Welcome to First Baptist
Sunday School at 9:00am
Worship Service at 10:15am
Messages
Pastor Ryan Lenerz
This week’s message looks at Galatians 1:10 and what it means to live as a servant of God rather than a people-pleaser. We explore three situations where the pressure to please people shows up, plus three questions to ask when discerning God’s direction for your life. Who are you trying to please?
Youth Mission Trip Edition
This week, our youth share memories from their mission trip to Indianapolis, Indiana, where they served alongside YouthWorks at food pantries, community gardens, and clothing distribution centers. Each student reflects on how their experience connects to their favorite verse— and what it looks like to be made to matter, made to mirror, made for each other, and made for mission.
Welcome Home
What does the end of the road actually look like? This final message of The Journey Home walks through the complete picture of what God has been doing in every human life — from condemnation, through salvation and sanctification, all the way to glorification. The destination isn’t just heaven. It’s home. And the hope of what’s waiting there is what carries us through the hardest miles of the journey.
Blog Posts
The Author of Life: From the Cradle to the Cross to Eternity
Genesis 1:26-28, Psalm 127:3, John 10:10, and Romans 6:4-5 We are a people obsessed with life. We buy multivitamins and new shoes. We research sleep and track our steps. Some of us reach for creams that promise younger skin or dye our hair the color it was twenty years ago. We do all of this — almost instinctively — because something deep inside us refuses to let go of life. We want more of it. Better of it. Longer of…
The Sequel Nobody Expected
The Sequel Nobody Expected There’s a reason you almost never hear Mark’s Gospel read on Easter Sunday. It’s uncomfortable. Every other Gospel ties the resurrection into a satisfying ending — disciples reunited with Jesus, tears turning to joy, wounds touched with trembling hands. Matthew, Luke, and John give us the moment we’ve been waiting for. The reunion. The proof. The exhale. Mark gives us none of that. Mark 16 ends at verse 8 with three women fleeing an empty tomb…
“Unless I Wash You”
On the night before He died, Jesus did something nobody expected. He didn’t gather His disciples for a final strategy session or a farewell speech. He picked up a towel, knelt down, and washed twelve pairs of dirty feet — one by one. John tells us why: “Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” Everything Jesus did that night — the foot washing, the bread broken, the cup poured out — flowed…
Location Details
205 S. Grand St. Chariton, Iowa 50049
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Sunday School at 9:00 am
Sunday Service at 10:15 am