Thomaston Baptist Church05-Mar-17 Matthew 4:1-11 Temptation to sin wouldn’t be such a problem if it wasn’t so wonderfully attractive. The crazy thing about temptation to sin is that it is always carefully designed to appeal to our own needs and desires. I don’t know that I’ve ever been tempted to do something that’s wrong, that I had […]
26-Feb-17 Matthew 17:1-9 I wonder sometimes, if we haven’t lost our sense of awe when we gather for worship on Sunday mornings. Worship is pretty serious business. We gather here, Sunday after Sunday, to intentionally put ourselves into the presence of the living God, and when we do that, there ought to be a sense […]
19-Feb-17 Matthew 25:45-26:13 In the story of Joseph in the Old Testament, there is a line that has always fascinated me. Joseph has been sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. They really intended to kill him. It was that important to them to get rid of him, and to get him out of their […]
05-Feb-17 Matthew 5:13-16 I’ll bet we all know someone who is the salt of the earth. I meet these sorts of folk all the time. Its just that usually they’re already dead by the time I make their acquaintance. Perhaps you have to be dead before you can truly become the salt of the earth. […]
29-Jan-17 Micah 6:1-8 It is a lot like being neglected by one’s lover, and wondering why. The lover has grown cold, standoffish, spurning one’s affections and advances. And it seems as though there is no reason at all for this cold, and unresponsive behavior. And then, the discovery, the awful discovery, that the lover has […]
22-Jan-17 Psalm 27 Note: Thomaston Baptist Church recently completed a year-long celebration of 200 years of ministry in this community. The following is a prayer based on Psalm 27, for the next 200 years of ministry. The numbering of the paragraphs corresponds to the verses in the Psalm. This prayer was presented in the regular […]
01-Jan-17 Luke 2:15-21 The tribulations of Mary did not end with the long, two year exile in Egypt. They continued throughout her life until that awful day, some thirty years later when she stood at the base of a Roman cross on a hillside just outside of Jerusalem and watched as her first born son […]
24-Dec-16 What a night that was! I was there! It had begun like most every other night, clear, but slightly chilly. We had been in this section of the hill country now for about a week, and the sheep were just about getting acclimated to their new surroundings. Sheep are strange animals. In a way, […]
11-Dec-16 James 5:7-11 Its all about hanging in there, isn’t it? It’s all about Jesus coming back, and it’s all about being patient while we wait. But we all know that waiting for something is always hard work. I was a small child once, as I suppose we all were, and as a child, waiting […]
04-Dec-16 Romans 15:1-7 It has been said that church is the only place that we willingly and joyfully and regularly go where we will interact, fellowship, and worship with people that we would ordinarily have no other reason to associate with. I’m totally convinced that this is one of the most apt descriptions of the […]
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