Sermon for Sunday, August 29, 2010 First Baptist Church of Lewisburg Broken Cisterns Jeremiah 2: 4-13; Hebrews 13: 1-8, 15-16; Luke 14: 1, 7 – 14 Early American painter William Hicks had a favorite theme. It was a picture of William Penn signing a treaty with the Indians, with in the foreground of the momentous [...]
Sermon for Sunday, August 22, 2010 First Baptist Church of Lewisburg Hypocrites Psalm 71: 1-6; Jeremiah 1: 4-10; Luke 13: 10 – 17 Forty years ago a woman in a small town went to see the pastor of her church. She was flustered. Her twenty-year-old daughter was expecting a baby. The girl and her boyfriend [...]
Sermon for Sunday, August 15, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg Dazzling Exodus 34: 29-35; 2 Corinthians 3: 12- 4: 2; Luke 9: 28-47 We have a couple of scriptures today about persons so holy that they radiate light. The first is Moses, whose being close to God on the mountain left him with [...]
Sermon for Sunday, August 8, 2010 First Baptist Church of Lewisburg Moth and Rust Isaiah 1: 1, 10-20; Hebrews 11: 1-3, 8-16; Luke 12: 32 – 40 When I was reading Jesus’ teaching to his disciples, especially the words “Fear not, little flock, it is God’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom,” I [...]