On this 35th day of the 50-day count to Pentecost, I would like to open this sermon in the same place we opened the sermon on the morning of the Last Day of Unleavened Bread. So please turn with me to John 1. John 1:1-5 In the beginning …
Sometime around 700 BC, God inspired the prophet Isaiah to write a prophecy concerning "His anointed," His messiah. This person would act for God upon earth, conquering kingdoms, rebuilding Jerusalem and the Temple, and shepherding His …
Spending the first twenty-four years of my life in the same area in South Georgia, I had quite a few long-time friends and acquaintances. Growing up in a small community did have its advantages. There always seemed to be someone to turn …

(17) Because you say, "I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing"—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—
The Laodicean may not necessarily say these things consciously, but he broadcasts it for all to see by his works and way of life! He thinks he lives in his "golden years." Being blind to his own spiritual poverty, however, is the real …
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the author presents a scene in which a character, Treebeard, an Ent or Shepherd of the Trees, expresses deep sorrow and anger that the enemy’s minions have been felling huge swaths of trees on his border to feed their weapon-producing smithies. Decades ago, environmentalists seized on this scene and a few others, declaring that Tolkien must also be an environmentalist. Before long, Greens in many nations lauded Tolkien’s magnum opus as a manifesto for their cause. It did not seem to matter to them that Tolkien was not an environmentalist. He was …
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