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DEC. 15: GOD REQUIRES

December 9, 2019

By Glenn Metts
Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, Carthage

Focal Passage: Numbers 20:1-13

Being a Christian leader is humbling, rewarding and challenging! Leaders should remember that we serve the Lord first and foremost. What a humbling and rewarding calling! Being a Christian leader is also challenging.

It comes with a lot of responsibility and it is not an easy road. As we serve God’s people, we must carefully obey the Lord and His Word. We cannot serve in our own strength. We must rely on the Lord each step of the way and always follow His direction in our lives and the ministry He has called us to. Complete obedience is the standard. Indeed, complete obedience is what God requires of His leaders. [Read more…]

DEC. 15: DOES ABSOLUTE TRUTH EXIST?

December 9, 2019

By Tim Frank
Pastor, First Baptist Church, Carthage

Focal Passage: John 1:14-18; 8:30-32; 18:36-38

When my older daughter was in high school, one of her assignments was a debate on absolute truth. She had the side in favor of absolute truth.

In order to make the argument for absolute truth, she had to first establish there is one God who is Lord of all, maker of all and above all. Once established, the one true God is absolute truth and what He says is absolute truth. Apart from God, there is no absolute truth. In Him, there is absolute truth. [Read more…]

DEC. 8: GOD JUDGES

December 2, 2019

By Glenn Metts
Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, Seymour

Focal Passage: Numbers 14: 5-19

The idea of God judging our sin, our disobedience and lack of faith is not one of our favorite subjects. The truth is that God is love, but He is also a God that will punish our sin and disobedience. When we come to Numbers 14:5-19, we see the heartbreaking story of the consequences of disobeying God. God had a land flowing with milk and honey awaiting His people.

Yet, because of their lack of faith and disobedience, a whole generation of people were not allowed to enter the Promised Land. There are several lessons we need to learn from this passage… [Read more…]

DEC. 8: IS THERE A GOD?

December 2, 2019

By Tim Frank
Pastor, First Baptist Church, Carthage

Focal Passage: Psalm 19:1-6; 111:7-10

I remember as a boy walking to the deer stand on cold, clear mornings, well before the sun began to dawn. On those nights, away from the lights of town, the stars filled the sky with an occasional shooting star passing in sight. Those were times of wonder and awe as I looked into the vastness of space. I could see the visible wonders of the universe and knew in my heart there is a God who created it all.

Many years have passed since those carefree days of discovery. Yet, through these years, my wonder and awe of the creative power of God has grown. As pictures from telescopes and space voyages reveal, the universe is much larger than we can see or grasp. With hundreds of millions of stars in our galaxy alone, the next nearest to our sun being 4.2 light years away, truly we can proclaim with the Psalmist in Psalm 19:1, “The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork.”

The universe, the sun, the stars and all creation are examples of what scholars call “General Revelation.” They give a witness to every person on the planet that there is a God. They do not use words or language, their voice is not heard, but the message is loud and clear. There is a God who is majestic, caring, creative, detail oriented and dependable. [Read more…]

DEC. 1: GOD LEADS

November 25, 2019

By Glenn Metts
Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, Seymour

Focal Passage: Numbers 9:15-23

One of my favorite memories I have of my dad took place when I was around 4 years old. It was a Saturday morning, and it had snowed overnight in the midlands of South Carolina where we lived. That was the first time I remember seeing snow and I was mesmerized!

We lived in the country, and directly across the road from our house was a pasture with a couple of beautiful horses. If you followed the fence line of the pasture, it eventually went into the woods that consisted of tall pine trees and oaks. That particular morning, as the sun came over the horizon and sent its rays across the freshly fallen snow, it created a magical landscape unlike anything I had ever seen. [Read more…]

DEC. 1: DO WE NEED TO DEFEND OUR FAITH?

November 25, 2019

By Tim Frank
Pastor, First Baptist Church, Carthage

Focal Passage: Jude 1-4, 20-25

My wife is a software engineer with a company in Southern California. Every day she works diligently, searching through hundreds of lines of computer code, looking for errors in the code. Her job is to make sure the code is not corrupted; corruption would cause a complete breakdown of the system. A complete breakdown is called a computer crash.

Jude, the brother of James and half-brother of Jesus, challenges all Christians to work diligently to defend the faith from corruption. He uses strong language as he exhorts believers to contend earnestly for the faith that has been delivered to the saints. He calls for followers of Jesus to fight with all their might to keep error and falsehood from creeping into the doctrines of the church. [Read more…]

NOV. 24: LIVING IN GRATITUDE

November 18, 2019

By Jerry Price
Retired Pastor, Spring Hill

Focal Passage: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22

“A party of pioneers on the Oregon Trail suffered for weeks from a scarcity of water and grass for their animals. Most of the wagons had broken down, causing endless delays in the stifling heat. A feeling of fretfulness and futility prevailed. Optimism and cheer were gone. Courage was in limited supply.

“One night the leaders called a meeting to air complaints. When they gathered around the campfire, one man stood up and said, ‘Before we commence our grief session, don’t you think we should at least first thank God that He has brought us this far with no loss of life, with no serious trouble from the Indians and that we have enough strength left to finish our journey?’ [Read more…]

NOV. 24: WALKING TO BATTLE

November 18, 2019

By Scott Brown
Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly

Focal Passage: Ephesians 6:10-20

The Christian life is a battle. This is something that needs to be said again. Walking with Jesus is walking to battle! Paul gives an illustration the Ephesians would be all too familiar with, as a major Roman city.

Each piece of armor Paul describes as a picture of the spiritual armor we must have in order to do battle with our true enemy. There are three things about a soldier’s armor that really help to accent this incredible text. [Read more…]

NOV. 17: WALKING AS FAMILY

November 12, 2019

By Scott Brown
Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly

Focal Passage: Ephesians 5:22-6:4

The practical application Paul gives here might seem out of place at first glance but it is a perfect picture of everything he has been writing to this point.

First, if God has transformed us personally He transforms us privately as well as publicly. I confess it is easier for me to be in public the man I want everyone to think I am than to actually be that man in the private, comfortable parts of my life. That’s where it counts the most, though. Who I am on stage matters nothing if it is not matched by who I am at the dinner table. [Read more…]

NOV. 17: GOD’S WILL AND THE GLORY OF GOD

November 12, 2019

By Jerry Price
Retired Pastor, Spring Hill

Focal Passage: John 11:1-4, 38-45

When I was 8 years old, a lady named Maureen Ellis came to my grandfather’s mobile home park (we called it a trailer park back then) and led a Vacation Bible School-type event in the laundry room that was attached to the bathhouse.

Most mobile homes did not have bathrooms in those days, much less laundry rooms. The situation was less than ideal as women came in and out doing their laundry. But Mrs. Ellis made the best of it and shared the love of Christ with several of us kids during that week.

As a result, I began attending Ivy Memorial Baptist Church in Nashville. A friend and I would sit on the second row and try to out-sing the choir — in quantity if not in quality. I eventually invited Christ into my life at age 9. [Read more…]

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