Thomaston Baptist Church18-Jun-17 Jeremiah 20:7-13 Jeremiah is sometimes called the “weeping prophet”, sometimes called the “naked prophet”, but always 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. Not long before he wrote the poem that is our passage […]
11-Jun-17 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. During the past few weeks, I’ve been in the presence of lots of people whose lives have suddenly come undone. Such […]
21-May-17 I Peter 2:18-25 We do not like slavery. The very idea of it is repulsive to us. It is inconceivable to us that one person could own another human being. To us, that is the most basic violation of human rights. This becomes especially true when we realize, that as Christians, we cannot truly […]
14-May-17 John 14:1-7 I go to prepare a place for you. At this point in my life, those words have become some of the sweetest words in the English language. Some of it has to do with the fact that I am getting older, and that as I age, I am discovering that I am […]
07-May-17 I Peter 1:6-9 May grace and peace be yours in abundance! And blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! These two greetings, one for one another as fellow exiles and refugees, and one for God who has given us a new birth, a living hope, and an eternal inheritance that […]
30-April-17 I Peter 1:3-5 May grace and peace be yours in abundance! Last week we began our sermon time, and ended it, for that matter, with a wonderful greeting for our fellow exiles and refugees on this planet. This week we begin with a wonderful greeting for God. “Blessed be the God and Father of […]
23-Apr-17 I Peter 1:1,2 May grace and peace be yours in abundance! That’s a pretty nice greeting, don’t you think? May grace and peace be yours in abundance! I think that it is a grand greeting, much nicer, and far more meaningful than “How’s it going?” which is the standard greeting these days. When we […]
02-Apr-17 Ezekiel 37:1-14 And they were very dry. The vision that Ezekiel sees in his dream is one of hopelessness and desolation. Ezekiel has been caught up by the Spirit of the Lord, and that same Spirit has set him down in a valley that is littered with human bones that have been completely dried […]
19-Mar-17 Romans 5:6-11 In this passage, the Apostle Paul, freely, gladly, and without any apology at all, uses four rather uncomplimentary terms to describe what we were like before we gave our lives to Jesus Christ and became Christians. These are not pleasant descriptors at all. And here they are in all of their unvarnished […]
12-Mar-17 Matthew 26:36-46 One of the great Baptist heresies, and there are many, is that we will not allow Jesus to be human. We give lip service to his humanity. At Christmastime we speak of the incarnation, and we talk about God in the flesh, but really, we don’t want Jesus to be very human […]
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