Religious exercises can become rote. A box to check. Pray? Check. Worship? Check. That is something we must guard against. A teaching of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount can help us.
Sermon Texts
Sometimes we are pulled down by the past. Sometimes we swoon over the future. Each time we miss the present, God’s greatest gift to us. Jesus taught his disciples to seize the present and use it to do good. That’s a good word for us too.
It’s the question Jesus asked his first followers. It’s the question we should ask ourselves: “What are you looking for?” What do we want out of life? Faith? A Spouse? Children? What are we looking for in life?
Baptists were the radicals of the Protestant Reformation. We rejected a practice of most other churches: infant baptism. Some accused us of child abuse because we withheld baptism. There is a reason Baptists baptize the way we do
It is an appalling story. Herod ordered that all male children under age two be killed. Today we call it the slaughter of the innocents. Jesus and his family escaped to Egypt. What’s the message in this great escape
This Sunday is Christmas Day. We will only have worship at 10:10 a.m. There will be no Sunday School. Please join us as we celebrate the light that overcomes darkness.