Evangelizing Thomas

This sermon was delivered by Jacob Cook, a student at McAfee and winner of the John R. Claypool Preaching Award at McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, Ga., on April 28, 2009.    John 20:19-31   When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the...

Let’s Eat

Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on Apr. 26 2009. Luke 14: 7-24. Food should be savored and not gulped down.    Perhaps that’s the most hypocritical statement I have ever said from this pulpit, because, as some of...

I Myself

Sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, pastor of Pulaski Heights Baptist Church in Little Rock, A.R., on Apr. 26 2009. Psalm 4:1-8; Luke 24:36-48           Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine, spoke in chapel when I was a seminary student. He recounted that as a...

Christ Among Us

Sermon delivered by Keith Herron, pastor of Holmeswood Baptist Church in Kansas City, M.O., on April 26, 2009. Luke 24: 36b-48. To continue from our post-resurrection scene last week invites us to think further about what it meant for Jesus to come live in our midst....

Welcome Back

Sermon delivered by Bob Browning, pastor of Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Stone Mountain, G.A., on Apr. 19 2009. John 20: 19-31. How do you help someone rebuild their faith? I think Jesus pondered this question before and after his crucifixion. He knew that his death,...

The God of Surprises

This sermon was delivered by Thomas B. Slater, professor of New Testament language and literature, at McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, Ga., on April 21, 2009.   Luke 24:13-35   Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven...