Thomaston Baptist Church09-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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
05-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. […]
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 […]
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