When Things Go Bad, Keep Swinging

When Things Go Bad, Keep Swinging

The Chicago White Sox may end their season with a very dubious title: the worst major league baseball team in the modern era. While the 1899 Cleveland Spiders hold the title of worst team ever with a record of 20-134, the White Sox will most likely end the season with...

Never Give Up

A sermon by Robert Browning, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky. August 18, 2013 Hebrews 11:32-12:3 Derek Redmon was about halfway through the 400m race at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain when his hamstring snapped. Immediately, he fell to the ground...

The Marathon of Faith

A sermon by Michael Cheuk, Pastor, University Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Va., on August 18, 2013. Hebrews 11:29-12:2 We’ve got a lot of runners in our church – people who jog, folks who run or train others to run 5Ks, gluttons who run half-marathons or longer! ...

True Grit

A Sermon by David Hughes, First Baptist Church, Winston Salem, N.C. Psalm 27; Luke 13:31-35 If you are a movie buff, you know The Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled for tonight. And I will make no secret of the fact that I hope the movieLincoln picks up lots of...

Standing Firm in Difficult Times

Theologian Karl Barth said Christians engage the world best with a Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. Recently, the testimony of struggle from the first-century letter to the church in Thessalonica came in close contact with the news in Iraq of a...