Our Goal Is Love

Christiansburg Baptist Church

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Welcome to Our Goal Is Love, the podcast of Christiansburg Baptist Church in the New River Valley, Virginia. Each week, we share sermons from our Sunday worship services. These are messages rooted in Scripture and designed to help you grow deeper in your relationship with God and others. Discover more about CBC at ourgoalislove.com.

Aug 9

Like Father, Like Son

Last week we sat in the hard, honest mess of Abraham's household — the Hagar story, where fear and impatience turned a family in on itself. It wasn't a comfortable text. But it was a true one, because it looked a lot like our families too. This Sunday we move ahead roughly sixty years, past Abraham, into the life of his son Isaac. And what we find is unsettling: the same sin, in the same place, coming out of the same family — only now it's the son wearing his father's mistakes. Same fear. Same lie. Same town, even. Like father, like son. Turns out the things we swear we'll never repeat have a way of showing up in us anyway. Habits get handed down. Fears get inherited. Priorities pass quietly from one generation to the next, whether we mean to pass them along or not. But that's not where Isaac's story ends, and it doesn't have to be where ours ends either. Come tomorrow, and let's ask it together: what are we handing down to the people who come after us? And is there anyone strong enough to break the chain?
Aug 2

Family Advice From The Life of Abraham

God promised Abraham a nation, and then more than ten years passed with nothing to show for it. Sarah was still barren and well past the age when any of it made sense. So she did what most of us do when a promise runs long. She stopped waiting and built a plan of her own. It was reasonable, and it seemed to work for about half a verse. Then it turned the house into a war, and the one who paid for it was the person with the least power in the room. This Sunday we opened Genesis 16 and followed the chapter in three moves: the cause of their impatience, the consequence of it, and the cure. That cure begins where you would not expect it, out in the desert, where God finds a runaway servant at a spring, calls her by name, and hands her a promise as large as the one he gave the patriarch. She walked away calling him El Roi, the God who sees.
Jul 26

It Looks Good From A Distance

Our Goal Is Love
Jul 19

Hidden Treasures

Join us as we wrap up Vacation Bible School with this sermon from Colossians 2:3. No matter what we think we are looking for, "Jesus is the treasure we seek!"
Jul 12

Popular Mechanics Tells Readers How To Find Heaven?

A recent article in Popular Mechanics asked whether heaven has a physical address — somewhere out past the edge of the known universe, or folded into a dimension we can't yet see. It's a question people have chased for a long time, and science keeps coming up empty. This Sunday, we look at what Scripture says instead: that heaven was never a location to find, but a person to be with.
Jul 6

We Still Hold These Truths

"We hold these truths to be self-evident." Most Americans can recite the line without thinking about it. But few have paused to deeply consider what our founding document actually declares. Fewer still have held these statements up against Scripture to determine just how unalienable these truths are. This week's message looks at that preamble directly. For 250 years, the promise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” has provided a world-changing paradigm to societies who wish to throw off the bonds of oppression. But Scripture tells a bigger story. Life is not just something given, it is offered eternally. Liberty is not just the freedom to choose, it comes with the weight of what is chosen. And happiness is far too low a pursuit when God promises so much more. Join us as we lay our founding document alongside God's eternal truth.
Jun 28

Is God "Morally Sane"?

If God is all-loving and all-powerful, why does suffering exist? It's one of the oldest objections to faith, and atheist voices like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have built careers on it. But what if the very illustrations these thinkers use to argue against God actually point straight back to him? In this message, Pastor Major walks through Romans 8 and three unexpected images — a miracle drug, a dangerous road, and a dentist's chair — to show why suffering may not be evidence against a loving God, but proof of one. Whether you've wrestled with this question yourself or know someone who has, this episode offers a way through.
Jun 14

Both Jesus and Sabastian Berhalter Have Fathers Who Love Them

When Sebastian Berhalter made the U.S. World Cup roster, his father, former USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter, wrote him a letter. As Sebastian read it on camera last week, he couldn't get through it without crying, undone by one line in particular: “I'm proud of you because of who you are, not because of what you accomplished.” That same kind of declaration echoes from centuries earlier, spoken over another Son at the very start of His ministry. Before a single miracle, before a single sermon, before the cross, the Father said: "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." When we read that phrase, we might be tempted to think that the Father’s feeling towards the Son was based on what he had accomplished. But his identity was settled before His earthly résumé even began. The Father’s pleasure in us is rooted in who we are, not what we produce. And for those of us who are fathers, it's more than something to receive; it's something to pass on, speaking pride and delight over our children long before they've proven anything to us. Join us this Sunday as we open Matthew 3 and discover what it means to be loved by the Father — and what it looks like to love like Him.

Welcome to Our Goal Is Love, the podcast of Christiansburg Baptist Church in the New River Valley, Virginia. Each week, we share sermons from our Sunday worship services. These are messages rooted in Scripture and designed to help you grow deeper in your relationship with God and others. Discover more about CBC at ourgoalislove.com.

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Christiansburg Baptist Church
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2026
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70
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