Dec 11, 2016 | Sunday Morning
It is downtown Manhattan – the streets of New York City, or perhaps San Francisco, or Los Angeles. Here comes a man with an unkempt beard, long scraggly hair, army surplus boots & old ragged clothes. But there is a fire in his eyes which could be from passion – or...
Dec 4, 2016 | Sunday Morning
There are many ways to contrast the things of God and things of the world. Their USEFULNESS and their vanity might be one means. For example, the things of the world are useable only in this universe – sometimes only immediately. Perhaps that could be a part in our...
Nov 27, 2016 | Sunday Morning
After a particularly hard, long winter the lady went to her garden to check her blueberry bushes. She returned quite delighted because there were buds on almost all of the branches. Oh, but how disappointed she would have been if there was never anything more than...
Nov 20, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Beginning nearly fifty years ago, I spent nearly three years attending Bible school. I should make it clear – I didn’t attend seminary; it was a Baptist Bible school. It was not designed to train theologians – or even thinkers. Its purpose was to generate little...
Nov 13, 2016 | Sunday Morning
I admit that I may not understand the mind of a horse. I don’t know the thinking of the race horse when he’s brought into the starting gate. But from little I have seen, it appears that the thoroughbred race horse runs because he loves to run. There may be some...
Nov 6, 2016 | Sunday Morning
As much as I tried, I couldn’t get this Psalm out of my mind. While looking at it from one angle Wednesday, I mentioned it could be preached as a gospel message. I don’t believe that was David’s intent when he put these words to music and taught them to Israel. But...
Oct 30, 2016 | Sunday Morning
I have never claimed to have a very good memory – in fact I admit to having just the opposite. When I need to know something about the history of our church I ask one of you. But I do remember some of the details of the first sermon that I preached nearly 50 years...
Oct 16, 2016 | Sunday Morning
I’d like you to put your thinking caps on this morning. I have a gospel message for you, but it is not a “simple” gospel message. I need all of you to engage your ears and hearts, turning up your hearing aids if necessary. When Mary gave birth, more than...
Oct 9, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Elizabeth Barrett’s parents disapproved of her marriage to Robert Browning so strongly they disowned her. Almost every week Elizabeth wrote letters to her mother and father pleading for some sort of reconciliation. Those letters were sent for years, but her...
Oct 2, 2016 | Sunday Morning
The Lord Jesus once gathered His disciples around Him and gave them some instructions about their ministry. He said, “What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. And fear not them which...
Sep 25, 2016 | Sunday Morning
If I was more foolish than I actually am, I might say that this scripture is full of New Testament doctrine. This passage is full of New Testament doctrine, but New Testament doctrine is also Old Testament doctrine. My foolishness would be leaving you with the...
Sep 19, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Some Christians, after just a few years of church attendance, reach the summit of spiritual understanding. Other Christians think they climb to that summit with just a few months of Bible study. After that point, there is nothing else for them to learn. At that...
Sep 4, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Before a person can learn to swim he must be able to put is face in water and permit his ears to get wet. Before a person can be an adult, he must first grow from a baby into a child and then into maturity. And before a person can be a Christian he must first be a...
Aug 28, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Of the most important differences between Bible Christianity and all other religions, including the “Christian” cults, is that the true child of God possess a very special hope. Christians have something for which to live enabling us to live through...
Aug 22, 2016 | Sunday Morning
The Apostle Paul had been directed by God to the city of Philippi to give those people the gospel of Christ. Like so many other cities, the Devil believed Philippi belonged to him, so he did what he could to try to disrupt the work of the missionaries. An unfortunate...
