Bold Blessing

A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City Mo., on March 20, 2011. The Second Sunday of Lent Genesis 12:1-4a The story of Abram’s call in Genesis 12 is short but plainly said:  Abram heard the Voice and answered. When he acted...

Happy are the Forgiven

A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, M0., on March 13, 2011. Psalm 32   When we get to the season of Lent, what we don’t expect is to hear a word of good news. So let me frontload this Lenten sermon with good news, really...

Dazzling Reign

A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City Mo., on March 6, 2011. Matthew 17:1-9 It’s often said the airy heights of the mountaintop are enough to make mystics out of all of us. Perhaps it’s the exertion of the climb or just the...

Expanding Boundaries

A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City M., on February 20, 2011. The Seventh Sunday After the Epiphany Matthew 5:28-38 Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18; Psalm 119:33-40; I Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23 A few years back, James Dunn,...

Immersing Ourselves In God’s Ways: Beautiful Vision

A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on January 30, 2011. Matthew 5:1-12  In the Beatitudes in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, when our English Bible says, “Blessed are those …” (as most translations say), a phrase that...