Thomaston Baptist Church24-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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
03-Apr-16 John 20:19-31 They’re safe and secure, but they’re also miserable. It is evening of Easter Day, and the disciples have walled themselves into the upper room where they celebrated the Passover with Jesus just before he was arrested. The doors of the room are locked, because the disciples are living in fear that they […]
13-Mar-16 John 12:1-8 One of the things that we quickly learn when we study the Gospels, and when we focus on the lives of Jesus’ disciples, is that quite frequently, not all of them get it. Sometimes it seems like that in spite of all of the time that they have spent with Jesus traveling […]
14-Feb-16 Luke 4:1-13 So far, things have been going pretty well for Jesus. He’s just been baptized by John the Baptizer, there was a tremendous confirmation of his divine Sonship at his baptism, it was a holy and sacred moment for all who may have witnessed it, and he’s now full of the Holy Spirit. […]
31-Jan-16 Luke 4:16-30 The sermon was fine. It was just what happened afterward that caused things to go down hill so quickly. Jesus has returned to his home town of Nazareth, and its the Sabbath, and so he has gone to the local synagogue to attend the service. Luke tells us that this was his […]
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