Thomaston Baptist Church31-Mar-19 Luke 15:11-32 No! You listen to me! This is not fair at all! I’ve worked like a dog and a slave for you my whole life! I’ve never disappointed you, never disobeyed you, I’ve stayed at home, I’ve been a faithful son, but I don’t feel like you’ve ever acknowledged my presence; when have […]
17-Mar-19 Luke 13:1-9 Hey Jesus! Whadya think about those Galileans who got sacrificed along with their sacrifices? Bad karma, huh? They must have been rotten, miserable, sinful people! Hypocrites, I tell you! Come all the way down to Jerusalem from Galilee to do a little worshiping, and they happen to be there the day that […]
10-Mar-19 Deuteronomy 26:1-11 This is the first Sunday in Lent. Lent us that period of time, 40 days before Easter, not counting Sundays, that the Christian Church observes as a time of reflection and preparation for Easter. We don’t count Sundays as part of the observance of Lent, because Sunday, or the first day of […]
03-Mar-19 Luke 9:23-36 On Wednesday of this week, the season of Lent begins. In some of the more liturgical churches, there will be worship services on Wednesday to note the arrival of the Lenten season, but all day, during the day, in these churches, people will be coming to receive a smudge of ashes on […]
24-Feb-19 Luke 6:27-38 There are probably a million reasons why every-day, ordinary Christians of good standing in their congregations, completely ignore what Jesus has to say in this passage. And the reason for this is that the precepts that Jesus espouses in this passage sound just as ridiculous to us today as they did to […]
17-Feb-19 1Corinthians 15:12-22 I was reading just this week that three out of four people make up seventy-five percent of the world’s population. That’s pretty impressive when you think about it. It makes me wonder, though, if the folks who have presented us with this datum, aren’t also the kind of folk we could ask, […]
10-Feb-19 Luke 5:1-11 I have never been stunned, amazed or awed by this passage. And if you know me well, you know that that is a very unusual thing for me to say. Most of Scripture absolutely blows my mind. Even portions of Leviticus sometimes have power over me and rattle me with the holy […]
03-Feb-19 Luke 4:16-30 Is not this Joseph’s son? Up until the moment that somebody asked that question, Jesus had been doing pretty well. The crowd in the Synagogue had been moved and awed by what Jesus had to say, and quite frankly, Jesus had said some pretty awesome things. Verses 18 and 19 are a […]
27-Jan-19 John 2:1-11 If anyone was interested, there’s a whole lot of literature out there that has to do with this passage, and I’ve read a pile of it. And I’ll bet that most of you have heard lots of sermons preached from it. This is probably one of the most familiar miracle stories in […]
06-Jan-19 Matthew 2:7-23 The wise men, by far, are the most mysterious characters in the whole Christmas story. And that is why the wise men are so interesting to me. This mystery, though, ends horribly and tragically. But it is yet more evidence of the cosmic battle between the powers of light and the powers […]
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