The Day Lightning Struck

Sermon delivered by David Hughes, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., on May 31 2009. Acts 2:1-21.          Before April 11th of this year, few people if any outside of Blackburn, Scotland had ever heard of Susan Boyle. But on April 11, in a manner...

Tempted Like Us

Sermon delivered by Dr. Joel Snider, pastor of First Baptist Church in Rome, Ga., on May 24, 2009. Hebrews 4:14-16; Matthew 16:24-26 When you are a young adult in your 20’s and 30’s, you hear people talk about how you need to take care of yourself—the things you need...

Blowin’ in the Wind

Sermon delivered by Keith Herron, pastor of Holmeswood Baptist Church in Kansas City, M.O., on May 31 2009. Acts 2:1-21                   Whenever you read from the New Testament, you need to pay attention to what I call “the silent witnesses” of the Old Testament in...

Endings and Beginnings

Sermon delivered by Bob Browning, pastor of Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Stone Mountain, G.A., on May 24 2009. Luke 24:44-53; Acts 1:1-11             “Nothing will get you out of an inning quicker than a triple play,” one of the Braves’ announcers said as I turned the...

Replacing Judas

Sermon delivered by Keith Herron, pastor of Holmeswood Baptist Church in Kansas City, M.O., on May 24 2009. Acts 11:15-17, 21-26. You realize a life has been tragically misspent when a hangman’s noose and a fistful of coins are the icons for how one is remembered....

The Bell and the Spire

Sermon delivered by Dr. Joel Snider, pastor of First Baptist Church in Rome, Ga., on May 17, 2009. John 12:20-33 Meditation Text: “I, if I be lifted up!” There is energy there to redeem us all. There is energy there to lift us out of the cold prisonhouse of guilt, out...