Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
November 28, 2022
By Justin TerrellSenior pastor, First Baptist Church, DandridgeFocal Passage: John 1:1-14 One of the great blessings I experience each year is reading the Bible through. I particularly enjoy the chronological reading plan because it organizes the daily reading schedule according to when the events took place in history. For example, the plan begins with Genesis […]
November 28, 2022
By Kevin ShrumPastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, NashvilleFocal Passage: Psalm 33:6-15; 18-22 We are a fearful people. We fear people, places and things. We fear the past, the present and the future. Economic, political, spiritual and physical fears plague our minds and hearts. Fear is a natural response to those things that threaten us. But too […]
November 21, 2022
By Dustin AllmanPastor, The Fort Church, KingsportFocal Passage: Micah 7:1-10, 18-20 Hope is a strange thing to us because we didn’t come up with it. We see our limitations when we utter the word. We use the word almost as a wish, crossing our fingers. When the Bible speaks of hope, it’s not in reference […]
November 21, 2022
By Kevin ShrumPastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, NashvilleFocal Passage: Psalm 107:1-9 When we think of the types of sins that God will judge we do not often think of ingratitude being on that list. But according to Romans 1:21 ingratitude will be severely judged by God. And we have become an unthankful people in an unthankful […]
November 14, 2022
By Kevin ShrumPastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, NashvilleFocal Passage: Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Knowing and doing God’s Word are two legs of what ought to be a three-legged stool. To know God’s Word is key. To obey God’s Word is essential. But to share God’s Word is critical. Not sharing God’s Word is like keeping secret the single […]
November 14, 2022
By Dustin AllmanPastor, The Fort Church, KingsportFocal Passage: Micah 4:6-8; 5:1-9 In Instanbul, Turkey several years ago, a shepherd was briefly distracted on the job. He turned to see one of the sheep in the herd walk over to the edge of a cliff. The sheep jumped to his death. Then another followed, and another, […]
November 7, 2022
By Dustin AllmanPastor, The Fort Church, KingsportFocal Passage: Micah 3:1-12 Bernie Madoff was an entrepreneurial businessman who famously and fraudulently created the biggest Ponzi schemes in history, estimated at over 50 million. He had revealed to his brother and two sons, who worked for his firm, that his investment-advisory business was a fraud and nearly […]
November 7, 2022
By Kevin ShrumPastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, NashvilleFocal Passage: James 1:19-27 Reggie Jackson was a highly successful, Hall of Fame, but controversial, baseball player from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. His arrogance attracted some and put off others. His confidence bordered on being narcissistic. But there was a reason he was called “Mr. October.” […]
October 31, 2022
By Dustin AllmanPastor, The Fort Church, KingsportFocal Passage: Hosea 14:1-9 There’s a sense in which all of us should long for the Day of the Lord, also known as Christ’s return. God has put that longing inside us, but that longing goes beyond us as well! All of Creation is groaning! (Romans 1) And we […]
October 31, 2022
By Kevin ShrumPastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, NashvilleFocal Passage: Psalm 1:1-6; Philippians 4:8 We live in a “feeling culture” not a “thinking culture.” More emphasis is placed on how we feel than on what we think. Feelings can be mercurial, subjective, even dangerous (Jeremiah 17:9). And while God has given us the gift of emotion, the […]
October 24, 2022
By Dustin AllmanPastor, The Fort Church, KingsportFocal Passage: Hosea 10:5-15 A story is told of a farmer who went out to gather some eggs and harvest his crops. As he walked across the farm toward the hen house, he noticed a pump was leaking. So he stopped to fix it. It needed a new washer, […]
October 24, 2022
By Kevin ShrumPastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, NashvilleFocal Passage: II Timothy 2:14-19, 22-26 It is a well-known fact that biblical illiteracy is at an all-time high. This is true of those outside of the church. But it is also true of those within the church. The people of “The Book” often do not know their own […]