Thomaston Baptist Church07-Aug-16 Hebrews 11:1-16 Last week we met a fellow who, by the grace of God, came into a whole lot of wealth. He was already rich to begin with, and that probably didn’t help him much, but when he gained this additional wealth, it went straight to his head. It was all that he could […]
31-July-16 Luke 12:13-21 Anyone who’s ever taken on the responsibility of dividing up the spoils of a dead person knows just exactly how quickly the vultures can begin to descend. Some people have barely breathed their last before the survivors are squabbling over the dead person’s stuff. Everyone wants a piece of mommy, or lots […]
24-July-16 Hosea 1:1-11 When we were last together a couple of weeks ago, I thought I did a pretty good job of handling the reference to the world’s oldest profession. It’s not always an easy thing when the Scriptures are more explicit than we would like them to be. God’s word is not always palatable […]
10-July-16 Amos 7 In his vision, Amos saw a plague of locusts. The locusts came and they ate up all of the grass in the land. Now, not being a man of agriculture, and having no experience in the business of haying, I can only report this information as hearsay. Some of you here this […]
03-Jul-16 Galations 6:1-10 This weekend, as we prepare to celebrate our independence from the British Empire, I thought it might be good to talk a little bit about our interdependence in the Kingdom of God. The Apostle Paul had a somewhat touchy relationship with the Christians in the Province of Galatia, and I’m pretty sure […]
26-June-16 1 Kings 21:1-29 In the summary statement re-capping the kingship of Ahab, nothing is said about him that is good. He was most likely the most rotten, most evil, most hateful and conniving king ever to rule over the people of God. The writer of First Kings says, “Indeed, there was no one like […]
19-June-16 1 Kings 19:1-14 Last Sunday while we were at worship, a terrible tragedy was unfolding in Orlando, Florida. In what is being called the largest mass shooting in modern American history, a gunman entered a crowded night- club and slaughtered 49 people, before being shot to death by the authorities. Since then, in an […]
05-Jun-16 1Kings 17:8-16 Things had not been going all that great for the people of God. They’d had a string of of really rotten, really godless kings. But lest we begin to pity them for this unfortunate string of miserable kings, let us be reminded that the people of God were hardly the victims of […]
01-May-16 John 14:25-31 There’s some powerful teaching in this passage, straight from the lips of Jesus, and as timely as ever for those of us who live in this troubled world of fear and confusion and distress. But its the last thing that Jesus says in this passage that truly empowers my spirit. It is […]
10-Apr-16 John 21:1-19 Ironically, at the end of John’s Gospel, we’re right back at the very beginning. Easter Day has come and gone, Jesus is alive, and has appeared to his disciples on at least two occasions, but the disciples have not yet figured out what to do with themselves. Seven of them, at least, […]
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