By Mark Proctor Pastor, Highland Park Baptist Church, Columbia Focal Passage: Joshua 10:6-14 Remember the old western movies with their dramatic musical scores? You could watch with your eyes closed and tell when the plot was about to change. The music became louder and more intense, the action slowed, and everyone prepared for a shoot out. Justice was at hand. The Bible contains those same pivotal moments. One such moment
By Justin Randolph Pastor, Zion Hill Baptist Church, Sevierville Focal Passage: Psalm 119:17-24 How beautiful, sweet, and innocent is a newborn baby. For many, we would keep them as babies forever, and yet we take them to their first doctor’s visit hoping that their measurements and weight indicate growth. Later in life, as their physical maturity increases, the harder work begins of helping them develop their emotional and intellectual maturity.
By Mark Proctor Pastor, Highland Park Baptist Church, Columbia Focal Passage: Joshua 6:12-25 Teachers, look at your students. Pastors, look at your congregants, and parents, look at your children. Those are warriors, battle-weary with hearts hurting from skirmishes in a mean, merciless world. What will we tell them? Joshua faced the same dilemma. As God’s leader he had to tell God’s wearied children how they were to move ahead to
By Justin Randolph Pastor, Zion Hill Baptist Church, Sevierville Focal Passage: Psalm 119:9-16 Stephen Covey is famous for encouraging his readers to “begin with the end in mind.” If you are going to reach your objective, you must first identify it and then work backwards to determine the steps necessary to get from where you are to where you are going. Psalm 119 begins with a question that is worth
By Hoyt Wilson Pastor, Flatwoods Baptist Church, Holladay Focal Passage: Joshua 1:1-9 Before Gordon Bethune became the CEO of Continental Airlines in 1994 he said it was the worst of the worst. Of the nation’s 10 biggest air carriers, Continental was worst in on-time arrivals, worst in baggage handling, and worst in customer satisfaction. With a stock price near $3 per share, a history of bankruptcies, a string of ten
By Justin Randolph Pastor, Zion Hill Baptist Church, Sevierville Focal Passage: Psalm 119:1-8 Among all the books ever written, the Bible is absolutely unique. One of its most remarkable qualities is the complete unity of its overall message despite being written over a period of roughly 2,000 years by 40 different authors on three different continents who wrote in three different languages. These facts alone make the Bible one of
By Hoyt Wilson Pastor, Flatwoods Baptist Church, Holladay Focal Passage: II Peter 3:3-13; 17-18 “Arise!” Will that be the loud command of Jesus when the trumpet call of God announces His return in the clouds (I Thessalonians 4:16)? The response to that command will either be “Wow” or it will be “Woe.” For those who have rejected Him it will be “woe!” For those who have received Him it will
By Justin Randolph Pastor, Zion Hill Baptist Church, Sevierville Focal Passage: II Chronicles 20:10-12, 14-17, 20-22, 29-30 Sometimes it’s hard to watch the news. When terror strikes, disease ravages, families divide, and churches collapse, we are sometimes tempted to throw up our hands and give up. This is what Jehoshaphat must have felt as he faced down three kingdoms. Israel had seemingly done nothing to provoke this attack, but nevertheless
By Hoyt Wilson Pastor, Flatwoods Baptist Church, Holladay Focal Passage: II Peter 2:1-3; Jude 16-25 An atheist is a person who denies the existence of deity. A practical atheist is a person who says God is, but lives as if God isn’t. A believer is a person who is committed to God in a personal relationship which determines the spiritual and moral direction of his life. In II Peter 1:19
By Justin Randolph Pastor, Zion Hill Baptist Church, Sevierville Focal Passage: Acts 17:16-18, 22-23,30-31 I remember well my first foreign missions trip. I was chosen to join a collegiate drama team who would minister in Rio during the evangelistic crusades of 1998. During our orientation, several cultural mannerisms and customs were discussed. One included women leaving their purses on the floor, another a common finger symbol we consider benign while
By Mark Proctor Pastor, Highland Park Baptist Church, Columbia Focal Passage: Joshua 10:6-14 Remember the old western movies with their dramatic musical scores? You could
By Justin Randolph Pastor, Zion Hill Baptist Church, Sevierville Focal Passage: Psalm 119:17-24 How beautiful, sweet, and innocent is a newborn baby. For many, we
By Mark Proctor Pastor, Highland Park Baptist Church, Columbia Focal Passage: Joshua 6:12-25 Teachers, look at your students. Pastors, look at your congregants, and parents,
By Justin Randolph Pastor, Zion Hill Baptist Church, Sevierville Focal Passage: Psalm 119:9-16 Stephen Covey is famous for encouraging his readers to “begin with the
By Hoyt Wilson Pastor, Flatwoods Baptist Church, Holladay Focal Passage: Joshua 1:1-9 Before Gordon Bethune became the CEO of Continental Airlines in 1994 he said
By Justin Randolph Pastor, Zion Hill Baptist Church, Sevierville Focal Passage: Psalm 119:1-8 Among all the books ever written, the Bible is absolutely unique. One
By Hoyt Wilson Pastor, Flatwoods Baptist Church, Holladay Focal Passage: II Peter 3:3-13; 17-18 “Arise!” Will that be the loud command of Jesus when the
By Justin Randolph Pastor, Zion Hill Baptist Church, Sevierville Focal Passage: II Chronicles 20:10-12, 14-17, 20-22, 29-30 Sometimes it’s hard to watch the news. When
By Hoyt Wilson Pastor, Flatwoods Baptist Church, Holladay Focal Passage: II Peter 2:1-3; Jude 16-25 An atheist is a person who denies the existence of
By Justin Randolph Pastor, Zion Hill Baptist Church, Sevierville Focal Passage: Acts 17:16-18, 22-23,30-31 I remember well my first foreign missions trip. I was chosen