Matchmaker, Matchmaker

A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on July 3, 2011 The Third Sunday After Pentecost Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67 Psalm 45:10-17; Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30; Romans 7:15-25a How’s your summer reading? What do you...

God’s Great Welcome

A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on June 26, 2011. The Second Sunday After Pentecost Matthew 10:40-42 Genesis 22:1-14; Psalm 13; Romans 6:12-23 There’s not a more intriguing word in church lingo than “welcome.”...

And God said, ˜Let there be life!’

A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on June 19, 2011. The First Sunday After Pentecost Genesis 1:1-2:4a Psalm 8; Matthew 28:16-20; II Corinthians 13:11-13 As in the well-loved PBS series by Bill Moyers on Genesis,...

Watching and Waiting

A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on June 5, 2011. Acts 1:6-14 Psalms 68:1-10, 32-35; John 17:1-11; I Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 Ascension Sunday Depending on what kind of camera you use, photographs are either...

What Would Bonhoeffer Say to 21st-Century Issues?

Quaker Richard Foster has drawn the topographical map of Christian spirituality with its streams of “spiritual traditions” (contemplative, holiness, charismatic, social justice and evangelical). Baptists are found all over the map. But the dominant stream...