FBC St. John

Sunday's sermon:

https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/93241711187888

Sunday's Sermon: Esther 2:1-18 ESV

https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/826241420276760

Sunday's sermon: https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/81924143215667/

We're in a new book of the Bible! Join us for this expositional series through the book of Esther.

https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/812241442138181/

AWANA (taken from 2 Timothy 2:15) for children Pre-K - 6th grade will start on Sunday, September 8th from 5-6:30pm through May 4th. They will hear Bible stories, learn scripture verses, have game time and a whole lot of fun. You can pre-register by calling 314-427-1974 or just show up and do it at that time. We look forward to seeing your children and to having a fantastic AWANA year.

We have something going on this Fall. We are offering an ESL (English as a Second Language) and SSL (Spanish as a Second Language) at our church. There is limited space, but if you are interested, please come to the information session on 9.8 at 5pm to learn more.

sermonaudio.com/sermon/8524171820265

https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/72924153310367/

Its time to get your BBQ on! Sunday, July 28, we will have our annual church picnic. Bring food! Bring friends! We will have competitions in three categories: Meat, Side Dish, and Desert.
4:30 to 6:30 pm. Bring lawn chairs and yard games!

"This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life."
- 1 John 5:6-12 ESV

https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/715241421254542/

Saturday's Bingo and Bacon was an absolute blast!

Don't forget! Bingo and Bacon in the FBCSJ Fellowship Hall tomorrow at 4:30!

"Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?"
- 1 John 5:1-5 ESV

https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/78241421494946/

"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler
and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his pinions,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
You will not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
You will only look with your eyes
and see the recompense of the wicked.
Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place—
the Most High, who is my refuge—
no evil shall be allowed to befall you,
no plague come near your tent.
For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.
You will tread on the lion and the adder;
the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.
“Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him;
I will protect him, because he knows my name.
When he calls to me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.
With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”
- Psalm 91:1-16 ESV

https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/7124153687888/

Hey church, family! Tomorrow is our combined service with City Lights Church followed by a fellowship meal downstairs. Make sure to bring a dish or two to share! This will be at 10:30 am, which means Sunday School will be getting out 15 minutes earlier at 10:15. See you all tomorrow!

As we've been announcing, this Sunday, June 30th we will be having a combined service with our friends at First Baptist Church of St. John. At 10:30 we will gather together in the main worship center, worshipping God as one body unified in Christ. After the service, we will all gather downstairs in the fellowship hall for a potluck lunch. If you're a City Lights attender, please bring a dish to share!

We will still be offering Kids Program to City Lights attenders. If you have kid(s) to check in, please enter through the First Baptist entrance and make your way downstairs to check in your children.

Sunday's sermon from Psalm 145:1-21, preached by Gary Beck.

https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/62424150414381/

"By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother." 1 John 4:13-21 ESV

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermon/617241430375340

Our very own Jim Bowers! It should be good and we hope to see you there!

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us." - 1 John 4:7-12 ESV

https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/61024145024779/

Last week's backyard Hangout was so fun. Can't wait to hang out at the Stull house at 5:30 today! Message us for the address if you need it!

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error." - 1 John 4:1-6 ESV

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermon/6324147173217

Today we officially opened and dedicated the Clutterham Library! Many came to celebrate with us and honor the legacy of Joshua Clutterham one more time. We pray that this library full of wonderful theologically solid books, commentaries and resources would be a blessing to many for years to come. May they equip those who are hungry for the Word and for service of our risen King! Thank you Meredith Clutterham and your boys for coming!

Starting tomorrow! All are invited. Feel free to bring friends!

This Sunday it's official!

"By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us." - 1 John 3:19-24 ESV

https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/528241415462094/

"By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth."
- 1 John 3:16-18 ESV

https://web.sermonaudio.com/sermons/520241422252186

"For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him." - 1 John 3:11-15 ESV

https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/513241418231599/

“Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.
Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander for the peoples.
Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know,
and a nation that did not know you shall run to you,
because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel,
for he has glorified you.
“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
“For you shall go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall break forth into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
and it shall make a name for the Lord,
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” - Isaiah 55:1-13 ESV

https://web.sermonaudio.com/sermons/5624142405032/

"Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother." - 1 John 3:4-10 ESV

https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/429241523562524/

"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure." - John 3:1-3 ESV

https://beta.sermonaudio.com/sermons/42224155447086/