Have You Ever Interrupted a Sermon?

Sermon delivered by Bob Browning, pastor of Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Stone Mountain, Ga., on Feb. 1, 2009. Mark 1:21-28 Have you ever interrupted a sermon or been in a service when one was? That’s a loaded question, isn’t it? I’ve sat through a...

Wherever He Leads, Will You Go

Sermon delivered by Bob Browning, pastor of Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Stone Mountain, Ga., on Feb. 8, 2009. Mark 1:29-39 I had the finest mother-in-law a person could ever want. She was as good to me as my own mother. This is why mother-in-law jokes never appealed...

Following

Sermon delivered by Jerry Mahan, special assistant for church relations at Mercer University, at McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, Ga., on Feb. 10, 2009. Matthew 4:12-22 Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. He left Nazareth and...

Growing Pains

Sermon delivered by Howard Batson, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, Texas, on Jan. 25, 2009. Luke 7:18-29; 9:9 His clothes were made of animal skins. As one author put it, his walls were the mountains and his ceiling, the stars. You remember John the...

Slow to Anger

Sermon delivered by Heather Entrekin, senior pastor of Prairie Baptist Church in Prairie Village, Kan., on Jan. 25, 2009. Jonah 3:15; Mark 1:14-20; Psalm 62:5-12 Last summer, two of my nephews, Nathan and Daniel, strapping young men in their 20s, had a little car...

Committing

Sermon delivered by Dock Hollingsworth, assistant dean and instructor of supervised ministry at McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, Ga., on Feb. 3, 2009. Matthew 3:13-17 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. John would have...