Sermons by Pastor Toby Locke (Page 16)

I joined the staff as lead pastor at First Baptist in March 2017 after nine years of ministry in Racine, Wisconsin as an associate pastor. I grew up as the child of missionaries in South America, where I got to live among and learn from the beautiful people of Bolivia and Chile. After high school I attended Baptist Bible College of PA (now Clarks Summit University) and graduated at long last in 1998 with a Pastoral Ministries degree. After completing a two-year short term missionary assignment in Chile, I returned to Baptist Bible Seminary for my Master of Divinity, which God graciously enabled me to complete in 2007. From there it was off to Rochester, New York for a year-long internship at North Baptist Church (now Northridge Church) before jumping into full-time vocational ministry at Fellowship Baptist Church in Racine in the fall of 2007.

A Day of “Thanks and Giving”: A Grateful Heart

The gratitude God is looking for from us is not merely a reward we give God when He does something that we like. It is a constant attitude of appreciation for who He is and who we are to Him, which gives us confidence that we can trust Him to act on our behalf in…

The Big Picture: Dealing with Political Hostility

This spiritual life God has given us (1 Peter 1:3, 23) must be sustained in our life experience, but it’s not always obvious how we’re supposed to do that. Luckily for us, God hasn’t left us alone to figure it out on our own. Join us as we think through how we can practically “grow…

The Big Picture: Sustaining Spiritual Life

The Big Picture: Reborn to Love

October 23, 2022
Pastor Toby Locke
Love
I Peter

God brought us to life so that we could have our hearts purified enough to selflessly and sacrificially give ourselves to our spiritual siblings who need us in a variety of ways. It’s up to us to embrace that calling and live a life of sincere brotherly love

The Big Picture: The Process of Rebirth

October 16, 2022
Pastor Toby Locke
Salvation
I Peter

The problem of spiritual death can’t be solved just by making Jesus’s death available to us; a process was needed to apply that provision to our experience. God’s process involved sending “preachers” to plant the seed of His good news in our hearts, prompting us to respond to what we hear in faith, and then…

The Big Picture: In Need of Rebirth

Humanity has a huge problem – we are all spiritually dead people in need of rebirth. Ignoring this problem could have eternally devastating consequences. Praise God for providing a solution for this problem through the death of Christ!

The Big Picture: Reasons to Fear God

When God asks us to pursue the actions of holiness (consecration) with the proper attitude for holiness (fear), He has his reasons. He expects us to pursue holiness with fear because we know that we will answer to God for our actions, because we are living in the Enemy’s territory, and because we belong to…