God. Real. Right.

Because I am normally speaking in other churches on Sundays, I don’t get to sit in my Sunday morning Bible study class as often as I would like. But I was there this week. I am fortunate to have a teacher (Tom Green) who is smart, loves to study, and very good at provoking the members of the study to think about the material he is covering each week. Like many other SBC Bible study groups this week, we were studying 1 Samuel 24-31–in particular, the narrative about Saul in the cave (chapter 24) and camped with his troops (chapter 26), and the one about Nabal and Abigail (chapter 25).
Here is one thing provoked by that Bible study.
The context: Chapter 24 is about David’s Read the rest of this entry »

Here is the fifth message from the book of James, on chapter 2:14-26. I delivered it as interim pastor at First Baptist, Madisonville, TX. This passage deals famously with the relationship between faith and works. “If a man has faith but no works, can faith save him?”
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I preached this sermon on James 1:19-27 while serving as interim pastor at First Baptist Church in Madisonville, TX. It is third in the series through the book of James and deals with what makes Christian faith authentic.
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