500 Years Ago, People Didn’t Know

November 5, 2017 Hebrews 4:12-16 David Ropeik remembers going to bed one night when he was 11, seriously afraid he would not be alive the next morning. It was October, 1962, and the frightening cold war between the U.S. and Soviet Union had become terrifyingly real....

Your Life Can Have Its Own Reformation


500 Year Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation October 29 Acts 3:38; Matthew 4:12 In 285 B.C., Alexandria was the largest and most prosperous city in the world.  It was a port city in northern Egypt founded by Alexander the Great. On the shore was a lighthouse...

Writing a Future Story Requires Faith

Judges 7:2-7 Baptists like to count.   Since one of the books of the Bible is called “Numbers,” maybe that’s not such a bad thing. I learned that keeping count in church was important when I attended church as a child at Prospect Baptist Church. In that country...

Is it Raining or is it Sprinkling?

October 15, 2017 Ephesians 4:25-5:2 In a two-minute video posted by the “Huffington Post” a few years ago, three very young children argue about whether it is raining or sprinkling.  The  video went viral.  This will be acted out today before the sermon by three...

Making Sense of Tragedy

Making Sense of Tragedy October 8, 2017 On Oct 1, 1997, Justin Safely was a seventh grader at Pearl, Mississippi.  He was waiting for his first class to start, but his choir teacher never arrived.  The class of about 60 students were having a good time goofing off....