Thankful

I am thankful for God’s salvation, Election by the Father, Redemption by the Son, Sanctification by the Spirit, and Membership in God’s family, the Church.
I am thankful to God for each of you, your fellowship in the Gospel, your fellowship in the good times, and your fellowship in trials.
I am thankful to God for my wife, my boys, my extended family, my friends, and my co-laborers in the Gospel (David and Charlie).
I am thankful to God for all His blessings, and I pray that He would keep reminding me of the difference between the blessing, the one who is blessed, and the ‘Blessor’.
I am thankful to God for my country, my President, my representatives in Government, and our system of justice.
I am thankful to God for all good things, as well as the not so good things that serve to remind me that only God is good.
I am thankful to God for life, love, liberty, and happiness.
I am thankful to God for laughter, sight, taste, sound, touch and smell.
I am thankful to God for the truth that no matter how wonderful life here is, or how bad it could become, there is a place that is infinitely better, where I will live in eternal joy at the feet of my Savior.

Preaching through Mark

Beginning the first Sunday in January I will be preaching for 17 Sundays through the book of Mark.  In this series I will be focusing on one question from the text of each chapter, except chapter 14 where there are 2 questions and 72 verses, that gets to the heart of what each chapter is about.

The reason I am taking this approach is three-fold;

1)  Our Church has three Pastors.  Up until now we have been taking turns each Sunday preaching and have not really been able to focus on one book of the Bible.  We believe that our Church needs the benefits of preaching through books of the Bible.

2)  Since we have three Pastors, we decided to divide the year into thirds and rotate through the services.  I will be preaching the first four months on Sunday morning, Charlie Henderson will be preaching Sunday nights, and David Rosati will be preaching Wednesday nights.  Then we will rotate the next four months.

3)  We have more than one Pastor for several reasons.  Besides that fact that we believe a ‘plurality of Elders’ is biblical, we also do not want to have Crossway Baptist Church identified by any one man.  We want to be identified by our loyalty to Christ and sound doctrine.  We as preachers want to be identified as sound in our theology, but we don’t think that any one person’s reputation should rise above that of the Church.

Alright?

A Thanksgiving Sermon

Here’s a link to the message I preached this past Sunday morning from Colossians 3:12-17.

A Thanksgiving Sermon

Resolved…

In the spirit of Jonathan Edwards:

Resolved, From this moment onward, to pay absolutely no attention to celebrity “news” (gossip), scandals, drama, or the like, except what may be necessary to stay informed about what is, or may be, an influence on the hearts and minds of my children and any others under my care.

Wow. I already feel smarter.

Blessings in Christ,

David

Something I will say in my sermon Sunday…

Unthankfulness plucked the fruit from the tree in the the Garden of Eden. 

You’ll have to be there to find out what that means.

Online Sermons from Crossway Baptist Church

Messages from the previous Sunday Morning at Crossway Baptist Church are now being broadcast on WLNT from 10:30-11:00 on Sunday Mornings in Loudon (96.1) and Monroe (94.9) Counties in Tennessee and online at www.wlntfm.com.   

We are also posting our Sunday Morning messages at our website.  This past Sunday’s message was an excellent message by Charles Henderson titled, “Plates, Prayers, and Priorities” from Acts 6:1-7. 

Take up and listen.