Thomaston Baptist Church01-Oct-17 Exodus 17:1-7 They forgot. Again. And again, it is all Moses’ fault. Moses the murderer is rather persistent, wouldn’t you say? He wasn’t able to kill them all with hunger because God got in the way, and intervened, but maybe, just maybe, he can kill them all with thirst. Dying of thirst is quicker […]
24-Sep-17 Exodus 16:1-21 From time to time, when my two brothers and I get together, we sometimes re-tell the stories of our growing up. Unfortunately, though, this doesn’t always go all that well. Frequently the story that one of us is telling is vehemently denied by one or both of the other brothers. That, of […]
10-Sep-17 Exodus 3:1-15 Just before I left for Monhegan, we spent some time with Moses, yet another one of those reluctant prophets. We discovered that mostly he was just a murderer on the run from the law. He was living in Midian, he got married and had at least one son. He spent 40 […]
27-Aug-17 Exodus 3:1-15 From a human point of view, Moses wasn’t much, and he probably knew it. He didn’t have a whole lot to be proud of in his life. He was mostly just a murderer who had managed to escape from the long arm of the law. But Moses’ story is also an incredible […]
06-Aug-17 Matthew 15:21-28 There are times when I am extremely glad that I am not the one who was charged with the responsibility of writing one of the Gospels. And this is certainly one of those times. I am afraid that if I was writing the Gospel of Wayne that I would have very […]
30-Jul-17 Genesis 28:10-17 Last week we left our sly, conniving, deceitful and evil friend, Jacob just as he was getting himself settled down for the night. He’s on the lam, running away from home, trying to avoid being killed by his somewhat older twin brother Esau. He’s behaved abominably, of course; he’s snatched his brother’s […]
23-Jul-17 Genesis 28:10-17 Part 1 Jacob is an unsavory character. I was originally going to call him a jerk, but after some reflection, I decided that the term was probably not appropriate for a sermon, and so I changed it to unsavory character. That might be a little more appropriate, but only because a couple […]
09-Jul-17 Matthew 14:13-23a Our passage this morning opens and closes with Jesus’ very human need to be alone to pray and to grieve. He has just learned that his friend and relative has been beheaded by Herod. John the Baptist had been the prophetic forerunner of Jesus’ ministry, and now John has been senselessly murdered. […]
02-Jul-17 Matthew 11:1-19 John the Baptist is in prison, and like most people who are in prison, he’s got plenty of time to think. And what John is thinking about mostly, is Jesus. John got himself arrested and put in prison shortly after Jesus began his ministry. John was kind of a rough-edged fellow, both […]
25-June-17 Matthew 10:40-42 “That, too, must always be our prayer. For there are things that lurk within us that ought not be there.” Stunning words, huh? Don’t they just make you want to run into your closet, beat your breast and repent? Not likely. Those words are sort of meaningless. There’s no setting, there’s no […]
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