By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Corinthians 12:7b-10; 13:2-8 Speech was the last class I registered to take my final semester of junior college. One of my greatest fears through the years has been speaking in front of people. The main reason for this fear is my propensity to stutter. I am a stutterer. When God called me to preach, like Moses, I reminded

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Corinthians 9:1-15 In a report released by Oxfam, an international charity dedicated to finding solutions to global poverty, the richest 80 people on earth are now as wealthy as the world’s 3.5 billion poorest people. To put this into perspective, 80 people control as much wealth as half the population of planet earth. One of these multi-billionaires

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: II Corinthians 5:16-21; 6:1-2 Think about your most recent conflict. Do you believe that conflict can be resolved or do you believe that the word “conflict” is inherently a bad word? Does conflict always hurt a relationship? Conflict can be resolved by attacking the problem and not the person, by not overreacting, by not letting problems fester and

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: II Corinthians 4:5-18 After a laboring but rewarding week of sermon preparation, my wife Tonya and I celebrate with a Friday night date night. Friday is sermon manuscript day, that is, the day of the week when the writing of the sermon manuscript for Sunday is completed. Going to the “picture show” (the movie theater) is what we

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: II Corinthians 1:3-14 Webster’s Dictionary defines empathy as “the action of understanding, being aware of, being senstive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience” of someone else.

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 What is love? How might love be defined in our world today? According to Neil Genzlinger, there are over 10,000 songs on file at the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington, D.C., that begin with the words “Love is ….” Some of those songs, which attempt to define love, are as follows: “Love is Like a

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:4-12, 21-26 The three smallest bones in the human body are found in the middle ear ossicles, more commonly known as the hammer, anvil and stirrup. Although these bones work in obscurity, totally invisible to the outside world, they are essential to our ability to hear.

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: I Corinthians 11:17-29 Anytime death invades our lives we respond in different ways. When a loved one dies some lash out in anger, or fall into depression, or retreat into isolation, while others grieve in a host of other ways.

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: John 20:2-9; 1 Corinthians 15:20-28 In his sermon, “Easter is for Everyone,” Greg Laurie shared about an athiest who was upset because of all the holidays that people of faith celebrate. The atheist said to a friend, “You Christians have Christmas and Easter. And Jews celebrate their holidays, like Passover and Yom Kippur. But we atheists don’t have recgonized

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 1 Corinthians 9:19-27; 10:31-33; 11:1 One hot and humid Mississippi day, I was jogging on a neighborhood street. The last leg of the run was uphill. About half-way up the hill, I noticed an SUV coming down the hill. While panting for air and pouring sweat, I realized the vehicle was drawing closer to me. The window rolled