Nov 21, 2024 | Wednesday
I do a lot of my reading while exercising on an elliptical treadmill. I have a pencil in the machine’s cup holder and a little wire gizmo which keeps the pages of my book open. Whenever I see something which is worth remembering, I put a little pencil mark beside it...
Nov 14, 2024 | Wednesday
The title of our little message for this evening is: “How to Make a Fool of Yourself.” This is a subject about which I am an expert, so I may have some insights you might be able to use. Our scripture is not unfamiliar. I think several preachers here over the last...
Nov 7, 2024 | Wednesday
I wonder if it would be too bold to say that Christians are commanded to sing? I know for a fact that King David often exhorted his citizens to sing and praise the Lord. And the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah did the same. “Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent...
Oct 31, 2024 | Wednesday
I was going through one of my sermon idea notebooks, and at top of one page there was the word: “Christian.” Beside it was a scripture II Timothy 3. The rest of the page had only six words: “Undistracted soldier;” “Rule-keeping Athlete,” and “Hardworking Farmer.” I...
Oct 24, 2024 | Wednesday
I hope you are reasonably familiar with the Old Testament prophecies about the Lord Jesus Christ. I’ve never counted them, but I have read that there are 333 such prophecies. I remember that because it is such a symmetrical and easily remembered figure. Beyond the...
Oct 17, 2024 | Wednesday
Several years ago, in my reading, I heard an author utter three words on prayer without making any explanation or development. They struck me, so I jotted them down in my sermonic notebook, where they have been sitting ever since. Looking through that notebook on...
Oct 10, 2024 | Wednesday
Job had been struck down with disaster after disaster. He lost his wealth and his health; his children were killed and his wife, in her pain, had turned against him. He has been used by psychologists to illustrate the various stages of grief. At first he was...
Oct 3, 2024 | Wednesday
Perhaps II John 4 and III John 4 don’t apply to me as directly as they did the Apostle John, but I’ll still use them. The Apostle wrote two separate letters in which he said in one: “I have NO GREATER JOY than to hear that MY children walk in truth.” And earlier he...
Sep 19, 2024 | Wednesday
I wonder if the Lord will ever let me know how many times during my life I have quoted this verse of scripture. Has it been a thousand times? Ten thousand times? I know that I have preached from the context of Romans 8:28 several times. And what a wonderful context it...
Sep 12, 2024 | Wednesday
I have been to the Fall Bible conference at the Bryan Station Baptist Church, in Lexington, several times. Each year I was there, on one of the last evenings of the conference, all of the preachers were invited into the choir loft, and we sang the hymn “How Great Thou...
Sep 5, 2024 | Wednesday
Obviously, we are going back to the text of Austin’s message two weeks ago and to my sermon last Sunday. I am also returning to a comment the Holy Spirit made in three recent Sunday School lessons. First, let’s consider the Lord’s introduction to His answer to the...
Aug 29, 2024 | Wednesday
I will come back to our scripture in a few minutes – after we start with an illustration. Let’s say that you are a highly skilled college athlete. You could pick any sport and become a star player. After some consideration, you’ve chosen to play professional...
Aug 22, 2024 | Wednesday
Before coming back to this opening scripture, let’s begin with a word or two about cousins. It has been said that we can choose our friends, but we can’t choose our relatives. Perhaps you were born into a family with a couple siblings and another brother or two...
Aug 15, 2024 | Wednesday
This is our third lesson in a brief study of faithfulness. In our last message we considered the faithfulness of the Lord. Over and over again we are told such things as: “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”...
Aug 8, 2024 | Wednesday
I have seen more than 27,000 days during my short lifetime. Every one of them followed a period of darkness which I have called “night.” The succession of night and day, night and day, has been throughly consistent throughout my life. In fact, that succession has been...
