Month: March 2022
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Welcome to the Judges, Part 1: Down The Drain (Judges 1-2)
April 11, 2021 Glynwood Baptist Church, Prattville, Alabama
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Review of “Committed: Dispatches From a Psychiatrist in Training” by Adam Stern, MD
This was a quick, easy memoir about a young psychiatrist, detailing his four years of residency at Harvard-Longwood school of Psychiatry. Adam Stern details his relationships with his fellow, high achieving, insecure classmates, his love life, and, most interesting to me, his experiences with his first patients. It’s a little like Gray’s Anatomy, without the…
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Justification by Faith: Two Case Studies (Romans 4:1-12)
March 27, 2022 Glynwood Baptist Church, Prattville, Alabama 4 What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was…
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Coming to Terms (Romans 3:21-31)
Part 10 of Romans, The Power of the Gospel March 20, 2022 Glynwood Baptist Church, Prattville, AL 21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.…
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Bob Dylan: Watching a Legend be Legendary
This past Sunday I was gathering my things after the worship service as my friend Gary, who plays bass for our worship band, was packing up his gear. Gary, an accomplished musician with an encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll, is one of the only people in the church that can catch me singing a…
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Romans, Part 9: The Grand Finale and the Great Turn (Romans 3:9-26)
Glynwood Baptist Church, Prattville, Alabama March 13, 2022 Today is an exciting day! We have been talking about the wrath of God for about nine weeks now. And it’s been HEAVY! And so today, as we follow our outline through the book of Romans, remember that the overall theme is established in Romans 1:16-17, especially…
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Romans, Part 8: “Best. Job. Ever” (Romans 3:1-8)
Sermon preached March 6, 2022 Glynwood Baptist Church, Prattville, Alabama Click here for manuscript
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The High Cost of Floating Along
One of the “high points” of a trip to Israel is actually a low point—the Dead Sea. At 1,385 feet below sea level, it is literally the lowest spot on the globe. We had a ball floating in the Dead Sea. Because the Dead Sea has no outlets, all the minerals flowing into it make…