In this first message from a three part series entitled, Thankful?, Pastor Greg Whaley examines our natural desire to complain as a symptom of "unthankfulness" in our heart.  With tongue in cheek, we see five ways to be un-thankful.  Yet, when we see Philippians 2:14-15, those five ways to be un-thankful are unrolled into five ways to be thankful.  We learn that it is only possible to be un-thankful when our bibles closed!  This message was presented on Sunday, November 1, 2020. This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

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How to Be Unthankful

Is life a sacred thing and if so, does that impact the way we live and move and have our being?  In today's teaching, Pastor Greg Whaley takes us to Psalm 139 to see how God sees life and how He is involved in it.  From this passage we learn there is no part of our lives on this earth that God doesn't care about.  We also learn there is no place we can go where God is not there.  And just as importantly, there is no time before or time after our earthly life when we are not in His heart.  This teaching was presented on Sunday, October 25, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

Body and Soul: Sacred Life

The book of Jonah does not end like a Disney movie.  It ends with Jonah messing up again, just like real life.  In this last sermon from the More Than Just a Fish Tale series, Pastor Greg takes us to Jonah 4 to learn the last lessons Jonah has to give in the book.  It is here we learn the work of God in and through us is never in vain.  We learn the whole of our lives is an object lesson in God's mercy.  We learn there is never a good reason to be angry about mercy.  Powerful truths!  This teaching was presented on Sunday, October 18, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

Jonah: Do You Have a Good Reason

As we follow Jonah from disobedience to obedience, Pastor Greg takes us to Jonah 3, where Jonah finally does what He is supposed to do - He prophesies to Nineveh. Yet before Jonah can even make his way through a third of the city, Nineveh repents from the lowliest commoner to the King himself.  Through Jonah's experience we find that God was and always is a God of second chances, that the message belongs to God and obedience belongs to us, that there is no such thing as half repentance, and that God always recognizes true repentance and is faithful to save.  This teaching was presented on Sunday, October 11, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

Jonah: A Surprisingly Good Sermon

What would you say to God if you were stuck in the belly of great fish for three days?  Would you be angry?  Would you be hysterical?  In Jonah 2, we find the prayer of Jonah from inside the belly of the great fish.  In this prayer, Jonah thanks God.  He remembers a worse fate.  He promises to fulfill His vow.  We can do the same when we are in a place or a time of stillness and yielding.  This teaching was presented on Sunday, October 4, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, LA.  Thank you for listening!

Jonah: From the Belly of the Beast

We often think our relationship with Jesus is a private affair that has no impact on others.  If we obey, if we do not obey, that is just between us and God.  In this sermon from the Jonah series, Pastor Greg takes us to Jonah 1 where even pagan boatmen are spiritually savvy enough to see that Jonah's disobedience has an out-sized effect on them.  Our disobedience can do the same to others around us.  This teaching was presented on Sunday, September 27, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

Jonah: How Could You Do This?

This teaching from Pastor Greg was presented as a part of a Lord's Supper service at First Baptist Church in Bogalusa, Louisiana, on Sunday, September 20, 2020.

Considering the Lord's Supper

As we follow Jonah in his attempted escape from God, God finds him in a big way on the sea route to Tarshish.  A storm batters the boat and, incredibly Jonah is asleep in the stern.  Pastor Greg helps us to see this as a picture of our spiritual condition when we are running from God.  How is that we are sleeping when there are so many storms around us?  We need to listen and follow the word of the Lord to us.  This teaching was presented on Sunday, September 13, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

Jonah: Why Are You Sleeping?

We begin a new sermon series at First Baptist by going to the old testament book of Jonah.  Modern folks seem to have a complicated relationship with Jonah.  We tend to focus on the fish rather than the man.  Pastor Greg takes us to the opening verses of Jonah to help us see the foundation of disobedience that sets in motion all that is to come for Jonah.  Like Jonah, we would rather take the long road to Tarshish than to the short road to Nineveh.  But the yoke of obedience is always lighter than than the boulder of disobedience.  This teaching was presented on Sunday, August 6, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

Jonah: Running from God

In this last sermon from the Songs for the Journey series, Pastor Greg takes us to the last book in our scriptures.  In Revelation 15, we see the inhabitants of heaven singing between two very difficult moments - the great winepress of the wrath of God and the bowl judgments of Revelation 16.  What song can we sing when we are caught between a rock and hard place?  The song that is sung in heaven, no matter how bad it seems things are getting is always, "God is Great!" This teaching was presented on Sunday, August 30, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

Songs for the Journey: God is Great!

In this bonus "Song for the Journey" Pastor Greg Whaley takes us to the monumental passage of scripture found in Philippians 2:5-11.  Jesus is not just Lord because He is one with the Father.  He is that, but this passage tells us He is Lord because He is willing to lay aside the God nature in order to take up the form of man.  As a man, He follows the will of His Father perfectly to the point of an death on the cross so that all men may know eternal life.  There is no other Lord like that!  This teaching was presented on Sunday, August 23, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

Bonus Song for the Journey: Jesus is Lord

What is good and pleasant in the world?  Psalm 133 says it is when brothers and sisters dwell together in precious unity.  In an age that celebrates polarization, a song of precious unity is sorely needed. Pastor Greg Whaley shows us how to sing its verses from Psalm 130.  Unity in the faith is a light to truth in a darkened world.  Unity is a picture of the abundance of God's love toward His children.  Unity is the fecundity of heaven on a barren world.  This teaching was preached on Sunday, August 9, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, LA.  Thank you for listening.

A Song of Precious Unity

The next song we are learning from our study of the Psalms of Ascent is the song of pardon.  Using Psalm 130 as the focus text, Pastor Greg Whaley reminds us that rather than singing the empty virtues of our fallen selves, we are to be singing a song of the goodness of our forgiving God in Jesus Christ.  Forgiveness is available to all and those who know how greatly they are forgiven live deeply in the kingdom of God! This message was preached on Sunday, August 2, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, LA.  Thank you for listening.

A Song of Pardon

In a world that almost demands one "make something of themselves" in order to be prosperous, Psalm 127 comes as a refreshing corrective.  Pastor Greg Whaley continues the Songs for the Journey series by reminding us from the scripture that apart from God, all our work is vanity.  God loves to give to His children and He measures prosperity in the world by our godly investments in our families.  This teaching was presented on Sunday, July 26, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening!

A Song of Prosperity

Psalm 126 is a joyful and exuberant song of praise to the Lord for His goodness.  In this teaching, Pastor Greg encourages us to learn the song of praise that we can always sing no matter what the circumstances are around us.  The follower of Jesus can always sing the song of praise for the great, overwhelming, cosmos-shaking, sin-rending, saving love of God toward us in Christ Jesus our Lord. It is too good not to be true!  This teaching was presented on Sunday, July 19, 2020.  This podcast is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana.  Thank you for listening.

A Song of Praise

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