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Drinking From the Well

by Tim Barton

Sermons and teachings from Pastor Tim Barton of First Church Fort Pierce, FL. I’m just a fellow traveler on this flying space rock, asking and responding to questions of faith and practice, while telling a story or two in between Join me as we try to figure out what we’re doing here and how Jesus is calling us to change the world

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Episodes

  1. Flourish: Love

    This sermon looks at the Greatest Commandment and how loving our neighbors means integrating new people into our church community quickly.

  2. Flourish: Faith

    This sermon begins a sermon series on the 8 Virtues of churches that grow and sustain that growth. It looks at faith through the lens of Mark 2:1-12 and asks us the question - Do we believe in miracles and act accordingly

  3. This is the Good Life: The Secret of Enough

    This final sermon in the series looks at some very famous words in Philippians 4 and shows us what it looks like to live a life of contentment in every circumstance.

  4. This is the Good Life: What Counts as Gain?

    This sermon looks at Philippians 3 and what Paul considers to be the grounds on which we can say we have acquired "the good life"

  5. This is the Good Life: The Way of Humility

    This sermon looks at the beginning of Philippians 2, and offers the Good Life as a way of living marked by the humility found in the example of Christ's Life.

  6. This is the Good Life: A Life Worth Living

    This sermon opens a series through the book of Philippians, focusing on the joy that is found when Christ is the center of our lives.

  7. On the Way: The Journey is Shared

    This final sermon in the On The Way Series looks at the practice of Community as the key to living out our mission on earth.

  8. On the Way: Remember the Way

    This sermon looks at the discipline of Sabbath as the key to resting in God's provision

  9. On the Way: God is With Us

    This sermon looks at the act of prayer as a means of turning our future over to the God who is already there.

  10. On the Way: Wanting What God Wants

    This sermon looks at the practice of fasting as a means of releasing the grip that things outside of God have on our hearts and lives.

  11. On The Way: We Are Not Who We Think We Are

    This sermon looks at Numbers 20 and discusses the practice of Confession.

  12. On the Way: Where are we supposed to go?

    This episode looks at the account of the spies from Numbers 13 and 14 and asks us what kind of imagination we are using when we look at the future... On with God or one without God?

  13. On The Way: The Way is Harder Than You Thought

    This sermon begins a series that travels through narrative portions of Numbers and teachings from Deuteronomy to see how God invites in the transformational practice of Spiritual Disciplines

  14. The God Who Hears: Deeper Than Failure

    This sermon concludes our series "The God Who Hears" with a look at God's self disclosure in Exodus 34 and how this response to the Golden Calf Debacle shapes how God responds when we fail.

  15. The God Who Hears: If You Will Listen

    This sermon looks at the 10 commandments as a continuation of God's promise to deliver the Israelites from their oppression in Egypt.

  16. The God Who Hears: God Makes a Way

    Today's sermon looks at the journey through the Red Sea and how in this narrative we learn about God's ability to make a way for us when there seems to be no way forward.

  17. The God Who Hears: Let My People Go

    This sermon from Guest Preacher Rev. Jeff Brinkman focuses on Exodus 7 and God's showdown with Pharaoh, and how God is consistently concerned with freeing us from the powers that enslave us.

  18. The God Who Hears: I Have Heard

    This begins a new series through Exodus that looks at stories of how God hears the cries of the suffering and acts on their behalf. Today begins in Exodus 3 with the story of the burning bush.

  19. Got Questions?: Who are we at First Church?

    This sermon looks at the mission, vision, and values of First Church of Fort Pierce through the lens of Acts 1 and the ascension story

  20. Got Questions? - Does Faith Really Change Things?

    This sermon looks at the power of faith to change our hearts and our lives, regardless of whether or not the circumstances we find ourselves change.

  21. Got Questions? - Is Christianity too Exclusive?

    This sermon looks at Acts 10 to discover how wide the scope of God's inclusive love is.

  22. Got Questions? - Why Does God Allow Suffering?

    This sermon looks at possibly the greatest question we all have for God. The response may surprise us.

  23. Got Questions? - Can the Bible Be Trusted?

    This sermon asks a very important question about what the Bible is and how it should be viewed and used in our faith journey. By looking at the Walk to Emmaus story from Luke's gospel, we learn to see scripture the way Jesus saw it.

  24. Got Questions? - Is Doubt the Enemy of Faith

    This begins a sermon series where we explore common questions that people have about faith. This sermon asks, "is doubt the enemy of faith?" by looking at the story of Thomas from John 20.

  25. Looking For Life

    Easter 2026 sermon based on the question posed in Luke's account of the resurrection - Why do you look for the living among the dead?

  26. Upside Down: Now What?

    From the ending of the sermon on the Mount to the triumphal entry, this sermon wraps up the Upside Down series by looking at the way that they Jesus makes his authority known in the most unexpected ways

  27. Upside Down: Built to Last

    This sermon looks at Jesus's closing remarks in the sermon on the mount -- his famous story about builders and foundations. We dig into just what Jesus meant when he says "anyone who hears these words of mine and does/does not act on them"

  28. Upside Down:Fruitful Lives

    Winding down in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus warns us to beware of false prophets. What does this mean for us as we try to follow Jesus?

  29. Upside Down: The Narrow Way

    This sermon looks at Matthew 7:13-14 and what Jesus is really talking about in the metaphor of the Wide and Narrow gates.

  30. Upside Down: Clear Vision

    This sermon looks at Matthew 7:1-12 to see how Jesus is helping us to understand our role in discernment.

  31. Upside Down: Treasure and Trust

    Continuing on through our series on the Sermon on the Mount, we are looking at some famous words of Jesus about treasure and where we place our ultimate trust.

  32. Upside Down: The Prayer

    This Sermon looks at The Lord's Prayer as a language that teaches us how to communicate with God

  33. Upside Down: The Hidden Life

    This sermon steps into Matthew 6 and takes a look at how Jesus wants us to examine our motives in order to live a life that communes with God and leads to the transformation of our hearts.

  34. Upside Down: Transformed Hearts

    This sermon looks at Jesus's teaching block from Matthew 5:21-48 and looks at how Jesus is calling us to a deeper life of integrity.

  35. Upside Down: Jesus and the Law

    Moving into Matthew 5:17-20 we take a look at just what Jesus is talking about when he tells us that he came to fulfill the law and that our righteousness must exceed that of the Scribes and the Pharisees

  36. Upside Down: Covenant Witness

    This sermon continues our journey through the sermon on the mount, looking at Matthew 5:13-16 and the call that Jesus gives us to be witnesses to the covenant love of God

  37. Upside Down: The Good Life

    This sermon focuses on the beatitudes and how Jesus measures "The Good Life" for humanity.

  38. Upside Down: Welcome to the Kingdom

    This sermon begins a series called Upside Down that looks at the sermon on the mount as a guide to human flourishing

  39. Reboot: Light Breaks In

    Christmas eve 2025 sermon on Luke 2

  40. Reboot: Small Beginnings, Huge Promise

    This sermon looks at Micah's prophecy that the messiah would come from Bethlehem, and how this small town became a place of infamy through the birth of Jesus.

  41. Reboot: From the Stump

    This sermon looks at the idea of peace from the prophet Isaiah and challenges us to be people of peace in a world of conflict.

  42. Reboot: The Gift Already Given

    This sermon looks at Joy from the perspective of the Apostle Paul in Philippians.

  43. Reboot: A Mountain Raised

    This advent series looks at how God is continually rebooting out faith through the same stories from Advent. This particular sermon looks at the biblical idea of hope from Isaiah 2.

  44. Jars of Clay: Tell Me Why

    This final sermon in the Jars of Clay series looks at stewardship of the Gospel and our evangelical call to be messengers of Good News

  45. Jar of Clay: Longer Tables

    This second stewardship series sermon looks at spiritual stewardship and the call to be part of small groups as a means of spiritual growth.

  46. Jars of Clay: More Than Enough

    This stewardship sermon looks at 2 Kings 4 and how God shows us how we have more than enough... even when we don't think that we do.

  47. Up From the Ashes: Ashes into Hope

    This sermon looks at Joel 2:28-32 and shows us how God's promise is that of resurrection and restoration.

  48. Up From the Ashes: The Ashes of Lament

    This sermon begins a series of grief care, starting with Joel chapter 1. What we find is that God invites us to lament that which has caused us harm in our lives.

  49. Peacemakers: The Presence of Peace

    This final sermon in the series looks at Jesus's promise that where two or more are gathered he is in their midst, and what that means for us as people who pursue peace in our lives and communities.

  50. Peacemakers: A Tale of Two Rooms

    This sermon looks at the goal of peacemaking as reconciliation through the lens of court room/family room dynamics.

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Sermons and teachings from Pastor Tim Barton of First Church Fort Pierce, FL. I’m just a fellow traveler on this flying space rock, asking and responding to questions of faith and practice, while telling a story or two in between Join me as we try to figure out what we’re doing here and how Jesus is calling us to change the world

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