Sep 23, 2018 | Sermons
Whatever Happened to Self-Discipline? Daniel 1:1-5 Whatever Happened to Self-Discipline? Daniel 1:1-5 I received an email a couple of months ago from a young man that lives in Athens. He and his fiancée are getting married in April, and he was checking on my...
Sep 16, 2018 | Sermons
Whatever Happened to Witnessing? Acts 8:26-49 Whatever happened to witnessing? Something must have happened to it, at least among Baptists. If we use statistics to gauge whether we are witnessing, something has happened. Last June, “Christianity Today” reported that...
Sep 5, 2018 | Sermons
Whatever Happened to Honesty? Micah 7:1–7 What would life be like if you could not trust anyone? If there were no trust, society as we know it would crumble. Because there is so little trust, our nation is crumbling. Trust is the skeleton which holds up every...
Sep 2, 2018 | Sermons
Holding Work In Proper Perspective Genesis 2:4-18 Elizabeth Mills published a hymn in 1837 that’s in the Old Broadman Hymnal that many of you over fifty will know: “We’ll Work Till Jesus Comes.” However, the hymn is not really about work. It really about a day...
Aug 26, 2018 | Sermons
John 1:43-51 When our daughter-in-law graduated from Veterinarian College at the University of Tennessee, we rented a room from an Air B and B home in Knoxville. The home where we stayed was beautifully decorated inside and out. Our host, Steve, was British. Steve is...
Aug 19, 2018 | Sermons
The Early Church Had a Big Front Porch Acts 2: 44-47 The last time I remember seeing my grandmother alive was on the front porch of her house. She was in the porch swing, chatting with a friend, still recovering from heart surgery. I used to sit in that swing in the...
