Growing in the Word

Morning service from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, OK from May 12th, 2013. “Honoring God in Your Marriage Part I – To Wives” 1 Peter 3:1-7

Mother’s Day is this Sunday and in church we will celebrate Moms as rightly we should.  It’s an amazing and ingenious thing how God created the institution of the family- a father and mother bringing their own respective personalities, temperaments, and gifts to bear on the raising of their children.  Being a mother is a [...]

Morning service from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, OK from April 28th, 2013.  ”Psalm 23″

You might have read the title of this post and thought it would be a review of the song by Rockwell (I am, after all, a child of 80’s music!).  No, this post is about something different.  The other day I was studying 1 Peter 2:11-12 and was struck about the importance of a Christian’s [...]

Morning service from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, OK from April 21st, 2013.  ”Do This, Not That: Holy Living in an Unholy World.”  1 Peter 2:11-12

Morning service from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, OK from April 14th, 2013.  ”What Will You Do With the Living Stone?” 1 Peter 2:4-10.

Morning service from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, OK from April 7th, 2013.  ”Growing through the Storms.” 1 Peter 1:22-2:3

Easter service with Immanuel Baptist Church from Raley Chapel at Oklahoma Baptist University on March 31, 2013.  ”The Resurrection: The Affirmation and Exclamation of Truth.”  1 Corinthiasd 15:14-19

Every year around Easter my inbox starts to get flooded with questions germane to the holiday.  I have noticed that each year there is typically a “soup du jour” question that is most popular within our culture.  For example, a few years ago the questions were all related to whether or not the remains of [...]

Morning service from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, OK from March 17th, 2013.  ”Rejoicing in the Storms.” 1 Peter 1:6-12