Sermons by Pastor Toby Locke (Page 35)

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.

Developing A Spiritual Training Plan

If we ever want to think “right-side up,” then we’re going to have to come up with a plan to get there. Paul helps us by demanding that we take ownership of our thoughts, decide who we want to be like, and then imitate these role models. As we do those things, we know that…

Tackling Our Anxiety

Each of us has to choose who will call the shots when we face threats and feel fear. If we allow anxiety to be the boss, we’ll slide into God-dishonoring, self-destructive behavior. But if we turn to God and express our desires to Him, His peace will protect us from unhinged thoughts and feelings so…

Burden of Proof

April 22, 2018
Pastor Toby Locke

It’s on US as Christians to back up our claims of seeing life “right-side up.” We can do this by expressing our delight in Jesus even when our circumstances are terrible, and by creating safe places for hurting people to run to when they are in trouble. These kind of choices make our testimony of…

about Sharp Disagreements in Church

Sharp disagreements happen in church all the time, even between believers who are very committed to Jesus and to His mission. Upside-down thinking wants us to react to this by pulling away from one another, but Paul challenges us all to stay together long enough to resolve our differences, with the help of the church,…

Too Good to be True?

April 1, 2018
Pastor Toby Locke
Easter
John

If Jesus didn’t really die, or if He really didn’t come back from the dead, the entire Christian message falls apart.

Too Little…Too Late???

If Jesus didn’t really die, or if He really didn’t come back from the dead, the entire Christian message falls apart.

about What’s Worth Pursuing

We are all pursuing something, either our immediate satisfaction or our ultimate transformation. Paul challenges us to make our life’s pursuit to be “Me 2.0” in God’s eternal kingdom. If we are going to do this, it will require us to think differently; we have to be humble, refuse to get stuck in the past,…