Thomaston Baptist Church27-Nov-16 Romans 13:11-14 A Thanksgiving tradition in my family is the exchanging of Christmas lists. Once the abundance of food on the dining room table has been acceptably reduced to dividable leftovers, out come the Christmas lists. The reason for this, of course, is that the end is near; there isn’t much time left, and […]
20-Nov-16 Colossians 1:15-20 All of us have images in our minds of Jesus that we keep and cherish. And as our observance and celebration of Christmas gets closer and closer, and at a fairly rapid pace, I might say, some of those images in our minds will be switching over to a little boy in […]
06-Nov-16 II Thessalonians 2:13-17 Whenever the Apostle Paul issues a thanksgiving to one of the churches in his charge, it is a thanksgiving that is always genuine and always from the heart. Only once, in all of his letters to churches, does Paul omit a thanksgiving. And that occurs, or does not occur, as the […]
30-Oct-16 Isaiah 1:10-20 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! By the time that Isaiah is writing his prophecy, the much despised cities of Sodom and Gomorrah have long been gone. In fact, they have both been gone for centuries. There […]
02-Oct-16 Psalm 137 Last week, exile was threatened; this week it is reality. The atrocities of war perpetrated against the people of God are well documented. Homes were destroyed, fields were set afire, destroying crops. And olive groves and vineyards were overrun. The Temple in Jerusalem was burned to the ground. The Babylonian armies left […]
25-Sep-16 Jeremiah 32:1-15 We’re looking this morning at a real estate deal, that under normal circumstances, would probably have been a fairly wise purchase. Some people seem to have a knack for dabbling in real estate. They know when to buy and they know when to sell. They understand the market, and sometimes they can […]
18-Sep-16 Luke 16:1-13 There are times, I am sure, when we read our Bibles, and the first thought that comes to us is that we’d like to have a pair of scissors. Just take that offensive passage and snip it right out of our Bibles. There! It’s gone! We don’t have to deal with it […]
11-Sep-16 Psalm 139:19-24 So far this morning, at least until a few moments ago, we’ve been having a pretty awesome experience with Psalm 139. It is a wonderful Psalm, chock full of nice stuff, glorious stuff, and some really majestic stuff that sends our hearts soaring into the heavens. Who can ignore the wonder of […]
21-Aug-16 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 depressed, and probably quite a bit sorry for himself. In a sense, this feeling is natural […]
14-Aug-16 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 […]
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