Jun 19, 2016 | Sunday Morning
It appears that our church is going to the dogs. In addition to the dog who ordinarily lives in the apartment down stairs, and to his cousin who visits almost every week, we have had one, two or three other puppies outside during just about every church service for...
Jun 12, 2016 | Sunday Morning
As we read the letters of Peter remember that each word is colored by things which he remembered. Things like his denial of Christ when the Lord was being questioned and tortured. His foolish suggestion to build three memorials to commemorate the transfiguration. His...
Jun 5, 2016 | Sunday Morning
I have entitled our message this morning: “Wise Agnosticism.” And with that we must begin with a short vocabulary lesson. As the days of the New Testament came to a close, the Apostles and their successors had to struggle with a heathen philosophy called...
May 29, 2016 | Sunday Morning
This text is as old as the hills. It comes from what may be the very first written book of the Bible. Some think that Moses wrote this book while he was still a shepherd in Midian – prior to the exodus. Some think that Job himself wrote it, while others think that his...
May 22, 2016 | Sunday Morning
In 1967 I had been a child of God for a short while. I had been raised an Episcopalian, but I had recently become a member of a Baptist church. And then like so many other sheep, I went off to the intellectual slaughter house called “university.” I took...
May 15, 2016 | Sunday Morning
R.M. Williams was born in 1951 – so that would make him two years younger than I am – if he were still living. His great-great-grandfather was governor and senator from the State of Mississippi. His father was a senior executive of Ford Motor Company, so he grew up...
May 9, 2016 | Sunday Morning
This scripture is one of the mountain peaks of the word of God. It doesn’t tell us how to make a lot of money, or how to win friends and influence people. It doesn’t remove the average problems of the average marriage. It doesn’t directly please the flesh. Its...
May 1, 2016 | Sunday Morning
John’s gospel has a different nature to it than the other three gospels. It looks at the Lord Jesus from a somewhat different perspective. John shows to us Jesus – the eternal Son of God – in both His earthly and heavenly glory. I wouldn’t say that the others...
Apr 24, 2016 | Sunday Morning
This scripture describes the first sin committed by any member of the human race. And for that reason, it is valuable for teaching purposes. Without anything as a precedent, Eve sinned against her beneficent Creator. IF the consuming fire of sin came about in an...
Apr 17, 2016 | Sunday Morning
How many times in the past 24 hours have you used the pronoun “my”? I am thinking of the pronoun – not the oath “my” or the exclamation “my.” “My, aren’t those politicians behaving badly?” That kind of language is a form...
Apr 10, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Some of you have never been a part of Protestantism or Catholicism. You were born and raised in a Baptist church. As a result you may not know that two weeks ago much of Christendom celebrated “Maundy Thursday.” The Thursday before Easter is called...
Apr 3, 2016 | Sunday Morning
This might be a fun exercise, or perhaps it could be developed into a message of some kind – If you were asked to describe Heaven in a single word, what would you use? “Glory” might be appropriate – “And the city had no need of the sun, neither of...
Mar 27, 2016 | Sunday Morning
According to the calendar today is “Easter” – one of the “high days” of the religious year. This is one of those few Sundays when non-church-going people, for whatever reason, go to church. Now, I may be mistaken in this, until last Friday, but...
Mar 20, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Many believe that the conversion of Saul of Tarsus is second most important event in the Book of Acts. And there are many who feel that it is third most important event in all history. These people say that only the descent of the Holy Spirit on day Pentecost and the...
Mar 13, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Last week we began a short study of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Not only was Paul a significant person in the spread of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. But he was also instrumental in clarifying the truths of salvation – particularly in the books of Romans...
