Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
February 19, 2019
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Genesis 45:1-15 On more than one occasion I’ve experienced a fractured friendship or a broken family relationship. Countless more times I’ve seen it in church or counseling sessions with others. There are few things as bitterly painful as a broken relationship that is seemingly beyond […]
February 19, 2019
By Greg Steele Pastor, First Baptist Church, Jasper Focal Passage: I John 2:18-29 Building off of what we talked about last week. John has been teaching “his children” how to tell truth from a lie and how to tell if a person is really a Christian or not. It doesn’t depend on just what a […]
February 11, 2019
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Genesis 41:15-21, 33-40 God is faithful to give His followers abilities and opportunities to serve Him. I have a friend who began to seek these opportunities. He began to pray fervently every morning that God would allow him the opportunity to share with someone the […]
February 11, 2019
By Greg Steele Pastor, First Baptist Church, Jasper Focal Passage: 1 John 2:12-17; 3:16-18 Billy Sunday, the once professional baseball player turned evangelist, once said, “To talk about a worldly Christian makes about as much sense as talking about a heavenly devil.” We live in a world where there are many people referred to as […]
February 4, 2019
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Genesis 39:3-12, 19-21 I Peter 3:17 says, “For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.” Peter wrote this but Joseph lived it. I often stop and look back at some of the moments […]
February 4, 2019
By Greg Steele Pastor, First Baptist Church, Jasper Focal Passage: Genesis 2:18-25 I don’t know a lot about construction or really building anything from scratch, but I do know it’s not an easy thing. If you are building a house, there is a lot of hard work involved. It takes long hours. It takes financial […]
January 28, 2019
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Genesis 37:5-11, 19-27 Charles Spurgeon wisely said, “God is too good to be unkind. He is too wise to be mistaken. When you cannot trace His hand you must learn to trust His heart.” William Cowper, likewise, writes these lines, “Ye fearful saints, fresh courage […]
January 28, 2019
By Greg Steele Pastor, First Baptist Church, Jasper Focal Passage: Ephesians 5:15-21 What is the greatest need in our life? Is it people, money, clothes, water, love, value or happiness? All of those are things people need but those are not our greatest need. The greatest need we have in our life is what Paul […]
January 22, 2019
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Genesis 35:1-15 God uses this week’s text to remind us that He is always faithful. Jacob had been gone from home for what seemed like a lifetime and now God was calling him back. He was to go back to the place where God had […]
January 22, 2019
By Greg Steele Pastor, First Baptist Church, Jasper Focal Passage: Psalm 42:1-3,6-8; 43:3-5 There is a question that we like to ask when the trials and storms of life gather. “Why do bad things happen to good people.” Has this question ever plagued your mind? Of course, it has! One day, a woman asked R.C. […]
January 14, 2019
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Gen 1:27, 9:1-7; Matt.5:21-22 The sanctity of life is a beautiful, biblical belief that informs our convictions every life is precious because every life was wonderfully and fearfully made in the image of God. It’s simple to bang the pulpit one Sunday in January for […]
January 14, 2019
By Greg Steele Pastor, First Baptist Church, Jasper Focal Passage: Exodus 1:16-17, 22-2:9 I love to hear babies and kids in our worship services. Several weeks ago, we had one getting a little loud. When the mom got up to take him out he was telling everybody around them bye. The reason I love to […]