I don’t know if you are aware of this or not but people don’t like to hear sermons on giving and certainly don’t like to hear sermons on tithing—the giving of 10%. Obviously, I mean that statement somewhat tongue in cheek, but here is a serious...

Romans 12 is a critical chapter in the book of Romans. It is the chapter that transitions Paul’s thought from theology to practice. In Romans 1-11, Paul beautifully depicted the Gospel. He displayed humanity’s depravity, but then qualified God’s...

: Having done my undergraduate work in History, I am very much a believer in the old adage that history continues to repeat itself. I am also familiar with that cliché that indicates that history is doomed to repeat itself because we fail to learn...

Isaiah 1:1 indicates that Isaiah preached these prophetic messages contained in the book during the reigns of Uzziah (also called Azariah), Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. The years covered are 740 B.C. to at least 701 B.C. Some would say that there is...

I want to do something really simple with this 10th commandment this morning. I want to just simply observe a few things from the text, illustrate the text using a couple of Biblical examples, and then lastly apply this 10th commandment to our lives...

I can tell you that there are lots of jokes about lying. However, if you have ever been on the receiving end of a lie told about you or the receiving end of a lie that deceived you, you will attest to the fact that the truth about lying is no...

At first glance, similar to the commandment on murder, our first reaction might be that surely those gathered this morning here at FBC have no issue with stealing. I wish that were so, but let me show you some ways that perhaps we are tempted to...

To be perfectly honest, I have fretted over this message this morning more than usual, but for a different reason. Today, I realize the tremendous hurt that thinking about this subject brings to some of you. In fact, I read somewhere this week that...

When I was a student at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, the requirement at the time, under the leadership of the president Dr. Landrum Leavell, was that every student would spend one semester in witnessing training. The training included...

We will probably not be surprised by the observations of sociologist and historian Carle Zimmerman, in his book Family and Civilization. He suggested that the disintegration of various cultures parallel the decline of family life. He identified...