Thomaston Baptist Church15-Oct-17 Matthew 22:1-14 This is not a pretty parable, in fact, I don’t know that any of the parables of Jesus are very pretty. Most of them are absolutely terrifying, and they serve as powerful warnings to all who are brave enough to read them. Our parable this morning starts out innocently enough; a grand […]
08-Oct-17 Matthew 21:33-46 I would have sent an army. From time to time in the Scriptures, we discover that God does not act as prudently and as wisely as we might expect. It often seems as though God is not paying attention to critical details as they develop, and so the decisions and choices that […]
01-Oct-17 Exodus 17:1-7 They forgot. Again. And again, it is all Moses’ fault. Moses the murderer is rather persistent, wouldn’t you say? He wasn’t able to kill them all with hunger because God got in the way, and intervened, but maybe, just maybe, he can kill them all with thirst. Dying of thirst is quicker […]
24-Sep-17 Exodus 16:1-21 From time to time, when my two brothers and I get together, we sometimes re-tell the stories of our growing up. Unfortunately, though, this doesn’t always go all that well. Frequently the story that one of us is telling is vehemently denied by one or both of the other brothers. That, of […]
10-Sep-17 Exodus 3:1-15 Just before I left for Monhegan, we spent some time with Moses, yet another one of those reluctant prophets. We discovered that mostly he was just a murderer on the run from the law. He was living in Midian, he got married and had at least one son. He spent 40 […]
27-Aug-17 Exodus 3:1-15 From a human point of view, Moses wasn’t much, and he probably knew it. He didn’t have a whole lot to be proud of in his life. He was mostly just a murderer who had managed to escape from the long arm of the law. But Moses’ story is also an incredible […]
06-Aug-17 Matthew 15:21-28 There are times when I am extremely glad that I am not the one who was charged with the responsibility of writing one of the Gospels. And this is certainly one of those times. I am afraid that if I was writing the Gospel of Wayne that I would have very […]
30-Jul-17 Genesis 28:10-17 Last week we left our sly, conniving, deceitful and evil friend, Jacob just as he was getting himself settled down for the night. He’s on the lam, running away from home, trying to avoid being killed by his somewhat older twin brother Esau. He’s behaved abominably, of course; he’s snatched his brother’s […]
23-Jul-17 Genesis 28:10-17 Part 1 Jacob is an unsavory character. I was originally going to call him a jerk, but after some reflection, I decided that the term was probably not appropriate for a sermon, and so I changed it to unsavory character. That might be a little more appropriate, but only because a couple […]
09-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. […]
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