Text-led sermons for steady Christian discipleship.
First Baptist Church, Zeeland is a sermon feed built around close readings of scripture, especially recent passages from John 13-15. The teaching moves from biblical setting to present-day obedience, with pastoral attention to grief, love, trust, and the call to follow Jesus.
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First Baptist Church, Zeeland is a church sermon feed shaped by close biblical exposition and pastoral application. The recent run lives mainly in the Gospel of John. It follows Jesus through the upper room, Bethany, Lazarus’s death and restoration, Mary’s anointing, and the vine-and-branches teaching. The pace is measured. Rather than rush to a takeaway, the sermons tend to read the passage, locate the scene, explain the terms, and then ask what faithful response should look like. Jeremy Cobb appears regularly in its episodes as one of the pastors at First Baptist Church in Zeeland. His teaching style is steady, verbal, and text-led. He is comfortable with history and context, from the geography around Bethany to Jewish mourning customs and wedding practices. Those details are not decorative. They are used to clarify why Martha’s grief matters, why Mary’s act is costly, why Jesus’ farewell words carry weight, and why abiding in Christ is framed as a fruitful life rather than a merely comfortable one. The show also makes room for ordinary illustrations. Apple picking, family memories, a grandfather’s retirement, a recipe card, and thick hot chocolate all become ways of approaching spiritual claims without abandoning the passage. The emphasis is devotional, but not vague. These sermons return again and again to trust, obedience, love for one another, prayer, mission, and the presence of God in painful or confusing seasons. They also carry the sound of a local congregation. There are references to Easter, Good Friday, Wednesday night ministry, worship teams, cards at the Welcome Center, and the desire for Zeeland to see disciples marked by love. The result feels less like a studio religion program and more like a recorded sermon with a defined church context. It works best for listeners who want sustained Christian teaching that explains the biblical text and then presses it toward daily faithfulness. It is warm, serious, and organized. Its strength is the combination of careful scene-setting and direct pastoral urgency.
Made for: For listeners seeking Christian preaching rooted in scripture, especially those who appreciate extended teaching through the Gospel of John. It also suits church members and Bible students who want context, application, and pastoral reflection in one sustained message.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through its patient movement from biblical scene to lived response. Recent sermons pair detailed context, such as Bethany, mourning customs, wedding imagery, and the Shema, with direct questions about trust, love, obedience, and spiritual fruit.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close reading of John and 1 Timothy becomes practical teaching on money, spiritual struggle, resurrection, and trust.
First Baptist Church, Zeeland records Jeremy Cobb teaching from scripture with the congregation still audible around him. The format is firmly sermon-centered: a passage is read, its setting is established, and its theology is carried into questions of belief and daily conduct.
A pound of nard, a year's wages: your Bible reading suddenly has a price tag.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grave-side reading of John 11 that brings resurrection faith into the life of the church.
Lazarus' four days in the tomb give this single-episode sermon a solemn frame for John 11. Jeremy follows Martha through mourning as she meets Jesus, then draws the focus to Jesus' claim that he is the resurrection and the life.
A pastoral reading of John 15 that frames pruning as part of the vine dresser's care.
John 15 is treated as a picture of life joined to Christ, with the Father shown as the vine dresser whose care can include pruning, correction, and the patient work that leads to fruit.
A text-led sermon that makes Mary's costly anointing vivid through scent, geography, and the price of the oil.
John 12 is handled as a scene of costly devotion, with Pastor Jeremy following Jesus toward Bethany before Passover and then settling into the dinner itself.
A Jewish wedding frame gives John 14's promise of Christ's return a vivid, steady shape.
This PlayNext review presents John 14 through the familiar movement of a Jewish wedding: betrothal, the groom preparing a room in his father's house, and the promised return for his bride.
A scripture-led sermon on Judas, spiritual opposition, and confidence in Christ's sufficiency.
John 13 is treated as a focused study of betrayal, agency, and spiritual opposition, tracing Judas's decision to betray Jesus and the moment Satan enters him. The sermon then brings in Peter in Matthew 16, where divine revelation and satanic influence stand in sharp contrast.
A clear, pastoral sermon on the worship questions beneath money, contentment, and cheerful giving.
Contentment becomes the central worship question here, with 1 Timothy 6 placed against the promises money tends to make: power, security, pleasure, meaning, and purpose.
A warm, text-led sermon on putting God's name and kingdom at the center of prayer.
Prayer is presented as an act aimed first at God's glory, with Devin Scott working through Luke 11:1-4 and its parallel in Matthew. He treats "hallowed" as set apart, then widens the sermon through images of the Grand Canyon, a sunset, and a baby's laughter before drawing on…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Guest speaker Devin Scott delivers a sermon on prayer as part of First Baptist Church Zeeland's 'For the Glory of God' series.
Pastor Jeremy Cobb teaches from 1 Timothy 6 on living with godliness and contentment for God's glory.
Jeremy Cobb opens First Baptist Church, Zeeland's series on Romans 9–11 by asking whether God will keep his promises to Israel.
Jeremy Cobb frames First Baptist Church, Zeeland's Resurrection Sunday sermon around Jesus' line, 'I am the resurrection and the life,' from John 11:25.
Jeremy Cobb's John 15 sermon at First Baptist Church in Zeeland calls the passage "Vinology" and frames it around the vine, the vine dresser, and the branches.
["First Baptist Church in Zeeland preaches John 12:1-19 six days before Passover, where Mary pours out a pound of pure nard and Judas Iscariot objects to the cost.", "Pastor Jeremy Cobb ties that scene to Lazarus, Caiaphas, and the chief priests' plot, then reads the crowd's Palm Sunday cry, \"Hosanna,\" as Jesus enters Jerusalem on a young donkey.", "He argues that Mary, Judas, Lazarus, and the crowd each show a different relationship to Jesus, and only one is actually a relationship with him.", "Cobb ends by linking Psalm 118, Zechariah 9, and John 12:27-32 to Jesus' first coming, where he says he came to conquer \"sin, death, and the grave\" before the later kingdom peace."]
Pastor Jeremy Cobb concludes a seven-week series on Jesus' final words to his disciples in the upper room, focusing on John 14:27-31 and the call to follow.
Jeremy Cobb preaches on John 14:15-26, emphasizing the role of the Holy Spirit as Counselor and the importance of loving one another as a witness to the world.
Jeremy Cobb preaches on John 14:7-14, exploring what it means to be one with the Father and how Jesus reveals God's desire for relationship with us.
Jeremy Cobb preaches on Jesus' command to love one another as He loved, using a personal story about his father's quest to recreate European thick hot chocolate.
Pastor Jeremy Cobb of First Baptist Church in Zeeland, Michigan preaches on John 14:1-14, using first-century Jewish wedding customs to explain Jesus's promise to his disciples that he is going to prepare dwelling places and will return to bring them to himself.
Pastor Jeremy Cobb of First Baptist Church in Zeeland, Michigan preaches on John 13:21-30, the account of Jesus identifying Judas as his betrayer at the Passover Seder, using a chess metaphor to argue that Jesus understood the full spiritual battle while his disciples saw only individual moves.
Pastor Jeremy Cobb introduces a sermon series on the Shema, focusing on Jesus' teaching about the greatest commandments to love God and love neighbor from Matthew 22:34-40.
A missionary shares a sermon on John 10 at First Baptist Church in Zeeland, encouraging discipleship and introducing his work with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
Jeremy Cobb preaches on living with godliness and contentment from 1 Timothy 6:2-19, part of a series on doing everything for God's glory.