Second Thoughts with Austin Gentry

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | The Bible recounts that God sent a worldwide flood to judge and cleanse the world of man's wickedness and corruption. Except, in the middle of justice, there is love and promise. This type of love doesn't overlook sin or compromise justice; rather, it fulfills its own law and cleanses us.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | The book of Philemon is often overlooked, yet, it might be one of Paul's most important letters. Significantly, it is perhaps Paul's only letter that teaches not through theological argumentation, but through gospel demonstration.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | 'Unity' is a hot topic in our culture today, and it remains a timeless ideal, especially in the church. In 1 Corinthians 1, the Apostle Paul lays the blueprints for how to achieve unity, even for a church in the city of Corinth, the world's most diverse city in 1st century.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | Acts 1 recounts the ascension of Jesus and then the origin of the church. Even though Jesus leaves, he 'passes the baton' to Someone else, whom Jesus describes will actually be to the advantage of the corporate church and each individual believer.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday - the week of his crucifixion and resurrection - stands unique from all others kings and their entries. Jesus enters with irony and reversal, coming in a way we certainly wouldn't expect, but in a way we'd absolutely need.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | Matthew 13 recounts Jesus' parable of the seed and the sower. Through the parable, we'll see the grounds for perceiving, receiving, and believing the Kingdom of God into our own lives.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | Jesus' temptation makes Christianity unique and powerful for many reasons. It gives substance to his humanity. It provides validation to our salvation. And it also endows us with an identity in Christ, the key to power over sin.

Second Baptist Church, Houston - TX | Daniel 9 features an intercessory prayer by Daniel for the nation of Israel, outlining the three attributes of prayer. The passage displays prophetic message of the Messiah, an apocalyptic glimpse of the end times, and why all prayer falls right in the middle of your view of the Messiah's first and second coming.

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | The book of Jeremiah recounts perhaps one of the most grueling seasons of suffering they'd ever have to walk through. Yet, in their suffering and confusion, God gives his people one, unfailing hope—and he offers that same hope to us as well. 

Second Baptist Church - Houston, TX | Where is God in pain and suffering? But where also is God when pleasure, too, has run its course? God gives Ezekiel a powerful message of his faithfulness to his people, empowering them for any season of life.