By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: II Samuel 20:1-2, 14-21 On June 14, 2000, J.P. Morgan & Company, a bank worth $21 billion at the time, could have averted a one-day internet shutdown by simply paying a $35 bill. The venerable Wall Street firm found itself without a website or an e-mail connection to the outside world because it had failed to renew the

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Samuel 19:1-15 Emotional intelligence in leadership is critical. Daniel Goleman, in his book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, defined emotional intelligence as “the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing our emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships.” In The Emotional Intelligence of Jesus: Relational Smarts for Religious Leaders,

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Samuel 15:10-16, 24-30 It was news to me. I had no idea that modern day refrigerators now come with a Sabbath mode. I didn’t even know we had such a mode available on our refrigerator until recently. According to my wife, on occasion, she accidently turns on the Sabbath mode on our fridge.

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: II Samuel 13:15-20, 31-39 Futurologist, Alvin Toffler, in his book, The Third Wave, suggests three waves in American culture and their impact on the family. The agricultural wave was the time when Americans lived on farms out in the country. The industrial wave was the time when American families moved from the country to the city. The information wave

JULY 8: ACCOUNTABLE By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Samuel 12:1-14 Practical accountability breeds personal responsibility. Personal responsibility bleeds without practical accountability. 

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Samuel 9:1-13 Following an exhilarating performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall, celebrated classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma went home, slept, and awoke the next day exhausted. He called for a cab to take him to a hotel on the other side of Manhattan and placed his cello, which was handcrafted in Vienna in 1733 and valued at $2.5

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: II Samuel 7:8-21 Some days are not easily forgotten. Pulling up in my future father-in-law’s driveway for the purpose of asking his blessing to propose to his daughter is a day etched in my memory. After an attempt to make small talk, which completely tanked, I mustered up the nerve to ask the question: “Mr. Tillman, may I

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Samuel 5:9-12; 6:12-19 Franklin Graham visited Chattanooga on his first stop during the Decision America Tour in May of 2017. Graham mentioned a conversation he had with a man of a different theological persuasion in regards to his dad, the late Billy Graham. At the time of the aforementioned conversation, Billy Graham was still alive. Franklin commented

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Samuel 3:8-21 On the game show Family Fued, contestants are asked to guess how 100 people responded to various survey questions. On a 2012 episode, a contestant had to provide the top answers to the following survey question: “When someone mentions ‘the King,’ to whom might he or she be referring?” The results were as follows: (1)

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Samuel 1:22-27; 2:1-7 In his book, Immeasurable, Skye Jehtani writes: “Compare two leaders. Leader A lifted an entire nation, mobilized his people with clear vision coupled with inspiring passion and launched a movement that has impacted literally everyone alive today. He set in motion an industrial and scientific revolution that produced the first computer, the first jet