Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
September 30, 2019
By Jerry Price Retired Pastor, Spring Hill Focal Passage: 1 Thessalonians 4:3-12 God chose Abraham and his descendants to be His special, separate people. It was to be a unique relationship which excluded all others — made clear in commandment number two in Exodus 20:3 (see also Deuteronomy 5:7; 6:14; II Kings 17:35). There were […]
September 23, 2019
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Ephesians 3:1-13 There is an old story I’ve often heard about a group of blind men trying to describe an elephant. You may have heard it something like this: “A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought […]
September 23, 2019
By Jerry Price Retired Pastor, Spring Hill Focal Passage: Exodus 20:8-11; 31:12-17 Some of you, like me, are old enough to remember the old Sunday Blue Laws. Most businesses were closed except a few that sold essentials. Even most gas stations were closed. Sunday was set aside for worship and rest from the busy week. […]
September 16, 2019
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Ephesians 2:11-22 Nothing can distract, discourage, and destroy, bringing God’s work in a church to a grinding halt like senseless division. In fact, the presence of ongoing, unending, and intentional division in a fellowship is a fairly clear indicator of the absence of prayer, the […]
September 16, 2019
By Jerry Price Retired Pastor, Spring Hill Focal Passage: 1 Timothy 6:6-11, 17-19 The Jan. 3, 1955 issue of Sports Illustrated contains the story of one of the most unusual plays in football history. It occurred in the 1929 Rose Bowl between Georgia Tech and the California Golden Bears. During the second quarter, with the […]
September 9, 2019
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly Focal Passage: Ephesians 2:1-10 Paul takes the time here to outline clearly our desperate need of Jesus and the importance of His grace as the root of our salvation. He contends that, apart from Christ, we were not just sick in sin but dead in our trespasses. […]
September 9, 2019
By Jerry Price Retired Pastor, Spring Hill Focal Passage: Philippians 4:10-20 The late Dr. E. Stanley Jones once wrote: “The art of living is the least learned of all arts. Man has learned the art of existing, of getting by somehow with the demands of life, of escaping into half answers; but he knows little […]
September 2, 2019
By Scott Brown First Baptist Church, Waverly. Focal Passage: Ephesians 1:15-23 It’s nice to be thought of. A thoughtful note, an e-mail, or just a quick text can really change your day. Paul was reminding the Ephesian believers that they were on his mind and in his heart. He wanted them to know they were […]
September 2, 2019
By Jerry Price Retired pastor Focal Passage: Philippians 4:4-9 I met one of my best friends in 1964 at Park Avenue Baptist Church in Nashville. We have been to school together twice, worked in the same place twice, and shared an apartment together at one school. He was the best man at my wedding 46 […]
August 26, 2019
By Scott Brown Pastor, First Baptist Church, Waverly. Focal Passage: Ephesians 1:3-14 This passage is a beautiful statement revealing each member of the perichoresis of God at work in salvation and our blessed receipt of that work. This beginning passage of Ephesians establishes that each person of the Triune Godhead is fluidly and actively working […]
August 26, 2019
By Jerry Price Retired pastor Focal Passage: Matthew 6:25-34 Merrill Tenney, my major professor at Wheaton Graduate School, often admonished those in his classes with this familiar statement: “Any text, taken out of context, is nothing more than a pretext.” He hammered that point home so often that it became ingrained in me and my […]
August 20, 2019
Mickey D. Brackin Senior Pastor, Mars Hill Baptist Church, Lawrenceburg Focal Passage: Titus 3:1-11 Found throughout the pages of the New Testament is the glorious truth and simple fact that nobody meets Jesus and stays the same. A crazed demoniac, living in the shadows of the tombs, an outcast Samaritan woman of questionable character and […]