Posts with the category “david-harris”

One of the highlights of the year at Fellowship Baptist Church is the annual missions conference. Growing up at my church back home, I always looked forward to this time. The Sunday before missions co...  Read More

If you’ve been part of our Sunday morning services, you’ve noticed that we usually end with a benediction. But have you ever wondered why we do that—and what it means?A benediction isn’t just a polite...  Read More

A recurring frustration for members of a local church is the thought "I wish I could have been there for _________ before he left the church." We think about what we could have said, how we could have...  Read More

We have an updated church membership directory available for all of our members. If you have picked one up you will notice there is nothing fancy about it. This is (intentionally) not an expensive hig...  Read More

What goes through your mind when a new Christian is baptized at Fellowship? You might be excited that our church is growing (I am) or thrilled that we have more families (same here) or pleased to see ...  Read More

Gavin Ortlund's The Art of Disagreeing is our June book of the month. I wanted to give our church family an excerpt of this helpful work, which you will find below. More copies will be available this ...  Read More

Introduction: Frameworks and CommitmentsThere are few things more beautiful than a family in which a husband and wife stick together through hard times. It could be an illness, a deep sin, a lost job,...  Read More

Our covenant continues  with the following:Section 7: “We will seek to live carefully in the world, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, and remembering that, as we have been buried by baptism and r...  Read More

*We are in the middle of a series of articles on our church covenant. If you haven't yet read the other articles in the series, you can check them out in the links posted below this article.Our covena...  Read More

*We are in the middle of a series of articles on our church covenant. If you haven't yet read the other articles in the series, you can check them out in the links posted below this article.Our covena...  Read More

Imagine you are attending a wedding. The initial ceremonies are exactly what you expect, until the very end. To your shock, the minister says something like this: "Normally this is when the couple wou...  Read More

As our church has placed a renewed emphasis on the family coming to church together, we thought it would be helpful to give some practical tips on how to train young children to sit through church. Th...  Read More

Last week I laid out six reasons our church prioritizes expositional preaching as opposed to topical preaching. I borrowed Mark Dever's definition, explaining that expositional preaching is simply "ma...  Read More

There are two primary ways churches serve preaching today: topical preaching and expositional preaching. Topical preaching begins with a specific idea and brings in different Scriptures that touch on ...  Read More

Attend Sunday evening service because it is assumed in the New Testament that children and parents worship together....  Read More

Our church for years has served up two expositional meals on the Lord’s Day, and neglecting half of your Sunday diet will not make your soul any better off, and it will not accelerate your understandi...  Read More