November is Commitment Season at First Baptist Church Greensboro, as we remember again who we are and pledge our gifts to the life and ministry we share as a community of faith. Our Commitment theme this year is “As We Go,” based on the benediction we share at the end of each service. This week’s sermon is the first of three sermons on the theme, r…
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/10-30-2016_sermon.mp3 Mark 9.1-8 Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more, but only Jesus. Holy mountains. The Mount of the Transfiguration is among several holy mountains that are part of the landscape of today’s Middle East, in particular Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia…
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/10-23-2016_sermon.mp3 Luke 18:9-14 They used to call me “winner.” Now understand, this was not meant as a compliment. My college roommates and friends called me “winner” with a great deal of sarcasm, poking fun at me because they knew that whatever the contest – whether intramural flag football, ping pong …
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/10-16-2016_sermon.mp3 Luke 18:1-8 I opened my mouth, and the words would not come. Have you ever found yourself without words? A friend’s diagnosis, a loved one’s bad news, an accident or a loss. You open your mouth, but the words just won’t come. Or if they do come, they don’t reach very far. You’re left …
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A Missions Sunday sermon from Rev. Kim Priddy, Associate Pastor: Missions and Community. https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/10-9-16-revised.mp3 Luke 9:1-6 This suitcase went with me to Nicaragua on my immersion trip while I as at Wake Forest Divinity School. As you can see this seems in opposition of the scripture that Steve Cothran just re…
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/10-02-2016_sermon.mp3 Luke 17:11-19 Many of you know that my father, Craig Sherouse, is a pastor – at Second Baptist in Richmond, VA – and I grew up as a preacher’s kid, which was a great life, except when it wasn’t. Like when the eccentric director of Adult Sunday School at my home church, hatched a schem…
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/09-25-2016_sermon.mp3 Luke 16:1-8 Some rules are made to be broken. My friend, Rev. Courtney Allen, is the Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Richmond. She was raised to love the church by her parents, both of whom are active, committed members of their local Baptist Church. But it wasn’t always that way. N…
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/9-18-16-sermon-jh.mp3 Luke 15:1-10 “Do we have a lost and found?” This was Gayle Adams’ question to me this week. Someone had left a scarf or a book or something, so together we rummaged around in the front office, looking in cabinets and drawers until we came upon the lost and found box, tucked underneath…
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/09-11-2016_sermon.mp3 Luke 14:25-33 Jesus Teaching the Disciples by Rudolph Bostic Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, brother, and sister, even life itself, cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me, cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not give up all their…
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Sunday’s sermon continued our summer sermons on Jesus’ parables – “Repurposed” – remembering that in describing the Kingdom of God, Jesus never asked people to leave their world. He imagined it in ordinary and everyday things, repurposed to make known the Kingdom. Read or listen to the sermon below. https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/09-04-…
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Sunday’s sermon continued our summer sermons on Jesus’ parables – “Repurposed” – remembering that in describing the Kingdom of God, Jesus never asked people to leave their world. He imagined it in ordinary and everyday things, repurposed to make known the Kingdom. Read or listen to the sermon below. https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/08-28-…
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Sunday’s sermon continued our summer sermons on Jesus’ parables – “Repurposed” – remembering that in describing the Kingdom of God, Jesus never asked people to leave their world. He imagined it in ordinary and everyday things, repurposed to make known the Kingdom. Read or listen to the sermon below. https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/08-21-…
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Sunday’s sermon continued our summer sermons on Jesus’ parables – “Repurposed” – remembering that in describing the Kingdom of God, Jesus never asked people to leave their world. He imagined it in ordinary and everyday things, repurposed to make known the Kingdom. This week we listened again to the parable of a man with two sons. Read or listen to …
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https://fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/08-07-2016_sermon.mp3 Luke 16:19-31 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple. At his GATE was laid a beggar named Lazarus.” The parable of the Rich man and Lazarus–we know its meaning. We should give to the poor; we should be sympathetic to those who have less than we do. And if we do that we shall …
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