The Lord’s Prayer

A sermon delivered by Joel Snider, Pastor of First Baptist Church, Rome, Ga. on March 21, 2010.  Matthew 6:5-15   When Christ is giving the Sermon on the Mount, he is teaching about piety, and he just says, “When you pray.”  Of course, the assumption is we are going...

Gifts in the Body

A sermon delivered by Joel Snider, Pastor of First Baptist Church, Rome, Ga. on March 14, 2010. 1 Corinthians 12:27-31 Meditation Text:      Our relationship to God and response to God cannot be relegated to special activities     or special moments.  Our relationship...

The Hand on the Plow

A sermon delivered by Joel Snider, Pastor of First Baptist Church, Rome, Ga., March 7, 2010.  Luke 9:57-62   Meditation Text:      Jesus is heading for Jerusalem, after all.  He is going to die in Jerusalem.  He knows that. So he’s looking for someone to take with...

The Law Limits

A sermon delivered by Joel Snider, Pastor of First Baptist Church, Rome, Ga. Feb. 21, 2010.   Exodus 20:1-21 Meditation Text: The commandments are not guidelines for humanity in general.  They are a countercultural way of life for those who know who they are and whose...

Isaac On the Altar

This sermon was delivered by Joel Snider, Pastor of First Baptist Church, in Rome, Ga., Feb. 14, 2010. Genesis 22:1-14 Meditation Text: The religion that costs nothing, that demands no hard sacrifices of other things, that does not lift the life out of low-level...