Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
October 17, 2022
By Dustin AllmanPastor, The Fort Church, KingsportFocal Passage: Hosea 6:1-7:2 Recently, I was watching a movie that dealt with themes of father wounds. The father in the movie made many promises to his sons and failed on all of them. He promised his boys he would throw baseball with them and come to […]
October 17, 2022
By Kevin ShrumPastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, NashvilleFocal Passage: Nehemiah 8:1-3, 7-12 Do you have a hearing problem? Some people tragically cannot hear because the internal mechanisms of the ear no longer work. However, many of us do not hear because we do not comprehend or process what is being said to us. When Jesus called […]
October 10, 2022
By Dustin AllmanPastor, The Fort Church, KingsportFocal Passage: Hosea 1:2-9; 3:1-5 In 2005, the Guinness Book of World Records said that Percy and Florence Arrowsmith held two records — the longest marriage of a living couple (80 years) and having the largest married couple’s aggregate age (205 years). Before they died, they left good advice […]
October 10, 2022
By Kevin ShrumPastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, NashvilleFocal Passage: II Timothy 3:1-5; 13-17 Lifeway Research and Ligonier Ministries recently released their 2022 State of Theology report, and the findings are not good. More than half of those surveyed do not believe Jesus is the only way of salvation; 73 percent believe Jesus was a created being […]
October 3, 2022
By Kevin Shrum Pastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, NashvilleFocal Passage: James 4:13-17; 5:7-11 Time is the only “commodity” that once you spend it you can never get it back. I have seen people accumulate and lose wealth and then do it again, all in one lifetime. I have observed people secure and then lose a job […]
October 2, 2022
By Dustin AllmanPastor, The Fort Church, KingsportFocal Passage: Jonah 4:1-11 A passenger in a taxi cab leaned over to ask the driver a question, gently tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention. The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove over the curb, and stopped just […]
September 26, 2022
By Dustin AllmanPastor, The Fort Church, KingsportFocal Passage: Jonah 1:15-2:10 Every believer in Christ has a testimony. And all of them are great! No matter the background or condition of a person before they met Christ, one thing every believer has in common — we were dead in our sin! Not half-dead, or a little […]
September 26, 2022
By Kevin ShrumPastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, NashvilleFocal Passage: James 4:1-10 “Enemy love” is one of the most difficult biblical truths to embrace. It is difficult to turn the other cheek and walk the second mile, especially when you’re being abused and misunderstood. “Enemy love” has become particularly difficult in our hyper-political age where anyone on […]
September 19, 2022
By B&R staffFocal Passage: Amos 9:5-15 The Bible’s “Famous Amos” did not make cookies; far from it! He identified himself simply as one who was “among the sheepbreeders of Tekoa.” He seemed to be saying, “I’m just one of the farmhands from the backside of nowhere.” But some of the most well-known words […]
September 19, 2022
By Kevin Shrum Pastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, NashvilleFocal Passage: James 3:1-5a; 9-10, 13-18 You may have heard the saying, “Whoever controls the narrative is in control.” This is another way of saying that language is important. Words matter a great deal. If we don’t know what words mean then we cannot communicate, i.e. that a […]
September 12, 2022
By B&R staffFocal Passage: Amos 5:4-15 In the past two lessons we were introduced to the Old Testament prophet that one writer calls “Amos, the country cousin — a backwoods ‘cowboy’ from the barren hill country some six miles southeast of Bethlehem, overlooking the Dead Sea.” His early messages were strong rebukes of […]
September 12, 2022
By Kevin Shrum Pastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, NashvilleFocal Passage: James 2:14-26 The relationship between saving faith and good works has always been a source of controversy. Some would argue that we must work for our salvation, demonstrating to God that we are worthy of His love and grace. On the contrary, Scripture teaches that saving […]