God With Us

God With Us

December 24, 2017 Matthew 1:18-23 Sometimes, the closer you are to something, the harder it is to see it. We think that if we’d lived when Jesus lived, it would have been easier to respond and become one of his followers. If we saw his miracles, we’d believe, but the...
Joy that Transcends Circumstances

Joy that Transcends Circumstances

12-17-2017 2 Corinthians 11:24-28 (NIV) In 2002, a group of us went to New York City to help process victims from 9-11.  A friend of mine was out on the street in a line to buy a hotdog from one of the hotdog vendors and his Southern accent caused one of the people in...
He Tabernacled Among Us

He Tabernacled Among Us

John 1:10-14 In the television show “Undercover Boss,” a CEO of a very successful and sometimes well-known company leaves the corporate office and enters the workforce at one of the lowest levels of the business. The boss sometimes puts on a disguise and poses as a...
Signaling Thanksgiving

Signaling Thanksgiving

Signaling Thanksgiving November 19, 2017 Exodus 16:1-8 So, Jack Purcell and I were going to Bethlehem First Methodist Church to play Pickle ball.  Jack is driving through downtown Winder and he hits every light green all the way through town and you’d think he’d won...
Monologue of John Smyth

Monologue of John Smyth

November 11, 2017 Monologue of John Smyth:
The Father of the Baptist Movement “Good morrow. How do you fare today?” as we used to say back in the 1600’s.
 
 

Smyth is the name.  John Smyth.  We spell it the correct way, S-M-Y-T-H. I understand you spell it with an...
500 Years Ago, People Didn’t Know

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....