Hurst Baptist Church

This week my reading included information about the history of Thanksgiving.  The first Thanksgiving planned by Congress was observed December 18, 1777.  The burden for this day was communicated by the members of Congress.  That burden was:
“That at one time and with one voice, the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts, [...]

This is a question attracting the national headline attention this week.  After all, we (humanity) can be good for goodness’ sake!  In the mind of the atheist this argument seems reasonable, even sensible.
For the forgiven, redeemed believer this is the debate we wrestled with prior to conversion.  The flesh wants any solution that overruns God.  [...]

The passage from Luke that we will be studying this morning has many themes.  I will not be able to give attention to all of these, but this space gives good opportunity to help you be aware of the wealth preserved in Luke 5.�
Faith is a major emphasis.  Faith is demonstrated in the leper’s willingness [...]

In our text for study this morning our Lord brings a scathing rebuke to the religious hypocrites of His day. The idea of hypocrisy comes from the theater. It means the wearing of a mask.
In its truest Biblical sense hypocrisy depicts the unbeliever as one portraying himself as a believer. As believers we can be guilty [...]