How Worry Will Sideline You From God’s Best for You

When Anne Lamott was expecting her son, Sam, she realized how much she feared that she would be unable to provide adequately for his needs.  She remembered that, during her own childhood, her parents were so cheap that they didn’t keep Band-Aids in the...

When God Doesn’t Seem to Answer Our Prayers

I have been praying hard for the last couple of weeks while trying to make something happen that I needed to happen in a right-now-Lord kind of a way. A couple of times I came at the Lord like the stubborn widow in the parable who pestered the unjust judge so much...

Weed Control

A sermon delivered by Wendell Griffen, Pastor, New Millennium Church, Little Rock, Ark., on August 14, 2011. Matthew 13:7, 22 7Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 22As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the...

Water Cooler Conversations

A sermon delivered by Robert Browning, Pastor, Smoke Rise Baptist Church, Stone Mountain, Ga., on March 27, 2011. John 4:5-42 Did you ever live in a place where you had a well your family depended upon for water? My grandparents did. Their well was outside the...

That’s for the Birds

Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on Mar. 15 2009. Luke 12:22-34 What keeps you up at night? What gnaws away at your soul? What forces you to toss and turn like a fish flopping on the river bank, trying to make it...