Apr 10, 2016 | Sermons
April 10, 2016 Daniel 3:1-7;12-18 In the early 1970’s, Woodlawn High School, a school of 2,500 white students in Birmingham, Alabama, was forced to accept 500 black students as a part of court-ordered integration. These students were bussed in from poorer parts of...
Apr 3, 2016 | Sermons
April 3, 2016 Daniel 1:1-16 I think everyone knows that our normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Anything above or below that could be cause for concern. What if we could measure our spiritual temperature? What if we could measure on any given day how...
Mar 27, 2016 | Sermons
March 27 John 3:4-6 Romans 6:3-4 If our births were etched into our memory banks, we might remember meeting a frayed and exhausted mother who just minutes before we arrived was screaming at the doctor to just get us out. We might remember meeting a father who thought...
Mar 20, 2016 | Sermons
March 20 Matthew 16:21-25 Just down the street from our church is a 10 x 10 block building that is said to be the second oldest building in Jefferson. It’s called the Calaboose. Our church acquired the building when we bought a small piece of property it sits on a...
Mar 13, 2016 | Sermons
March 13, 2016 It’s rare that “Daddy Jack” Purcell meets me at the tennis court that he doesn’t have a story. I think most of them are true. On Friday morning he told me about the year that he was the principal for Rutledge Academy in Morgan County. The people of this...
Mar 6, 2016 | Sermons
March 6, 2016 Rev. 3:15-21 In my grandparents’ house over their bed in the living room (yes, their bed was in the living room) hung the Helms’ family crest. As I remember it, the crest had a helmet like a soldier would have worn in medieval times. On either side of...
