PASTOR’S CORNER, Jeremy Harris, First Southern Baptist Church, Liberal Hello fine readers! After hitting send on my article last week I realized that I had missed two opportunities. I failed to point you back to God’s Word in relation to why “Remembering Our Salvation” (Romans...
PASTOR’S CORNER, Jeremy Harris, First Southern Baptist Church, Liberal Last week I wrote about the inexorable passage of time. Time is going to keep on going whether we like it or not. I ended that article with a question… “What kind of story are you writing?” Today I would like to...
Pastor’s Corner, Jeremy Harris, First Southern Baptist Church, Liberal This week is super busy for me. Have you ever had a week like that? You look at your schedule and you wonder how to fit the various things on your to-do list into the available hours you have to do...
PASTOR’S CORNER, David Harris, Fellowship Baptist Church, Liberal What comes into your mind when you think about greatness? Our culture provides all kinds of images. Examples abound in celebrity politics, the entertainment industry, and the sports industrial complex. How you imagine...
PASTOR’S CORNER, David Harris, Fellowship Baptist Church, Liberal I love the Psalms. In them I have found consolation when I was hurting, light when everything around me felt dark, and encouragement when my heart felt beyond the point of being encouraged. But there is something else I...
PASTOR’S CORNER, David Harris, Fellowship Baptist Church, Liberal One Old Testament scholar summarized well the theme of the first five books of the Bible when he said they describe "a divine initiative in a world where human initiatives always lead to disaster.” The human side of this...
PASTOR’S CORNER, David Harris, Fellowship Baptist Church, Liberal Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is as shocking now as it was when it first came from the Lord’s mouth. Matthew 5-7 is like an address given by a newly hired college football coach setting the tone for his administration: “If you...
PASTOR’S CORNER, David Harris, Associate Pastor, Fellowship Baptist Church, Liberal We are story-telling and story-loving creatures. That is why so many of our messages are visual, and appeal to our imagination - that part of us that is able to create and hold images, and draw meaning...
PASTOR’S CORNER, Ann Holman, Risen Glory Church, Liberal This was my favorite time of the day. The kids were in school. My husband was at work. The house was quiet. I sat down in my recliner to read the Bible and pray. I opened my Bible and started to read. Soon after I started to read,...
PASTOR’S CORNER, Ann Holman, Risen Glory Church Even though I had surrendered my life to the Lord many years before, my husband was still not a Christian. We had married before I came to the Lord. At times, my marriage was painful. There were some things going on that were very hurtful...