Thomaston Baptist Church04-Aug-19 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 […]
28-Jul-19 Luke 13:10-17 In Luke’s Gospel, this is the last recorded appearance of Jesus inside of the walls of a synagogue. I am not able to ask Luke why this is so, nor can I even second guess him legitimately, but I am always free to speculate and to conjecture and to make stuff up. […]
14-Jul-19 Amos 8 There’s probably nothing much prettier than a basket of summer fruit. In those fancy magazines that show pictures of those lovely houses that obviously no human being has ever set foot in, there’s always a basket or a bowl of fruit sitting ever so prettily on the kitchen counter. We know that […]
07-Jul-19 Galatians 6:1-10 This past week we celebrated our independence from the British Empire. So I thought it might be good to spend some time this morning thinking some about our interdependence with one another in the kingdom of God. The Apostle Paul had a somewhat touchy relationship with the followers of Jesus in the […]
16-Jun-19 1 Kings 21 Ahab and his wife Jezebel are probably the baddest of the bad in all of the Bible. The two of them are so self-centered and self-focused that evil just pours out of them like sewer from a broken sewer main. They are certainly a pair of real nasties. It turns out […]
09-Jun-19 Romans 5:1-5 I’m quite certain that I’m not very far off the target here. What a lame way to start a sermon! What in heaven is he talking about? I’ll tell you. I suspect that very few of us here this morning got the holy shivers while I was reading this passage. And I […]
02-Jun-19 Acts 16:16-25 Slavery, in all of it’s various forms is still very much with us. We like to believe that we live in a modern, enlightened age where all persons are treated with the dignity and the respect that they have been created to receive, but that is not at all the case. We […]
19-May-19 Revelation 21:1-7 The Bible is a wonderful and yet mysterious book. And it is a wonderful and mysterious book because its author is also wonderful and mysterious. Almighty God is our constant companion in this life, and yet there is absolutely nothing about him that we do not stand, or more appropriately, completely fall […]
12-May-19 Acts 9:36-43 We live in a culture of death and destruction. Death and destruction is all around us. The world is filled with people who are filled with hatred. And this hatred is demonically motivated. There is no other way to describe it. That hatred works itself out in acts of violence and death, […]
05-May-19 John 21:1-19 Well, last week we witnessed the creation and the commissioning and the complete empowerment of the new missionary community. And this week, that new missionary community, has, apparently, decided to kick-off the ministry by going on a fishing trip. Or, maybe not kick it off at all, and just go fishing instead. […]
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