The Corner Pulpit

Bible Text: Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram | (Recorded at Yates' online worship service)

God's measureless knowing is known to us by God’s measureless loving. It is God’s love that comprehends us, instead of the other way around. The good news is that the One who holds our lives in perfect understanding holds our lives in perfect compassion.

Bible Text: Romans 8:1-11 | Preacher: Danny Steis | Rather than giving them a list of prohibitive behaviors, what they can’t do and a list of behaviors that they can do, Paul instead applies this logic of Spirit versus letter. We are not led by a list of rules, we are led by the spirit.

Bible Text: Matthew 11:16-19; 25-30 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram, Jessamine Gaul | To walk with Jesus is a holy disruption. It is to learn a new way of living. It is to discover that freedom comes in wanting what God wants–Jesus’ called it seeking the kingdom or reign of God. It is finding that we are free because we are first dependent upon God’s grace, God’s provision and the gift God has given us in one another. It is great freedom and bought at great price.

Bible Text: Romans 6:12-23 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram | There are a lot of times when it would be easier to do our own thing, to play it safe, to back away, to retreat to comfort. Then – as the church – we remember that we are bound to Christ. And, more importantly, that he has bound himself to us.

Bible Text: Genesis 21:8-21 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram | The God who chose the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is also the God of the tribes and nations of the earth. The God who saw the burdens and heard the cries of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt and saved them is the God who also sees the rejected child in the desert and hears the bitter tears of the Egyptian slave. It’s not about nations. It’s not about tribes or clans. It’s about people. It’s about us.

Bible Text: Romans 5:1-8 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram | Access to God comes by way of what God has done, what God is doing and what God shall do in Jesus Christ. This is a gift we cannot achieve but only receive. The free gift of God's grace is the ground of the hope by which we live, a hope born in love by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Bible Text: 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram | On Trinity Sunday, the life of the Triune God is celebrated as the model for our life as one church under God lived out before our world. The church can show a watching world who the one, true God is by living how God does.

Bible Text: Acts 2:1-21 | For this worship experience, we revisit some foundational experiences for Yates Baptist Church, one tragic and one triumphant. Told through the eyes and voices of Ricky Tharrington, Dick Pickett, John Shelton and Jim Thompson, we will wonder together about how the response to each of these seminal events in our church’s history continue to shape us now, and we will reflect on the story of Pentecost to trace each of these experiences into how we can live as faithful people today.

Bible Text: Ephesians 1:15-23 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram | The question is not whether or not the Holy Spirit's presence and power is given to us when we accept Christ. It is part of a believer's standard issue uniform.  How we wear that uniform in the world is a choice we can make, and as we look to Christ, we find our power comes by way of service.

Bible Text: 1 Peter 3:13-22 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram