March 2011 Newsletter
March 2011 Dialog
March 2011 Dialog
Sermon for February 27, 2011 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg Stewards of Mysteries Isaiah 49: 8-16a, 1 Corinthians 4: 1-5, Matthew 6: 24-34 This should be a memory verse, a verse printed on posters, a verse printed on the bookmarks people put in their Bibles: ! Corinthians 4: 3b. The whole verse reads [...]
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Sermon for February 20, 2011 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg Love Your Enemies Leviticus 19: 1-2, 9-18, 1 Corinthians 3: 10-11, 16-23, Matthew 5: 38-48 The old Baptist hymnal included the following hymn, written by John Hay in the late nineteenth century. I don’t think I ever sang it, but I saw it [...]
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Sermon for February 13, 2011 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg In Your Heart Psalm 119: 1-8, 1 Corinthians 3: 1-9, Matthew 5: 21-37 I use the lectionary to set the scriptures week-by-week. It’s a three-year cycle which excerpts most of the Bible by the time it is through, and then it repeats. This [...]
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Sermon for February 6, 2011 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg You are the Light Isaiah 58: 1-9a, Psalm 112: 1-9, Matthew 5: 13-20 Through the years some people have come to me to say that they don’t have good enough clothes to wear to church, and they hope I don’t mind if they come [...]