FBC Beaumont
Dr. Christopher Moody
Disciples make disciples. Jesus designed His Church the way He wanted it, and He wants His Church the way He designed it. Beaumont's First Baptist Church exists to share the good news of Jesus Christ and to invest in those who come to faith so they can grow in spiritual maturity (and repeat the process).
Episodes
(Message) The King’s Hand
Because we belong to the King, His character should shape ours. As followers of the Mighty God, Wonderful Counselor, Prince of Peace, and Eternal Father, we are called to humility, teachability, peacemaking, and compassion.
(Full Service) The King’s Hand
Because we belong to the King, His character should shape ours. As followers of the Mighty God, Wonderful Counselor, Prince of Peace, and Eternal Father, we are called to humility, teachability, peacemaking, and compassion.
1. The Gospel According to Isaiah
God exposes the ruin caused by sin but promises to redeem His people through Immanuel, the Suffering Servant, and Holy King who will reign forever.
2. When God Takes His People to Court
When the LORD judges His people, it is for the purpose of exposing their sin so that they might repent. He graciously invites us to return to Him and be restored to a loving, intimate relationship (Isa. 1:18-20). God alone lays down conditions which must be followed.
3. The Mount that will Stand Forever
God reveals through Isaiah the coming worldwide reign of Jesus Christ, when the nations will seek His truth and His righteous rule will bring peace. Because Christ’s Kingdom alone will stand forever, we must build our lives under His rule today.
4. The Day Pride Dies
Isaiah warns that everything humanity exalts above God will ultimately be brought down. Because our idols cannot save us, we must identify what rules our hearts, humble ourselves before God, and place our trust in Jesus Christ alone.
5. The Branch from the Ruins
Isaiah describes the collapse caused by sin and God’s judgment against corrupt leadership, oppression, and counterfeit glory. Yet judgment is not God’s final word. Jesus, the promised Branch, brings new life from the ruins, cleanses a holy remnant, and shelters His people beneath God’s glory.
6. When God Comes Looking for Fruit
God lovingly cultivated Israel but found greed, injustice, pride, and rebellion instead of righteous fruit. Isaiah’s vineyard song points us to Jesus, the True Vine, who redeems our fruitlessness and produces new life in everyone who abides in Him.
7. When You See The King
Seeing the Holy King changes everything. Isaiah encounters God’s overwhelming holiness, sees his own sin clearly, receives God’s cleansing grace, and answers His call. His experience foreshadows our experience with King Jesus and reminds us to remain faithful even when the mission is difficult.
8. God With Us...Then and Now
Isaiah brings a message from God to Judah and a sign of God's provision is given to them in the form of a child being born. This prophecy was a sign to Judah and all its enemies of God's blessing upon them and was a sign to all of human history of God's ultimate plan for redemption.
9. His Name is Wonderful
Who can we trust when fear rises and the way ahead seems dark? Isaiah points us to the promised Son: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. His name reveals why we can trust His protection, follow His counsel, depend on His power, and rest in His reign.
1. The Disciple and Maturity
God calls His people not merely to profess faith but to demonstrate it through a life that reflects genuine spiritual maturity. True faith, born through the Word of truth, is evidenced by growth, obedience, and a visible transformation that aligns with the character of Christ.
2. The Disciple and Trials
The trials we face are not meaningless interruptions but purposeful tests that refine faith, produce endurance, and lead to spiritual maturity. James calls believers to respond with wisdom, trust, and perseverance, promising the crown of life to those who remain steadfast under pressure.
3. How Do I Think About Temptation?
James points to man's disordered desires as the source of temptation and points to God as the source for the good gifts in life. Temptation is a process that everyone faces and this text gives us a way of thinking about that.
4. The Disciple and the Word
God’s Word was not given merely to inform us, but to transform us. Real faith is revealed when the Word of God takes root in the heart, reshapes behavior, and produces visible obedience, compassion, and holiness in everyday life.
5. The Disciple and Favoritism
God warns that favoritism is incompatible with genuine faith. God calls His people to reject partiality and to show the same mercy to others that they themselves have received through the gospel.
6. The Disciple and Visible Faith
Genuine faith can be seen because it produces obedience, love, and spiritual fruit. The lives of Abraham and Rahab show that while salvation is by faith alone, true faith always reveals itself through a changed life.
7. The Disciple and Taming The Tongue
James chapter three starts with a description of the importance for Christians of having control over their speech. Words have the power to build up, tear down, and give direction to our lives. The reader is intended to leave thinking about the impact of their words on those around them.
8. The Disciple and Wisdom
In James 3:13-18, we see that earthly wisdom is merely a tool you use, but Biblical wisdom is Someone you belong to. True wisdom is not about gathering information, but about entering into a transformative relationship with God. Through this divine adoption and proximity to the Father, your very Spiritual DNA is altered.
9. The Disciple and Sin
Genuine faith seeks to turn from sin, selfish desire, and friendship with the world. God gives greater grace to those who submit to Him, resist the devil, draw near in repentance, and humble themselves before the Lord.
10. The Disciple and Humility
We play God when we slander a brother or sister. We play God when we plan as if success tomorrow belongs to us. Genuine faith humbly trusts that God is Judge, life is a vapor, His will is best, and today is the time to do what He has made clear.
11. The Disciple and Wealth
Genuine faith seeks to turn from sin, selfish desire, and friendship with the world. God gives greater grace to those who submit to Him, resist the devil, draw near in repentance, and humble themselves before the Lord.
11. The Disciple and Endurance
God calls believers to endure suffering with patient, steadfast faith because Christ is coming again and God is always working.
12. The Disciple and Prayer
God calls believers to pray in every circumstance, care for one another, trust His power, and pursue those who wander back to the truth.
1. Release: Living Under the Weight of Self
Solomon begins Ecclesiastes by exposing the futility of life lived “under the sun,” where we try to create our own meaning and control the outcome. He calls life a vapor—brief, elusive, and unable to satisfy the soul apart from God. True rest comes by receiving life as God’s gift and living with our Creator and the final judgment in view.
2. Release: Living in a World that Repeats Itself
Solomon teaches that life under the sun is marked by repetition, weariness, and unfulfilled longing, no matter how much we learn or accomplish. By exposing the limits of wisdom and human effort, he gently redirects us away from self-reliance and toward a deeper, God-centered understanding of meaning and rest.
3. Release: Living Beyond What Can Satisfy
Solomon tests pleasure, work, wealth, and wisdom and declares them all hevel—a mist that cannot sustain meaning. He concludes that achievement exhausts, success fades, and even wisdom is undone by death, leaving life under the sun unsatisfied. Only joy received from the hand of God endures, as life is meant to be enjoyed with gratitude, not used as a replacement for God.
4. Release: Living Within God’s Time
Solomon teaches that life unfolds in seasons appointed by God, not shaped by human control. Though eternity is set in the human heart, meaning is lost when we try to master time instead of trusting God’s work within it. Peace comes, Solomon concludes, when time is received as God’s gift and life is enjoyed with reverent trust.
5. Release: Living Better Together
Solomon warns that isolation magnifies oppression, imbalance, and stress in life “under the sun.” He teaches that work and success become empty when they replace relationships. Life works better together.
6. Release: Living with Open Hands
Solomon teaches that God is honored not by many words or vows, but by reverent listening and obedient fear. He exposes the emptiness of trusting wealth, control, or systems for security under the sun. True peace, Solomon says, comes from open-handed trust—receiving God’s gifts without clinging to them.
7. Release: Living With Limits
Solomon warns that wealth, long life, and success are empty if God does not grant the ability to enjoy them. He exposes the futility of endless appetite, showing that striving for more or demanding answers only deepens frustration under the sun. True relief, Solomon concludes, comes from trusting God to define what is good and receiving life with contentment and faith.
8. Release: Living Wisely When Life Hurts
Solomon teaches that wisdom is forged through sorrow, patience, and humility, because hardship clarifies what truly matters and guards the heart from pride. True wisdom, he says, does not explain everything but steadies life by fearing God and accepting human limits.
9. Release: Living Faithfully When Life Isn’t Fair
Solomon observes that life often includes flawed authority, delayed justice, and mysteries that human wisdom cannot fully explain. Yet he concludes that those who fear God can live faithfully by trusting His ultimate justice and gratefully receiving the life He gives.
10. Release: Living Each Day as a Gift
Solomon observes that death comes to every person and that life’s outcomes are often unpredictable, reminding us that human skill and effort cannot control the future. Yet he concludes that wisdom responds by gratefully receiving life as God’s gift—enjoying daily blessings such as meals, relationships, and work while we have the opportunity.
11. Release: East of Eden, East of Easter
Solomon declares that life under the curse is marked by death, sin, and futility, leaving humanity without lasting gain apart from God. Yet he points to a greater hope: because Jesus at the first Easter overcame death and now offers substitutionary righteousness, the day of death can be better than the day of birth.
12. Release: Living Life the Wisdom Way
Ecclesiastes exposes the shallow, misguided efforts of attempting to live life “under the sun” apart from the wisdom of acknowledging that there is life that exists "above the sun." The wisdom of thinking and living by God’s Word will guide us successfully as we deal with the struggles and complexities of life.
13. Release: Living Courageously Without Certainty
Solomon teaches that because we cannot know or control the outcomes of life, we must courageously invest by faith and not wait for perfect conditions to act. At the same time, he calls us to receive life as a gift. You may not control life, but you can receive it as a gift.
14. Release: Living in Light of the End
Solomon teaches that life apart from God is empty, but life lived in reverence for Him is meaningful and not in vain. He calls us to remember our Creator early, live wisely, and trust the sufficiency of His Word as we face the certainty of the end.
15. Release: Living Responsibly Before God
Solomon ends the book of Ecclesiastes by concluding that life’s meaning is found not in what is temporary, but in fearing God and obeying Him. Every action matters before Him, so we are called to live responsibly now, trusting that God sees all and will judge justly.
Our Great High Priest
In Hebrews 4:14–5:10, we are reminded that Jesus is not only our Savior, but our Great High Priest who is able to help us in every time of need. This passage shows us that Jesus sympathizes with our weakness, supplies mercy and grace, shepherds us gently in our wandering, and saves us fully and forever. Written to weary believers tempted to pull away in sin or suffering, Hebrews invites us instead to hold fast to our confession and draw near to Jesus for help. This sermon encourages struggling Christians to come honestly to Jesus, trusting that He welcomes us and helps us when we are weakest.
1. SIN: Introduction to the Book of Romans
Romans, in many ways, is the most important book of the Bible. It is the summit of biblical theology, and the theme of this letter is the theme of the entire Bible: How can a holy God get an unholy person into His holy presence? The powerful answer to that question—called in the book “the Gospel of God”—has the power to change your life from the inside out. This sermon overviews the book as a whole.
2. SIN: Radically Good News
The first paragraph of Paul’s epistle to the Christians living in Rome defines why the good news is so good. The gospel comes from God and brings about the obedience of faith, a number of righteous obligations, and supernatural dynamics of change in a person's life.
3. SIN: Radically Bad News
The second paragraph of Paul’s epistle to the Christians living in Rome begins to define why the bad news is so bad. Paul addresses the spiral down affect that sin has in the world in general and in our nature specifically.
4. SIN: Condemnation of the Gentile Outsider
Paul’s doctrine of condemnation is built on three truths: the condemnation of the gentile outsider, the condemnation of the Jewish insider, and the condemnation of the whole world. This last paragraph of the first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans describes the nine stages that mark man’s tragic devolution, a downward spiral.
5. SIN: The Condemnation of the Jewish Insider
Paul’s treatment of the doctrine of sin moves from the condemnation of the gentile outsider to the condemnation of the Jewish insider in this second chapter. The false security of religious self-righteousness looks even worse in light of the gospel of salvation by grace alone through faith alone.
6. SIN: The Condemnation of the Whole World
Paul’s doctrine of sin concludes by arguing for the condemnation of the whole world. Human depravity means all are condemned and in need of salvation from outside of themselves. We are all of the same genus species: sinner. Consequently, Jesus is a worldwide savior.
7. SALVATION: Introduction The Law Fulfilled
God designed the Law as a compass pointing to the need for a Savior. Israel's religious leaders blinded their people by lifting the Law above its intended purpose. The Law was never meant to save but to proclaim the coming Savior, Jesus, who is the absolute fulfillment of the Law.
8. SALVATION: The Most Important Paragraph in the Bible
Paul’s doctrine of salvation begins with the most important paragraph in your Bible. These six verses give the clearest, most concise, and most concentrated exposition of the radical reversal of religion, fortunes, and boasting found anywhere in the human history of writing.
9. SALVATION: The Repercussions of Redemption
In this last paragraph of Romans 3, Paul dismantles the illusion of self-righteous boasting and calls us to rely solely on Christ’s righteousness. We are encouraged to live out this gospel by displaying humility and love to all, as God’s grace knows no boundaries. Let faith clear the stage for God's glory—where human power ends, divine grace begins.
10. SALVATION: Abraham’s Example of Faith
Paul is writing to the church in Galatia with a warning about adding requirements to the Gospel. He uses Abraham as an example of justification through faith.