By Michael Julian Pastor, Macedonia Baptist Church, Kenton Focal Passage: Genesis 1:1-5,26-31 We are journeying through a study on the essentials of Christianity. We began last week where all things begin, with God. The logical follow up to this revelation is the existence of humanity. How did we arrive on this earth? Where did this earth come from? What does it mean to be human? Do we have a divine
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Luke 10:25-37 An expert in the law, testing Jesus, began questioning Him about the law. This wasn’t the inquisitive questioning of a heartfelt seeker but an arrogant questioning seeking only to trap Jesus through cross examination. This lawyer sums up the law rightly with the Great Commandment. He seems to be missing the point, though. A consuming love for God
By Michael Julian Pastor, Macedonia Baptist Church, Kenton Focal Passage: John 14:8-11, 16-20, 23-26 What grander subject could we seek to explore and extract truth from other than the subject of the nature of God? And while the intricacies of Father, Son, and Spirit have baffled theologians for centuries, understand that God reveals Himself in knowable fashion. So, let us turn to the words of Jesus in John 14 to
By Russ Wilkins Dir. of Missions, Shiloh Baptist Assoc., Adamsville Focal Passage: Luke 9:18-27 For years in our country, it was fairly easy, if not advantageous to be a Christian. Christians could get by with a “casual” relationship concerning Jesus and there would seem to be no consequences. Being a moral church member was “good enough.” If you owned a local business, you were a “good guy”, went to church
By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: John 15:1-8 As we come to our final lesson in this quarter, we are reminded of Henry Blackaby’s challenge to “Find where God is working and join Him in it” (Experiencing God). R. Kent Hughes wrote about our text, “The inward test is far more telling than the number of souls saved, people influenced, money collected, etc. It
By Russ Wilkins Dir. of Missions, Shiloh Baptist Assoc., Adamsville Focal Passage: Luke 7:40-50 Several years ago, I was early in my time as a youth pastor and there was a boy in the children’s department that was a “ring tailed tooter.” Right before I got on staff, he had thrown an unopened coke can in the bonfire. Of course, it exploded, and as a result, a couple of people
By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:12-24 Many years ago, there was a mass-marketing push to get people to drink more milk. Part of the push contained an ad campaign with the catchy phrase, “Milk, it does a body good.” The obvious connotation was that drinking milk is good for the health of one’s body. Of course, a popular metaphor in the
By Russ Wilkins Dir. of Missions, Shiloh Baptist Assoc., Adamsville Focal Passage: Luke 6:1-11 How do we show that Jesus reigns in our life? “But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” Why I am starting our focus of the first eleven verses of Luke 6 with a verse from 1 Corinthians 13? That is a fair question so let’s back up
By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: Daniel 9:1-7; 17-19 By the time one arrives at Daniel 9, the prophet is most likely in his mid-eighties. He is studying the words of Jeremiah, and is moved to prayer for the people of God. And what follows is one of the greatest prayers in the Bible, as Daniel enters a period of “prayer and supplications” which
By Russ Wilkins Dir. of Missions, Shiloh Baptist Assoc., Adamsville Focal Passage: Luke 5:17-26 This is one of those Scriptures where I love to picture being there. Imagine that you are in a primitive home with very few windows or doors in the first century. The room would be fairly dark even in the middle of the day. It would be dusty and hot as people were packed in
By Michael Julian Pastor, Macedonia Baptist Church, Kenton Focal Passage: Genesis 1:1-5,26-31 We are journeying through a study on the essentials of Christianity. We began
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Luke 10:25-37 An expert in the law, testing Jesus, began questioning Him about the law.
By Michael Julian Pastor, Macedonia Baptist Church, Kenton Focal Passage: John 14:8-11, 16-20, 23-26 What grander subject could we seek to explore and extract truth
By Russ Wilkins Dir. of Missions, Shiloh Baptist Assoc., Adamsville Focal Passage: Luke 9:18-27 For years in our country, it was fairly easy, if not
By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: John 15:1-8 As we come to our final lesson in this quarter, we
By Russ Wilkins Dir. of Missions, Shiloh Baptist Assoc., Adamsville Focal Passage: Luke 7:40-50 Several years ago, I was early in my time as a
By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:12-24 Many years ago, there was a mass-marketing push to get
By Russ Wilkins Dir. of Missions, Shiloh Baptist Assoc., Adamsville Focal Passage: Luke 6:1-11 How do we show that Jesus reigns in our life? “But
By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: Daniel 9:1-7; 17-19 By the time one arrives at Daniel 9, the prophet
By Russ Wilkins Dir. of Missions, Shiloh Baptist Assoc., Adamsville Focal Passage: Luke 5:17-26 This is one of those Scriptures where I love to
