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Listen to last Sunday's advent sermon on our podcast (available on Spotify, Apple and Google podcasts, or your favorite podcast app) at the link below! https://podcasters.spotify.com/.../Matthew-118-25-The... "Jesus is the long-awaited Messiah and Savior of the world, born of the virgin Mary, who came to save His people from their sins. Against our postmodern and relativistic world, Christians testify that Jesus is the only way, the only truth, the only life. God the Son came down from heaven to live the life we could never live and die the death we all deserve, so that all who believe in Him may have eternal life." #firstbaptistwr #midwest #adventcalendar #christmaseve #Christmas #christmastime #sermons #Advent2023 #incarnation #gospel #prayer #churchesinwisconsin #church #WisRapidsArea #centralwisconsin #upnorth #church #christian #bible

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Listen to Pastor Josh's Sunday sermon from Isaiah on the First Baptist Church podcast at the link below!

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Isaiah: Salvation in the Rod of Jesse by First Baptist Church of Wisconsin Rapids

The LORD will hew down all the proud and lofty in the land as an axe hews down a forest. Israel will go into exile. Yet a rod will spring up from t...

"The LORD will hew down all the proud and lofty in the land as an axe hews down a forest. Israel will go into exile. Yet a rod will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and in Him not only Israel but people from every nation will find restoration and peace in a new creation. Application: The dark and disordered days we live in, changing times, our oppressive government, and finding hope and peace in Christ." #firstbaptistwr #hope #peace #joy #restoration #happiness #WisRapidsArea #WisconsinRapids #wisconsinchurches #upnorthwisconsin #Christmas #nativity #holidaycheer #dairyland #doctrinematters #christmastime #gospel #churchesinwisconsin

Does knowledge begin with the thinking subject or the existing object? It must begin with the existing object. A person cannot think who does not first exist. An object cannot be thought about if one does not first perceive that it exists. Reality precedes consciousness in the order of knowing. #gm #philosophy #commonsense #realism #thomism

Woods to table. Venison steaks tonight. #foodstr #hunting #grownostr

We need more metaphysical realism to break through the matrix. "I think, therefore I am." Or "I am, therefore I'll think." ? #philosophy #realism #foundations #culture

The newness of the New Testament is its unconditional nature. It is all of grace and all of Christ. Christ's death for sin and life for righteousness are freely offered to all as a free gift, received by faith alone. Believe in Christ; receive the gift of eternal life. "[The New Covenant] is a Full Covenant...The Fullness of the God-head dwells as truly in the Son, as in the Father; and of his Fullness do all Believers partake, Of his Fullness all we receive, and Grace for Grace." -Benjamin Keach #baptist #Christian #reformed #life #bible

Last Sunday's sermon:

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Jeremiah: The God Who Enforces the Covenant by First Baptist Church of Wisconsin Rapids

Jeremiah foretells doom coming on Judah for breaking the covenant from Sinai and committing harlotry, but he also foretells the coming of a new cov...

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving. #gm #grownostr #hunting

Good morning. #grownostr #gm #christian #baptist #biblestr #jesus

Check out Sunday's sermon from First Baptist Church of Wisconsin Rapids:

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Samuel: The LORD's Anointed by First Baptist Church of Wisconsin Rapids

In the book of Judges, there was no king in Israel, and everyone did what was right in his own eyes. In the book of Samuel, God raises up David the...

I love the smell of freedom in the morning. #liberty #faithalone #biblestr #christianostr #christian #grownostr

"Joshua leads Israel in to conquer the land of Canaan. They leave nothing breathing in Jericho. But can Israel conquer the sin in their own hearts, and is Joshua the one who will give them lasting rest and peace?" Full sermon at the link below:

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Joshua: Conquering the Land by First Baptist Church of Wisconsin Rapids

Joshua leads Israel in to conquer the land of Canaan. They leave nothing breathing in Jericho. But can Israel conquer the sin in their own hearts, ...

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No one has a right to oxygen—he has a right to breathe. No one has a right to a stomach full of water—he has a right to drink such water as he may find. No one has a right to food—he has a right to work for a living. No one has a right to shelter—he has a right to build a home on such property as he has acquired by honest dealing. No one has a right to health care—he has a right to trade for the services of those willing to trade with him, at a price agreed upon by both parties. #justice #capitalism #american

You cannot claim as a right something that must first be earned, produced, created, or discovered by another human being. #justice #rights #capitalism

"the rule about loving one's neighbor begins with oneself, seeing that the Scripture says, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" -Augustine, City of God Christianity teaches the mortification of sin, covetousness, vanity, not the mortification of self. #christianostr #biblestr #christian

What's with all the laws and ordinances in Leviticus, the Tabernacle, and the sacrifices and washings? Could Israel expect to keep this law for eternal life? Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to all who believe.

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Leviticus: Called to be Holy by First Baptist Church of Wisconsin Rapids

Pastor Josh continues this series through the Bible with Leviticus. What's with all the laws and ordinances in Leviticus, the Tabernacle, and the s...

"If we believe in Christ, let us believe His words and promises, and we shall never die, and shall come to Christ with joyful security with Him to reign forever." -Cyprian, quoted in Perkins, A Reformed Catholic #biblestr #christianostr #jesus #catholic #reformed

"The papist says we are justified by faith because it disposes a sinner to his justification...We say otherwise that faith justifies because it is a supernatural instrument created by God in the heart of man at his conversion, whereby he apprehends and receives Christ's righteousness for his justification." -William Perkins, A Reformed Catholic (AD 1598) #christianostr #biblestr #jesus #christianity #reformationday #reformed