The Farmville Baptist Church Podcast

Episode 117 - Worship - Carrying the Fire Beyond Our Tribe (Acts 10)

It is so easy to become siloed in our world - to see the world only through the eyes of our own experience and connect with people who are like us.  Yet the Gospel tells us that God loves everyone, and the church is to move out of the silos the world tries to put us in and into the joyful reality of a community of believers across all dividing lines.  This is a hard lesson to learn, though - even Peter needed divine help to live into God's vision for the church and the kingdom of God.

Episode 116 - Worship - Carrying the Fire to Comfort Hurting People (Acts 9:31-43)

Carrying the Spirit's fire will often mean we care for and help those who are hurting, grieving, or suffering.  Peter showed how the early church did this in the stories of Aeneas and Tabitha.

Episode 115 - Worship - Carrying the Fire for All Who Seek God (Acts 8:26-40)

We continue to ponder how we are called to carry the fire of God's Spirit with the story of Phillip and the Ethiopian eunuch, from Acts 8:26-40.  Pastor Adam helps us ponder if there is anyone who we don't think "fits in," and whether or not we can say "no" to someone seeking God when Jesus has said "yes."

Episode 114 - Worship - Carrying the Fire with Humility (Acts 8:4-25)

We continue our series on carrying the fire of the Spirit by thinking together how we imitate Christ through our humility as we serve God.
Just before the sermon, Pastor Adam also speaks briefly about the recent choices of the Southern Baptist Convention concerning women in ministry.

Episode 113 - Worship - Carrying the Fire No Matter What (Acts 6:8-7:1, 7:51-8:3)

In the season of Pentecost, we consider how we are called to carry the fire - and this week, we think about how to carry the fire, no matter what!

Episode 112 - Worship - We Carry the Fire of Truth (Acts 4:32-37 and Acts 5:1-11)

In the season of Pentecost, we consider how we are called to carry the fire - on this Sunday, the fire of truth.

Episode 111 - Worship - Carry the Fire for the Ignored (Acts 3:1-10, 4:1-22)

In the season of Pentecost, we consider how we are called to carry the fire - on this Sunday, for the ignored.

Episode 110 - Pentecost Worship - Carry the Fire (Acts 2:1-21)

On Pentecost Sunday, we celebrated the gift of God's Spirit to the church, and rejoiced with Tim Shelton, Juby Towler, and McKinley Towler as they were baptized.

Episode 109 - Worship - The Senses of Easter: Witness (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)

We conclude the season after Easter with a look at how the resurrection experiences of the first disciples and what they sensed still play a role in our faith today.

Episode 108 - Worship - The Senses of Easter: Hear (Acts 9:1-20)

We continue the season after Easter with a look at the resurrection experiences of the first disciples through the lens of their senses.  This week, two men in the area of Damascus experience an auditory resurrection experience of Jesus - and together, they will change the world.