Some Times Call for…Love

Sermon delivered by Joel Snider, pastor of FirstBaptistChurch in Rome, Ga., on December 20, 2009. 1 John 4:7-11   Meditation Text: Through Christ in the manger, God says He is not ashamed to be with those of       humble estate. … He loves the lost, the forgotten, the...

Some Times Call for…Joy

Sermon delivered by Joel Snider, pastor of FirstBaptistChurch in Rome, Ga., on December 13, 2009.   Meditation Text:             Look down upon thy servants with a patient eye…recreate in us the soul of service, the       spirit of peace; renew in us the sense of joy....

Some Times Call for…Peace

Sermon delivered by Joel Snider, pastor of FirstBaptistChurch in Rome, Ga., on December 6, 2009. Isaiah 2:1-5 Meditation Text:             You will recall perhaps an old pre-perestroika Russian story of the Russian exhibition at a   world’s fair.  The title of the...

Some Times Call for…Hope

Sermon delivered by Joel Snider, pastor of FirstBaptistChurch in Rome, Ga., on November 22, 2009.   Isaiah 40:1-11, 27-31 Meditation Text: Hope is not merely the optimistic view that somehow everything will turn out all right in the end if everyone just does as we...

Thanksgiving: The Feast of Enough

Sermon delivered by Joel Snider, pastor of First Baptist Church in Rome, Ga., on November 22, 2009. Mark 8: 11-21 Meditation Text: The beginning point in the Bible…is of course God.  The beginning point of God, so the Bible asserts, is the wonder and goodness of...