Thomaston Baptist Church29 March 2020 Mark 8:27-38 No honest person ever said that living a life of faithfulness to Jesus Christ would be easy. In a goodly chunk of our passage today, Jesus very plainly states that a faithful walk of discipleship is nothing less than a march to our own deaths. And deep down, many of […]
Psalm 25:4-10 22 March 2020 Every one of us listening today has compromised our walk of faith in one way or another. We are united in this. We are sinners. We are all prone to engaging in sinful acts. Not one of us, wherever we may be hearing or reading this is exempt. And to […]
15-Mar-20 1 Corinthians 15:19-26 All around us, in every corner of our lives, are people who may or may not be telling us that we have gone off our rockers when it comes to our belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. While very few seriously doubt that Jesus existed, most will gladly tell us […]
08-Mar-20 1 Corinthians 15:1-19 Most of us, like Ebenezer Scrooge, are quick to reject another’s pity. In a rare moment in that grand Christmas epic, someone has the gall to open their heart ever so slightly to Scrooge’s miserable and pitiful existence, and he immediately reacts by spitting out, “Spare me your pity! I have […]
01-Mar-20 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 It is hard for us, given our tender Baptist sensitivities, to imagine someone getting drunk at a church supper. I’ve never seen it, and I’ve been in church for a very long time. My mother used to maintain that I was in church the Sunday after I was born, which, because […]
23-Feb-20 1 Corinthians 4:1-7 Living lives of faithfulness to the gospel of Jesus Christ is without a doubt the biggest challenge that any of us faces today. Because the church has continually divided itself since the days of the Corinthians, there are now probably just as many definitions about what it means to be a […]
16-Feb-20 I Corinthians 3:1-9 The Christian Church has probably been trying to put much more effort into achieving uniformity over the past two thousand years than just about anything else that I can think of. What has been clearly evident though, is that we haven’t put much effort at all into achieving unity. The Christian […]
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