Profiles in Goodwill: Doyle Sager

Profiles in Goodwill: Doyle Sager

Doyle Sager is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Jefferson City, Missouri. 1. Where did you grow up? On a farm in northwest Missouri, near Albany (about an hour north of Kansas City). 2. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the Bible? Why?...

4 Ways to Handle Political Tensions in Your Church

Raise your hand if you thought the political tensions within your congregation would subside after the November election? Think again. Those tensions have simply morphed, creating a different focus. Post-election, the tension centers around our biblical mandate to...

Great Experiments in Liberty

This sermon was preached by Doyle Sager, pastor of First Baptist Church in Jefferson City, Mo., on July 5, 2009.   1 Peter 2:9-17   I hope you are having a good Independence Day weekend. This weekend, lots of fireworks went off, lots of speeches and celebrations were...

Lent—Preparing Your Church For New Life

Many years ago, Baptists reacted against the liturgical emphasis of some church traditions and in the process we threw the baby out with the bath water. We lost the natural cadence of the “Christian calendar.” In place of the church’s holy seasons of...