by Keith Herron | Oct 22, 2009 | Opinion
Ram Dass, the contemporary spiritual teacher and author, tells the story of a rabbi, who in an overwhelming fit of religious passion, ran into the synagogue and fell to his knees and began to cry out, “I am nothing! I am nothing!” The cantor of the...
by Keith Herron | Oct 19, 2009 | General
Sermon delivered by Keith Herron, pastor of Holmeswood Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo., on October 18, 2009. Mark 10: 35-45 No matter how hard we try, we just can’t seem to escape thinking of ourselves and our relationships in terms of position and...
by Keith Herron | Oct 14, 2009 | General
Sermon delivered by Keith Herron, pastor of Holmeswood Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo., on October 11, 2009 Mark 10: 17-31 Major Leaguer Joe Garagiola tells of the time Stan Musial came to the plate late in a critical game back in the 1950’s. Musial was at the...
by Keith Herron | Sep 29, 2009 | General
Sermon delivered by Keith Herron, pastor of Holmeswood Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo., on September 27, 2009 Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22 How long has been since you heard a sermon from the most godless book of the Bible? Godless I say! It’s godless because there’s...
by Keith Herron | Sep 15, 2009 | Opinion
It’s not human nature for us to look outside the fence of our own lives and to see clearly “the other.” This year I’ve learned the term “the other” is recognized as anyone outside our own culture or our own world of experience. It...