Sermons

  Family Ties: Build Structured Opening Illustration: Good morning brothers and sisters. Today we are continuing a series entitled “Family Ties”. Today may be your first day with us here at Eastern Shore Baptist Church. If so, let me catch you up on where we have been and what we have been talking about. First off, this series is all about helping your family discover the good plan that God has for your family. God wants to protect your family from this degrading culture and He wants to use your family to be a witness in this world. In week one, we talked about having strong families. If you remember we talked about checking your family’s foundation. I encouraged you to plant your family on the firm foundation of God’s Word. Last week we discussed what families that were sacred. We compared your family to a table with four legs. Each leg is important because if you remove one leg, the entire table falls. If you remember the four legs of your family were Biblical teaching, creating t

  Family Ties: Build Sacred Opening Illustration: How many of you have been to the doctor this week? Maybe you went to an Urgent Care or perhaps you’ve been to the American Family Care Clinic that shares our parking lot? Wow, several of you have been do the doctor. First off, I hope that you feel better. Secondly, did you notice how busy doctor’s offices are nowadays. Even with all the fancy check-in systems, doctor’s offices seem busier than ever before. The other day, I heard a story about a man who visited a very busy doctor’s office.  This fella walked into a doctor’s office and the receptionist asked him what he had. "Shingles," he said. So she took down his name, address and medical insurance number and told him to have a seat. Fifteen minutes later a nurse’s aid came out and asked him what he had. "Shingles," he said. So she took down his height, weight, complete medical history and told him to wait in the examining room. A half-hour later a nurse cam