Below you will find the most recent sermons. Refer to the Sermon Archive if you wish to download sermons from past years.
Sermon for Sunday, August 1, 2010 First Baptist and Beaver Memorial Joint Service
A Person’s Life
Psalm 85; Colossians 2: 6-19; Luke 11: 1 – 13
Back when I was a young man there were ads in the back of magazines which
portrayed a good-looking young woman toying with her collar and facing the camera with a
vacant look on [...]
Sermon for Sunday, July 25, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
Teach Us
Psalm 85; Colossians 2: 6-19; Luke 11: 1 – 13
When Bucknell University celebrated its one-hundred-fiftieth year in 1996, the pastor
of its founding church was invited to offer a prayer at an event commemorating the school’s
beginnings. This church founded the university, I was the [...]
Sermon for Sunday, June 18, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
“The Better Part:”
Amos 8: 1-12; Colossians 1: 15-28; Luke 10: 38 – 42
I knew a woman named Mary who was always unhappy with the story of Mary and
Martha, because she often fed people and she could see the justice in objecting to Mary’s
abandoning Martha [...]
Sermon for Sunday, June 13, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
Broke the Bonds
Psalm 42; 1 Kings 19: 1-15a; Luke 8: 26 – 39
The presence of gangs leads to crime. Isn’t that how we think about it? Isn’t that the
motivation for the gang-awareness and gang-discouraging programs being promoted in the
area? We know there are places [...]
Sermon for Sunday, June 13, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
Who Forgives Sins?
1 Kings 21: 1-21a; Galatians 2: 15-21; Luke 7: 36 – 8: 3
Behind every successful villainous man there’s a bad woman. That’s one of the
lessons of the story of Jezebel. King Ahab is peevish, selfish, and corrupted, but he
doesn’t have the courage [...]
Sermon for Sunday, June 6, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
Widows’ Sons
Psalm 146; 1 Kings 17: 8-24; Luke 7: 11-17
In the sixteenth chapter of John’s gospel Jesus is encouraging his disciples to
believe that though his death will be a terrible thing for them, the results of his resurrection
and glorification will bring them joy. He [...]
Sermon for Sunday, May 30, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
Sharing the Glory
Psalm 8; Proverbs 8: 1-4, 22-31; Romans 5: 1-5
Someone pointed out that British philosopher Bertrand Russell, who died in 1970 at
the age of 98, would have had an I.Q. of about a hundred at his death. This was a poke at
the whole [...]
Sermon for Sunday, May 23, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
Not on My Own Authority
Acts of the Apostles 2: 1-21; Romans 8: 14-17; John 14: 8-17
When I get to the local cell phone store the woman is already serving a customer, an
older guy with gray hair and glasses. She’s explaining something to him–it seems [...]
Sermon for Sunday, May 16, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
All One
Psalm 97, Revelation 22: 12-14; John 17: 20-26
There is an open space above this sanctuary, between the ceiling above you and
the roof. It has catwalks across it and access to the chandeliers for raising and lowering them,
and that’s the path which will take [...]
Sermon for Sunday, May 9, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
By This
Psalm 148, Acts of the Apostles 11: 1-18; John 13: 31-35
This was told to me as a true story by someone I trust, so I’ll tell it. Back some
years, when racism was reinforced by the local culture of large areas of the United [...]