by Bob Browning | Mar 23, 2009 | General
Sermon delivered by Bob Browning, pastor of Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Stone Mountain, G.A., on Mar. 8 2009. Mark 8:31-38 Baseball legend, Yogi Berra, has more entries in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations than any other sports figure. His one-of-a-kind observations...
by Bob Browning | Mar 3, 2009 | General
Sermon delivered by Bob Browning, pastor of Smoke Rise BaptistChurch in Stone Mountain, G.A., on Mar. 1, 2009.” We live in a good news/bad news world, don’t we? Often we hear something that makes us happy only to be followed by news that makes us sad or angry. I...
by Bob Browning | Feb 11, 2009 | General
Sermon delivered by Bob Browning, pastor of Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Stone Mountain, Ga., on Feb. 1, 2009. Mark 1:21-28 Have you ever interrupted a sermon or been in a service when one was? That’s a loaded question, isn’t it? I’ve sat through a...
by Bob Browning | Feb 11, 2009 | General
Sermon delivered by Bob Browning, pastor of Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Stone Mountain, Ga., on Feb. 8, 2009. Mark 1:29-39 I had the finest mother-in-law a person could ever want. She was as good to me as my own mother. This is why mother-in-law jokes never appealed...
by Bob Browning | Dec 12, 2008 | Opinion
We need to be reminded that it is possible to leave Christ out of Christmas. What must we do to prevent this from happening? How do we prepare spiritually for Christmas? Taking our cue from John the Baptist, it requires that we feed our spirits, share our faith and...