By: Waylon Bailey I want to thank the membership of First Baptist Church Covington, Louisiana, for graciously allowing us to be away during the month of July each year. I’ve joked with you before how I turned that opportunity down for several years (that’s a fact, not a joke). After our first year, we came back and asked that you …
By: Waylon Bailey Today we are thrilled to have Josh Jordan as our preacher. Josh serves as our collegiate pastor and has been with us for the past five years. Josh works with juniors and seniors in high school, college students, and young adults at FBC. We are seeing gratifying responses to Josh’s ministry. One of the unique ways that …
By: Waylon Bailey Worry is a constant problem, and an enemy that must be fought and defeated. Worry and anxiety seems to be a universal problem. How can we give the deathblow to worry? This week I intend to give you four steps to defeat worry. If you’re not a subscriber to Waylonbailey.com, please come back each day to see …
By: Waylon Bailey Martha and I have been searching for Glowworms lately. Of course, we first had to figure out what glowworms are. While reading “The Secret of Guidance” by F.B. Meyer we ran across an interesting quotation concerning glowworms. Meyer described how to discern the direction and guidance of God. He talked about what he called the three witnesses …
By: Waylon Bailey “I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength” (Philippians 4:12-13). There’s …
By: Waylon Bailey With minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all …
By: Waylon Bailey Do you love the church of the Lord Jesus? This is probably a question that shouldn’t have to be asked. The church is the body of Christ, the family of God, and the beautiful bride of Christ. These are metaphors God chose, not me or you. He loves the church and because He loves the church, so …
By: Waylon Bailey Jesus didn’t practice what He preached. Instead, Jesus preached what He practiced. He encouraged His disciples to do what He did. He wanted them to pray, love the hurting, and obey the Father. Jesus wanted their lives to be authentic. As He spoke to His disciples, Jesus repeatedly warned His disciples not to pray, give alms, or …
By: Waylon Bailey It’s really easy to categorize sin into big sins and little sins or important sins and insignificant ones. God has nothing to do with that kind of thinking. God knows that sin is first and foremost a matter of the heart. Jesus said: “For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, …
By: Waylon Bailey Being generous and shunning greed must be difficult. The Bible is written to real needs. Jesus talked about the crucial issues–no straw men here. Since Jesus spoke so much about money and its effect on the human heart (He spoke more about money than any other subject), God is signaling that our covetousness and greed hurt us …
