Emmanuel Bible Church: Weekly Sermons

The God Who Moves in Mysterious Ways

Brad Baugham — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:03:50 -0500

Great people aren’t so great. Their own greatness is not the salient fact about them. It’s the kind of fortunate mix of opportunities they’ve been given. – Malcolm Galdwell

The God Who Makes Us Sing

Brad Baugham — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:04:51 -0500

The Psalms are an “anatomy of all parts of the soul. For not an affection will anyone find in himself whose image is not reflected in this mirror. All the griefs, sorrows, fears, misgivings, hopes, cares, anxieties, in short all the disquieting emotions with which the minds of men are wont to be agitated, the Holy Spirit hath here pictured exactly." - Calvin

The God Who Celebrates Sex and Marriage

Brad Baugham — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:30:00 -0500

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

– Sonnet 116

The God Who Makes Us Wise

Brad Baugham — Sun, 8 Aug 2010 07:58:53 -0500

True fear comes from faith; false fear come from doubt. True fear is joined to hope because it is born of faith and because men hope in the God in whom they believe. False fear is born of despair because men fear the God in whom they have no belief. – Blaise Pascal, Pensees

The God Who Frustrates and Fulfills

Brad Baugham — Sun, 1 Aug 2010 11:13:17 -0500

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. – Macbeth

The God Who Reigns and Reveals

Brad Baugham — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:30:00 -0500

"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver. "Don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you." – C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The God Who Rebuilds and Renews His People

Brad Baugham — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:30:00 -0500

The cooperation of God's people on the walls is one of the Old Testament's finest pictures of its ideal brotherhood. – J. Gordon McConville

Jesus, Cursed and Exiled for Our Freedom

Brad Baugham — Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:30:00 -0500

My own sight of the precious blood is for my comfort; but it is the Lord's sight of it which secures my safety. – C.H. Spurgeon

The Faithful God Who Restores His People

Brad Baugham — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:30:00 -0500

The notice of God's good hand at work on behalf of His people calls attention to His goodness and His willingness to grant the desires of His people. Yet as their history shows, Yahweh is righteous; therefore, He will not tolerate sin. –Philip Brown

The God Who Acts in History

Brad Baugham — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:00:00 -0500

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. —I Peter 5:6-7