Our Goal Is Love

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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.

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Eyes On Him

Ever notice how easy it is to lose focus? You start the day with clear priorities, then a notification pings, an email demands attention, a worry creeps in—and suddenly you're miles away from where you meant to be. It’s easy to lose focus. And if that’s true in our everyday life, you know it's true in our faith. This Sunday, Noah Lauridsen returns to CBC to continue our journey through Hebrews. Noah serves with Cru at Radford University, where he helps students navigate the distractions and demands of college life while keeping their faith centered. He knows firsthand how challenging it can be to maintain focus on what matters most. Noah will unpack the writer's challenge to keep our eyes on Jesus—the author and perfecter of our faith. How do we maintain that focus when life gets chaotic? Special announcement: The Galentines event scheduled for tomorrow is being rescheduled. Watch for the new date in an upcoming email. Join us this Sunday as we rediscover what changes when we truly keep our eyes on Jesus!

33 min
JAN 11

Together We Hold Fast - Jesus: The Perfect Priest

God didn’t design you for spiritual independence. He wired you for connection, because He knows what we often forget: spiritual drifting doesn’t happen in community. It happens in isolation. This Sunday we’re looking at one of Scripture’s most sobering warnings—and discovering why isolation is more dangerous than you think Following Jesus was never designed as an individual pursuit. God didn’t give you a personal faith so you could practice it privately. He brought you into a family because He knows isolation kills what connection keeps alive. Join us as we discover why staying plugged into the body isn’t optional—it’s how we survive

49 min
JAN 4

In With the New - Jesus: The Perfect Priest

Have you ever upgraded your phone and wondered how you survived with the old one? The new version does everything the old one did—only faster, clearer, and with features you didn't know you needed. Going back feels unthinkable.In Hebrews 10, the author brings his argument to a climactic conclusion: Jesus is the better alternative to everything that came before. The old covenant, the priesthood, the sacrificial system—it all pointed forward to something greater. And that something is Someone: Jesus Christ.This Sunday, we're returning to our journey through Hebrews as we step into a new year. And there's something fitting about starting 2025 by looking at what God does when He does something new. Because when God upgrades, He doesn't just add features. He transforms everything!Most of us will never be tempted to return to the rules and rituals of Old Testament Judaism. But we face something just as dangerous: the constant pull of legalism. The original readers of Hebrews faced tremendous pressure. After coming to Christ, life got harder, not easier. Their property was seized. They faced public shame. Some went to prison. In a legalistic works-based mindset, these circumstances looked like God's judgment. The temptation to go back to what was familiar must have been overwhelming.This Sunday, we'll be reminded why going back is never the answer. Not because the old ways were evil, but because they were incomplete. They were shadows pointing to the reality we now have in Christ. When God does something new, it's always better than the old. That truth is at the core of what redemption means. And it's exactly what we need to hear as we start a new year.

45 min
12/28/2025

Re-Gifting Comfort - Re-Gifting

If you’re like me, you have lots of questions about the challenges of 2025. And even more about the challenges of next year.How will I manage this? What if things don’t improve? When will I catch a break?But underneath all those questions sits a bigger one: Why?Why is this happening? Why now? Why me?Even God’s most devoted followers wrestle with this question. The apostle Paul—who wrote much of the New Testament, planted churches across the ancient world, and experienced miraculous encounters with God—had his own season of asking why. In 2 Corinthians 1:3-11, Paul opens up about a time when the pressure became so intense that he “despaired of life itself.”This Sunday, we’ll explore what Paul learned about comfort, community, and God’s surprising purpose in our hardest seasons. If you’re facing 2025 with more questions than answers, this message is for you.Join us this Sunday as we discover why God’s greatest gifts sometimes come in the packaging we least expect. And for this reason, they are meant for us to regift to others.

51 min
12/21/2025

Re-Gifting The Story - Re-Gifting

Message from Major Dalton on December 21, 2025

54 min
12/14/2025

Re-Gifting Love - Re-Gifting

This weekend at our Regifting series, we're tackling the one thing that defines authentic Christianity more than anything else.In a world drowning in division and tribal hatred, Jesus didn't call his followers to be known for what they stand against. He called them to be known for something far more radical: the way they love one another.The night before his death, surrounded by disciples who were arguing about greatness, calculating betrayal, and jockeying for position, Jesus gave them a new command. Not a command about better doctrine or stricter rules. A command to love one another the way he loved them.That's a tall order when you're staring across the table at someone who's hurt you, disappointed you, or just plain irritates you. So how do we actually do it? How do we transform our hearts to love those who are difficult to love?Jesus shows us the secret, and it isn't what we'd expect. Join us this Sunday as we discover how serving and sacrificing for difficult people doesn't just demonstrate love; it actually creates it. Where we invest our treasure, our hearts will follow.In a culture defined by what we hate, will we be a people defined by whom we love?

41 min
12/07/2025

Re-Gifting Forgiveness - Re-Gifting

How's your list? Not your Christmas list. I'm talking about the list many of us keep all year.Maybe it's written down, or maybe it's just memorized. It's the list of times someone hurt you.If you keep one, you're actually in good company. Peter had a list too.Peter brought that list to Jesus in Matthew 18, asking what seemed like a reasonable question: How many times do I have to forgive? Perhaps he was thinking about James and John positioning themselves for power. Or maybe it was Matthew, the former tax collector, who had offended him. Whoever it was, the offenses were adding up.Jesus' answer must have shocked him.This Sunday, we're starting a new series called "Regifting." Over the next three weeks, we'll explore the gifts God has given us that we're called to regive to others. We're beginning with the hardest gift to regive: forgiveness.With Christmas gatherings just weeks away, some of us are already dreading certain encounters. Names on our list. Hurts we've carried. Offenses we can't seem to forget.Join us as we discover why keeping score only hurts us, and how the forgiveness we've received is meant to be regifted to others—even when they don't deserve it.

41 min
11/30/2025

Memorial Stones - Gratitude Sunday 2025

This week we’re stepping out of our Hebrews series to celebrate what God has done in 2025 at CBC and prepare for His will in 2026. I want to encourage everyone not to miss this moment. It’s our chance to look back with gratitude, look around with clarity, and look ahead with anticipation.We’ll turn to the book of Joshua, where God commanded His people to set up a memorial—a visible reminder of what He had done for them, what He was doing among them, and what He would continue to do in the generations to come. That same pattern shapes how we view our church family today.This message will lead us into our annual business meeting on Sunday, December 14, where we will remember God’s faithfulness over the last year and look forward to the mission He has set before us in 2026.

42 min

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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