Sermons by Pastor Toby Locke (Page 39)

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.

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,…

About What God Wants

God has communicated clearly what He wants from us. He is not impressed by our lineage, accomplishments, or status as moral people, because they cause us to shift all our confidence and hope onto our own abilities and skills. The only way to be “good” with God is to put all of our confidence in…

about Role Models

Ahhhh…role models. Is there even a point to following them anymore?

about my Salvation

Sermon Summary: While God alone is the one who gives the gift of salvation, those of us who receive it are responsible to put it into practice in our everyday life. We do this by taking the initiative to obey God while trusting Him to empower our efforts to obey Him.