Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
March 31, 2021
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Luke 24:1-12 Reading this text, it is quite the emotional rollercoaster. In these few verses we see multiple strong feelings. The women are grief stricken, having seen the Lord crucified and the hope they had crushed. As they came to mourn and to honor Him, […]
March 31, 2021
By Michael Julian Pastor, Macedonia Baptist Church, Kenton Focal Passage: John 20:3-9,19-23,27-29 Happy Resurrection Day! Doesn’t it feel good to say those words of truth and reality? That the stone was rolled away, not so Jesus could escape, but that we should be let in to see the empty tomb. A crucified Jesus. An empty […]
March 22, 2021
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Luke 19:29-40 This is an amazing passage displaying such peace in God’s sovereignty ahead of such a painful week for our Lord. It displays such peace in the events of His entry. Jesus tells them exactly where to go and what they will see as […]
March 22, 2021
By Michael Julian Pastor, Macedonia Baptist Church, Kenton Focal Passage: John 19:8-11,16b-18,28-30 Our calendars tell us that next week is Easter Sunday. We have explored the grand subject of the nature of God. Here we are again exploring a grand subject, the death and resurrection of Jesus. This knowledge is seminal and critical to our […]
March 15, 2021
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Luke 18:9-17 James reminds us that, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” This is a story of two very different men who come before God in prayer. Those listening would immediately recognize the characters, one a Pharisee and the other a […]
March 15, 2021
By Michael Julian Pastor, Macedonia Baptist Church, Kenton Focal Passage: Isaiah 59:1-13 Isaiah 59:1-5: Having begun with the nature of God and then having moved to the existence and purpose of man, this next essential follows suit. What went wrong? How did man, created by God with a purpose and a divine stewardship, find himself […]
March 8, 2021
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Luke 15:20-32 The prodigal son, as you likely already know, had shamed his father and broken that relationship horribly for the sake of getting his inheritance early and living his own way. Such an act as this younger son did would have been absolutely reprehensible […]
March 8, 2021
By Michael Julian Pastor, Macedonia Baptist Church, Kenton Focal Passage: Genesis 1:1-5,26-31 We are journeying through a study on the essentials of Christianity. We began last week where all things begin, with God. The logical follow up to this revelation is the existence of humanity. How did we arrive on this earth? Where did this […]
March 1, 2021
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Luke 10:25-37 An expert in the law, testing Jesus, began questioning Him about the law. This wasn’t the inquisitive questioning of a heartfelt seeker but an arrogant questioning seeking only to trap Jesus through cross examination. This lawyer sums up the law rightly with the […]
March 1, 2021
By Michael Julian Pastor, Macedonia Baptist Church, Kenton Focal Passage: John 14:8-11, 16-20, 23-26 What grander subject could we seek to explore and extract truth from other than the subject of the nature of God? And while the intricacies of Father, Son, and Spirit have baffled theologians for centuries, understand that God reveals Himself in […]
February 23, 2021
By Russ Wilkins Dir. of Missions, Shiloh Baptist Assoc., Adamsville Focal Passage: Luke 9:18-27 For years in our country, it was fairly easy, if not advantageous to be a Christian. Christians could get by with a “casual” relationship concerning Jesus and there would seem to be no consequences. Being a moral church member was “good […]
February 23, 2021
By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: John 15:1-8 As we come to our final lesson in this quarter, we are reminded of Henry Blackaby’s challenge to “Find where God is working and join Him in it” (Experiencing God). R. Kent Hughes wrote about our text, “The inward test is […]