Plainspoken sermons for practiced faith.
First Baptist Church Texarkana is a sermon-centered feed built around biblical exposition and practical Christian formation. Messages move from Scripture into leadership, prayer, family responsibility, perseverance, and the call to live visibly for Christ.
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First Baptist Church Texarkana is a sermon archive shaped by pulpit teaching, Scripture reading, and direct Christian application. Its center of gravity is biblical formation. The feed is not built around interviews or casual commentary; it sounds like church messages delivered to people expected to listen, think, and respond. Recent episodes move through leadership, prayer, resurrection, Christian conduct, and the urgency of faith. One message uses Moses and Jethro to talk about delegation, family priorities, shared burdens, and prayerful ministry. Another turns to Paul and the Corinthians to argue that leadership is measured by influence and changed lives, not merely credentials. A series on leadership draws from Oswald Sanders and frames responsibility as something fathers, husbands, workers, and church members may all carry. The teaching regularly uses historical or personal illustrations before narrowing toward the biblical point. The Wright brothers become a way to talk about missing the big news. A wartime decision becomes a picture of leadership weight. Bartimaeus becomes an example of seizing the moment when Jesus passes by. Prayer is treated as both speaking to God and learning to wait, listen, and endure seasons of silence. The show can be gentle. It can also be urgent. Sin, death, false teaching, spiritual drift, and moral compromise are discussed in firm church language. Humor appears in everyday anecdotes, but the message usually returns to repentance, trust, service, or dependence on God. Jeff Shreve is a clearly named teaching voice in several episodes, though the feed also includes other speakers. The pacing is measured, with repeated phrases and numbered points that make the argument easy to follow. For listeners seeking polished narrative production, it may feel plain. For listeners seeking sustained biblical teaching with practical pressure on ordinary life, that plainness is part of its value.
Made for: Suited to Christians who want sustained biblical teaching tied to leadership, prayer, family responsibility, repentance, and service. It fits listeners comfortable with sermon-length argument and direct pastoral application.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the slow turn from concrete stories into Scripture-backed application, especially around leadership and spiritual responsibility. The feed feels like a working church teaching archive rather than a personality-led talk show.
This podcast features sermons from the Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday services at First Baptist Church Texarkana, located in Texarkana, TX. Our pastor is Dr. Jeff Schreve.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jeff Shreve pairs close biblical teaching with candid stories and practical application, making scripture's demands concrete without losing the pulpit's human texture.
First Baptist Church Texarkana follows biblical passages closely, then presses their claims into ordinary fears, choices, and responsibilities.
A misplaced sermon note becomes your unlikely doorway into Habakkuk's fear.
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A grounded sermon on sharing ministry's load before family and faith are crowded out.
Delegation lands as both a spiritual correction and a practical relief valve for ministry that has become too dependent on one person. Framed through Moses' burden and Jethro's counsel in Exodus 18, the episode keeps its focus on shared responsibility, especially when church…
Bartimaeus becomes a call to seize the day, cry for mercy, and answer while there is still time.
Jeff Shreve treats Bartimaeus as a study in urgency, tying the blind beggar from Jericho to The Dead Poets Society and its carpe diem impulse.
A sermon on Paul's leadership argues that changed lives reveal where real sufficiency comes from.
Leadership in this sermon is measured where credentials cannot do the work for Paul. In Corinth, against the pressure of false teachers, the clearest defense of his ministry is the church's own changed life.
A hymn frames a plainspoken call to live as though the old life is truly over.
Jeff Shreve opens with Onward Christian Soldiers and uses it to press on a familiar question: what does it mean to live as though the old life is gone? The teaching stays close to Scripture, but it does not stay abstract.
A grounded sermon where Habakkuk's fear gives real weight to a call back toward trust.
Fear sits at the center of this sermon, not as an idea to solve quickly but as spiritual pressure felt in ordinary life. Pastor Jeff Shreve begins with a light moment about missing sermon notes, then moves through Habakkuk 3, seminary memory, Jan Hus, and the prophet's trembling…
A forceful Jericho sermon makes Bartimaeus's cry for mercy an argument against waiting for another chance.
A sermon on blind Bartimaeus turns the Jericho encounter into a pointed study of spiritual urgency. Jeff Shreve centers the message on a beggar who recognizes Jesus as Messiah, cries out for mercy, and will not let the moment pass.
A church Q&A turns into a candid reflection on pastoral growth, hard questions, and facing sin together.
The Q&A treats church questions as a shared way of thinking through Scripture, opening with Paul in Athens before settling into Pastor Jeff's memories of ministry at First Baptist Texarkana.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Pastor Jeff Shreve of First Baptist Church Texarkana preaches a sermon titled 'From Jericho to Jerusalem,' focusing on the story of blind Bartimaeus from Mark 10.
Pastor Jeff Shreve shares his personal testimony of becoming a Christian and discusses the importance of putting faith into practice through genuine life change, based on 1 Peter 3.
A pastor discusses how family relationships illustrate spiritual connections, using personal anecdotes to introduce a sermon on the living word of God from 1 Peter.
Pastor Jeff Schreve hosts a live Q&A session at First Baptist Church Texarkana on December 25.
The host reflects on Thanksgiving leftovers and shares unspoken family rules for holiday gatherings, emphasizing everyone bringing their favorite food.
This episode uses the analogy of Jack Nicklaus returning to his golf coach annually to learn fundamentals, to illustrate the importance of continually learning and practicing the basics of prayer in spiritual life.
In this Man Up men's ministry message at First Baptist Church Texarkana, the pastor teaches on 'the art of delegation' using Exodus chapter 18, where Jethro advises his son-in-law Moses against handling every dispute among the Israelites alone.
A pastor shares a personal story about his high school basketball coach to illustrate how the daily reality of Christ's resurrection shapes the Christian life.
A pastor uses the story of the Wright brothers' first flight and a newspaper's missed headline to illustrate a spiritual lesson about recognizing important truths.
This episode explores the weight of leadership through the example of Dwight Eisenhower's decision to launch the D-Day invasion, connecting it to everyday responsibilities like fatherhood and work.
This episode explores the two components of prayer—talking to God and hearing from God—while addressing the challenges of spiritual silence and the desire for deeper communion with God.
Jeff Shreve opens with good news: this time he has all his notes.
First Baptist Church Texarkana's "Who is Sufficient?" sermon uses 2 Corinthians 2:16-17, 3:1-3, and 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 to answer who can lead when opponents question Paul's authority.
Jeff Shreve teaches through 1 Peter 4 in a steady, verse-by-verse style.
Pastor Jeff Shreve begins with trouble close at hand.
A pastor explains the importance of church Q&A sessions, inspired by Acts 17 and John MacArthur, to encourage scriptural reasoning and answer congregants' questions.