Thomaston Baptist ChurchLuke 9:51-62 26 April 2020 “When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.” With those words, Luke tells us that Jesus’ ministry on this earth is drawing to a close. Jesus has a single purpose now, and that is to get himself to Jerusalem, […]
12 April 2020 John 20:19-31 It is evening on the first day of the week, and the disciples of Jesus have cloistered themselves away in a very secure hiding place. It is quite possible that this hiding place is the very same upper room where Jesus had celebrated his last Passover with them only a […]
29 March 2020 Mark 8:27-38 No honest person ever said that living a life of faithfulness to Jesus Christ would be easy. In a goodly chunk of our passage today, Jesus very plainly states that a faithful walk of discipleship is nothing less than a march to our own deaths. And deep down, many of […]
12-Jan-20 Matthew 2:7-23 The wise men, by far, are the most mysterious characters in the whole Christmas Story. And that is why the wise men are so interesting to me. This mystery, though, ends horribly and tragically with the deaths of all of the little boys living in Bethlehem at the time of Herod’s mental […]
05-Jan-20 Matthew 2:1-12 They weren’t kings, they didn’t visit Jesus on the night that he was born, and there probably were not three of them. There. That should shatter at least some of the myths that we have about the wise men. Unfortunately, much of what we do tend to believe about the wise men […]
29-Dec-19 Luke 2:1-20 Taken without a whole lot of thought, or without any serious pondering, the story of Christmas can be kind of cute and even warmly romantic. It is a story about a pretty peasant girl, madly in love with a young tradesman, full of hopes and dreams of spending a long and fulfilling […]
24-Dec-19 “And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.” Those are some of the most familiar words in all of the Scriptures. They are simple and straight-forward words, and the stunning thing […]
22-Dec-19 Matthew 1:18-25 It is quite possible that Joseph might have missed Christmas. There’s a whole lot of space between his discovery that his intended had been unfaithful, and his angelic visitation. Much could have happened, and much did happen in that intervening space. It is only in our romanticizing of the Christmas story that […]
08-Dec-19 Matthew 11:2-6 Christmas can sometimes be a rather wonderful time of year, filled with the pleasant aromas of love, peace, joy and hope. It is after all, the coming of salvation into our lives. Christmas has also, as we know, become some other stuff; stuff that often puts a tremendous burden on us that […]
01-Dec-19 Matthew 3:1-12 Given the opportunity, most of us would say that John the Baptist has about as much to do with Christmas as does Santa Claus. Or, maybe we’d give good old Santa a slight edge over John. They might both wear really strange clothes, but at least Santa’s are red. If Santa had […]
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