Thomaston Baptist Church26-Nov-23 Matthew 25:31-46 Have you ever noticed that it is easier to be grumpy about something than it is to be grateful about it? I have, and I’ve noticed it in me. I will admit that I have come to the place in my life where I am addicted to electricity. I love the stuff. […]
12-Nov-23 Joshua 24:14-28 Joshua is getting ready to die, and this is his farewell address to the people of God. Moses has died, God has buried him, and Joshua has successfully led the people of God into the promised land, and they have taken possession of it. On one level, everything is just dandy. The […]
05-Nov-23 Micah 3:5-12 I probably should have titled this sermon, “Nothing For the Mouth, Nothing From the Mouth. Nothing For the Pocket, Nothing to Make you Feel Good”, but that would have been too many words to squeeze into the bulletin. And even though it is an apt allusion to this passage, it is also […]
29-Oct-23 Matthew 22:15-22 Like most people, I have a love/hate relationship with taxes. This is mostly because I do not like to pay them, but I do like to ride down a nice smooth road. And because I am married to someone who comprehends taxes, I do not have to think about them much. Meg […]
15-Oct-23 Matthew 22:1-14 This is not a pretty parable. In fact, I don’t know that any of the parables of Jesus are very pretty. Most of them are absolutely terrifying, and they serve as powerful warnings to all who are brave enough to read them. Our parable this morning starts out innocently enough; a grand […]
01-Oct-23 Exodus 17:1-7 They forgot. Again. And again, it is all Moses’ fault. Moses the murderer is rather persistent. He just won’t give up. He intends to kill everyone. He wasn’t able to kill them all with hunger, because God intervened and provided food, but maybe, just maybe, he can kill them all with thirst. […]
06-Aug-23 Luke 9:23-36 Prayer is probably the most important discipline that any of us can cultivate. And Jesus is our prime tutor in this matter. When Jesus needed to pray, when Jesus needed to be alone with God, everything else in his life came to a crashing halt. And so Jesus has gone up into […]
23-July-23 Genesis 28:10-17 Jacob is an unsavory character. I was originally going to call him a jerk, which would have been very appropriate, but after some reflection, I decided that the term was probably not the kind of term to use in a sermon, and so I changed it to “unsavory character.” That might be […]
11-Jun-23 Jeremiah 20:7-13 Jeremiah is sometimes called the “weeping prophet”, sometimes called the “naked prophet”, but always called the “reluctant prophet.” Jeremiah did not like his job at all. In fact, he resented it. His task as prophet brought all kinds of grief to him. He did not find great joy and satisfaction in his […]
04-Jun-23 Psalm 131 Sometimes life just falls apart, all of a sudden. Nothing seems to be right, all is messed up, and things are going to pieces faster than we can collect them up. It is the nature of a pastor, even one with cancer and a concussion to come into people’s lives when those […]
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