by FBC Laurens | Jan 22, 2021 | Sermons
It is very interesting to compare how the four gospels begin the story of Jesus’ time on earth. Of course, the two most famous versions of Jesus’ coming to dwell among us come from Matthew and Luke. These are the two gospel writers among the four who start at...
by FBC Laurens | Jan 15, 2021 | Sermons
One of my childhood memories is of a swimming complex in a neighboring town. This big regional recreation facility included two very large swimming pools. One of the two pools featured man-made and generated waves that mimicked the feel of swimming in the...
by FBC Laurens | Jan 8, 2021 | Sermons
One day, an elementary school teacher discovered two of her students scuffling on the playground. She immediately went over, broke up the fight and demanded to know what had happened. After a moment of silence, one of the little boys looked at his teacher and...
by FBC Laurens | Dec 30, 2020 | Sermons
Over the years, I have found that a common practice among believers is to write the date in one’s Bible when a particular passage is used in worship. In fact, some within our own church do this. From time to time, someone in our own congregation will come up to...
by FBC Laurens | Dec 23, 2020 | Sermons
When I was in seminary, one of the things our preaching professor Richard Lischer required us to do was to read well crafted sermons from the past. In fact, he put together a set of 21 such sermons in a booklet that was given to us at the start of the semester....
by FBC Laurens | Dec 23, 2020 | Sermons
With Notre Dame in the news here lately I found myself thinking about the story of George Gipp. Now there’s a lot that has become legend about Gipp’s story, its hard to know for sure what is true, but what can definitely be confirmed is that three weeks after the...
