Thomaston Baptist Church17-Nov-19 Philippians 4:4-9 “Whine and complain in your miserableness; again I will say, Whine and complain. Let your abrasiveness be known to everyone. There is no God. Worry and fret about everything. With obnoxious speech, and with demanding self-centeredness require that everyone be afflicted with the tales of your woe. And ungodly, demonic terror, which […]
10-Nov-19 Luke 18:9-14 Jesus also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt. Wow! That’s hot stuff! And it is truly scary stuff, and most frightening of all, the sentiment that Luke expresses is absolutely true! If we are trusting in ourselves that we are […]
03-Nov-19 Haggai 2:1 The year is probably 520 BC. By most of our reckonings that was a very long time ago, lost in the mists of irrelevancy, perhaps forever. Nobody wants to hear about anything that happened on June 14, 1992, much less than in anything that happened in 520 BC. But for Haggai, 520 […]
20-Oct-19 Malachi 4 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen. I can’t think of a more wonderful blessing to be bestowed upon us. Can you? Wrapped up in that blessing is the entirety of this life and the whole of eternity. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all […]
13-Oct-19 Psalm 43 In our passage this morning we meet an individual who is struggling to live out his faith in God in a hostile environment. The psalmist has enemies who are oppressing him, and he is feeling mightily down-trodden and depressed, and probably quite a bit sorry for himself. Sadly, this feeling is natural […]
08-Sep-19 Psalm 139:19-24 So far this morning, at least until just a few minutes ago, we’ve been having a pretty awesome experience with Psalm 139. It is a wonderful psalm, chock full of some really nice stuff; glorious stuff, even. And then, there’s all that majestic stuff that just sends our hearts soaring toward heaven. […]
18-Aug-19 Luke 12:49-53 I am reasonably certain that most of us have a mental image that we conjure up when we call to mind the second person of the Holy Trinity. This may be an image of our own making, but more than likely it is that of an image that we have appropriated from […]
11-Aug-19 Hebrews 11:1-16 Last week we met a fellow who, by the grace of God, came into a whole lot of wealth. He was already rich to begin with, and that probably didn’t help him much, but when he gained this additional wealth, it went straight to his head. It was all that he could […]
04-Aug-19 Luke 12:13-21 Anyone who’s ever taken on the responsibility of dividing up the spoils of a dead person knows just exactly how quickly the vultures can begin to descend. Some people have barely breathed their last before the survivors are squabbling over the dead person’s stuff. Everyone wants a piece of mommy, or lots […]
28-Jul-19 Luke 13:10-17 In Luke’s Gospel, this is the last recorded appearance of Jesus inside of the walls of a synagogue. I am not able to ask Luke why this is so, nor can I even second guess him legitimately, but I am always free to speculate and to conjecture and to make stuff up. […]
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