The Sign of the Covenant

Sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, pastor of Pulaski Heights BaptistChurch in Little Rock, A.R., on Mar. 1, 2009. Genesis 9: 8-17; 1 Peter 3:18-22           According to the dictionary, a rainbow is the refraction of the prismatic colors of light as they are reflected...

Ark. Pastor Denounces Guns in God’s House

Sunday, March 1 is the first Sunday in Lent. In keeping with our church’s theme of the season, The Covenant, I will be largely focusing on the Hebrew lectionary texts. The reading for the first Sunday in Lent is taken from Genesis 9, the account of Noah and the...

Moved with Pity

Sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, pastor of Pulaski Heights Baptist Church in Little Rock, A.R., on Feb. 15, 2009. Psalm 30:1-12; Mark 1:40-45 Now, I know Mark is a short gospel, at least the shortest of the four. Just sixteen chapters, and even though some of you who...

When Jesus Doesn’t Respond

Sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, pastor of Pulaski Heights Baptist Church in Little Rock, Ark., on Feb. 8, 2009. Isaiah 40:21-31; Mark 1:29-39 As Jesus begins his public ministry, it has been fifteen hundred years since Moses. There has not been a prophet in the land “...

‘The Politics of Jesus’

While politics seeks to find common ground, faith in Christ reaches for higher ground. At the risk of sounding like I’m contradicting myself, I do believe there was a definite political dimension to Jesus and his public ministry. In fact, I think his political...