First Baptist Church Needville
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Deacon Prayer
Isaiah Torres
Welcome
Student Pastors Isaiah & Andrea Torres
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God w/ A Mighty Fortress
Responsive Reading
From Ephesians 2:3-9 (CSBBible)
Dear Christians, One and All Rejoice
Shine Jesus Shine
Kyrie Eleison
Series: The Five Solas
Pre-Reformational Doctrine
Pastor Jeff Kluttz
Commitment Song
I Surrender All
Announcements
Parting Song
Soli Deo Gloria
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Sunday9:30 am Bible Study for all ages 10:30 am Fellowship Breakfast 11:00 am Worship Easter Choir Rehearsal
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Monday1:00 pm Women's Bible Study
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TuesdaySpring Break
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WednesdaySpring Break
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ThursdaySpring Break
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Saturday8:30 am Spring Work Day
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Breakfast at 10:30 on Sundays
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Pastor Jeff Kluttz |
We wish you the warmest welcome to First Baptist Church and are glad you have chosen to worship with us today. Our continual prayer is that our services will glorify God through his worship and the preaching of his word.
As our guest, we ask you to consider filling out a Connect Card. We’d love to know you were with us today and share a gift with you if possible. Likewise, please browse the FBCN Web App using the menus above. Through this app you can learn about our ministries, interact with us and even catch up on sermons from earlier in our schedule that you may have missed. We stream our services each week and archive them after a few months. It’s likely that you joined us in the middle of a series, but all earlier contents are available if you wish to catch up on our current study. Our app is also a permanent point of contact through the same Connect Card. If you make a decision, have a prayer request, or otherwise would like to interact with us, please feel free to submit a card with your request.
FBC Needville is oriented toward the historic understanding of the five-function church mission. Discipleship, Evangelism, Fellowship, Ministry, and Worship are the heart and soul of our practice as we orient ourselves toward these essential functions regularly. We have teams of faithful and dedicated workers serving in each of these ministry focuses year around. We also hope that you will find us a welcoming and friendly church. We’re truly glad you are with us and will do whatever we can to make our ministry to you worth your time and involvement.
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Rick Branan |
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. God presented him as the mercy seat by his blood, through faith, to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his restraint God passed over the sins previously committed. God presented him to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so that he would be just and justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith. For we conclude that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
Romans 3:23-28 (CSBBible)
Martin Luther, born at Eisleben, Nov. 10, 1483; entered the University of Erfurt, 1501 (B.A. 1502, M.A.. 1503); became an Augustinian monk, 1505; ordained priest, 1507; appointed Professor at the University of Wittenberg, 1508, and in 1512 D.D.; published his 95 Theses, 1517; and burnt the Papal Bull which had condemned them, 1520; attended the Diet of Worms, 1521; translated the Bible into German, 1521-34; and died at Eisleben, Feb. 18, 1546. The details of his life and of his work as a reformer are accessible to English readers in a great variety of forms. Luther had a huge influence on German hymnody.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice
Dear Christians, one and all, rejoice,
with exultation springing,
and with united heart and voice
and holy rapture singing,
proclaim the wonders God has done,
how his right arm the vict'ry won.
How dearly it has cost him!
Fast bound in Satan's chains I lay;
death brooded darkly o'er me.
Sin was my torment night and day;
in sin my mother bore me.
Yet deep and deeper still I fell;
life had become a living hell,
so firmly sin possessed me.
My own good works availed me naught,
no merit they attaining;
my will against God's judgment fought,
no hope for me remaining.
My fears increased till sheer despair
left only death to be my share
and hell to be my sentence.
But God beheld my wretched state
before the world's foundation,
and, mindful of his mercies great,
he planned for my salvation.
A father's heart he turned to me,
sought my redemption fervently;
he gave his dearest treasure.
He spoke to his belovèd Son:
"It's time to have compassion.
Then go, bright jewel of my crown,
and bring to all salvation.
From sin and sorrow set them free;
slay bitter death for them that they
may live with you forever."
The Son obeyed his Father's will,
was born of virgin mother,
and, God's good pleasure to fulfill,
he came to be my brother.
No garb of pomp or pow'r he wore;
a servant's form like mine he bore
to lead the devil captive.
To me he spoke, "Hold fast to me,
I am your rock and castle.
Your ransom I myself will be;
for you I strive and wrestle.
For I am yours, your friend divine,
and evermore you shall be mine;
the foe shall not divide us.
"The foe will shed my precious blood,
me of my life bereaving;
all this I suffer for your good;
be steadfast and believing.
Life will from death the vict'ry win;
my innocence shall bear your sin,
and you are blest forever.
"Now to my Father I depart,
the Holy Spirit sending
and, heav'nly wisdom to impart,
my help to you extending.
He will a source of comfort be,
teach you to know and follow me,
and in all truth will guide you.
"What I on earth have lived and taught
be all your life and teaching;
so shall the kingdom's work be wrought
and honored in your preaching.
Take care that no one's man-made laws
should e'er destroy the gospel's cause;
this final word I leave you."
Written by Martin Luther
Maybe the two greatest hymns by Martin Luther are “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” the battle hymn of the Reformation and “Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice,” which is his personal confession of faith. Luther struggled and battled with his faith as he went through school and his early years as a monk followed by priesthood. He knew something wasn’t right within the Roman Catholic faith. (Watch the docudrama: Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World for a better study of Luther.) What he realized, just as Paul wrote to the Romans and Ephesians, we are receivers of God’s grace through faith. We cannot earn our salvation. We are all sinners, condemned to eternal separation from God, but God loved us so much He gave us Jesus to be the propitiation for our sins.
In his hymn, Luther shares his struggle with sin: “Sin was my torment night and day; in sin my mother bore me. Yet deep and deeper still I fell; life had become a living hell, so firmly sin possessed me.” Luther understood he was a sinner, though a monk and later a priest/professor teaching young clerics about scripture. He knew his good works were not enough, “My own good works availed me naught,
no merit they attaining.” There was only one answer, “But God beheld my wretched state before the world's foundation, and, mindful of his mercies great, he planned for my salvation.” That plan is still relevant for us sinners today: Jesus Christ, not good works, not the church, not your grandma, only Jesus Christ.
Luther’s final stanza says it all, “Take care that no one's man-made laws should e'er destroy the gospel's cause.” The Gospel: Christ crucified for sinners!
Just pondering . . . Bro. Rick
March 2026
8 Regular Sunday Activities
Easter Choir Rehearsal
9-13 Spring Break
9 Women's Bible Study
11 No Wednesday Activities
14 Spring Work Day
15 Regular Sunday Activities
Easter Choir Rehearsal
16 Women's Bible Study
18 Regular Wednesday Activities
21 Fusion Garage Sale
22 Regular Sunday Activities
Easter Choir Rehearsal
23 Women's Bible Study
25 Regular Wednesday Activities
27 Men's Prayer Breakfast
28 Easter Choir Rehearsal
29 Palm Sunday (Easter Music)
30 Women's Bible Study
Wednesday Menu Board
March 11
Spring Break
March 18
Salad
Chicken Sauce Piquant
Ice Cream
March 25
Hamburgers
Ranch Style Beans
Peach Cobbler
Blessing Box Ministry
We now have
A NEW BLESSING BOX
(Food/Prayer Pantry)
Thanks David!
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For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in. “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. Matthew 25:35 and 40
-Woman’s Ministry Team
Today’s Topic: Pre-Reformational Doctrine
Bold: Series Title Red: Special Emphasis
Highlight: Lord’s Supper
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The Five Solas
March 8 - Pre-Reformational Doctrine
March 15 - The Church Age in Prophecy - The Reformation Church
March 22 - Sola Scriptura
March 29 - Palm Sunday (Choir Program)
April 5 - Easter Sunday
April 12 - Sola Gratia
April 19 - Sola Fide
April 26 - Sola Christus (Lord's Supper)
May 3 - Sola Deo Gloria
Anyone can activate our Prayer Chain: For your needs and the needs of others, simply call anyone on this list to activate the prayer chain.
PRAYER CHAIN Updated 4/10/2022
FULL NAME PHONE NUMBER
Bev Altimore 832-465-3101
Randy & Gale LaCoe 979-793-5967
Mary Martinez 832-757-2226
Leanne Bourgeois 832-595-7344
Judith Moeckel 281-615-4891
Dolores Woody 972-242-1951
Steffany Kluttz 281-928-7496
Connie Cahajla 281-813-8807
Marilyn Foraker 979-292-6475
Jeff Kluttz 713-516-5994
Rick Branan 281-239-5391
Mildred Moeckel 713-240-0232
First Baptist Church NeedvilleJanuary – December 2025Budget 2025 YTD $191,730 Income – Jan-Sept $129,353 Expenses – Jan-Sept $196,945 Net $67,592 |
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The 2025 First three Quarters Giving has continued slowly. Please continue to generously support the ministries of our church.
The Stewardship Team reinvested the CD using monies from our special funds. The interest earned for 2024 was $4,979.
Praying for our church has started showing real tangible benefits – God is putting it on people’s hearts to step up to meet the demand of His church in unprecedented ways. Multiple members are giving specifically to funds that are meaningful to them. In addition to traditional funds supported - like STCH, Youth, and Ukraine Relief - new funds receiving support include Meals, Bereavement, Lights, Local Projects, Piano Fund, Breakfast, and Outreach. At least two new ministries of the church have been newly enacted – the Blessing Box and the Women's Ministry – both which reach out to our community. We encourage all Members to find a ministry or need of the church and participate in fulling that mission, either thru volunteering or thru financial support.
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