Thomaston Baptist Church28-Aug-22 Hebrew 11:1-16 Jesus once told a parable that begins with these words: “The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?”‘ And we all should know that he tore down all his old barns, and replaced them […]
21-Aug-22 Hosea 1:1-11 It is not always easy, nor is it always appropriate, to try to avoid words in the Scriptures that might be unsettling to us. Sometimes the Scriptures are more explicit than we would like them to be, and this morning’s reference to the world’s oldest profession reminds us of that. God’s word […]
31-Jul-22 Amos 7 In his vision, Amos saw a plague of locusts. The locusts came, and they ate up all of the grass in the land. Now as all of you know, I have confessed time and time again that I am not a man of agriculture. I plant a sometimes successful garden, but I […]
24-Jul-22 Galatians 6:1-10 There is no question that the Apostle Paul had a somewhat touchy relationship with the followers of Jesus in the Province of Galatia. At one point in this epistle he calls this readers “fools”. I am sure that that did not endear them to him, but the apostle is well known for […]
17-Jul-22 1 Kings 21 Jezebel and her husband, Ahab are probably the baddest of the bad in all of the Bible. The two of them are so self absorbed, and so self centered and so hateful of everyone around them that evil just pours out of them like sewer from a broken sewer main. Nothing […]
10-Jul-22 John 14:25-31 There’s some powerful teaching in this passage, straight from the lips of Jesus, and as timely as ever for those of us who live in this troubled world of fear and confusion and distress. But it is the final words that Jesus speaks in this passage that truly empowers my spirit. It […]
26-Jun-22 1 Kings 19:1-14 I was pondering five dollar a gallon gas the other day. Part of my pondering involved feeling sorry for myself, mostly, but also kind of self-righteously feeling sorry for others, less fortunate than me. And then my ponderings evolved into whom I might blame for this horrible situation, and at whom […]
05-Jun-22 Pentecost Sunday Acts 2:1-21 I have a feeling that if some strangers happened to show up unannounced in one of our worship services one bright Sunday morning, that the one conclusion that they would probably never come to is that we are all drunk. We might look a little sleepy, but we certainly wouldn’t […]
29-May-22 Acts 16:16-25 Slavery, in all of its various forms, is still very much with us. We like to believe that we live in a modern, enlightened world, where all persons are treated with the dignity and the respect that God created them to have, but that is not at all the case. We live […]
08-May-22 Acts 9:36-43 We live in a culture of death and destruction. Death and destruction is everywhere. The world is filled with people who gladly nourish hatred in their lives. Along with hatred, comes selfish ambition, and along with selfish ambition comes a striving for personal glory. And all of this is demonically motivated. There […]
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