By Glenn Metts Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, Seymour Focal Passage: Isaiah 40:18-31  One of the most encouraging and beloved Scriptures in God’s Word is Psalm 46:1: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” That is a truth that we can cling to in troublesome times. When we look to the future,  our minds are filled with questions about what is to come. Sometimes, our minds

By Glenn Metts Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, Seymour Focal Passage: Isaiah 31:1-9  I think the greatest comfort we have going through this life is that God is a Heavenly Father that watches over us.  He is holy, awesome in power, almighty, omniscient, perfectly just and is love.  As we study this week’s lesson, I couldn’t help but think of Psalm 103.  It is a beautiful passage of Scripture!  In Psalm

By Glenn Metts Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, Seymour Focal Passage: Isaiah 25:1-10a  God saves. Those two words describe the narrative of the Bible. They are the purpose for which God has communicated to us through His written word and ultimately through the Living Word, His Son, our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ.  When we come to our Scripture this week in Isaiah 25:1-10a, Isaiah celebrates with praise and a declaration

By Glenn Metts Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, Seymour Focal Passage: Isaiah 23:8-18 It is an incredibly humbling and comforting thought to know that our God reigns! In an unprecedented year of challenges for our nation, for our communities, schools, businesses, churches and our families, it gives believers comfort to know that our great and mighty God is in control. He is on His throne and He still oversees the affairs

By Glenn Metts Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, Seymour Focal Passage: Isaiah 7:7-17  God’s promises remind us that God is for us and not against us. The Bible is filled with stories and testimonies of God’s sovereignty, His power, His goodness, His faithfulness and His purposes. As God’s people, we are reminded that our lives, our days, and our future rest in who God is and His faithfulness to us. There are

By Glenn Metts Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, Seymour Focal Passage: Isaiah 6:1-13  It is an incredibly humbling thought to know that God uses ordinary people to declare His glory and His purposes. Preachers and evangelists from R.G. Lee or Adrian Rogers to Billy Graham, to missionaries such as Lottie Moon, or the faithful pastors most people never hear of, God uses ordinary people who have been captured by His glory

By Glenn Metts Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, Seymour Focal Passage: Isaiah 1:10-20  In our focal passage this week, Isaiah had the unpleasant responsibility of confronting God’s people with the condition of their hearts and their worship.  As we begin to study today’s passage, it immediately becomes clear that this message is just as relevant for God’s people today.   Indeed, we must take the time to allow God’s Word to permeate

By Travis Biller Pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church, Elizabethton Focal Passage: Song of Solomon 5:6-16  In the book of Ecclesiastes Solomon writes that God “… has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). I believe the eternity he speaks of refers to the place that God is meant to fill in our lives. Notice, eternity is

By Travis Biller Pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church, Elizabethton Focal Passage: Song of Solomon 2:15-3:5  The greatest force that exists in the universe is not the strong nuclear force (the force that holds atoms together), but the love that binds two hearts together. The term “lovesick” has been used to describe people desperately in love but who are prevented from being together. It is expressed by Juliet, longing for her lover Romeo,